... SPEAKING OF POLITICS Pressure on FF BACKBENCH TD, Sean Haughey, may not be flavour of the month with the Fianna Fail hierarchy at the moment, but he has plenty of supporters and admirers in Wexford. Although the party's public figures are not too keen ...

... SPEAKING OF POLITICS Fine Gael's team for Euro election A1.7E14 AI.I, the contusion and 'in out' rumours surrounding Fine 6:lei's outgoing MEP, Paddy Coo'ley. it appears that, after all, lie will joining Fianna Fail's ulcl Lilot in retirement after the ...

... SPEAKING OF POLITICS Taking stock ALL THE political parties have now had some time to digest the results of the local elections and assessments are being made of their likely impact on any future general elections. Of course these are always dangerous ...

... PUBLIC SPEAKING Congratulations to the Nursing team who yet again came up trumps. This week they won the All-Ireland semi-final. Schools participating were Holy Child Secondary School, Killiney, Mater Christi Secondary School, Finglas and Gorey Community ...

... SPEAKING OF POLITICS Seamus O'Brien, the Militant Labour member of New Ross U.D.C., is this week's guest columnist Scrap service charges AS THE estimates committees begin to prepare their 1995 budgets over the coming weeks, it is important to remind ...

... SPEAKING OF POLITICS IVAN YATES has been creating quite an impression since his appointment to the Department of Agriculture. Already, he seems to have impressed his staff by taking time out to meet virtually everybody in the Department during his first ...

... PUBLIC SPEAKING New Ross winners. Mary Olkottivan and Niall Kehoe, compete in the regional finals of the Uinerx' Club•sponsored public speaking competition this week . Taking part in the advanced and ...

... PUBLIC SPEAKING Noel Whelan, Ballycultane P. 0., was a member of she Good Counsel College, New Roes, team-orthree which qualified for the Ireland ;nter-schools ranking championship at the Seven Oaks Hotel, Carlow, on 'Thursday light of last week when ...

... PUBLIC SPEAKING BEST wishes to the Good Counsel mental health public speaking team who will be representing the college in this week's competition against Bunclody and Bridgetown Technical schools and Wexford Presentation. The team is Damon Connery, Alex ...

... SPEAKING OF POLMCS Problems loom for Health Minister BRENDAN HOWLIN has been widely recognised as probably the outstanding member of the current Cabinet during the twenty-two months which this administration has been in office. Indeed, much of the credit ...

... SPEAKING OF POLITICS Election battle AN INTERESTING local election battle looms in Wexford town between people who were one-time comrades, hut are now bitter enemies. We speak, of course, of members of the Workers' Party and the breakaway Democratic Left ...

... SPEAKING OF POLITICS Avril on her toes NEW JUNIOR MINISTER, Avril Doyle, has not been letting the grass grow under her feet since her appointment to the second rank of government. Of course Mrs Doyle previously held Ministerial responsibility in the latter ...