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Meath Road, Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland

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Wicklow Way with small bit of snow

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Lough Tae and JB Molone Memorial

[jackbyrnewriter]

A Day in the life...40 years from home.

A Day in the life…40 years from home.

Two songs a world apart, or are they?

“He blew his brains out in a car.”

Pat Brennan the Wicklow singer songwriter’s 40 years from home, speaks to the experience of so many men who left home in Ireland during the Second World War to work in England. Although it had won it’s independence a couple of decades earlier the economy of The Republic was still largely dependent on England. The…

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Local trade union centre welcomes 15% cut in property tax

Local trade union centre welcomes 15% cut in property tax

A majority of Wicklow County Councillors voted this week to lower the property tax by 15%. There has been huge opposition to the controversial tax, which is meant to fund local services. The Government admitted that they had in fact diverted the property tax receipt into setting up the equally controversial Irish Water.

Wicklow Trade Union Centre manager, Patricia Shortt, said, “We welcome any…

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[dduane]

Sleeping Bee on Flickr.

I found him snoozing there early in the morning...