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Boost for Local Start up Businesses FREE LOCALTHE WEST EDITION 4 March 2016 Phone: 087 252 4064 • Email: [email protected] • www.localnews.ie Phone: 01 624 9710 • Click: mcloil.com l newsl l l l l l Delivering to: Ballyfermot Lucan Leixlip Celbridge Clondalkin Palmerstown Kilcock Maynooth BOOST FOR LOCAL START UP BUSINESSES • Gilligan keen on l Large and small Projects l Garage Conversions l business mentors for New builds & One-offs l Attic Conversions l Extensions l Disability Grant & SMEs l Roofing, Plumbing • Impressed by First l Solar Energy Insurance work Step founder Norma l Plastering l Architect Provided Smurfit Tel: 087 706 5500 • (01) 503 5333 • Smurfit tripled first- time survival rate www.1stchoicebuilders.ie • Female founder sidelined when BBC KHAN’S BALTI HOUSE came calling K Award winning Indian Take-Away & Delivery COUNCILLOR, web designer Unit 5b Newlands Cross, Clondalkin D 22 and small business Opposite Bewley’s Hotel enthusiast Trevor Gilligan (FF, Clondalkin) aims to TAKE-AWAY & DELIVERY revive a winning idea senselessly dumped by PH: 01-411 1147 government quango Open 7 Days 5.00pm- 12.00am Microfinance Ireland. Minimum Delivery Order €10 “Advice and mentoring is very important. I would be From the legendary Taj Mahal in Lincoln Place The Khan Family particularly keen on roping have been probably the most successful Indian Restaurant in Dublin, always serving the finest quality food. in experienced business people.” Joanne O'Riordan, 19, has been selected by St. Patrick's Festival to lead this year's www.khansbaltihouse.ie He argues that both can Festival Parade and in accepting this honour has become the youngest ever Grand Marshal. ALL MAJOR CARDS ACCEPTED benefit: the younger She is pictured here with Susan Kirby, CEO St Patrick's Festival, performers from Artastic. entrepreneur from the Picture Robbie Reynolds Photography. experience of the older, and the veteran from hearing seen. the IDA. My articles reflected year startup survival rate about new ideas. “From what you’re a concern that no one was from 50% to a near- So Cllr Gilligan was saying Norma Smurfit was looking at smaller impossible 95% HOUSE PAINTING stunned to learn that just very poorly treated by companies. • None of her SME mentors such a package was offered Microfinance Ireland. Even But your reporter missed were paid a penny — and INTERNAL & by a tiny charity, First Step, more important, it seems a much more important many pulled long shifts EXTERNAL during the 1990s — until very wrong that they no development: Norma during product launches founder Norma Smurfit was longer offer mentoring, Smurfit, prompted by the or trade missions Special Rates for ousted, along with her when that appeared to be the articles, phoned me to talk of • She kept First Step small Senior Citizens mentors, by the very board key to her success.” First Step, a charity aimed at and simple — but members she had welcomed The reporter first came helping job creation at a time welcomed new blood to All areas covered on board. across the Norma Smurfit of lengthening dole queues. the board. Now, First Step has success story when reporting Within two years, Norma That last step proved her become Microfinance on business in the early had proven the brilliance of undoing. Hearing of many Ireland, with neither Norma 1990s. Enterprise Ireland had her First Step formula: First Step success stories, I nor her ideas anywhere to be only started to emerge from • She had boosted the 2- continued on page 2 HANDY NO MORE TV BILLS EVER JOHNNY MAN ALL SORTS FROM ALL KINDS OF WORK MULTI-ROOM EVERYTHING DONE OPTIONS AVAILABLE YOU NAME IT, WE DO IT www.billfreetv.ie ALL AROUND MAN for more details PHONE:01 454 9008 086 126 8949 2 | TH E LO CAL NEWS from page 1 and confiscation often toxic than himself — may find via the LEO in South Norma Smurfit’s sent a mea culpa were weapons productive. a way back to her Dublin County ideas to be note to Norma. But faced by Now, it seems, original ideas Council. recognised and, when I tried to borrowers who proper lending may through his Local We believe the more important, interview her for fell into arrears make a comeback in Enterprise Office. time has come for revived. BBC’s International • Grameen cash, West Dublin. The councillor is Money Programme, without Norma Smurfit, keen to talk to her, her male board expertise, turned through Cllr Gilligan and would like to members insisted LEGAL out to be more — a businessman bring her ideas back on being there too. Later, they insisted ADVICE that “she was not longer really All change as Gino SMURFIT: brilliant involved”, and I FROM should not consider her part of the new “We don’t offer in the world, makes it in Mid First Step. that any more. We Grameen Bank, and JOHNSTON With a decade of make loans.” its controversial her launching First Ironically, this is founder West (4 seats) SOLICITORS Step, the stunningly- precisely the Muhammad Yunus. successful startup microfinance model Heinemann Returning TD: 2011 Labour poll- charity had lost its condemned by the discovered: Frances Fitzgerald (Fine Gael) topper Joanna Tuffy: founder, its mentors 2010 Norwegian • not all Grameen New faces: she tumbled from a near-quota, 18%, last and even its name. television expose, borrowers were John Curran (Fianna Fáil) It was re- Caught in Micro properly time out to a devas- christened Micro Debt. screened Gino Kenny (AAA/PBPA) tating 5% on Friday. finance Ireland. Inq Writer/director Tim • no day-to-day Eoin Ó Broin (Sinn Féin) She wasn’t even in uiries about mentor Heinemann looked mentoring was Losing out: the final-seat scrap, ing were brusquely at the largest offered Joanna Tuffy (Labour) which saw Gino dismissed: microfinance model • threats, abuse Derek Keating (Fine Gael) Kenny (AAA/PBPA) comfortably beating Dónall independent Paul WITH JUST one in- junior Minister in the Johnston Gogarty. E-Cig Centre cumbent, Justice Ahern/Cowen era, he Eoin Ó Broin, Minister Frances had a wide range of who featured on our Criminal Legal Aid Fitzgerald, it’s three briefs, including sci- One stop vape shop front cover just new names in ence, drug rehab and weeks ago, snatched The Criminal Justice (Legal Aid) Act 1962 pro- Dublin Mid West. the Gaeltacht. vides that legal aid may be granted, in certain This is the relatively And just as Bríd poll-topping honour from the Justice Min- circumstances, for the defence of persons of Want to new, confusingly- Smith in South Cen- insufficient means in criminal proceedings. ister: she won 21%, named constituency tral represents the The grant of legal aid entitles the applicant to just west of the left- nationwide ouster of he managed nearly the services of a solicitor and, in certain cir- wing “People’s Re- Labour by the New 23%. FF’s John Cur- cumstances, up to two barristers, in the QUIT Smoking public of South Left, so Curran repre- ran came in third. preparation and conduct of their defence. Central”, where Bríd sents the general Gino Kenny, who Normally an application for legal aid will be Smith made another comeback of Fianna also featured on a re- as straightforward, the judge will sometimes Starter Packs from €13 inroad for the left. Fáil. cent West edition ask the Gardaí if they have any objections to One of the three Derek Keating cover, maintained a legal aid being granted. The general rule is “new” names sound failed in his bid for solid first-preference that if the offence is a serious one and you familiar? Yes, Fianna re-election. But there advantage to take the can’t afford to pay for your own legal advice, Fáil’s John Curran: as was real anguish for final seat seat. then the court grants a legal aid certificate. www.ecigcentre.ie An applicant for legal aid must establish to the satisfaction of the court that their means are Shocking Stagg loss as insufficient to enable them to pay for legal - E-Cigs representation. The grant of legal aid is a dis- SD’s Murphy tops poll cretionary matter for the court. In the case of - E-Liquids a minor the court will look at the means of the parents or guardian to see if they can afford to pay for the legal advice. - Clear Moisture Atomizers Returning TDs: An applicant for free legal aid may be required Catherine Murphy (Social Democrats) We also stock by the court to complete a statement of Bernard Durkan (Fine Gael) means. It is an offence for an applicant to Ginders • RAW • Juicy • Blunt Wrap New faces: knowingly make a false statement or conceal Frank O’Rourke (Fianna Fáil) a material fact for the purpose of obtaining James Lawless (Fianna Fáil) legal aid. Losing out: Under the Garda Station Legal Advice Revised 274 Ballyfermot Road. Ph: 085 785 0313 Emmett Stagg (Labour) Scheme, free legal advice can be provided to those detained in Garda stations, providing they satisfy a means test. THE BIG story Johnston Solicitors are on the legal aid panel here was the shock- and provide a legal service, 24 hours a day ing loss of the Labour covering all aspect of the criminal justice sys- seat by incumbent STAGG: shock loss tem from a prosecution for minor to serious Emmet Stagg. He offences and all aspects in between. We attend was long odds-on to country. at Garda stations 24 hours a day to represent hold, but became Here, he had to you and provide you with the legal assistance part of the general yield that honour to to get you through the process.
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