Category: Tallaght

Tallaght native shares story of life in Italian lockdown town

Tallaght native shares story of life in Italian lockdown town

Tallaght

By Mary Dennehy Just over two weeks ago, The Echo spoke with Tallaght native Joseph O’Flaherty about life in an Italian town on ...

Parking lockers will go a long way in preventing bike thefts

Parking lockers will go a long way in preventing bike thefts

Tallaght

By Mary Dennehy NEW bicycle parking lockers have this week been launched in Tallaght and Rathfarnham, in an attempt to pump up bike ...

Go-ahead for 500 new homes in Killinarden

Go-ahead for 500 new homes in Killinarden

Tallaght

By Maurice Garvey A PROPOSAL for 500 new homes in Killinarden was voted through at a South Dublin County Council meeting on Monday ...

Connecting people with landscape

Connecting people with landscape

Tallaght

By Mary Dennehy CONNECTING people to places and landscapes was the aim of a guided upland farming walk organised by the Dublin Mountain ...

Between the jigs and the reels Denise celebrates 25 years

Between the jigs and the reels Denise celebrates 25 years

Tallaght

By Mary Dennehy WHEN Denise Egan took her first steps towards starting an Irish dancing school at the age of 23, and with ...

Changing face of Airton Road

Changing face of Airton Road

Tallaght

By Aideen O'Flaherty THE landscape of Airton Road looks set to undergo significant changes in the coming months and years, as the area ...

Driver jailed for road rampage

Driver jailed for road rampage

Tallaght

A DRIVER has been jailed for a road rampage in west Dublin that a judge said was “absolutely frightening” and put many ...

State-of-the-art facilities in new €14.7m building

State-of-the-art facilities in new €14.7m building

Tallaght

By Hayden Moore INITIAL works have started on a new €14.7million sports facility on Technological University Dublin–Tallaght Campus. Plans to construct a Sports ...

Work starts on new Dodder bridge

Work starts on new Dodder bridge

Tallaght

By Mary Dennehy WORK has started on a new four metre-wide bridge at Bolbrook, which will span the Dodder as part of an ...

Travellers and youths at most risk of self-harming

Travellers and youths at most risk of self-harming

Tallaght

By Aideen O'Flaherty STAFF from the Tallaght Travellers Community Development Project took part in St Patrick’s Mental Health Services (SPMHS) and Pieta’s annual ...