East Coast FM Wicklow News

Green Party TD Deputy Steven Matthews has made a commitment to the parents, students and all users who have been failed by the 184 service that he will ensure the service is improved.  

Wicklow Minister Simon Harris has paid a visit to the Educate Together Secondary School in Wicklow Town to meet with in 5th year who are studying Politics and Society.

Deputy Jennifer Whitmore, Social Democrats TD for Wicklow and Spokesperson for Children calls on the Minister to urgently address the ongoing school bus cancellations in Wicklow.  

The number of third-level courses outside of the CAO system is set to be doubled.

Uisce Éireann wishes to remind everyone that it is running a public consultation on the draft Regional Water Resource Plan – South East.

The First Home Scheme will now accept applications from self-builders who are building their first home.

Some 1,300 participants from 46 countries have booked to compete in the EcoTrail Wicklow which takes place from Thursday, 28th September to Saturday, the 30th.

The motion will be debated when the Dáil returns today.

Aoife Flynn Kennedy and Melanie Corrigan will be the party’s candidates.

The current entry requirements to attend university here disadvantage Northern Irish students, according to a new report.

John Brady has expressed alarm at the failure of both the Minister of Education and her Government colleagues to undertake the necessary steps to end the crisis in the School Transport System.

Positions are being advertised from Monday, September 18th, 2023.

Gardaí seized approximately €75,000 of suspected cocaine and arrested one man during searches conducted as part of Operation Tara in the Rathnew area on Thursday 14th September.

This comes after a number of incidents in recent months that threatened the safety of local representatives. 

After coming fourth in last year’s Junior Eurovision, the search is on for the next Irish Junior Eurovision entry.

Irish Rail has announced a series of new rail services which could be in place by December 10th.

The in-road sensors detect if the parking bay is occupied.

Wicklow County Council, in partnership with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, Transport Infrastructure Ireland and the National Transport Authority (NTA) are progressing the N11/M11 Bus Priority Interim Scheme

A new ticket vending machine and a Leap card validator will shortly be installed at the Kilcoole Rail stop.

Wicklow TD Jennifer Whitmore has criticised the revised allocation of funding for local property tax.

Pádraig Nolan from Wicklow Station was named regional winner and was a finalist in the In -station CX Excellence category at Iarnród Éireann’s inaugural CX Awards, which took place at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin recently.

That's despite there being over 4 thousand 500 people on the local authority housing waiting list in Wicklow.

Free GP care is being rolled out today for 215 thousand newly eligible people.