Category: Clondalkin

Super mountain men raise over €11k for boy’s surgery

By Maurice Garvey TWO men hiked over 200km of rugged terrain in a seven-day challenge, to help send Clondalkin child Kal Jennings ...

St Joseph’s Pipe Band scoop World Championships

Clondalkin

By Hayden Moore THERE is glee in Clondalkin after St Joseph’s Pipe Band were crowned World Champions at the recent World Pipe ...

‘Carnegie’ library building featured on stamp issue

Clondalkin

CLONDALKIN features in a new edition of An Post stamps honouring the Carnegie Libraries in Ireland. An Post unveiled their Carnegie stamps ...

Teenager battling SMA illness celebrates great Leaving Cert

Clondalkin

By Maurice Garvey A TEENAGER battling a debilitating illness, celebrated a successful Leaving Cert and looks set to follow his dream of becoming ...

Weekend soup run helping people in need closer to home

Clondalkin

By Maurice Garvey ONE YEAR ago, three women set up a mobile soup run, providing homeless people with a variety of essential goods, ...

Free ‘stop-smoking’ courses to begin for women in the autumn

Clondalkin

By William O'Connor The Irish Cancer Society has launched the latest round of We Can Quit – its free smoking cessation programme – ...

Using heroin is a ‘death sentence’

Clondalkin

“THE USE of heroin over a long period of time is effectively a death sentence,” Judge David McHugh told a woman who ...

Murphy’s Motivation

Clondalkin

By Maurice Garvey A FITNESS instructor from Clondalkin, who battled back from the brink of suicide, has produced a documentary detailing her experience ...

Arrested twice for breaching the peace

Clondalkin

A MAN who was twice arrested within three hours for breaching the peace left Blanchardstown District Court with a €200 fine. Kieran ...

Climb every mountain

Clondalkin

By Maurice Garvey TWO men plan to climb the highest peaks in the 32 counties as part of a campaign to send a ...