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Garda speed vans take in over €6.2m in 30 months

Garda speed vans take in over €6.2m in 30 months

News

TALLAGHT, Clondalkin and Lucan are some of the highest grossing revenue areas for garda speed vans. Figures for speed van collections over ...

After ‘33 wonderful years’ KOKO jewellery and body-piercing unit is closing its doors

After ‘33 wonderful years’ KOKO jewellery and body-piercing unit is closing its doors

Business

BODY-piercing and jewellery store KOKO is set to close at the end of September. In an announcement on their Instagram, The Square ...

Local Faces: Stephen Heaney

Local Faces: Stephen Heaney

Tallaght

Tallaght Rugby Football Club was set up in 2002 as part of the “Tallaght Project,” an IRFU (Irish Rugby Football Union) initiative, ...

Over €5,000 raised for charities with tournament in St Anne’s

Over €5,000 raised for charities with tournament in St Anne’s

Tallaght

Over €5,000 was raised at the weekend in aid of Tallaght child Archie Ennis fighting Muscular Dystrophy and the Down Syndrome Centre ...

Presidential race hots up with Jim Gavin emerging as a candidate

Presidential race hots up with Jim Gavin emerging as a candidate

Clondalkin

A WEEK ago Jim Gavin emerged as a potential presidential candidate but since then the Clondalkin man has received backing from senior ...

‘No’ to proposals for 300 new homes

‘No’ to proposals for 300 new homes

Lucan

A planning application by Cairn Homes for almost 300 new homes in south Dublin has been rejected by An Coimisiún Pleanála (ACP). ...

Over €360 raised at Ciaran McDonnell Cup for Cardiac Risk

Over €360 raised at Ciaran McDonnell Cup for Cardiac Risk

Tallaght

About €360 was raised at the 12th Ciaran McDonnell Memorial Cup in Kingswood, to be donated to Cardiac Risk in the Young ...

Demand for ban on ‘harmful’ nitrous oxide drug

Demand for ban on ‘harmful’ nitrous oxide drug

News

Calls have been made for the Irish government to ban the sale of nitrous oxide after the EU passed an act classifying ...

Ballyfermot road race turns out to be a huge success for Cherry Orchard running club

Ballyfermot road race turns out to be a huge success for Cherry Orchard running club

Ballyfermot

THE first-ever race run on the main road in Ballyfermot was a success and could become a permanent fixture in the local ...

Nature on our doorsteps: Blackberries are green when they are red . . .

Nature on our doorsteps: Blackberries are green when they are red . . .

Arts & Culture

Rosaleen Dwyer is the County Heritage Officer at South Dublin County Council – every week she gives us an insight into the ...