Safety in the home :The last issue of Community Voice gave details of a number of local projects which have received funding from the Dormant Accounts Fund. The biggest grant recipient in the current batch of grants was Blanchardstown Area Partnership which received an allocation of €30,000 for a community security project.

Diswellstown pupils support Bóthar: First Communion day is becoming synonymous with collecting money as most young boys and girls well know. While most children use their newly gained riches to purchase a Wii or a Playstation and other must have gifts, the pupils of St. Patrick’s national school in Diswellstown took a different approach to their improved financial status.

Hartstown wins a green flag: Along with their peers in Blakestown Community School, the pupils of Hartstown Community School along with their teachers, Breda Walshe and Jeremy Kerr were the proud recipients of one of the first two flags for second level schools recently.