As of July 2023, the IGB Housing Action Group has met with the developers of the IGB site who confirmed they made available to our own Housing Department the entire allocation of Social and Affordable homes on Phase 1. So we will see what progresses from here,
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Ringsend’s own Abbie Larkin, who just turned 18 last April is the youngest member of the Irish Women’s Football team who represented Ireland in the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia.
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Ringsend and Irishtown Tidy Towns & Environment (RITE) have entered into the SuperValu Tidy Towns Competition again this year and are calling on all businesses to help them out by keeping their premises clean and well presented.
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Huge thanks to everyone for making the Stephen Deering fundraising event a huge success – raising €3,360.
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The chimneys are often referred to colloquially as the Pigeon House, the name of the original generation station that first generated electricity in July 1903. That station itself took its name from the caretakers lodge built to provide refreshments for workers building the Great South Wall, a project which took decades to complete and started in 1761.
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Award winning singer, producer and director of the former Irishtown Stage School, Liza Caulfifield is back with a bang with an all new singing Glee club. Liza has a long history in participating and teaching performing arts
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Did you know the first Bloomsday commemoration took place in 1954, on the 50th anniversary of the
events portrayed in Ulysses? The event was the brainchild of the Irish literati of the day, and saw Patrick Kavanagh, Flann O’ Brien, Anthony Cronin, A.J. Leventhal (registrar Trinity College), John Ryan (editor of the Envoy) and Tom Joyce, a cousin of the authors, attempt to retrace the steps of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus.
The annual blessing of the boats took place on Sunday May 14th in the bustling Poolbeg Yacht and Boat Club. Fr Ivan was accompanied by Canon Leonard Ruddock, who is the Church of Ireland Rector for Irishtown and Donnybrook, and Fr Derek Harris who is originally from Ringsend and one of the yacht club’s oldest and longest members.
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