Author: Chris Sweeney

The Echo 18th April 2019 Tallaght Edition

Not Just a Princess – Successful relaunch of project

The ‘Not Just a Princess’ project announced last year that it would launch six inclusive books to empower young girls. After an ...

Coffee shop to be refurbished into social housing apartments

By Maurice Garvey  A FORMER community hub known locally as the ‘coffee shop’ is to be refurbished into social housing apartments. South ...

69 new council homes are planned for Balgaddy site

By Hayden Moore PLANS for 69 council homes and a community centre received the greenlight recently for a site just off Griffeen ...

CE supervisors believe that government are ignoring them

By Maurice Garvey THE government are ignoring pension scheme claims for community employment supervisors “because they can”, according to a local working group. ...

Residents angry public lights not turned on in €15m estate

By Maurice Garvey LONG overdue public lighting at a social housing development, due to be turned on this week, have yet to ...

Robert making his Mark as captain in Defence Forces

By Aideen O'Flaherty A PAST pupil of St Mark’s Community School in Springfield, who joined the Defence Forces 20 years ago, was ...

Older people should be allowed to stay at home as long as possible

By Maurice Garvey  THE manner in which the government presented incentives for elderly people to ‘downsize’ from larger family homes into smaller ...

Three years jail for man possessing €500k in cocaine

By Aoife Nic Ardghail & Declan Brennan A young man who got involved in the drugs trade to raise funds for a garage ...

Walk of Compassion shows solidarity with our community

By Mary Dennehy A WALK to show solidarity with members of the community struggling or experiencing a difficult time is being held in ...