Category: Ballyfermot

Did you miss any of the main stories from the last week? Right this way…

Did you miss any of the main stories from the last week? Right this way…

Ballyfermot

By Simon WalshThis week Dublin South West TD Paul Murphy branded the decision to charge 20 people over an anti-water protest in ...

Dublin stars help launch eighth annual TM Cycle for Pieta House

Dublin stars help launch eighth annual TM Cycle for Pieta House

Ballyfermot

By William O'ConnorDUBLIN footballers Paul Flynn and Darren Daly, along with Pieta House CEO Brian Higgins, came together at the Pieta House ...

Campaign increases to refurbish Silver Bridge

Campaign increases to refurbish Silver Bridge

Ballyfermot

By Maurice GarveyA PETITION to refurbish the Silver Bridge - also known as the Guinness-Farmleigh Bridge spanning the Liffey from Waterstown Park ...

Honours all round – Celebrations as local schools achieve high points in exams

Honours all round – Celebrations as local schools achieve high points in exams

Ballyfermot

By Laura LyneTHERE were tears, screams, sighs of relief and a build up of nerves across South Dublin County on Wednesday morning ...

Youths try to lure Garda patrol cars ‘to stone us out of it’…

Youths try to lure Garda patrol cars ‘to stone us out of it’…

Ballyfermot

By Maurice GarveyUP TO 70 bogus calls were made to gardai to “divert resources”during a weekend of carnage in Cherry Orchard last ...

Centenary plan to capture imagination of people of all ages in South Dublin

Centenary plan to capture imagination of people of all ages in South Dublin

Ballyfermot

By Lynda O'Donoghue DonnellyTHE final Ireland 2016 commemoration workshop took place in Lucan Library last Tuesday evening with representatives from across the ...

For whom the bells may toll – famine victims to be remembered

For whom the bells may toll – famine victims to be remembered

Ballyfermot

By Mary DennehyA TALLAGHT family is behind a historic proposal which could see every denomination of church, across the entire island of ...

Athletes fly the Irish flag proudly at Special Olympics

Athletes fly the Irish flag proudly at Special Olympics

Ballyfermot

By Laura Lyne: THERE were rapturous celebrations in Dublin Airport on Tuesday as the athletes who competed in the Special Olympics World ...

Council buys out sanitary units in order to make them fit for purpose

Council buys out sanitary units in order to make them fit for purpose

Ballyfermot

By Laura LyneSANITARY units in Labre Park that have been rented by Dublin City Council at a cost of over €300,000 since ...

Top of world talent winners

Top of world talent winners

Ballyfermot

By Laura Lyne TALENTED Kids from across South Dublin impressed the crowd – as well as the judges – at the recent ...