Digital TV Switchover
The Government will shut down the old national TV network and replace it with digital TV on Wednesday 24th October 2012. The old TV network provides, via an aerial, the Irish TV channels, RTE1, RTE2, TV3 and TG4. Don’t get left with a blank screen, for more information please go to Saorview. Mary
Social Worker Required
Dublin City Council are inviting applications from qualified social workers, the deadline for applications is Thursday 25th of October 2012 for more details click here.
Flood Warning UPDATE 12 NOON
DCC updated Weather Warning @ 12 noon 17th October 2012Up to 20 millimetres of rain fell between 4am and 6 30am this morning. The City Council’s Drainage staff dealt the incidents of localised road flooding throughout the night. The following preventative measures to deal with the predicted high tides and rainfall have been put in […]
Cabra’s Got Talent
Last chance to enter the best talent show ever seen in Cabra ! Cabra’s Got Talent will be accepting late registrations in Chillax Youth Cafe in the Boogies on Wednesday evening from 7.30pm. Anyone who is young, talented and ambitious cannot afford to miss this opportunity. Mary
Flood Warning
Met Éireann issued a weather warning for Dublin valid until 6 pm on Wednesday 17th. October. They forecast that “some local flooding is possible from the rain but coastal flooding is also a threat due to additional combination of spring tides, low pressure and SE gales and some high seas tomorrow”. Between 1 am […]
Cabra’s Got Talent
Applications for the best talent show ever staged in Cabra are being accepted from 7pm this evening at Chillax Youth Cafe in The Boogies. Anyone with talent and ambition won’t want to miss their chance to enter this competition and win great prizes. Mary
Cancel Metro North Levy
I have renewed my call to Dublin City Council to suspend the Metro North Development Contribution Scheme that compels property owners along the previously proposed Metro North route to pay €1000’s in additional levies for a project that is not going ahead. The scheme needs to be suspended because it is bad practice for Dublin […]
Property Tax
Being in Government is rarely easy and governing in difficult financial circumstances is always going to be challenging. However what Roisin Shortall demonstrated last week is that being in Government is about making choices. At the end of the day, when this Government’s blame game with Fianna Fail, the ECB, the IMF, other European leaders etc.is […]
Smithfield Horse Fair
Despite the fact that there has been a horse fair in Smithfield since the 1700s in recent times Dublin City Council repeatedly stated that it had no role in the management of the Fair. This hands off approach by Dublin City Council contributed to problems with the Fair the most high profile being the outbreak […]
Route 83
I am glad to see that the campaign by bus users of the old 19 now 83, whose campaign I have supported, has resulted in Dublin Bus amending the new 83 Bus Service to better meet their needs. The Key changes are : Route 83 is extended to Tolka Estate at hourly intervals, every day Morning Peak service will be adjusted to […]