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Category: Videos
Fire in Cookstown Industrial Estate
Dublin Fire Brigade dealing with an industrial blaze in Cookstown Industrial Estate. (16/11/2020)
Motorists are advised to avoid the area.
Belgard Road between Mayberry and Airton is blocked off as is roads in Cookstown.
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Take a virtual tour around Greenhills Community College with some of its students!
Take a virtual tour around Greenhills Community College with some of its students!
The local secondary school, which is celebrating 50 years in the community, is now open for applications – with limited places available for 2021/2022.
Be part of its successful story and apply HERE. https://greenhillscollege.ie/about-us/
Benefiting from a large building and spacious campus, Greenhills Community College is a Digital Learning School.
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The Square celebrates 30 years in Tallaght
Do you remember where you were the day The Square Tallaght opened on October 23, 1990?
Watch this nostalgic look back over the past three decades and relive the excitement as the local shopping centre today turns 30! #LoveWhereYouLive
(Video: thanks to The Square for sharing)
Local Faces: Fran Halpin
Pebbles have become Fran Halpin’s stepping stones to a life as a full-time painter, providing bouyancy to her childhood dream of being an artist ‘when she grew up’. Growing up in Tallaght, Fran (46), who is a former student of Old Bawn Community School, has from an early age wanted one thing – to be an artist. Full story HERE: https://www.echo.ie/tallaght/article/local-faces-fran-halpin
Local reaction to the news that Tallaght has was named Ireland’s Rising Star at the BOI 2020 Awards
Local reaction to today’s news that Tallaght has been named Ireland’s Rising Star at the Bank of Ireland 2020 Begin Together Awards. The Tallaght bid was a collaboration between Partas, South Dublin County Council, the Local Enterprise Office South Dublin, South Dublin Chamber and Tallaght Community Council (TCC) – and highlighted the work of groups right across Tallaght and their response to Covid-19.
Walking miracle Karlee (8) thanks people for saving her life
An eight-year-old girl visited Tallaght Fire Station this week to say ‘thank you’ to the team who helped save her life when she suffered a cardiac arrest in a local shopping centre.
Click here to read the full story: Kaylee.
Return of the flying ants!
IT’S that time of the year again when flying ants invade airstreams – a wonder to some, terrifying to others. In recent weeks, reports of flying ants have been swarming social media and news outlets, as people documents their ‘terrifying’ accounts with the flighty insects.
However, according to Tallaght conservationist Collie Ennis, this natural phenomenon should be appreciated and not feared, as the ants are only searching for a new home.
According to Collie, it’s breeding season for ants so, after the worker ants clear a runway out of the nest, the flying ants take off in search of a new home.
Irish football supporters came out in force to remember Jack Charlton
Irish football supporters came out in force this afternoon to remember former Ireland manager and legend Jack Charlton, as ‘Put em under pressure’ rings out in his memory at the Walkinstown roundabout.