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Coronavirus: Eight further deaths and 4,929 new cases

Coronavirus: Eight further deaths and 4,929 new cases

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The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has today been notified of eight additional deaths related to COVID-19.  There has been a total of ...

Echo article ‘is my claim to fame since I was a baby’

Echo article ‘is my claim to fame since I was a baby’

News

By Aideen O'Flaherty A CLONDALKIN woman – who was in the pages of The Echo in January 2000 as she was the ...

Echo Sports Year in Review 2020: October

Echo Sports Year in Review 2020: October

Sport

By Hayden Moore AS THE risk to public health increased with the number of people contracting COVID-19 steadily rising, sports associations, in ...

Tallaght Town Centre Project receives a €17 million boost

Tallaght Town Centre Project receives a €17 million boost

Tallaght

By Aideen O'Flaherty SOUTH Dublin County Council’s funding for the Tallaght Town Centre Project has received a boost as Minister for Housing, Darragh ...

Work to start on 81-unit older persons residential site

Work to start on 81-unit older persons residential site

Tallaght

By Aideen O'Flaherty WORK on the 81-unit older persons’ residential development in Sean Walsh Park, to be called The Weir, is due ...

Driver theory tests should be deemed ‘essential service’ to tackle backlog

Driver theory tests should be deemed ‘essential service’ to tackle backlog

Clondalkin

By Maurice Garvey YOUNG people waiting on a driver theory test are finding, at least, an extra month added onto the six month ...

Father pleads guilty to criminal damage to garda car

Father pleads guilty to criminal damage to garda car

Clondalkin

A FATHER-of-two who jumped on the bonnet of a garda patrol car when gardai came to investigate a verbal dispute between him ...

Caught stashing €114k worth of heroin in hoover

Caught stashing €114k worth of heroin in hoover

Clondalkin

By Anne Sharkey A young father-of-three who was caught stashing €114,478 worth of heroin in a Henry Hoover he had in a garden ...

Two teenagers arrested in connection to robbery at service station

Two teenagers arrested in connection to robbery at service station

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By William O'Connor GARDAI arrested two teenagers in connection to a robbery at a service station in Crumlin on Sunday night. At approximately 8.30pm on ...

Major fire at Thornton’s recycling in Ballyfermot

Major fire at Thornton’s recycling in Ballyfermot

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By William O'Connor Dublin Fire Brigade are dealing with an industrial blaze at Thornton’s recycling in Ballyfermot this evening. Eight units from ...