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Category: Ballyfermot
Family concerned at health and safety risks from blocked sewerage systems
By Maurice GarveySewerage blockages at a council-owned home have led to one family expressing health and safety concerns. The Best family have ...
Top business women point the way for future careers
By Maurice GarveyLEADING women in business and third-level education headlined a College Awareness Week in St Dominic’s, Ballyfermot. Staff from Allianz, Deloitte, ...
Micro-credit loan scheme now on tap to combat moneylenders
By Maurice GarveyFAMILIES on social welfare can avail of a loan up to €2,000 at credit unions in Ballyfermot and Rathfarnham due ...
Clondalkin and Tallaght amongst highest on burglary figures list
By Mary DennehyMORE than one-fifth of the country’s Top 50 crime spots for burglaries are located within local communities, many of which ...
Echo Sport review December 3rd
By Simon WalshIn this week’s Echo Sport we preview Sunday’s Leinster Final between Ballyboden St Enda’s and Portlaoise in Tullamore, plus we ...
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By Simon Walsh A DEVELOPMENT that includes almost 400 houses and apartments for a site located in Citywest has been granted permission ...
Streets of Dublin captured for Ballyfermot Library exhibition
By Mary DennehyA LOCAL photographer has captured life on the streets of Dublin beautifully and honestly in a photographic exhibition that was ...
A peep into Ballyer lives during the ’70s and ’80s
By Maurice GarveyTWO films encapsulating life in Ballyfermot during the 1970s and 1980s were screened to rapturous applause over the weekend. Productions ...
Councillors complain of being ‘frozen out’ of roundabout talks
By Laura Lyne FRUSTRATION continues over plans for changes set to take place at the Walkinstown roundabout, with proposed plans looking to ...
Car thief abandons stolen vehicle and escapes on foot
By Maurice GarveyA JOYRIDER forced an elderly couple off the road and crashed a stolen vehicle into the back of a van ...