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  • McGuire Demands Improvements

    Created: Tuesday, 26 May 2009 00:00
    Speaking at a meeting in Swords on May 21, Cllr. Gerry McGuire said that everyone has the right to decent, safe and affordable housing. His comments have come following a substantial number of “appalling stories” from residents applying for housing a...

  • Government Should Pursue Lucrative Offer

    Created: Tuesday, 26 May 2009 00:00
    Conor Kelly (SF), has called on the Irish Government to actively pursue the offer by the Irish Pensions funds that they would be prepared to invest up to E6 billion over the next three years in a range of State infrastructure projects, as part of a plan ...

  • Crash, Bang, Wall-Hop

    Created: Tuesday, 26 May 2009 00:00
    Success at last for the residents of Melrose Park, after ongoing efforts to resolve the safety problems in the area. The residents have been very concerned about the road and footpath entering Holywell from the Feltrim roundabout. After over three years ...

  • Butler Supports New Legislation

    Created: Tuesday, 26 May 2009 00:00
    Local election candidate, Cllr Darragh Butler (FF) has welcomed the introduction of new legislation by the Government to target Organised Crime. The New Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2009, which was recently announced by An Taoiseach, Brian Cowen T...

  • Disability Unit Secured For Local School

    Created: Tuesday, 26 May 2009 00:00
    Fianna Fail local election candidate Dermot Murray has confirmed that St Mologa’s National School will be retaining its Specific Learning Disability Units for the upcoming academic year. Mr Murray said, “Once I learned about this issue, I contacted m...

  • Centre To Get The Green Light

    Created: Tuesday, 19 May 2009 00:00
    The Brackenstown Sports and Development committee have welcomed the Council’s promise to secure funding for a site to be kept for the community centre once the freeze on council spending has been lifted. Commenting on the news, Brackenstown Community...

  • Malahide Student Captures Award

    Created: Tuesday, 19 May 2009 00:00
    Local girl, Cathriona Daly recently celebrated her biggest win when she captured the Malahide Library Award for the painting she did to reflect Malahide Library’s centenary year. The Malahide Community School student took her interpretation of the libr...

  • Lusk Tidy Towns Prepares For Competition

    Created: Tuesday, 19 May 2009 00:00
    The Lusk Tidy Towns committee was delighted when students from Lusk and Rush Educate Together schools came out to help tidy up the area during the national clean up month. The Tidy Towns committee has continued it’s work as the national judging season ...

  • Fourth Green Flag for Rush School

    Created: Tuesday, 19 May 2009 00:00
    Green Cllr, Joe Corr visited his old school, Rush National School, on Wednesday May 13 to raise the fourth Green Flag achieved by the school, as part of an Taisce’s Green Schools programme. On raising the flag, Cllr Corr said the strong sense of enviro...

  • Boxing To Victory

    Created: Tuesday, 19 May 2009 00:00
    Bracken Boxing club are well and truly on their way to a superb 2009 season. Local lad Gerald Whitehouse,13, from Bracken Boxing Club, recently won the All-Ireland junior cadet title. This adds to the 3 Irish titles, the Dublin and the Leinster champions...

  • St. Finian’s Produces Top-Class Performance

    Created: Tuesday, 19 May 2009 00:00
    St. Finian’s Community College won the Dublin Metropolitan Cup under 16’s final at the Oscar Traynor Development Centre all weather pitch on May 7. The lads battled hard against Crumlin based Greenhills Community College, but eventually won the match...

  • Applewood Village To Host Street Party

    Created: Tuesday, 19 May 2009 00:00
    The retailers and businesses in Applewood Village have come together to celebrate the summer, by throwing a street party on May 23 from 1pm-4pm. Organisers are anticipating a great day of fun for the kids, including two bouncing castles, a juggler, face ...

  • Prefab Crisis

    Created: Tuesday, 12 May 2009 00:00
    Senator Brendan Ryan (LP) has raised concerns over the use of 119 rented prefabs in schools throughout the North County. Ryan said “The fact that there are 119 rented prefabs being used by schools in North County Dublin is a scandal, and is a clear in...

  • Lawless Urges Rental Review

    Created: Tuesday, 12 May 2009 00:00
    Local Election candidate, James Lawless (FG) has called on the County Council to review rental rates paid to landlords under the Rental Accommodation Scheme (RAS) and other similar schemes the Council provides to meet housing needs across North County Du...

  • Local Entrepreneur Students Return

    Created: Tuesday, 12 May 2009 00:00
    Two fifth-year students from St. Joseph’s Secondary School in Rush recently returned home from a three day educational trip to Barcelona, as part of their prize from the Fingal Student Enterprise Awards. The two winners, Ciaran Langan and Joseph Harkin...

  • Council Urged To Support Bike Scheme

    Created: Tuesday, 12 May 2009 00:00
    Darragh Butler, FF local election candidate for Swords, Donabate, Portrane, St Margaret’s and Rolestown has urged the County Council to get actively involved in Ireland’s first National Cycle Policy Framework. The new cycle policy document, launched ...

  • Skerries Theatre Group Face Confusion

    Created: Tuesday, 12 May 2009 00:00
    Skerries Theatre Group presents “Confusions” - Alan Ayckbourn’s timeless, acerbic comedy, which pokes fun at the foibles of suburban man and woman. The evening consists of four interlinked plays set in a livingroom, a bar, a restaurant and a park. ...

  • Local Scholars Win Prestrige Awards

    Created: Tuesday, 05 May 2009 00:00
    It has been a great week for local students in the North County. Young secondary school students and aspiring journalists gathered in Dublin’s Gresham Hotel on O’Connell Street on April 27th for the presentation of the “Let’s Talk About Drugs” ...

  • Swords Dentist’s Give Aid

    Created: Tuesday, 05 May 2009 00:00
    Local dentist’s from Vivian Mongey’ Dental Clinic, Swords are heading to Vesnova Children’s Asylum, Chernobyl to help the children there, as part of a medical team from Ireland who volunteer with the Chernobyl Children’s Project International (CCP...

  • Donabate Hit With Flurry Of Assaults

    Created: Tuesday, 05 May 2009 00:00
    Locals from Donabate and Portrane have expressed concerns over reports that residents from Grove Lodge in Portrane were involved in a number of incidents that took place recently. One such incident saw a number of teenagers assaulted as they sat in an a...