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Over 200 schoolchildren help the homeless with shoe-box donations

Over 200 schoolchildren help the homeless with shoe-box donations

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By Aideen O'Flaherty OVER 200 primary school children in Citywest and Saggart have been spreading Christmas cheer by donating gifts which will be ...

Sniffer dogs at Tallaght school find no trace of drugs

Sniffer dogs at Tallaght school find no trace of drugs

Tallaght

By Mary Dennehy THE Garda Dog Support Unit made no detections when it swept a Tallaght school on Monday, in a preventative and ...

Lights, music and joy –  with Santa and his elves

Lights, music and joy – with Santa and his elves

Tallaght

By Aideen O'Flaherty SANTA made a guest appearance in Tallaght last weekend with a team of elves on hand to welcome the Christmas ...

Battling Ballyfermot grandmother gets special Xmas letter

Battling Ballyfermot grandmother gets special Xmas letter

Ballyfermot

By Maurice Garvey A BALLYFERMOT grand-mother battling cancer got an early Christmas present with a letter from her “crush” Liverpool FC Manager ...

Prison inmates show the festive spirit by donating to food bank

Prison inmates show the festive spirit by donating to food bank

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By Mary Dennehy THE inmates at Cloverhill Prison showed how they too can give back to society at Christmas, when they handed over ...

Free Tallaght Christmas dinner for the homeless will feed at least 240

Free Tallaght Christmas dinner for the homeless will feed at least 240

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By Mary Dennehy A MAN who lost his home three years ago has this week thanked the community for staging a free Christmas ...

Clondalkin murder happened just 300m from Garda Station

Clondalkin murder happened just 300m from Garda Station

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The latest gangland-style murder happened in Clondalkin this evening, just 300 metres from Ronanstown Garda Station. An appeal has been issued for ...

Early present for mother – with a little firefighter help

Early present for mother – with a little firefighter help

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By Mary Dennehy A TINY Tallaght baby couldn’t wait until her due date on Christmas Day to be born, so decided to give ...

COURT: Detective drew gun in attempt to apprehend knife-wielding Tallaght man

COURT: Detective drew gun in attempt to apprehend knife-wielding Tallaght man

Tallaght

A DETECTIVE in Tallaght was forced to draw his firearm on Main Street to get a man to drop a knife, Tallaght ...

‘The torture he was put through will haunt me for the rest of my life’

‘The torture he was put through will haunt me for the rest of my life’

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THE parents of Dale Creighton, the young Tallaght man who died after he was attacked on New Year’s Day 2014 have said ...