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Delivering to: Ballyfermot Lucann Leixlip eCelbriwdge Clondaslkin Palmerstown Kilcock Maynooth l l l l l l l West Dublin anger at NO MORE TV BILLS EVER scrapping of 151 SPECIAL OFFER SPECIAL TO €250 IRISH COMPANY LOCAL NEWS fully installed EXCELLENT by Jenny Courtney AFTERCARE SERVICE & Paul Kelly RESIDENTS of some parts of west Dublin areas are now faced with walks of up to 2½ Tel: 083 3133133 miles (4 km) to catch the re - placement for their familiar 151 city bus service. At the moment, thousands of them have a 151 bus stop just a few yards from their front doors. The current 151 starts its town-bound journey on Bal - gaddy Road, about 3 miles (5 km) northwest of Clondalkin Village. It works its way south to Grange Castle Business Park, then east via the New Nangor Road. However the new BusCon - nects scheme provides no close equivalent to that route. The 151’s replacement, the “D3”, starts nowhere near Bal - gaddy, but on the Baldonnel Road terminus of the current 13. West Dubliners learned of the shock scrapping of their route at a series of public consulta - Winner of the 99th Liffey Swim Paul O'Flynn, sport and news reporter with RTE, with his wife Mary and baby Ellen tion meetings held by the Na - after his men's race victory. Photograph: Jason Clarke. by ConSEnt tional Transport Authority Have you been separated for at least 4 years and agree Nangor Road area, many of owen area residents who use While in broad terms the (NTA). on all matters in relation to divorce? We will draft and them in Parkwest Business the 151, the nearest “D3” stop new “D3”, once it reaches process your divorce documents for Court. Park just east of the M50. will be some 2½ miles (4 km) Grange Castle, mimics the 151 EMPLOYERS “If people can’t catch the away, in Grange Castle Busi - on its way eastbound into Personal, professional and confidential service from as little as 151 to get to those busi - ness Park near the New Nan - town, it is by no means the €600 per couple • We also process Dissolution of Civil Partner - At one of them, Local News nesses, or to get into town, gor Road/Ballyowen Road same service from that point ship • Separation Agreements fixed fee €500 per couple. met west Dublin residents Noel then what’s the use of this roundabout. onwards. and Sharon Dowling. Mr Dowl - new BusConnects service?” But they are not the only This is because NTA plan - Mobile: 086 1211 820 ing pointed out that a number ners have attempted to make of key retailers and employers Mr Dowling demanded. 151 users who’ll be missing www.divorcebyconsent.com operated near the densely-built For Balgaddy and Bally - out. continued on page 2 Email: [email protected] Wood For Stoves www.wood-for-stoves.ie - Tel: 01 801 3799 We Supply Quality ride Hardwood Logs and RUF Wood Briquettes Retail & Wholesale We Also supply AldeR Wood foR smoking meAt And fish Kindling - Fire Logs Fire Lighters Stove Coal - Polish Coal Nationwide Delivery Suitable for Wood Burning Stoves – Multi Fuel Stoves -Cookers and Open Fires. 2 | THE LOCAL NEWS

the D3 do double duty for two existing routes, the 151 and Legal the 13. Thus, the D3 will weave away from Aid the usual 151 stops to servce the old 13 route. Thus it will no Dónall Johnston longer be seen on the Maintenance following kilometre- long (half-mile) Maintenance is financial support paid by stretches of the Nan - a person for the benefit of a dependent gor Road: spouse/civil partner and/or dependent • between the children. Spouses/civil partners are re - Spina Bifida centre quired to maintain each other according to and the Bawnogue their means. Parents, whether married or Road Junction not, are responsible for the maintenance • between the New - of their dependent children. Both parents land Road/Ninth have a responsibility to support their chil - Lock Road junction dren financially. A dependent child is a is a and the Aras na Clu - aine roundabout. person under eighteen years of age, or a Thereafter, the new child under 23 who is in full time educa - D3 will follow the old THE NO-STOP STOPS: the thin purple line shows the existing 151 route as it starts on Balgaddy Road and heads towards town via Grange tion, or a child of any age who is depend - 151 along the Crum - Castle. However, as our red lines 1, 2 and 3 indicate, the 151’s replacement, route D3, will not be serving the old 151 route along three crucial ent on its parents due to disability. stretches. (1): no service anywhere between the current terminus and Grange Castle Business Park; (2) and (3): no service along two separate lin Road, and then stretches of the New Nangor Road. via Cork Street into the City Centre. Local News met the Liffey: Access National Transport • Friday, September Access is contact between a child and its PALMERSTOWN Authority’s Deputy 7, Rathfarnham parent or other relative. It can be physical Chief Executive Hugh Shopping Centre, Creegan at one such Dublin 14: 2pm to in the sense of the child seeing their par - Meanwhile, there consultation meeting, 8pm ent or it can be a form of electronic com - were angry protests but he refused to en - • Monday, Septem - munication. It can also mean having the — this time on the gage with this news - ber 10, South Dublin right to visit and spend time with a child. street — by residents paper: County Council Civic Either parent can apply to court to decide along the more “You were obnox - Offices, Clondalkin, which parent will have custody of the child northerly Palmer - ious [at a previous Dublin 22:3pm to and what access the other parent will stown/Chapelizod meeting in the RHA 7pm have. An unmarried father can apply for corridor into town. Gallagher Gallery],” • Tuesday, Septem - access whether or not he is a guardian. A Currently, that Mr Creegan ex - ber 11, Ballsbridge relative of the child may also apply for per - route is served by plained. We asked Hotel, Pembroke mission to apply for access. However, very frequent buses specifically if he Road, Dublin 4: 3pm being granted leave to apply for access such as the 25, 26, 66 MARCHING SPIRIT: Palmerstown and Chapelizod commuters protest at the would speak to us. to 7pm does not mean that access has been and 67, all originat - loss of their buses “I’m speaking to • Tuesday, Septem - granted. ing from west Dublin you now,” he replied. ber 11, Richmond and all passing “But I am not an - Barracks, Inchicore, Lolo’s Hair & Beauty Salon swering any of your Dublin 8: 3pm to 7pm through the Chapeli - Custody zod Bypass. During questions.” • Tuesday, Septem - • A number of TDs ber 18, Swan Shop - peak hours, anyone Custody is the right of a parent to exer - ovER CEnTRA) and Councillors have ping Centre, 355 BALLyFERMoT RoAD ( waiting along the cise physical care and control in respect of scheduled marches, Rathmines, Dublin 6: Palmerstown/Chapel the upbringing of their child on a day-to- 18 years experience meetings and other 2pm to 8pm day basis. Married parents of a child are izod route can expect public events to ques - • Wednesday, Sep - automatically joint guardians and custodi - to see a town-going tion the decisions tember 19, Ballyfer - ans. However, when children are born out - open Tuesday to Saturday 9-5.00pm bus every five min - made by the NTA. mot Community side of marriage the mother is an Sundays: 10-3.00pm - Late nights by arrangement utes or so. Meanwhile, the NTA Civic Centre, Dublin However, the sole has scheduled addi - 10: 3pm to 7pm automatic guardian and right to custody. Blow Dry from €14 A father who is not married to the mother replacement route, tional consultation • Tuesday, Septem - the 14, would run of his child can apply to the court for cus - All over Colours €35 Tues & weds meetings: the follow - ber 25, Citywest only once every half- tody and to be appointed a guardian in - Up Styles from €25 ing is a list of those to Hotel, Saggart, Co. an-hour. be held south of the Dublin, 3pm to 7pm. the absence of agreement. Facials from €20 - Spray Tan €10 Legal Aid in Family Law, Private Practi - tioner Scheme Eye Trio €15 - Mink Lashes €45 - Refills €35 The Scheme will apply only in relation to Lola’s Hair & Beauty persons who have been granted legal aid certificates for family law proceedings in Introducing the District Court regarding: • Maintenance (other than enforcement Heavenly Hair through the District Court clerk) • Custody / access Pieces from €25 • Guardianship • Domestic violence

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So the summer has ended and the evenings are drawing in. And with the darker days and evenings people often and naturally feel less en - ergetic and optimistic and sometimes begin to find it difficult to keep up activities that they were involved in during the summer.

But a good way of keeping at something and ac - tually achieving whatever goals you have set, is to do it with somebody else. I like to send this re - minder this time of year.

With the evenings still relatively bright you will see lots of pairs of people out walking, (or the more ST CATHERINE’S: smart ban energetic ones jogging). The obvious reason for this is that it is more social, less boring and passes by PAUL KELLY that they upskill where in the country, However, while the time quicker to have somebody with you. To themselves before those schools with re - controlling the be - PRINCIPLED: Karen Jordan have a chat on the way and to maybe share a com - KAREN JORDAN, any devices were strictions or bans haviour of pupils 80,000 currently-ac - attack on Google last mon interest. Principal of St Catherine’s National brought into the have found the exper - under her charge, she tive paedophiles are week for refusing to But what is often a more important factor, espe - School, has received home,” Principal Jor - iment to be a great has made it clear using the internet — cooperate with police cially from the point of view of achieving some - widespread acclaim dan said. success. that, at home, the particularly social forces to take down thing, is that the other person encourages, for a summer agree - “If they sign up to In Kerry, Principal buck stops with the media — for the pur - child abuse content. expects, urges or shames you into doing it! Espe - ment which, parents our new policy, it Terry O’Sullivan of parents: poses of contacting In Ireland, a num - cially at times when you don’t really feel like it and “We won’t be en - believe, will make life means that their chil - the Blennerville Na - and grooming under- ber of radio stations you definitely wouldn’t have done it if they weren’t tertaining any kind of better for students all dren will always be tional School intro - age children. and national newspa - expecting you to. complaint about cy - year round. supervised in their duced a ban late last pers have campaigned year. Within weeks, berbullying or social This works very well for people doing sports to - She and her online access.” to limit the access of pupils, teachers and media use outside of ILLEGAL CONTENT gether, walking, jogging, or going to the gym for School Board have In addition, in children to social example. If you have an arrangement to meet, it parents alike re - the school contract. decided that, from several meetings Mr Javid has re - media. This follows is harder to cry off. This usually benefits both part - with Board Members ported improve - It’s on the parent’s the new term on - sponded with an im - the recent scandals ners, as everybody has a day when they are not in and parents during ments in a variety of head what happens wards, all smart - mediate threat to the concerning Dublin- the humour. the summer holi - areas, including: at home.” phones will be media giants. He says based employees of a days, she found sup - • improved mood, And in fact Ms Jor - This same idea applies also to almost everything. handed in at the be - he’ll give the police contractor working for port for a complete individually and in dan suggests a total You could do the same thing with classes, courses, ginning of the school powers to close down Facebook. The US smartphone ban — classrooms parental ban on such weight watchers, lessons or even business ideas. day. any website or appli - media giant was particularly for pri - • greater partici - applications as Insta - They will not be cation that does not found to have left For example, if you were to look into something mary school–age pation in sport gram, Facebook, returned until classes enforce strict age abusive contend on - new and set goals or targets for yourself, it would children. • greater partici - Snapchat and What - are over in the after - guidelines and poli - line, even after it had be useful to find someone else with the same in - However, that as - pation in extracurric - sApp Messenger. terest and similar goals and targets. You need not noon. ular activities In the UK, mean - cies; or does not been reported by work together, but you could “buddy up” to meet pect of the “smart - But the St Cather - phone contract” is • better behaviour, while, a report pro - screen for illegal con - users, by contractors regularly, share ideas and report on your progress. ine’s initiative goes tent. monitoring the site, This way, you can pool ideas and also have a reg - optional, while the and more social in - duced for the British ular set of targets to have each step done by the further: parents who ban on their use teraction, at home. Home Secretary Sajid His ultimatum fol - and by the monitors’ next meeting. sign up to the policy within the school Javid reveals that, in lows Foreign Secretary Facebook-based su - must make every ef - grounds, by pupils of BUCK STOPS that country alone, Jeremy Hunt’s searing pervisors. Plus, you have the encouragement of the pleasure fort to limit the dan - any age, is manda - of being able to report success to your “buddy”. gers of smartphones, tory. In St Catherine’s, Plus the reward and satisfaction of ongoing even when they are progress. Or, if this works for you, the motivation The Church of Ire - Principal Jordan is used outside school of wanting to avoid the embarrassment of not land–run school, just largely concerned having completed what you said you’d have done hours. off Cork Street, is one with issues such as by the next meeting!! of the few in the city online bullying and SUPERVISED to adopt a complete the misuse of social It is also very satisfying and fulfilling to see your ban on the use of media by predators “buddy” also progress and succeed with your sup - “We asked parents port and help. smartphones. Else - such as paedophiles.

Some people pay a personal trainer or life coach to do this. To simply turn up every week and join them in their exercise, to ask them if they have done what they said they would do by that date, or to ask them what they are going to do between now and the next meeting!

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There is hard evidence of this investment, and the wonderful sports including: tennis, hockey, camogie, football, basketball, The importance of embracing new technology has long been developments the college has seen as a result. From the careful badminton, table tennis and volleyball. Each year the college cel - recognised. As part of a phased introduction, all students from colour scheme to the choice of seating — expensive but so help - ebrates success on the sporting field. First to Fourth year have a personal iPad for college work. ful to posture — great thought has gone into every detail of the If you are seeking the highest standards in education and well - Approximately €7 million has already been spent over the last design of the new building. being for your daughter, perhaps now is the time to visit Sancta two years. Maria College and view what is on offer. This has transformed the College into a most modern, well- There is more to come to with a second phase, which is about to start. This will include a state-of-the-art sports hall, and an ex - The Principal and Deputy Principal, along with all College staff, equipped educational facility, attracting students from a wide look forward to welcoming you at their upcoming Open Evening area. tended and renovated concert hall. There will be new ladies and gents dressing rooms and showers. for parents and prospective students. The local community will benefit with the expansion of the Col - • Save the date: Open Evening, Thursday, October 25, from 7 pm lege’s wellbeing philosophy. to 9 pm. Together with South Dublin County Council, An Taisce, and the National Roads Authority, a new pedestrian way and cycle lane will be incorporated onto all the roads leading to the campus. This will bring benefits to Sancta Maria College, Scoil Naomh Pádraig and Coláiste Éanna. 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This may include help with daily Cost Cost including entertain - and you can bookish er weekend RUAIRI M cGINLEY tasks such as cleaning, shopping, gardening, indePendent ment, meals and all the use of through Showtours at 01 2530 overnight security and companionship. Phone: 086 830 1111 the leisure facilities is just €279. 563 or online www.showtours.ie Seán Moynihan, CEO of ALONE, said, “ALONE Email: [email protected] hopes to greatly increase awareness of THE HomeShare service with older people, their fami - to advertise in lies and service providers in the community. This Crumlin/Kimmage initiative offers huge potential to help older peo - ple, who may be struggling with loneliness or TINA M ac VEIGH the local news household tasks, and young professionals who are Phone: 086 871 5293 facing increasing high rents.” He continued, “Homesharing is not a replace - Email: [email protected] Phone: 4534011 ment for carers or housekeepers, but it can make a meaningful difference for the well-being of older people living alone. Companionship and peace of Crumlin/Kimmage mind, knowing that they’re not alone in their home, can really help to maintain an older per - RAY M cHUGH son’s independence.” Phone: 087 936 9611 Lucie Cunningham, Managing Director of Email: [email protected] THE HomeShare, said, “We are delighted to be partnering with ALONE on this pilot project. We want to offer our services to as many older people as possible so that they have another option to Crumlin/Kimmage support them to age at home for longer. 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Crumlin/Kimmage MICHAEL MULLOOLY Phone: 086 240 7936 Email: [email protected] 20 | THE LOCAL NEWS “Bower the Power” Bradley’s Get Well wishes from Reidy by Paul Kelly the Reid family’s soccer City and of course with “Bower really under - life.” Shelbourne remembers stood what we were at, JOHN “BOWER” The Notts Forest a side his brother Dar - and he always sup - BRADLEY is more than a hero reminds us that fa - ren captained under ported my efforts,” he hero to soccer fans in ther, Bill Reid, was a leg - Bower which had eight said. south Dublin. endary St Patrick’s Irish schoolboy interna - “Even after he re - There are, after all, at Athletic forward in his tionals in it including tired, if anyone was least five or six national day. Bower was his first ‘Tomo Fitz and Pat stuck for a coach he’d al - heroes occupying his coach and mentor. Scully who played with ways fill in. And he did single, well-worn pair of Thanks to the influence Spurs.’ everything to help us in soccer boots. of Reid Sr and Bower Fellow-coach Martin those early days, when By the 1980s or Bradley, the 7-year-old Mates, founder of Foot - we were getting off the 1990s, he had provided HONOURED: our “Bower” with footie boss John Delaney footie fanatic found the FOREST HERO: Andy Reid offers his best wishes ball for All, remembers a ground. first-kick inspiration to particular and slightly- Indeed Football for Ceannt Park. lure of the game irre - of my youth.” and my Dad can re - an entire generation of Sheridan, Reid and baffling knack that All celebrates its tenth However, although sistible. When Local News let member.” Irish football icons. many another local and Bower Bradley, uniquely, anniversary in early Oc - politicians have so often Not long after his last Reid know more about Meanwhile Football We’re talking the international hero. seemed to possess: tober: failed “Bower the match under Bower’s Bradley’s hospital scare Association of Ireland likes of Damien Duff, In fact a second gen - “He had an eye for “I expect Bower will Power” in his hour of watchful eye, the youth - in August — and the se - boss John Delaney inter - Tony Sheridan, Niall eration of Bower stars positional play, it was be well enough to join need, the giants of Irish ful Andy Reid found rious incident that saw rupted a meeting with Quinn, Andy Reid. are well into their prime. uncanny,” Mr Mates re - us,” Mr Mates says. football have now, by himself a place in the him rushed back there UEFA bosses in Switzer - Now, however, The likes of Joey O’Brien calls. “Please include me contrast, come through Nottingham Forest — the 2014 Notts Forest land to add his own best neighbours, friends and (Shamrock Rovers) and “He’d see someone in all those good for him in style and Youth Academy. He Player of the Year was wishes: legends alike are desper - Leon Best (Newcastle; playing midfield, and wishes.” numbers. would go on to start as a upset, and asked to be “It was not for noth - ately concerned about Charlton) continue to he’d say, ‘No, no, he We do. And we add There have been professional in 1999 at remembered to his old ing that we honoured the quiet man who has prove how much a single should be playing centre those of all of us in Local tributes and good the age of just 17. A few friend: John Bradley — or been such a vital part of small club could shape half, or forward.’ And News , and his neigh - wishes flowing into this years later, in the 2003– “Please let him know ‘Bower’ as everyone calls their sporting lives. skill, soccer style and he’d be right. All that bours in Lourdes Road, newsroom as word 04 season, he was their I’m thinking of him,” he him — with the FAI’s Admitted to hospital success. after watching the Our Lady’s Road and spread of his second top goalscorer. said. highest honour, Lifetime two months ago, he was Bower has laboured player for just half an Morningstar Road, trip, in as many months, “There’s no way I “This is a man who Achievement in Irish re-admitted after suffer - for decades in those hour!” Maryland, just down the in St James’s Hospital in could have done any of brought generations of Soccer, in 2015,” Mr De - ing a serious setback in tributaries of Irish soc - Furthermore, Mr road from his beloved his native Liberties. that without Bower,” young fellahs through laney told Local News . his home in Lourdes cer in which there are no Mates says, Bower’s hilltop pitches in Sun - A clearly-emotional says Reid. the game, and put them “Please wish him all chauffeured limos, no endless hunger for po - drive. Road, Maryland. As Andy Reid was amongst “And here’s another through their paces. For the best from all of us in tential Premiership Get well soon, Local News goes to endorsement contracts the first to let Local snapshot for you. Myself that alone, aside from the FAI, and from soccer players never blinded Bower! There are goals press, he remains defi - and, sometimes, no News know about and my brother [re - what he did for me, I players everywhere.” him to the broader ben - to be scored! antly cheerful but under dressing rooms. Bower’s indelible and spected local player have a lot of respect for That is how Tony efits of sport and fitness: And there’s another doctors’ constant care. Disgracefully, he and lifelong influence: Keith Reid] heading up him.” Sheridan describes “Here in Football for generation of legends to The Lourdes Celtic Eddie Roche had to peti - “Before he started to to Sundrive Park for a Reid went on to de - Bower alongside Eddie All [an initiative within be given that first, gentle Football Club, under tion, as supplicants, for coach me, he actually match, a practise or just scribe Bower Bradley as Roche. Bower in turn Lourdes Celtic], we pro - push into soccer. Bower Bradley’s stew - seventeen long and managed my father!” a kickaround. Now in “an institution in has often referred to vide opportunities for Thanks to men like you ardship — and that of dreary years before they Reid recalls. my mind that photo - schoolboy football” in Tony as ‘the best player children with autism, — tireless, unpaid, too fellow-founder Eddie won Lourdes Celtic’s “That will give you graph is never complete Crumlin and Dublin 12. to come out of Lourdes Down syndrome, dys - often unsung — it will Roche — provided early modest changing facili - some idea of how much without Bower Bradley. “And he’s been that Celtic’. Tony, who played praxia, you name it,” Mr always be The Beautiful childhood footie educa - ties (shared with Cycle — and how long — He was a fixture! He was kind of a legend now for in the top division in Mates explains. 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