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Tony is reunited with family following years of searching

Tony is reunited with family following years of searching

Tallaght

By Aideen O'Flaherty A MAN who spent the first 16 years of his life in two mother and baby institutions and was fostered ...

Guided walk will show deep history of valley

Guided walk will show deep history of valley

News

By Mary Dennehy A FREE guided walk around parts of the Glenasmole Valley is being held on Wednesday evening, August 21, to ...

Forgotten non-combatants of World War One remembered

Forgotten non-combatants of World War One remembered

Ballyfermot

IRISH soldiers in World War One don’t always get the recognition they deserve. However, spare a thought for the “almost forgotten” non-combatants ...

Using heroin is a ‘death sentence’

Using heroin is a ‘death sentence’

Clondalkin

“THE USE of heroin over a long period of time is effectively a death sentence,” Judge David McHugh told a woman who ...

Nature on our doorsteps – The useful Soldier Beetle

Nature on our doorsteps – The useful Soldier Beetle

Arts & Culture

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

Rope – Local theatre company perform Hitchcock-inspired play

Rope – Local theatre company perform Hitchcock-inspired play

Arts & Culture

By Taylor Gleeson A local theatre company will be bringing murder and mystery to Tallaght this September. Blackbird Theatre will be performing ROPE, ...

SoloSIRENs – Tallaght community arts initiative comes to the civic

SoloSIRENs – Tallaght community arts initiative comes to the civic

Arts & Culture

By Taylor Gleeson Fresh off their 5 x 5 programme in the Abbey Theatre, SoloSIRENs are set for a homecoming in the The Civic Theatre ...

Road closure and possible drop in water pressure due to essential works

Road closure and possible drop in water pressure due to essential works

Latest

Essential works to improve the security of the water supply will be carried out on a trunk water main on Slade Road. ...

Rewind – The RDS Dublin International horse show

Rewind – The RDS Dublin International horse show

Echo Rewind

By Sean Heffernan For this week’s piece we are walking from the John Barry statue in Wexford Town and up to the train ...

Plans to construct more apartments at Traders pub site are refused

Plans to construct more apartments at Traders pub site are refused

Property

AN BORD Pleanála has upheld South Dublin County Council’s decision to refuse Double E Investments Ltd permission to increase the number of ...