The Echo Year In Review March 2016: Easter Rising, gardai swoops and knifepoint theft

The Echo Year In Review March 2016: Easter Rising, gardai swoops and knifepoint theft

By Maurice Garvey

MARCH usually counts St Patrick’s Day as the prominent date in the calendar but this year, commemorations for the Easter Rising took precedence with dramatic re-enactments, family links, and historical events taking place throughout the county.

In other news a woman in her 60s was robbed at knife point whilst visiting a grave at Bohernabreena Cemetery.

March 2016 review 29 December 2016

Plans for a €45 million development project at IT Tallaght were lodged with South Dublin County Council.

More than €15,000 fundraised by the community of Killinarden for Scoil Caitlin Maude’s first-ever library was swallowed up by security costs – after the CE scheme which provided security staff was pulled.

Six people were arrested after rows between circus staff and animal welfare group at the Belly Wien circus on land behind the Cuckoo’s Nest.

A woman whose leg was amputated, was forced to remain in hospital awaiting changes to her Whitechurch home. Mary Maher is in a wheelchair, and had surgery in January at St Luke’s Hospital.

Dublin City Council planners granted permission for a Sheldon Park Hotel development, which includes the demolition of 100-year-old cottages in Bluebell.

Gardaí swooped on premises in Tallaght – seizing cars which were being cloned for sale.

A young girl broke her wrist when a bouncy castle swept away a number of kids at a birthday party in Kiilinarden.

St Mark’s SNS in Tallaght reopened its doors after an arson attack forced the closure of the school campus for two weeks.

Authorities were “taken by surprise” at the amount of burnt-out cars found in Ballyfermot, Tallaght, Clondalkin and Crumlin.

Independent councillor Paul Gogarty labelled illegal dumpers “scumbags” after boxes of tiles and furniture were dumped in Palmerstown laneways.

Over 7,000 children were included in the latest housing applications for Clondalkin and Lucan.

Microsoft expect to create 2,500 jobs after submitting plans for an additional four data centres in Grange Castle.

Independent Tallaght film maker Eamonn Tutty is working on a psychological horror as Gaeilge called An Ceann Deireanach, which he and his Reckoner Films co-founder Alan Dunne, hope to release in 2017.

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