Category: Tallaght

Irish Girl Guides open new training centre in Tallaght

Irish Girl Guides open new training centre in Tallaght

Tallaght

IRISH Girl Guides from across the country visited Tallaght last weekend to mark the official opening of the organisation’s new national training ...

Kingswood teenspace opens

Kingswood teenspace opens

Tallaght

THE NEW Teenspace beside St Kilian’s National School in Kingswood was officially opened last week. Speaking at the event Mayor Alan Edge ...

Four million meals are donated to community

Four million meals are donated to community

Tallaght

TALLAGHT-based FoodCloud secured Tesco as its first national retail partner in 2013, and since then, four million meals have been donated to ...

‘Sadness’ from residents over loss of Old Bawn green space

‘Sadness’ from residents over loss of Old Bawn green space

Tallaght

THE future of the cottages on the Old Bawn Road has become clearer in recent days, with work being carried out on ...

Bully-boy tactics and flaring tempers over 3G Astro pitch proposals

Bully-boy tactics and flaring tempers over 3G Astro pitch proposals

Tallaght

TEMPERS flared at a council meeting last week, with the chairwoman of a local area committee accusing a councillor of using “bully-boy ...

Suspended sentence for man who punched stag party-goer

Suspended sentence for man who punched stag party-goer

Tallaght

A man who punched a stag party-goer in a Dublin nightclub 15 years ago, leaving him with a fractured skull, has been ...

Parents, paint and progress

Parents, paint and progress

Tallaght

A NEW parents’ room was officially opened in St Anne’s Primary School in Fettercairn on Thursday, and it coincided with a coffee ...

Food bank secures new storage spaces at Firhouse CC grounds

Food bank secures new storage spaces at Firhouse CC grounds

Tallaght

THE Ballycullen Food Bank has secured a new storage space in the grounds of Firhouse Community College, which officially began being used ...

Local Faces: Sr Mairead Hughes

Local Faces: Sr Mairead Hughes

Tallaght

YOUTH Horizons is a unique Jobstown based education programme which has been a resource for the area's families since 1987, writes Ken ...

Volunteers ‘boxing clever’ with community centre clean-up

Volunteers ‘boxing clever’ with community centre clean-up

Tallaght

A TEAM of volunteers from the Brookfield Community Centre carried out a clean-up of the centre last Saturday, as they feel it ...