The sporting legacy of Ringsend and Irishtown has been given a boost following the recent promotion of local team Bridge United to the AUL Sunday Second Division. Keen to nurture the community pride the area is notorious for, Michael Grant […]
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Cricket is not a sport which comes readily to mind when thinking of school P.E. classes, but on June 12th this year the Railway Union Sports Club held the inaugural Leprechaun Cup for girls’ cricket, with eight different schools participating. […]
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For a number of years now I have been advocating the huge variety of herbs, spices and foreign grocery available at many of the Asian markets so popular of late. It took a bit of time for Dubliners to shop […]
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In this climate, we all have to tighten our belt. Our incomes are reduced, while household expenses, taxes and healthcare costs are increasing. Loan repayments have fallen behind, there are extra bills to pay and nothing seems to balance anymore. […]
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June 13th 2013 was the 148th birthday of one of this country’s literary giants, W.B. Yeats, and to celebrate the local-born writer the Sandymount and Merrion Residents Association (SAMRA) held an annual Yeats recital at Sandymount Green. Shortly after 11.30am […]
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In sunshine or showers, the garden of the Ringsend and Irishtown Community Centre is blooming gorgeous in Summer. Thanks to 19 years of hard work by a small team of self-taught workers, it has scooped gardening awards every year since […]
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The South East Area meeting of the Dublin City Council (DCC) kicked off in the usual manor of endless chatter. First on the agenda was Grafton Street, which is getting an Xpose-style makeover. Frank Lambe, Assistant Area Manager for Pembroke/Rathmines, […]
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The governance of Dublin has been a hotly debated issue over the past few years. A recent online initiative launched in 2010 by Dublin City Council, also known as Your Dublin, Your Voice asked the question: should Dublin get a […]
Read more →Last Days In those last days you were drifting away from us more quickly than any of us realised, you made child-like by illness and morphine as I got you a cigarette after your jelly and ice-cream. I sat with […]
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For this edition of Poet in Profile, we’re in conversation with a recent addition to the Dublin 4 talent pool, Noel Duffy. Noel is the author of the collection In the Library of Lost Objects and a book of prose […]
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