Wexford General Chat / Thread.

Hope so too. Asked my daughter to send us some from her sunny balcony in France. After all, they have been having sun every day almost since I was there in May!! Lucky devils,

Spoke to a lovely Dublin couple who run a pub down in the South of France and they told me that they initially only planned to stay for a year, but they decided that their quality of life was so much better, even by just waking up to sunshine on so many weeks of the year, so now they have permanent residency,

I think a whole group of us sun lovers from Boards should buy a lovely old rustic farmhouse in Provence, grow our own produce and live sunnily ever after near a beautiful old cobbled stoned Medieval village!!!!!!!!! We could log on to boards and Skype home from our terrace, with chilled Chardonay in hand, watching the sun go down over the vineyards and olive groves... the waft of Lavendar floating in from the nearby fields and the taller sunflowers looking down on them from higher ground.

Yes, I have lost it now guys, but the temptation of a little escapism was too much, when I have to listen to fierce rain pounding off my window. It looks and feels like December without the Christmas tree and I want August as it should be.

Ah, only joking of course... so many people in draught torn regions would give so much for what we have, so my ranting and raving was only in jest.

What is that white thing lower right and where is the town?!!

Oh I see them now. The sky is amazing in that pic isn't it?

Bannow very mild and warmish today with no wind to speak of.

Still, looks like rain this evening, so best make the most of it.

Just heard about an 18yr old boy who died after a long night of partying. So sad and so terrible for any family to deal with. Apparently he suffered some kind of collapse and never recovered.

Anyone agree that drug and substance awareness be taught in schools?
It is taught in some schools in Europe and the children are brought to drug units and centres for Alcoholism to see and hear at first hand the impact of such abuse.

They are educated about the different types of drugs, their strengths, their effects and the symptoms they can produce etc.

If they see this while they are very young it could help.

Yes and it would do no harm to let them see the unfortunates who are living on the streets, sleeping under bridges, using parks to fix and throw their needles etc etc.

If they are totally sheltered from these things until they are teenagers and succumb to peer pressure and so on, then it is often too late.

Of course we could say the responsibility for all of this should go to parents, but then how many teenagers full of optimism and enthusiasm for new experiences will really take their parents seriously and sadly many parents prefer to leave them isolated in their rooms with passive hobbies such as games and surfing the net and often don't even take their meals together.

My young lad did TY year before last - he said they hardly got a week in the year when they didn't get a talk about drugs, alcohol, sex, etc. So, despite being Ireland, that stuff has improved. You just get people thinking it'll never happen to them.

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My young lad did TY year before last - he said they hardly got a week in the year when they didn't get a talk about drugs, alcohol, sex, etc. So, despite being Ireland, that stuff has improved. You just get people thinking it'll never happen to them.

Well unfortunately not everybody does TY and they do need to educate young people more about drugs in schools for sure. with the way things are gone

Documentary featuring Scoil Mhuire,Coolcots,Wexford on RTE 1 now.

Always had a fascination with it too, but never actually been there.

However, when I was at the Ursuline Convent as a boarder, the nuns told us that Loftus Hall was where they went for their summer holiday, as it had a private beach and was big enough to house them all. I used to then doubt very much if it was haunted..ever and that this legend had just expanded into the ridiculous.

Later, I believe the house became a hotel and then came into new ownership later still. I have no idea how long it remained as a hotel and if many people stayed there. Maybe you have some info on this.

Do you know who now owns the house? The last I heard was that the lady owner was in a nursing home, but of course nobody has ever substantiated this.

Are these tours a new thing or have they been going on for a while?

I've passed Loftus Hall many times and have to say it is a magnificent building.

Who organizes the tours?

Thank you for sharing with us.

Hi and thanks to all for that info, especially the FB link.

Fascinating place and yes I think I will go there during the Christmas period, listen to the carol singers and have a coffee. Sounds like a good place to take our visitors.