Category: Ballyfermot

HealthBeacon seeks fresh finance injection to firm up future plans

HealthBeacon seeks fresh finance injection to firm up future plans

Ballyfermot

MEDTECH firm HealthBeacon only has enough cash to trade until the end of October and urgently needs fresh finance, it has warned ...

Maryfield residents break out the brushes and the knitting needles

Maryfield residents break out the brushes and the knitting needles

Ballyfermot

THE annual art exhibition by Maryfield Nursing Home was launched this week in Ballyfermot Library. The expo features works by residents at ...

Men caught in possession of €2.3m worth of cannabis get seven years

Men caught in possession of €2.3m worth of cannabis get seven years

Ballyfermot

Two men caught unloading over €2.3 million worth of cannabis in a consignment of frozen chicken have been jailed for seven years, ...

Community garden wins top Chef’s Larder Award

Community garden wins top Chef’s Larder Award

Ballyfermot

A COMMUNITY Garden which supplies local cafés and shops with high-quality produce has been recognised with a prestigious Chef’s Larder Award at ...

A cut above the rest !

A cut above the rest !

Ballyfermot

ROCHE’S Barbers above the Black Forge in Drimnagh closed last week after 71 years in business, with one former customer remarking that ...

Suspended sentence for woman who forged 51 prescriptions

Suspended sentence for woman who forged 51 prescriptions

Ballyfermot

A WOMAN with an addiction to sleeping tablets has been given a one-year suspended sentence for forging prescriptions, reports Eimear Dodd and ...

Council criticised for letting library ‘fall into ruins’

Council criticised for letting library ‘fall into ruins’

Ballyfermot

A PUBLIC meeting took place this week to provide residents with an update on the status of Inchicore Library, which has been ...

Calls for bonfire materials to be removed

Calls for bonfire materials to be removed

Ballyfermot

RESIDENTS are urged to contact Dublin City Council if they notice stock piles of bonfire material in the lead-up to Halloween, reports ...

New music therapy programme for autistic children is launched

New music therapy programme for autistic children is launched

Ballyfermot

THE launch of a new music therapy programme for autistic children took place this week in Crumlin. St Agnes’ Community Centre for ...

Looking on the optimistic side of climate change

Looking on the optimistic side of climate change

Ballyfermot

Helping to inject positivity and optimism into the community’s understanding of climate change are the students of Drimnagh Castle Secondary School. Forty ...