Archive for October 2015

Trivia Time!

Trivia Time!

Fancy yourself as a quiz master? Think your team could beat all comers? Prove your intellectual might this Friday at 8pm when Railway Union hold their Trivia Night and raffle!

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ARC Cancer Support Torch of Hope Relay

ARC Cancer Support Torch of Hope Relay

Join the fight against cancer as a message of hope moves through Dublin this weekend! Two relays will bring the Torch of Hope from either side of Dublin Bay to help raise funds for ARC Cancer Support this Sunday.

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Dublin City Volunteer Recruitment Fair

Dublin City Volunteer Recruitment Fair

Interested in doing volunteer work, but not sure how to go about it? Check out the Dublin City Volunteer Recruitment Fair tomorrow! The Fair will give you the opportunity to find out what almost 20 non-profit organisations do and how […]

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Sober Lane Sleep Out Challenge

Sober Lane Sleep Out Challenge

Take on a night of sleeping rough for charity! Sober Lane is challenging you to face the grim reality of the minimum 5,000 people living homeless at any one time in Ireland, and sleep out overnight.

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Tea Party on the Green!

Tea Party on the Green!

Sandymount Village Tidy Towns, in conjunction with Dublin City Council (DCC), hosted a delightful tea party and book sale on the Sandymount Village Green. It rained all over Dublin on Wednesday 22nd July but not on the Green. Someone upstairs […]

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Sandymount’s Smallpox Secret

Sandymount’s Smallpox Secret

Sandymount village has a well-known history of being both a bustling marketplace and a tourist destination for beach-goers. However, even the most knowledgeable local historian may not know about Sandymount’s role in the nascent Irish pharmaceutical industry. Many people may […]

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Joe McDonnell had a Farm… in Sandymount!

Joe McDonnell had a Farm… in Sandymount!

“The yard had been levelled and the cowshed was gone but as soon as I walked in I put it together in my mind and could see everything just as it used to be.” This is the story that had […]

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AIB Sandymount Autism Fundraiser

AIB Sandymount Autism Fundraiser

The AIB branch in Sandymount recently devoted an entire day to hosting a charity event in the battle against autism in Ireland. The charity the bank chose to support is Irish Autism Action, for whom they held a fundraiser in […]

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Batty About the Dodder

Batty About the Dodder

As Halloween falls bang in the middle of this issue, let’s shed some light on some widely believed bat myths. On October 31st many of us will have Count Dracula himself knocking on our doors asking for sweets, but he […]

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The Mad Hatters of Beaver Row

The Mad Hatters of Beaver Row

Beaver Row in Donnybrook is a location with a unique history. And so it was only fitting that such a unique history bequeathed such a one-off event as that which takes place on this very road on the weekend of […]

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