Year in Review 2020: November
By Aideen O'Flaherty
The detritus from Halloween was cleared away as November began and the longer winter nights started to draw in.
Many members of the community reached out to each other to ensure residents weren’t left behind or isolated, and people showed their appreciation for members of the community.
Tallaght, described their harrowing ordeal of having to evacuate their homes as thick, black smoke was billowing into the estate from a nearby factory fire.
The smoke emanated from an industrial building in Cookstown Industrial Estate. No one was injured in the blaze. (November 19 edition).
A Tallaght couple held a lockdown wedding, with over 50 attendees watching proceedings over Zoom.
Amanda Ni Cholmain and Cian Keating held a civil wedding service in Kilashee House in Naas, and they used local businesses for the groom’s suit, the wedding cake and the flowers. (November 19 edition).
Tallaght grandmother Pauline Gillespie Cottuli made a surprise delivery, when her daughter Katie gave birth in her family home when preparing to go to The Coombe.
The healthy baby boy was born two minutes before paramedics arrived at the scene, with grandmother Pauline helping to successfully deliver the baby with help from a 999 operator. (November 26 edition).
Clondalkin teenager Zoe Clarke released a single on her godson’s first birthday since he passed away.
Baby Samuel was born with profound mental and physical disabilities, and died aged one earlier this year. Zoe, 19, released her single ‘No Matter Where You Are’ and performed a livestream gig in aid of the Jack and Jill Foundation in memory of her godson. (November 26 edition).
Tallaght medical worker Trish Donegan received the Lord Mayor’s Award after being nominated by the family of an elderly woman who she treated in St James’s Hospital.
The patient had tested positive of Covid-19 and her husband passed away with the virus while she was in hospital. (November 5 edition).
Staff at Pfizer’s Grange Castle site were involved in the quality testing of the Covid-19 vaccine, which was developed by Pfizer and German partner BioNTech. (November 12 edition)
For a full look back at November visit The Echo’s website HERE, where all editions from 2020 are free to read online until January 31.
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