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Issue No 107
Jan 24th 2008– Feb 07th 2008

 

 
Huge turnout for new school meeting: If evidence of the strength of feeling of local parents about school provision in the area was ever needed then the outcome of the recent meeting to set up a new Educate Together School to serve the Carpenterstown area speaks volumes.


New school enrolment policy : The Catholic Church has announced a new policy on school enrolments which is to be introduced on a pilot basis in the Porterstown parish for the coming school year.


Hospice friendly Connolly Hospital : Connolly Hospital has been selected as one of the three hospitals to partake in a pilot project to develop a comprehensive approach to change the culture of care and organisation regarding dying, death and bereavement in Irish hospitals.


Changes to local bus routes : The No. 37 bus which currently runs from a terminus in Fernleigh to the city centre is to be moved shortly according to Paddy Doherty, Business Development Manager with Dublin Bus.


Women’s Refuge funding approved : Finally after a number of false starts, work on the new Blanchardstown Women’s Refuge is expected to commence next month after the approval by Fingal County Council of a loan of over €1.7m to the project.


Sports campus development progressing well : The recent move by the FAI into its new headquarters at the National Sports Campus in Abbotstown marks the beginning of an exciting new development for the Dublin 15 area.


Bookmaker theft : A woman from Hunter’s Run is to be considered for a community service order by the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court when she repays the €18,000 that she stole from her employer.

Co-located hospitals : Mount Carmel Medical (MCM), the private healthcare company tipped to develop a private hospital on the grounds of Connolly Hospital in Dublin 15 is due to apply for planning permission for a €100 million co-located hospital development in Sligo next month.


Extent of OT shortage revealed: The full consequences of the Health Service Executive’s recruitment embargo on occupational therapists (OTs) was laid bare recently in an HSE parliamentary reply to Labour Party TD Roisin Shortall.

Further environmental concerns over Tolka Valley works: Renewed concerns have been raised by local politicians with regard to the controversial plans of Fingal County Council to route a new sewer pipe through the Tolka Valley.


Commuters locked into rail station: While the fear of being locked out of a railway station and missing your train to work may be one that might occasionally trouble local commuters, few, if any, would ever imagine that they might be locked into a railway station and unable to get out to go to the office.

 

 

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