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Check out this week’s Echo Jobs and training offerings – 16 March 2017 edition

Check out this week’s Echo Jobs and training offerings – 16 March 2017 edition

Jobs

In the latest update from the Echo Jobs and training pages there are offerings from a host of local organisations. These include ...

On this day in 1996: Building a hooker and learning Irish in Clondalkin

On this day in 1996: Building a hooker and learning Irish in Clondalkin

Clondalkin

On this day in 1996 the RTE cameras visited Áras Chrónáin in Clondalkin to hear about how the small gaeltacht area in ...

DFB once again prove their hero status with frisky feline rescue

DFB once again prove their hero status with frisky feline rescue

Latest

Members of Dublin Fire Brigade once again confirmed their hero status earlier when they were called to help in the rescue of ...

X Factor auditions set for Dublin next month

X Factor auditions set for Dublin next month

Arts & Culture

If you sit on the couch watching The X Factor screaming at the telly, “I could sing better than that” then you’ll ...

Down Syndrome Centre launch Mission 21 Celebrity Video Appeal

Down Syndrome Centre launch Mission 21 Celebrity Video Appeal

Latest

To mark World Down Syndrome Day today the Down Syndrome Centre has launched its Mission 21 Celebrity Appeal. Mission 21 is a ...

Emma Doran’s diary of a two-year-old is brilliantly accurate and hilarious

Emma Doran’s diary of a two-year-old is brilliantly accurate and hilarious

Arts & Culture

Local comedian Emma Doran is well known for her comical take on daily life, with the former Tallaght native covering everything from ...

Parties involved need to “show generosity of spirit” to seal Orkambi deal

Parties involved need to “show generosity of spirit” to seal Orkambi deal

Latest

The government has been called on to speed up ongoing discussions surrounding the purchasing of the drug Orkambi, with hundreds of Cystic ...

Tallaght community rallies around takeaway men targeted by armed thugs

Tallaght community rallies around takeaway men targeted by armed thugs

Tallaght

By Mary Dennehy THE community of Tallaght rallied around its army of food delivery drivers this week after it emerged that they are ...

Clondalkin man scammed vulnerable woman out of €90,000 life-savings

Clondalkin man scammed vulnerable woman out of €90,000 life-savings

News

By Sonya McClean A man who was involved in a scam that conned a vulnerable woman out of her life-savings will be sentenced ...

‘Beer goggles’ show the public what alcohol does to the body

‘Beer goggles’ show the public what alcohol does to the body

Tallaght

By Mary Dennehy AHEAD of St Patrick’s Day, the Tallaght Drugs and Alcohol Task Force (TDATF) took to The Square to provide people ...