Archive for December 2016

This Week on NewsFour: December 3 – 10

There will be stargazing in Sandymount this Friday December 9th as the Dublin Sidewalk Astronomers meet at the Martello Tower Car Park. Read more… Flood cover insurance The Sandymount coastal flooding defence scheme along with the flood alleviation works by […]

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Dealing with debt

Dealing with debt

DSE MABS are serving the Dublin 2, 4 & 6 communities for 22 years and over this time we have seen a lot of change. In the past, debt was inextricably linked to unemployment and social disadvantage. The majority of […]

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‘High School Musical’ comes to Ringsend

‘High School Musical’ comes to Ringsend

The Irishtown Stage School Christmas production, ‘High School Musical’, will be performed at Ringsend College on Thursday, December 15th. Doors open at 7pm. Every year, the Irishtown Stage School present two shows, a full production and a highlights show. They […]

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Fundraiser at Bective Rugby Club

Fundraiser at Bective Rugby Club

Early October saw an afternoon tea dance at Bective Rugby Club in Donnybrook to raise money for cancer research. The event was organised by Everna Corcoran-Mills of City Dance Centre, who was moved to stage the event after being touched […]

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Lydia sprints to victory

Lydia sprints to victory

With all the traffic buzzing around Ringsend these days, it’s a brave person who takes to the streets on two wheels. But local athlete Lydia Boylan not only managed to manoeuvre her bike down Thorncastle Street, she kept going all […]

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Reading thrills and horrors – ‘The Misery Hill Murders’

Reading thrills and horrors -  ‘The Misery Hill Murders’

The Misery Hill Murders are an intriguing set of short stories. In his book the well-known filmmaker and archivist, Pat Larkin, writes about Misery Hill, a medieval lepers’ colony and gallows pole for pirates in the 1500s. All of the […]

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IGB Group to launch plan

IGB Group to launch plan

The Glass Bottle Housing Action Group, the local group campaigning for one hundred percent social and affordable housing to be built on the Irish Glass Bottle (IGB) factory section of the Poolbeg Strategic Development Zone (SDZ), hosted a meeting of […]

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Special bus will navigate voyage of cultural discovery

Special bus will navigate voyage of cultural discovery

ALIGHT!, an exciting new dance, art and performance project coordinated by Dublin-based dance company CoisCeim, is looking for creative involvement from community members in Ringsend, Irishtown, Sandymount and Pearse Street. CoisCeim has already facilitated taster workshops in the area and […]

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Irishtown’s family of rescue heroes

Irishtown’s family of rescue heroes

Legendary local boatman, Christopher Lawless, of Pembroke Street, Irishtown, known locally as ‘The Green Vest’, has finally been tracked down by a man he saved from drowning in the Liffey at North Wall, 55 years ago, but sadly ‘The Vest’ […]

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James Bailie, RIP

James Bailie, RIP

The Sandymount Tidy Towns Community Association (STTCA) was deeply saddened by the untimely passing of its esteemed colleague and friend, James Bailie on October 8th last. As a very loyal member of the STTCA he never once flinched from his […]

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