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Homeless family in hotel quarters have no choice but to buy take-away food due to lack of cooking facilities

Homeless family in hotel quarters have no choice but to buy take-away food due to lack of cooking facilities

News

By Mary DennehyA HOMELESS family living in a local hotel since June is spending around €150 a week on take-away food due ...

Pillar of the community and a man of great faith

Pillar of the community and a man of great faith

Ballyfermot

By Maurice GarveyCOMMUNITY pillar Tommy Phelan (87) was laid to rest this week – with an enormous turnout at his Funeral Mass ...

Open daytime drug-dealing around estates causes residents concern for their children

Open daytime drug-dealing around estates causes residents concern for their children

News

By Mary DennehyLETTERS are being sent to the Minister for Justice and the local judiciary concerning open drug-dealing across Tallaght estates. In ...

Road upgrade is blasted by irate motorists

Road upgrade is blasted by irate motorists

Ballyfermot

By Maurice GarveyTHE introduction of an “upgrade” to the road network beside Liffey Valley Shopping Centre – part of the planning requirements ...

Heroin worth €420,000 seized by Gardai in Clondalkin

Heroin worth €420,000 seized by Gardai in Clondalkin

Clondalkin

By Simon WalshGardai in Clondalkin seized heroin worth €420,000 when they stopped and searched a car on Thursday night. Working as part ...

Echo Sports Awards 2015: And the winners are…

Echo Sports Awards 2015: And the winners are…

Ballyfermot

By Simon WalshOn a night when the local sporting world came together to recognise and celebrate the achievement’s of our sports people ...

Garda searches at Newlands Cross lead to a €1.5 million drug haul

Garda searches at Newlands Cross lead to a €1.5 million drug haul

Clondalkin

By Simon WalshOn Wednesday evening at Newlands Cross gardai stopped and searched two cars, uncovering heroin worth €600,000, and in follow up ...

Family plead for re-opening of loved one’s case after gardaí receive letters

Family plead for re-opening of loved one’s case after gardaí receive letters

News

By Mary DennehyTHE grieving family of a young Tallaght man who lost his life seven years ago is this week calling again ...

Over 6,000 families in need to be given food hampers by St Vincent de Paul charity

Over 6,000 families in need to be given food hampers by St Vincent de Paul charity

Ballyfermot

By Mary DennehyMORE than 6,000 households across Tallaght, Clondalkin, Ballyfermot and Lucan will be given food hampers this Christmas by St Vincent ...

Television revelations name councillors for ‘oversights’

Television revelations name councillors for ‘oversights’

Clondalkin

By Mary DennehyDUBLIN South-West councillors Anne-Marie Dermody and Paul Foley were among those named by an RTÉ Investigates programme earlier in the ...