Geneva Pattison In chillier months, the desire to leave the warm coziness of the inside becomes less inviting. For gardeners, it can be quite a slow period, where you find yourself cleaning up more leaves rather than growing new exciting […]
Read more →Eoin Meegan A new ambitious plan for the southside of Dublin Bay envisages a cycle path going all the way from Sandymount to Sandycove beyond Dún Laoghaire. As part of this plan a new cycleway will run along the Strand […]
Read more →David Prendeville This is an exhaustively researched and engagingly written chronicle of the role public houses had on Ireland’s fight for independence. It is divided into Fifteen chapters: The Early Revolutions The Easter Rising The Pubs of 1916 The Employees […]
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Geneva Pattison Nominations for the 2021 Garda Youth Awards will close on January 29th. Now is the time to nominate young people in the locality who have demonstrated any outstanding acts of bravery, service or ingenuity from within the sphere […]
Read more →Margaret Dunne The Grotto on Bremen Avenue was recently refurbished and a new Grotto built. A big thank you to local residents Rose Barnes Corrigan and Pauline Walsh who look after the maintenance and upkeep of the Grotto, along with […]
Read more →Michelle Walshe A Page from My Life is a collection of 150 stories from different writers (shortlisted from 2,500 entries) that were submitted to the Ray D’Arcy Show on RTÉ Radio 1 in a competition run during lockdown back in […]
Read more →David Prendeville In this most unusual of seasons it’s harder to predict than usual what sort of transfer activity will be taking place in the often turbulent January window. There have already been injury crises aplenty. Both Jurgen Klopp and […]
Read more →Compiled by David Prendeville October Councillor Daniel Céitinn asked the manager to replace the plastic waist-high illuminated flecta traffic bollards in the central island on the road in Irishtown opposite the bookies as they are untidy and worn looking and […]
Read more →Dermot Carmody Back in the days when we had actual gigs with crowds and pints and no masks, many of you will have experienced Kevin Morrow live in his residencies at McCloskeys in Donnybrook or O’Reilly’s of Sandymount. We can’t […]
Read more →A beautiful new book, written and illustrated by children who are experiencing homelessness in Dublin and across Ireland during the current pandemic, was launched today at the end of November by Irish publishing company Emu Ink. In ‘Homeless Stories,’ children, […]
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