Archive for 2020

9000 lights for the Irish Cancer Society

9000 lights for the Irish Cancer Society

The Irish Cancer Society is asking people to remember all lives touched by cancer and to pay tribute to those who have passed away from cancer in 2020. This year saw 9000 people lose their difficult battle with cancer and to commemorate their lives, the Irish Cancer

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Santa to the rescue with the NCBI

Santa to the rescue with the NCBI

This year has been especially hard for visually impaired children in terms of accessing all necessary amenities for school, hobbies and the basics just to have fun. Good news has come from the NCBI in the form of their special link to Santa Claus.

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December / January 2021

December / January 2021
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Tell My Mother I… by Anthony J. Jordan

Eoin Meegan The story of how this book came about, the first novel by Anthony Jordan, is almost as interesting as the book itself. Ostensibly it tells the story of a young girl, Laura Burke, who discovers she is adopted […]

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GCID: New Innovation Hub for Dublin 4.

GCID: New Innovation Hub for Dublin 4.

Geneva Pattison Trinity College has announced that creating an Innovation Hub is the first step in their Grand Canal Innovation District plan. The Hub will be a place where start-ups and entrepreneurs can work and develop ideas. This new space […]

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Tenet and the outlook for cinemas

David Prendeville With cinemas now closed in the capital once more, the outlook is bleak for cinemas, not just in Dublin, but all over the world. The great hope was that Christopher Nolan’s Tenet would prove to be the much-needed […]

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Dublin’s future skyline and a history of high rise

Peter McNamara Since the beginning of Dublin’s housing crisis, politicians, planners, developers and Dubliners have been arguing about whether we should be building up and not out to solve our shortages. To some, the sky (and sky-scrapers) are the limit. […]

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Patsy Gallagher: The Mighty Atom (part 1)

Gavan Bergin Patrick ‘Patsy’ Gallagher was born in Milford Workhouse in Co. Donegal in 1891. He spent the first few years of his life living in Ramelton, a small village on the shores of Loch Swilly. When he was three, […]

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Activists fight York Road tower

Peter McNamara Ringsend community activists are working to prevent a tower development proposal on York Road from being more than doubled in height. Melville Properties have submitted a proposal to Dublin City Council to extend permission that was previously granted […]

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End of an era for St Mary’s Church

Eoin Meegan It was like saying goodbye to a very dear friend. That was how many of the parishioners of St Mary’s church, Donnybrook, on the corner of Anglesea Road and Simmonscourt Road, felt following the ceremony of deconsecration when […]

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