Author: Simon Walsh

Huge support for the sports complex plans at Markievicz

Huge support for the sports complex plans at Markievicz

Ballyfermot

By Maurice Garvey A REPORT on proposed Part 8 works for a sports changing complex at Markievicz Park was passed unanimously by ...

Richie Kiely and Alex Lahore to face off at IT Tallaght for live Q&A session

Richie Kiely and Alex Lahore to face off at IT Tallaght for live Q&A session

Sport

Tallaght’s Richie Kiely and BAMMA World Welterweight Champion Alex Lahore will face off in IT Tallaght this afternoon for a Q&A  session ...

Myra (89) battles to banish Costa Coffee lighting signs

Myra (89) battles to banish Costa Coffee lighting signs

Tallaght

By Mary Dennehy JUST one year shy of 90, Myra Sharkey is on a mission to stop planning permission being granted for the ...

BYCC staff end sit-in protest and urge community to continue the fight to have it reopened

BYCC staff end sit-in protest and urge community to continue the fight to have it reopened

News

By Mary Dennehy THE sit-in at the Brookfield Youth and Community Centre came to an end after 18 days yesterday (Wednesday), when staff ...

Classroom of the future opens in Coláiste Phadraig in Lucan

Classroom of the future opens in Coláiste Phadraig in Lucan

Lucan

By Brendan Grehan A ‘Classroom of the future’ was opened in Lucan’s Coláiste Phadraig last week by Tánaiste Frances Fitzgerald TD. The opening ...

Lucan man bought heroin for his mam when he was only 10

Lucan man bought heroin for his mam when he was only 10

Lucan

By Jessica Magee A man who bought heroin for his mother regularly when he was just a child of 10 will be sentenced ...

Jail ‘well overdue’ for breaking into car

Jail ‘well overdue’ for breaking into car

Ballyfermot

By Brendan Grehan A YOUNG dad who broke into a car with a hammer to steal a sat nav has been jailed for ...

Nature On Our Doorsteps: Nothing is wasted in nature

Nature On Our Doorsteps: Nothing is wasted in nature

Arts & Culture

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

Building homes for people living in poverty was special

Building homes for people living in poverty was special

Tallaght

By Aura McMenamin A scientist working in Henkel Tallaght travelled to Macedonia in September to build homes for people living in poverty after ...