Author: Maurice Garvey

Bord Gáis to invest in power plant in Grange Castle

Bord Gáis to invest in power plant in Grange Castle

Clondalkin

BORD Gáis Energy and its parent company, Centrica plc, have started a long-term investment in Ireland with over €250m approved for the ...

Taxi driver viciously assaulted and left with double broken jaw

Taxi driver viciously assaulted and left with double broken jaw

News

THE FAMILY of a taxi driver who was viciously assaulted in broad daylight by a cyclist and left with a double broken ...

Plans for 100 residential units lodged for former Linders site

Plans for 100 residential units lodged for former Linders site

Lucan

PLANS for a Large Scale Residential Development (LRD) of over 100 units in Chapelizod have been lodged with Dublin City Council. The ...

Rush hour traffic held up with immigration protests

Rush hour traffic held up with immigration protests

News

PROTESTS took place this week in Clondalkin, Ballyfermot, and in Cookstown Tallaght last week, by residents opposed to the scale of immigration ...

Six rescued from house fire in Tallaght

Six rescued from house fire in Tallaght

Latest

FIRST responders rescued six people, including three children from a house fire in Tallaght in the early hours of this morning. Emergency ...

New public park is planned  for former Citywest golf course

New public park is planned for former Citywest golf course

Tallaght

THE owners of Citywest Hotel have applied for planning permission to develop a public park on land that partly made up the ...

Average online gaming spend reaches €536m

Average online gaming spend reaches €536m

Business

ONLINE gaming spend in Ireland reached €536m in 2022, with the average adult spending €150 in the last 12 months. According to ...

88% of planning applications granted permission by council

88% of planning applications granted permission by council

Business

NEARLY 90 per cent of all planning applications were granted permission in 2021 by South Dublin County Council. According to a report ...

125 firearms and drugs worth €3.9m seized by gardai

125 firearms and drugs worth €3.9m seized by gardai

News

NEARLY €4m worth of drugs and 125 firearms were seized by gardai in the Clondalkin policing district during the 12 months to ...

Role model Charlie is one of the last steam train drivers in Ireland

Role model Charlie is one of the last steam train drivers in Ireland

Ballyfermot

THE old steam train evokes a romantic image in the mind, but one man who spent his career shoveling fuel into boiler ...