Archive for December 2014

UCD goes 3D

UCD goes 3D

Previously, NewsFour has covered the phenomenon of 3D printing. For those of you who missed it, 3D printers are a range of technologies that produce whole objects, or components of an object, from scratch, either through computer-guided sculpture of raw […]

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Our Town Update

Our Town Update

Members of the Ringsend/Irishtown Our Town Committees reconvened on a rainy Thursday evening, on the 16th of October, for a state-of-play meeting. In July of this year, as reported in NewsFour, a large meeting was convened to determine local concerns […]

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Ringsend Rock School Presents War of the Worlds

Ringsend Rock School Presents War of the Worlds

Ringsend Rock School will present an arrangement from War of the Worlds by a 12-piece guitar orchestra as part of their annual Christmas Show this weekend! Members of the Rock School will be performing a piece from Jeff Wayne’s classic […]

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IFA Live Animal Crib 2014

IFA Live Animal Crib 2014

The IFA Live Animal Crib is back for the Christmas period! The life-sized Nativity scene opened on the 9th of December in the Mansion House on Dawson Street.

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Volunteers Wanted for Sandymount Strand Cleanup

Volunteers Wanted for Sandymount Strand Cleanup

Sandymount and Poolbeg Peninsula CoastCare Group are looking for new volunteers! The group started out earlier this year, and comprises of local volunteers as well as other members of the public who use the Sandymount Strand area regularly and wanted […]

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Poison Cupcakes and Fun

Poison Cupcakes and Fun

This year’s Halloween festivities saw a myriad of events hit Ringsend. The spooky season saw three days of fun organised by the Ringsend Community Services Forum. Ringsend and Irishtown Community Centre welcomed local kids for a two-hour poison cupcake workshop, […]

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Ringsend Architorture

Ringsend Architorture

A meeting was convened at Ringsend library on the morning of November 6th 2014 to discuss a long-standing bone of contention: the condition and usability of the plaza area immediately surrounding the library. The meeting was chaired by independent councillor […]

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Journalism Framed: World Press Photo Exhibition

Journalism Framed: World Press Photo Exhibition

“The Windows to the World” is the description by Erik de Kruijf, from World Press about the images displayed at the planet’s most prestigious photo contest, which visited Dublin at the CHQ building on the Irish leg of its world […]

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This Week on NewsFour: 8th-12th December

This Week on NewsFour: 8th-12th December

Monday Dublin Dock Workers Preservation Society launch 2015 Calendar Dublin Dock Workers Preservation Society has released a 2015 calendar entitled “Every Picture Tells a Story”. The calendar features 13 previously unseen images depicting the life and times of Dublin’s dock […]

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Lest We Forget

Lest We Forget

“They called it the Great War. The only great thing about it was the enormously great numbers who died in it. War is not great. War is an abomination.” Gary Kilgallen, former chair of the Irish Anti-apartheid Movement, opened up […]

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