Donnybrook, once a thriving village, has in recent years succumbed to the invasion of the dreaded high-rise. With the new monstrosity at the bottom of Eglinton Road, and a six-storey, 85-unit co-living complex where Kiely’s once stood already a fait accompli (adding to that the disappearance of post office, banks,
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Sadly, this notice appeared recently in the post office in Ballsbridge. The post office – once the hub of the community, the place where people met to collect their pension, get stamps, or send parcels to loved ones in far off lands. Of course the real reason we went in was to catch up on the goss!
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With September around the corner and schools about to reopen many parents are already fretting about how they will be able to meet this year’s school bills. While education is free in Ireland there are many hidden costs, as parents are all too well aware. Top of that list has to be school uniforms,
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The Department of the Environment, Climate, and Communications has selected Irish Girl Guides (IGG) as one of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Champions for the 2024-25 Programme. As a youth-driven organisation with our members at the heart of all decision-making, IGG has shown increasing interest
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Dublin Simon Community has launched its annual ‘Home Run’ campaign, inviting hundreds of walkers, joggers, and runners to complete a new Phoenix Park loop on Saturday 5th October and raise essential funds to end homelessness. This year’s event
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The Star of the Sea BNS, Sandymount, have been awarded the prestigious An Gaelbhratach flag in recognition for platforming Gaeilge as a used everyday language, and to inspire respect for our national language amongst our pupils and staff. The Gaelbhratach was established in response
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On 29th June 2024 Dublin City Council hosted a ‘Picnic in the Park’ to mark the unveiling of a plaque to commemorate the Patriotic Children’s Treat, which took place in Clonturk Park on 1st July 1900. Present at the unveiling were such distinguished guests as Deputy Lord Mayor Donna Cooney and Mary McAulliffe
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Anthony (Tony) Jordan, whose death a year ago we still mourn, was the man who reclaimed for Sandymount the poet William Butler Yeats. Tony organised annual poetry readings on Yeats’s birthday here on the Green. Always imaginative and inclusive, he involved a range of local people,
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First things first. “Thank you”. Thank you to the nearly two thousand people who gave me their Number 1 vote and the very many more who gave me subsequent preferences at the recent Local Elections. As the late Dan Spring TD said to me many years ago, “It is an honour to be elected but a very special honour
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The East Link Bridge replaced the numerous ferries that carried traffic across the river. The bridge which is a bascule bridge or a moveable bridge (particularly common in Belgium) was opened to road traffic in 1984. RTÉ noted that, “in its first 12 hours of operation over six thousand vehicles used the bridge”
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