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Category: News
Echo Year In Review 2017: January
THERE WERE two murders in the county in January and a vicious stabbing, but the year began when we reported that on ...
Prisoners give back and help tackle food poverty
By Mary Dennehy TALLAGHT-based food-bank Crosscare this week collected a generous donation of food items from the inmates of Cloverhill Prison, who ...
Demand for SVP services up 50 per cent
By Aideen O’Flaherty THE DEMAND for services from St Vincent de Paul has risen by 50 per cent this Christmas, with the ...
Let’s have a green Christmas
By Brendan Grehan IT’S THAT time of year when we tend to over indulge and generate a lot of excess waste. It is ...
Suspended sentence for beating up ex-girlfriend
By Declan Brennan An apprentice electrician has received a suspended prison sentence of two years for beating up his ex-girlfriend. Ian Kelly ...
Early €150k Christmas gift for Belgard Community Centre
By Aura McMenamin Christmas came early for the Belgard Heights Youth and Community Centre, who recently got a €150,000 grant from the ...
Warehouse in Belgard Retail Park gets the green light
By Aideen O'Flaherty PERMISSION has been granted to Bryant Park QIAIF ICAV for the development of a retail warehouse in Belgard Retail Park ...
Tallaght Hospital seeks to expand Intensive Care Unit
By Aideen O'Flaherty TALLAGHT Hospital has applied for planning permission for the construction of a new entrance lobby and a single-storey, first-floor extension ...
InBusiness Awards
A PRESTIGIOUS list of Irish businesses came together on Wednesday, December 6 to celebrate their excellent achievements, for the 6th consecutive year ...
Mother before court on children’s school attendance record
By Brendan Grehan The school attendance report of two children is ‘very positive’, Tallaght District Court has heard. The children’s mother was ...










