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Category: News
Drimnagh graduates get leadership awards
By Maurice Garvey YOUNG students from Drimnagh recently graduated with leadership qualifications from NUI Galway. Ten Drimnagh youths were awarded university certificates in ...
Objections to Ballyboden HSE demolition plans
BAT surveys and construction traffic management plans are among the additional submissions of information, lodged by the HSE to local planning authorities ...
Celebrating Women’s enterprise
MORE than 250 businesswomen joined forces with the Local Enterprise Office South Dublin to celebrate ten years of National Women’s Enterprise Day ...
Secret cameras for mountain areas in move to thwart illegal dumpers
By Mary Dennehy MOBILE, covert, night vision CCTV could soon be introduced across a number of illegal dumping hotspots in the Dublin Mountains, ...
Cemetery headstone prices under scrutiny by council
South Dublin County Council are to review the price of headstones in their eight burial grounds. The news comes following a motion ...
Local conference will look at the harm and impact of alcohol
By Mary Dennehy A FREE conference on alcohol and its related harms is being held in the Louis Fitzgerald Hotel on November ...
Moves to reduce vehicles’ tonnage on estate roads
SOUTH DUBLIN County Council are to look at reducing the 7.5 tonne weight restriction on the estate roads between the Oval (R148) ...
Man accused of robbing Rathcoole petrol station armed with a screwdriver
By Brendan Grehan A MAN accused of robbing a petrol station in Rathcoole with a screwdriver has been sent forward for trial to ...
Waiting times for state benefits have become ‘mind-boggling’
By Mary Dennehy THE waiting times for state benefits have this week been described as “simply mind-boggling”, with one local woman who looks ...
‘Alarming’ rates of Vitamin D deficiencies show up in study of Greater Dublin area
By Brendan Grehan PEOPLE LIVING in Lucan are up to four times more deficient in Vitamin D than other parts of the greater ...