Sunday Jazz at the Talbot

Back by Popular Demand!

Commencing on the 1st January 2012, our Sunday Jazz Sessions are back every Sunday from 12.30pm - 2.30pm! Sunday Carvery will also be served during this time.

01.01.2012 - 31.12.2012

Art in the Open - 2012

Ireland’s 5^th International Plein Air Painting Festival

Join more than 100 artists and many more art-lovers in the historic harbour town of Wexford, Ireland for Europe's largest plein air painting festival and an exciting programme of activities.

While the framework of this fine art festival is seven days of outdoor painting, culminating in an exhibition, our foremost aim is simply to facilitate an easy-going, enjoyable event in which to meet and learn from other artists and to appreciate the delights of the Irish landscape. With this in mind, we recommend you take time to benefit from one or two of the superb workshops offered, perhaps to avail of a guided tour at one of our paint-out sites, take a sightseeing stroll or relax over an extended lunch when you feel like it and savour your Irish painting holiday.

There will be Paint Outs, International Artists, Indoor Workshops, Morning Plein Air Wrkshops, Exhibitions, Evening Activities and more!

30.07.2012 - 07.08.2012

Ploughing Championships 2012

Heathpark, New Ross, Co. Wexford was announced today as the venue for the 2012 National Ploughing Championships by Mr. Simon Coveney, TD, Minister for Agriculture, Marine Food at  a reception in the Horse and Hound Hotel, Ballinaboola.

The main event will be on the lands of the O’Dwyer Family with part of the Exhibition stretching across to the neighbouring Kehoe family farm, while hundreds of acres of parking will be provided by the local landowners.  Estimated to generate upwards of 15 million euro for the local economy with accommodation providers for a 30 mile radius usually packed for the “Ploughing Festival”.

Excellent tillage land, set between two major routes – the New Ross/Enniscorthy (N30) and the New Ross/Wexford (N25) Roads, this venue has everything required to stage Ireland’s Largest Outdoor Exhibition Ploughing Contest.

The NPA also took this opportunity to launch the Trade Exhibition Pack for this year’s Championships which will take place in Athy from 20th – 22nd September.  To mark the 80th year of the Association the NPA are planning a special  programme and enquiries are already flooding into the NPA Offices in Athy for Exhibition Space.

Speaking at the Announcement Managing Director of the National Ploughing Association (NPA) Anna May McHugh said “It is 14 years since the National Ploughing took place in Wexford and it is very fitting that the event returns in 2012 as this will mark the 80th Anniversary of the first National Ploughing in the County.”

One of the best Showcases for Agriculture Rural Industry in Western Europe the National Ploughing has an average attendance of 180,000 visitors and over 1,000 exhibitors.  An 80 acre Trade Arena featuring Agricultural Services and Machinery, Livestock, the Motor Trade, Bio Energy, Forestry, Home and Garden, Rural Enterprise and much more.

The Tented Trade Village focuses on a broad range of interests from Education to Tourism, Lifestyles to Health and Leisure, Food Fairs to Craft Villages and a wide variety of Demonstrations from Crafts and Cookery to Agricultural Machinery.

24.09.2012 - 29.09.2012