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Donnybrook Scouts celebrating 90th ‘birthday’ with three-day camp in Herbert Park

Donnybrook Scouts celebrating 90th ‘birthday’ with three-day camp in Herbert Park

The Donnybrook scouting group celebrated their 90th birthday with a group camp in Herbert park during the second week of September. It was the first time anyone had been given permission to camp overnight in the park. All sections of […]

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Christmas in D4 with Dublin City Council

Christmas in D4 with Dublin City Council

Christmas is coming and the goose is getting fat Dublin City Council South East Area Community Section is working with all the villages in Dublin 4 in preparing to celebrate Christmas. Santa and his one horse open sleigh,

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Christmas in Dublin 4!

Christmas in Dublin 4!

The festive season is in full swing across Dublin 4 as we come ever closer to Christmas! Santa Claus paid a visit to Sandymount Hotel on December 13 in aid of children’s charity ambulance service Bumbleance, and they also had a spectacular Gingerbread Village

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Bonfires on New Year’s Eve

Bonfires on New Year’s Eve

New Year’s Eve was crazy. All the gangs from the area would go gathering materials for the bonfires. They would collect pallets, wooden crates, tyres and anything else that would burn. The Villas, Whelan House, O’Rahilly House, George Reynolds, Stella […]

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Halloween in the Heritage Garden

Halloween in the Heritage Garden

Donnybrook played its part in this year’s Halloween festivities with a fun-filled event in The Heritage Garden on Bloomfield Avenue. The centre’s Celebration of Halloween took place on November 1st on a somewhat stormy evening packed with fancy dress, games, […]

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Christmas Events for Dublin 4

Christmas Events for Dublin 4

December 8th is the day the farmers come to the ‘big smoke’ to do their shopping and a massive day out for people from all corners of Ireland. But living in Dublin means it’s not such a novelty. Just a day to avoid an unusually busy town, if we’re honest.

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Deck the Halls with Local Choirs

Deck the Halls with Local Choirs

Get out there and get your annual fill of Away in a Manger, Deck the Halls and Frosty the Snowman with your local choirs this Christmas. A busy time for carol singers, you will find them in concert halls, churches, department stores, on doorsteps and on the streets singing songs for this special time of year.

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