Category: Ballyfermot

Anne will be remembered as one of the country’s greatest-ever female footballers

Anne will be remembered as one of the country’s greatest-ever female footballers

Ballyfermot

By Maurice Garvey TRIBUTES have been paid to one of Ireland’s most successful football players of all time – Inchicore native Anne O’Brien, ...

Ballyfermot boy lost school place over application being too late

Ballyfermot boy lost school place over application being too late

Ballyfermot

By Maurice Garvey EFFORTS are being made to secure a suitable school placement for a young Traveller boy from Ballyfermot. National media ...

Transition programme a boost for ‘transfer stress’

Transition programme a boost for ‘transfer stress’

Ballyfermot

By Maurice Garvey STUDENTS are benefitting from a primary to post-primary transition, courtesy of a programme rolled out at St Dominic’s Secondary School ...

Community crèche in crisis talks over threatened closure

Community crèche in crisis talks over threatened closure

Ballyfermot

By Maurice Garvey THE Markiewicz Community Centre Crèche in Ballyfermot is in talks with the Department of Children and Youth Affairs in an ...

Relatives of Hillsborough disaster victims at emotional park ceremony

Relatives of Hillsborough disaster victims at emotional park ceremony

Ballyfermot

By Maurice Garvey A BALLYFERMOT family welcomed relatives of Hillsborough disaster victims for an emotional memorial service in Phoenix Park on Saturday. A ...

Irish Residential Properties acquire a further 89 apartments at Coldcut Park

Irish Residential Properties acquire a further 89 apartments at Coldcut Park

Ballyfermot

By Echo Reporter THE Irish Residential Properties REIT (IRES) has entered into an agreement to acquire 89 apartments with 145 car-parking spaces at ...

Relay for Life event attracts huge crowds

Relay for Life event attracts huge crowds

Ballyfermot

By Maurice Garvey DESPITE facing a weekend with a bad weather forecast – the community turned out en masse to support the annual ...

Ballyfermot grandmother with fatal illness hopes for Anfield dream

Ballyfermot grandmother with fatal illness hopes for Anfield dream

Ballyfermot

By Maurice Garvey A FAMILY have started a campaign to grant their mother – suffering from a fatal illness – her dream of ...

Stone-throwing thugs force 79/A bus off route

Stone-throwing thugs force 79/A bus off route

Ballyfermot

By Maurice Garvey BUS services were temporarily suspended in Ballyfermot twice over the last week – the 79/A service once again targeted ...

Flexible council approach to tenancies is welcomed

Flexible council approach to tenancies is welcomed

Ballyfermot

By Maurice Garvey A DECISION by Dublin City Council to allow separate family tenants to co-habit a home in Ballyfermot, is something Independent ...