Category: News

Pieta House launches the eighth year of Darkness into Light

Pieta House launches the eighth year of Darkness into Light

Ballyfermot

By Echo ReporterA LARGE crowd gathered in The Pearse Institute (The Ireland Institute), as Pieta House launched Dublin’s Darkness Into Light 2016 ...

Family strive to get memorial to all the Irish Famine victims

Family strive to get memorial to all the Irish Famine victims

News

By Mary Dennehy A TALLAGHT family is the driving force behind a campaign for a memorial to the victims of An Gorta ...

Animation students dominate at Smedias

Animation students dominate at Smedias

Ballyfermot

By Maurice GarveyBALLYFERMOT College of Further Education animation students dominated the Best Shorts category at the Smedias. The college congratulated animation student ...

Welcome news for businesses and residents in Lucan village

Welcome news for businesses and residents in Lucan village

Lucan

By Echo ReporterPLANS under the Village Improvement Scheme are due to recommence, with works to be carried out on the North Main ...

Derelict site tax should be levied on former Gala cinema building ‘to move redevelopment forward’

Derelict site tax should be levied on former Gala cinema building ‘to move redevelopment forward’

Ballyfermot

By Maurice GarveyIT HAS been over two years since the Gala building in Ballyfermot went into receivership and with no sign of ...

Gluais youth leadership programme changed the lives of many students

Gluais youth leadership programme changed the lives of many students

Ballyfermot

By Maurice GarveySTUDENTS from Ballyfermot, Clondalkin and Lucan recently graduated from a Gluais youth leadership programme. The 2016 Gluais graduation ceremony took ...

Cyclists feel forgotten about  in €19m Hell Fire Club plans

Cyclists feel forgotten about in €19m Hell Fire Club plans

News

By Mary DennehyTHE €19 million draft masterplan to transform the Hell Fire Club into an integral part of Dublin’s tourism portfolio has ...

Colaiste de hÍde student makes the final of Fighting Words writing competition

Colaiste de hÍde student makes the final of Fighting Words writing competition

News

By Laura LyneA SECOND-year student from Coláiste de hÍde has been chosen as one of the finalists of the Fighting Words writing ...

Young environmentalists from Killinarden

Young environmentalists from Killinarden

News

By Echo ReporterYoung people from across Dublin prepare to face the judges in ECO-UNESCO’s Young Environmentalist Awards ECO-Den heats happening on April ...

Older public lighting LED replacement delays due to some ‘technical issues’

Older public lighting LED replacement delays due to some ‘technical issues’

Clondalkin

By Maurice GarveyPUBLIC lights installed before the early 1990s, are at the back of the list to be replaced under a countywide ...