During September and October, Dublin City Council’s South East Area Community Team, in partnership with Ballsbridge, Donnybrook & Sandymount Historical Society, Ringsend & District Historical Society, and both Ballsbridge and Donnybrook Tidy Towns Groups,
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The Dodder Art Club are a group of active retired people in the area who came together to develop artistic skills in a sociable and relaxed environment. The members who have been practising their drawing and painting since 2022,
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The Fair Play Cafe in Ringsend hosted its 7th art exhibition launch in early October with The Smallest Walk-In Gallery in Ireland well becoming the most popular spot for local artistry and creativity. With sketches, dreamy landscapes, bold abstract pieces and colourful popart
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Join us for a magical evening of traditional Irish music and newly composed music with Cormac Breatnach on whistles and Martin Dunlea on guitar. The first of a series of traditional music concerts in the Sandymount Community Centre, this event will take place on Saturday 30th
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All great ideas begin with a thought in someone’s head. 38 years ago Ann Ingle, then resident in Sandymount, came up with the idea for a local newspaper; informative, lively, interesting, one that would capture the authentic voice of Dublin 4. From that idea NewsFour was born.
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I got to know Ann Ingle when I joined Sandymount Community Services in 1985, a Community Employment Programme, which was introduced by Ruairí Quinn TD, as Minister for Labour at the time, to tackle record levels of unemployment in Ireland.
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If I have a penchant for writing stories and articles, it is partly thanks to Ann Ingle. It was she, the first Editor of our shiny new local paper, NewsFour, who regularly put the arm on me to contribute copy to what was then a very Sandymount-oriented bulletin.
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In 1984, at the height of massive unemployment, Ruairi Quinn, then local TD and Minister for Labour (now Enterprise and Employment) introduced what was known as the Social Employment Scheme. This was an innovative scheme that actively encouraged
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An Irish engineering project that removes and recovers phosphorus from treated wastewater and allows it to be used as agricultural fertiliser has won a major global infrastructure engineering award. The Phosphorus Fixation & Recovery Facility (P Fix) was developed for Uisce Éireann
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Culture Night (Sep 20th) is a national moment which celebrates culture, creativity and the arts and seeks to actively promote the belief that this rich and varied collective is alive, treasured and nurtured in people’s lives, today and everyday. This national festival
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