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Author: Simon Walsh
Budget 2017 Social Welfare increases set to kick in this week
Increases to several social welfare payments announced in October as part of Budget 2017 will come into effect this week. The increases ...
On This Day in 1971: The Dublin Suburb of Ballyfermot
The RTE Archives are quickly becoming one of our favourite resources, and with pieces like this, from Ballyfermot in 1971, it is ...
One person taken to hospital after serious road traffic accident in Crooksling
One person has been taken to hospital with minor injuries after a serious road traffic accident this morning in Crooksling near Saggart. ...
Tallaght’s Emmet Kirwan was brilliant on the Late Late Show last night
Tallaght’s Emmet Kirwan was a guest on last night’s Late Late Show, and the inspirational poet and actor spoke openly about several ...
Local club have beef with rogue cows after they moo-ve in and destroy pitch
By Mary Dennehy THE new Tallaght Town AFC committee has had a run-in with its new neighbours, a destructive herd of roaming cattle ...
Tallaght Town AFC back in the game with winning premier deal
By Mary Dennehy TALLAGHT Town AFC is back in the game after a local juvenile football club secured a deal that will see ...
‘I did not seek revenge, I sought justice, and where is this justice?’
By Maurice Garvey THE father of a young girl killed by a driver declined offers to have his daughter’s killer “taken care of”, ...
Crack cocaine addict gets five years in prison for robbery at bookmakers
By Sonya McClean A chronic crack cocaine and heroin addict, who robbed a bookmakers because he was desperate for cash, has been ...
Action planned to tackle drugs and alcohol abuse across Tallaght, Clondalkin and Ballyfermot
By Maurice Garvey DRUGS and alcohol task forces in Ballyfermot, Clondalkin and Tallaght have developed action plans to tackle alcohol abuse, as part ...
Waste land beside Labre Park proposed for a ‘horse project’
By Maurice Garvey WASTE land beside Labre Park should be allocated for a Traveller horse project, according to People Before Profit councillor Hazel ...