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Issue No 110
Mar 7th–Mar 21st 2008

 

 
Coolmine drowning tragedy: A 10 year old Blakestown boy was the victim of a tragic drowning accident at Coolmine Sports Complex. Peter Whelan from Whitestown Avenue, a pupil in Scoil Mhuire National School, was enjoying a Saturday afternoon swim in the Centre’s pool with his older brother and friends when the tragedy occurred.
Public meeting discusses community policing : Over 100 representatives of local community groups and residents’ associations from all parts of Dublin 15 attended a public meeting in Tyrrelstown this week to meet senior officers and community gardaí from Blanchardstown Garda Station.
Carpenterstown Educate Together plans hit stumbling block : Members of the start up committee of the proposed new Carpenterstown Educate Together school are up in arms following indications that their proposed new school may not be sanctioned for next September.
Autism row still raging : The row over the unopened autism unit in Castleknock Educate Together National School shows no signs of abating with the school finding itself at the centre of a political storm that simply will not go away.
New primary school to be located in the Kellystown greenbelt : The Dublin 15 Community Council welcomes the application for planning permission for the new VEC Primary School, St. Choilm. However, the deal that has been struck regarding its location gives us cause for concern.
Kenny’s whistlestop tour of Dublin 15 : Fine Gael leader, Enda Kenny visited Dublin 15 recently to open his party’s new constituency offices in Ongar.

Crosscare Clinic opens in Blanchardstown : A Crosscare information clinic has opened at Main Street, Blanchardstown, at the location which previously was home to the oratory for the Capuchin order. Crosscare is an organisation which works to address the lack of information, poverty and exclusion among many groups in society.

Phibblestown schools now enrolling pupils : Co. Dublin VEC have certainly hit the ground running since it was announced that they were to establish a number of new schools in Dublin 15 including, for the first time in this country, new primary schools.
Single story skyscraper for Coolmine?: How many storeys does it take to make a multi-storey car park? That might well be the question surrounding Iarnród Éireann’s deliberations on the thorny subject of a “multi-story” car park for Coolmine station.

€3.9m approved for local road works: Fingal County Council has adopted a programme of transportation works for the coming years with an estimated cost of €3.9m. The programme included works to improve local roads and footpaths as well as providing new pedestrian crossings and traffic calming schemes in the area.
   
  Sickle cell disease seminar in Blakestown: One of the less well-publicised aspects of the growth of Ireland’s multi-cultural population has been the issue of some new conditions and illnesses for the medical services to deal with. One of these is the so-called sickle cell disease, an inherited condition that is most common among people whose ancestors come from Africa, the Middle East, the Mediterranean basin and India.  
   
     
     
 

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