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€38m Basketball Arena redevelopment approved

€38m Basketball Arena redevelopment approved

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Basketball Ireland has been granted planning permission for the €38 million redevelopment of the National Basketball Arena by South Dublin County Council. ...

Sixteen anti-social incidents took place involving buses in August

Sixteen anti-social incidents took place involving buses in August

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Up to 16 anti-social behaviour incidents were reported by Dublin Bus drivers during the month of August, The Echo understands. At the ...

Five-year-old with special needs rejected by 32 schools says mother

Five-year-old with special needs rejected by 32 schools says mother

Tallaght

After seeing her five-year-old daughter with special needs rejected by 32 schools, Charlotte Cahill, a mother from Tallaght, said she “reached a ...

Football Club boost with new dressing rooms

Football Club boost with new dressing rooms

Tallaght

Old Bawn Football Club’s brand-new changing rooms opened on Saturday, at the Tymon Bawn Community Centre. Based in Aylesbury Park, the club ...

First-day joy for triplets as they start school

First-day joy for triplets as they start school

Tallaght

A LOCAL mother enjoyed a “chaotic” but memorable morning as she dropped her triplets to their first day of school at Scoil ...

33 locals to hike Snowdon the highest point in Wales

33 locals to hike Snowdon the highest point in Wales

Tallaght

Thirty three locals will hike to the top of Snowdon, Wales’s highest peak, this weekend, as part of a trip organised by ...

Fire Brigade staff ‘delighted’ to raise €4,650 for St Luke’s

Fire Brigade staff ‘delighted’ to raise €4,650 for St Luke’s

Tallaght

DUBLIN Fire Brigade held an extremely successful fundraising event at The Square shopping centre on Saturday, August 31 in aid of St ...

Local history with Albert Perris: The Memoirs of Matty Dunbar

Local history with Albert Perris: The Memoirs of Matty Dunbar

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The following memoir featured in ‘Since Adam was a Boy: An Oral Folk History of Tallaght’ published in 1999 by local historian ...

‘Happy to start’ pupils meet teachers and make new friends

‘Happy to start’ pupils meet teachers and make new friends

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Hundreds of pupils in South Dublin went through the buzz and excitement of their first day of school in the past few ...

Pearse play to be performed by drama group in Glenasmole

Pearse play to be performed by drama group in Glenasmole

Tallaght

A PLAY as Gaeilge, by legendary Irish revolutionary Pádraig Pearse, will take place in Glenasmole Valley this weekend (September 14/15 at 4.30pm). ...