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  • Major Cycling Plan For Skerries

    Created: Monday, 25 January 2010 13:17
    The County Council appears to have won an award for a pilot project for the development of a cycling network in Skerries town. At a meeting of the Transportation Strategic Policy Committee last week, the County Council revealed that it was close to comple...

  • Airport Celebrates 70th Anniversary

    Created: Monday, 25 January 2010 13:14
    Dublin Airport celebrated 70 years in operation on the anniversary of the first commercial flight on 19th January, 1940. The airport was officially opened, when an Aer Lingus Lockheed 14 aircraft departed Dublin for Liverpool. Collinstown Airport, as it w...

  • Concern Over Coastal Erosion

    Created: Monday, 25 January 2010 13:12
    Derek Evans points to the pathway on Portrane beach which is on the verge of being swept away through coastal erosion. The harsh winter weather appears to be taking a toll on the coastline of parts of the North County. Concerned Swords man, Derek Evans is...

  • Elaine Brennan married William Owens originally from Church Road in Malahide recently. The newly weds celebrated with a reception at the Kilkenny River Court Hotel.

    Created: Monday, 25 January 2010 13:10
    Elaine Brennan married William Owens originally from Church Road in Malahide recently. The newly weds celebrated with a reception at the Kilkenny River Court Hotel....

  • Third Level College To Come To Balbriggan

    Created: Monday, 25 January 2010 13:06
    Cllr. Tom. O’Leary has welcomed the County Council’s plans for a third level college in Balbriggan in the new development plan issued last Friday. “Balbriggan is a strategic growth town and will need a 3rd level educational facility to service the p...

  • Swords Signing On Must Be Reversed

    Created: Monday, 25 January 2010 13:04
    Local Senator, Brendan Ryan (Lab), has said that the fact that people from Swords and Donabate must sign on in the city centre is an absolute disgrace. He is calling on the Minister for Social and Family Affairs to reverse this outrageous decision. The S...

  • Chris and Patricia Denison were pictured at their wedding reception in Swords on January 15.

    Created: Monday, 25 January 2010 13:03
    Chris and Patricia Denison were pictured at their wedding reception in Swords on January 15....

  • Decision on Ward Hunt Imminent

    Created: Monday, 25 January 2010 13:00
    The next few weeks will be crucial in the future of the Ward Union Hunt, the Secretary of the hunting union said recently. The Ward Union Hunt met with it’s members on January 17th in a meeting that aimed to continue the drive to prevent the government...

  • Rallying Call For Horticulture

    Created: Monday, 25 January 2010 12:58
    Local man, P.J Jones, who recently resigned his position as National Fresh Produce Co-ordinator for the Irish Farmers Association (IFA), has called for a meeting of local horticultural growers next week. His reason for resigning was that he felt horticul...

  • Bracken Boxing Club Gala Event

    Created: Monday, 25 January 2010 12:58
    Bracken Boxing Clubwill be hosting a gala boxing tournament in the Milestown Inn in Balbriggan on January 29th. The tournament will be made up of 14 bouts that will see competitors from the Bracken club compete against boxers from Wales. The tournament wi...

  • Malahide School Prepares For Musical

    Created: Monday, 25 January 2010 12:57
    Transition Year students from Malahide Community School are getting ready  for their musical “Return to the Forbidden Planet”.  The plot follows the crew of a routine survey flight under the command of Captain Tempest. Their spaceship is drawn myste...

  • Rush Society Performs Classic

    Created: Monday, 25 January 2010 12:53
    Just over 100 years since the death of one of Ireland’s greatest playwrights, Rush Dramatic Society will stage J.M. Synge’s classic The Playboy of the Western World. Directed by Seán Corcoran, this exciting production will open its doors to the publi...

  • New Healthcare College Launched In Swords

    Created: Monday, 25 January 2010 12:50
    Last Thursday saw the official launch of the National College Of Healthcare Education in Applewood Village, Swords. The college will deliver a number of healthcare courses ranging from nursing home health care skills and CPR and defibrillator training to...

  • Reilly Highlights Bed Crisis

    Created: Monday, 25 January 2010 12:46
    Local Fine Gael TD, Dr James Reilly, has released new figures showing bed days lost due to delayed discharges. They show 50,000 more bed days were lost in 2009 than 2008.  Dr Reilly said the number of bed days lost due to delayed discharges has increased...

  • Fingal Community College students: Oscar Kwok, Laura Doyle, Niall Cleary and Jason Bajarias entered projects into this year's Young Scientist Exhibition.

    Created: Monday, 25 January 2010 12:43
    Fingal Community College students: Oscar Kwok, Laura Doyle, Niall Cleary and Jason Bajarias entered projects into this year's Young Scientist Exhibition....

  • Swords Lions Celebrate 25 Years

    Created: Monday, 25 January 2010 12:33
    Swords Lions Club marked the 25th Anniversary of its foundation at a function in the Clarion Hotel on Saturday 23 January 2010. Swords Lions Club is part an international network of 1.3 million men and women who work together to answer the needs that cha...

  • John Daly, EBS and Peter O'Donovan, Team Manager, were pictured at the presentation of jerseys to the under 13 football and hurling squad at Naomh Mearnog.

    Created: Monday, 25 January 2010 12:31
    John Daly, EBS and Peter O'Donovan, Team Manager, were pictured at the presentation of jerseys to the under 13 football and hurling squad at Naomh Mearnog....

  • Malahide ESB Problem To Cost One Million

    Created: Monday, 25 January 2010 12:29
    Local Fianna Fáil TD, Michael Kennedy, met officials from ESB to discuss the recent power failures in North County Dublin and to get an update on the proposed works planned for the area to rectify the issue. During discussions with a number of ESB perso...

  • Students from Ardgillan Community College: Ralva Kidukula, Taofeeqat Olanlokun and Patrick Kilpatrick achieved great success in this years BT Young Scientist and Technology exhibition picking up two award for their project called, "A natural alternative i

    Created: Monday, 25 January 2010 12:28
    Students from Ardgillan Community College: Ralva Kidukula, Taofeeqat Olanlokun and Patrick Kilpatrick achieved great success in this years BT Young Scientist and Technology exhibition picking up two award for their project called, "A natural alternative...

  • Irish School Under Consideration

    Created: Monday, 25 January 2010 12:26
    Minister for Food & Horticulture and local T.D.,Trevor Sargent, has requested his government colleague, Mr Batt O’Keeffe, T.D., Minister for Education and Science, to assist with the provision of a new Irish language post-primary school in North County ...