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Category: News
Growth of Tree of Hope
By Laura Lyne THE Tree of Hope campaign was recently honoured by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Críona Ní Dhálaig, in a ceremony ...
Tallaght Cross Primary Care Centre opening confirmed
By Echo Reporter THE Primary Care Centre located at Tallaght Cross will be operational from next month, it was confirmed at the recent ...
Prepared to ‘bang down’ Minister’s door for funding
By Mary Dennehy AN AFTER-SCHOOL homework programme in Fettercairn that helps to prevent children from falling through the cracks in education is in ...
Two men charged with assaulting each other in attacks with an axe and a knife
By Brendan Grehan TWO MEN accused of seriously assaulting each other have appeared before Tallaght Court, reports Brendan Grehan. Judge Bridget Reilly has ...
Over one million children still live in Chernobyl ‘hot zones’
By Mary Dennehy THREE decades after the Chernobyl disaster, more than one million children continue to live in contaminated zones – including 11-year-old ...
Pensioners ‘evicted’ by council plead for home
By Mary Dennehy A COUPLE in their seventies who worked all their lives and reared five children have found themselves homeless and living ...
Rose O’Halloran, at 102 years of age, was one of Clondalkin’s oldest
ByMaurice Garvey CLONDALKIN marked the end of an era this week – with the sad passing of Castle Park resident Rose O’Halloran ...
Moves to convert former cinema into a retail store
By Maurice Garvey RECEIVER Tom Kavanagh has applied for planning permission to introduce a retail store at the Gala building on Ballyfermot ...
Residents warned to be on alert for bogus collectors
By Maurice Garvey BOGUS collectors pretending to be fundraising for Palmerstown Community Centre and Neilstown Community Centre, have been up to their old ...
Childcare providers to be granted €250,000 to help with new needs
By Mary Dennehy FUNDING of €250,000 is on route to 40 childcare services in South Dublin County as part of a €6.5m national ...