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Category: News
Illegal dumping complaints rise by 43 per cent
By Aideen O'Flaherty COMPLAINTS in relation to illegal dumping in the county rose by 43 per cent this year, which has led one ...
Decreased live register figures close to national trend
By Brendan Grehan THE NUMBERS signing on the live register in November 2017 were down by 486 from October in the four social ...
New aircraft for Air Corps bought by State for €32m
The Minister with Responsibility for Defence, Paul Kehoe TD, signed a contract for the provision of three new fixed-wing utility aircraft for ...
Echo Year in Review 2017: February
While there was a lot of love doing the rounds in February, there wasn’t much directed at the HSE. The hardworking staff ...
Volunteers help design Jigsaw resource room
By Aideen O'Flaherty THE design of a new resource room in Jigsaw Clondalkin, which was officially opened by Mayor Paul Gogarty last week, ...
Parking meters in Lucan bring over €130,000 into council coffers
By Brendan Grehan NEARLY 40 per cent of the parking meter income for South Dublin County comes from the Lucan area, the Lucan ...
Bedsits in disrepair over ‘legal issues’ says council
By Aideen O'Flaherty ELDERLY residents are living in “unacceptable conditions” in council-owned bedsits in Inchicore after numerous delays in refurbishing the bedsits as ...
Online giant Amazon seeks to build fourth data centre
By Mary Dennehy AMAZON has lodged a planning application for a two-storey, data-storage facility on the Greenhills Road, which, if passed, will be ...
Mature students give over €1,300 to charity
Mature students at Ballyfermot College of Further Education (BCFE), donated €1,376 to charity this week, from collections within the college and from ...
High-level task force to tackle anti-social trouble
By Aideen O'Flaherty A HIGH-LEVEL task force will reconvene early in the New Year in a bid to tackle ongoing anti-social behaviour in ...