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Christmas in D4 with Dublin City Council

Christmas in D4 with Dublin City Council

Christmas is coming and the goose is getting fat Dublin City Council South East Area Community Section is working with all the villages in Dublin 4 in preparing to celebrate Christmas. Santa and his one horse open sleigh,

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Christmas in Dublin 4!

Christmas in Dublin 4!

The festive season is in full swing across Dublin 4 as we come ever closer to Christmas! Santa Claus paid a visit to Sandymount Hotel on December 13 in aid of children’s charity ambulance service Bumbleance, and they also had a spectacular Gingerbread Village

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Bonfires on New Year’s Eve

Bonfires on New Year’s Eve

New Year’s Eve was crazy. All the gangs from the area would go gathering materials for the bonfires. They would collect pallets, wooden crates, tyres and anything else that would burn. The Villas, Whelan House, O’Rahilly House, George Reynolds, Stella […]

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Halloween in the Heritage Garden

Halloween in the Heritage Garden

Donnybrook played its part in this year’s Halloween festivities with a fun-filled event in The Heritage Garden on Bloomfield Avenue. The centre’s Celebration of Halloween took place on November 1st on a somewhat stormy evening packed with fancy dress, games, […]

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Christmas Events for Dublin 4

Christmas Events for Dublin 4

December 8th is the day the farmers come to the ‘big smoke’ to do their shopping and a massive day out for people from all corners of Ireland. But living in Dublin means it’s not such a novelty. Just a day to avoid an unusually busy town, if we’re honest.

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Donnybrook: A History

Donnybrook: A History

The room brimmed at Elm Park Golf Club with members, family, friends, historians and local residents for the launch of Dr Beatrice Doran’s book Donnybrook: A History on the 7th of November. A long queue quickly formed to purchase a

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Deck the Halls with Local Choirs

Deck the Halls with Local Choirs

Get out there and get your annual fill of Away in a Manger, Deck the Halls and Frosty the Snowman with your local choirs this Christmas. A busy time for carol singers, you will find them in concert halls, churches, department stores, on doorsteps and on the streets singing songs for this special time of year.

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Do you think the Poolbeg Chimneys should be re-painted?

Do you think the Poolbeg Chimneys should be re-painted?

Frank Chirop – Sandymount “Very often in pictures of Dublin you see the chimneys, they are a landmark. Yes I’d like them to be maintained.” Padraig Thomspon – Ringsend “Yes, they are a landmark and should be used for the

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Home from Home: Donnybrook, Australia

Home from Home: Donnybrook, Australia

Remember when NewsFour took you across the Atlantic to Irishtown, New Brunswick, Canada? Well if you weren’t worn out by that brief journey to a far flung place with one of Dublin 4’s twin towns then you’ll be more than

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DCC Notes

DCC Notes

New website puts Dublin’s young creative community on the map DCC launched a new website mapping out arts and cultural events across the city including Dublin 4. The website called yam.ie (Your Arts Map), shows Dubliners how to get to

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