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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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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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Free Wee Library Comes To Sandymount

Free Wee Library Comes To Sandymount

The rainy morning of October 8th saw Sandymount Hotel become the recipient of a Free Wee Library, a free community book-sharing project for adults and children. The library was introduced as part of the hotel’s ongoing Green Project, and is […]

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Cambridge Court Wins Gardening Competition

Cambridge Court Wins Gardening Competition

A mixture of team work and community spirit won the award for Cambridge Court in the apartment complex section of the South East Area City Neighbourhoods Competition 2014. The Dublin City Neighbourhoods Competition is run by Dublin City Council as […]

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Flood Cover Fears

Flood Cover Fears

Concerns on the issuing of flood cover within house insurance policies have arisen recently for Dublin 4 residents in relation to river and sea flooding. Insurance companies have used a system of geocoding risk profiling based on topography and flood […]

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Dublin Dock Workers Preservation Society launch 2015 Calendar

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 workers.

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