Archive for February 2014

A Big Network For Small Businesses

A Big Network For Small Businesses

Setting up a small business can be a daunting and intimidating process. Wouldn’t it be nice if others could lend you their knowledge and assistance so you don’t feel like you’re in this on your own? This is why the […]

Read more

Shout Out Against Homophobic Bullying

Shout Out Against Homophobic Bullying

For Eoin O’Liatháin (23) and Declan Meehan (24) changing a culture of homophobic bullying, which has been imbedded within Irish secondary schools’ culture for centuries, was a tough task. However, fuelled by their own experiences of bullying, the lads set […]

Read more

Do You Believe in Healers?

Do You Believe in Healers?

There’s a lot of superstition in the world about psychics and whether you believe in them or not. It is something most of us are still very curious about. Catherine Woods is a psychic and healer who featured in NewsFour […]

Read more

Council Adopts Docklands Plan

Council Adopts Docklands Plan

A new document concerning the planning and zoning of the Docklands and South Lotts was approved by Dublin City Council late last year. The plan, officially titled North Lotts and Grand Canal Dock Planning Scheme, will now become the framework […]

Read more

Join the Cleanup Crew

Join the Cleanup Crew

Following the storms of early January, many stretches of the coast were littered with rubbish washed in from the sea. Particularly badly hit was the stretch of beach around the Poolbeg towers. With Dublin City Council’s resources over-stretched by the […]

Read more

Is Dortspeak Disappearing?

Is Dortspeak Disappearing?

Debating identity never goes out of style in Ireland, and it’s not difficult to set the cat among the pigeons. Last October, lexicographer Terence Dolan sparked a brief debate within the media with his claim that the infamous dort accent […]

Read more

Security Fears at Cambridge Court

Security Fears at Cambridge Court

The murder has left Cambridge Court (pictured) with an obvious sense of shock but has also increased concerns about the complex’s lack of security. “The security is non-existent in here,” said Willie Murphy a spokesman for the residents at Cambridge […]

Read more

Cinema Roundup February 20th

Cinema Roundup February 20th

It’s been argued that 3D will never be anything more than a gimmick, one applied only to light entertainment rather than “serious” films, whatever that phrase actually means. Someone obviously didn’t tell this to the Russian film industry, as they’ve […]

Read more

New Light on Naylor Tragedy

New Light on Naylor Tragedy

NewsFour put a call out last summer, on behalf of Councillor Paddy McCartan, for a source on the life circumstances and personal history of Margaret Naylor. She was the first female casualty of the battles that took place during the […]

Read more

Donnybrook’s Hidden Bird Sanctuary

Donnybrook’s Hidden Bird Sanctuary

Nestled in the middle of Donnybrook, defying its busy urban surroundings is a wild bird sanctuary, home to Blackbirds, Finches, Robins, Thrushes, Blue Tits and bats. It was bequeathed to An Taisce by Miss Kathleen Goodfellow in 1971 and management […]

Read more