Category: Ballyfermot

Youth service remembers Davy

Youth service remembers Davy

Ballyfermot

TRIBUTES were paid this week to former Ballyfermot Youth Service (BYS) board member and minibus driver David (Davy) Lynch, who died on ...

Cocaine worth over half-a-million euro found during search of van outside house

Cocaine worth over half-a-million euro found during search of van outside house

Ballyfermot

A Dublin man described as “not a criminal mastermind” has been jailed for four-and-a-half years, after gardaí found cocaine worth over half-a-million ...

Mother to run her 20th  VHI Mini Marathon

Mother to run her 20th VHI Mini Marathon

Ballyfermot

A Dublin mum is set to run her 20th VHI Women’s Mini Marathon for the national charity which helps her daughter battle ...

Spinal injury youth worker has his sights set on City Marathon

Spinal injury youth worker has his sights set on City Marathon

Ballyfermot

A MOTORCYCLE accident a year ago left a youth worker with a life-changing spinal-cord injury and confined him to a wheelchair. Despite ...

Long-serving Councillor O’Connell steps down from local politics

Long-serving Councillor O’Connell steps down from local politics

Ballyfermot

THE move from a paper-based system to IT has been “huge” in terms of the changes it brought about for life as ...

Painting the light control boxes

Painting the light control boxes

Ballyfermot

FINAL submissions are in for prospective artwork on traffic-light control boxes for the Dublin Canvas project. Dublin City Council in consultation with ...

‘Legendary’ Henry was much-loved in community

‘Legendary’ Henry was much-loved in community

Ballyfermot

TRIBUTES pour in to mark a tragic time for a Ballyfermot family, who lost a father and son within weeks of each ...

Appeal upheld over decision to grant apartments at Leitrim Lodge

Appeal upheld over decision to grant apartments at Leitrim Lodge

Ballyfermot

AN APPEAL was not upheld by An Bord Pleanala over a decision by Dublin City Council to grant permission for apartments in ...

Change Clothes Crumlin launches the Swap Tool Kit

Change Clothes Crumlin launches the Swap Tool Kit

Ballyfermot

SUSTAINABLE initiative Change Clothes Crumlin has launched the ‘Swap Kit’, a suite of swap equipment that can be borrowed to host a ...

Man with ‘terrible history’ of offending jailed for attempted robbery of cash-in-transit van

Man with ‘terrible history’ of offending jailed for attempted robbery of cash-in-transit van

Ballyfermot

A MAN with a “terrible history” of offending has been jailed for an attempted robbery of a security guard at a cash-in-transit ...