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FREE LOCALTHE WEST EDITION 15 January 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 KHAN’S BALTI HOUSE K Award winning Indian Take-Away & Delivery ‘KEEP IT LOCAL’ Unit 5b Newlands Cross, Clondalkin D 22 Opposite Bewley’s Hotel TAKE-AWAY & DELIVERY PH: 01-411 1147 JOBS PLAN Open 7 Days 5.00pm- 12.00am CLONDALKIN could receive a Minimum Delivery Order €10 major jobs boost under a Sinn From the legendary Taj Mahal in Lincoln Place The Khan Family Féin plan for local enterprise. have been probably the most successful Indian Restaurant in Dublin, The party is to push for a major always serving the finest quality food. revamp of Enterprise Ireland and other government www.khansbaltihouse.ie agencies with a view to ALL MAJOR CARDS ACCEPTED “keeping it local”. And their candidate for Dublin Mid West, Eoin Ó Broin, told Local News that his idea would be to focus such agencies on Clondalkin and what he called the “old villages” of the Dublin southside: “Here in Clondalkin, as in Crumlin and Inchicore, you have very much the same l l profile and therefore similar Large and small Projects Garage Conversions l needs. Then again, in the Inner New builds & One-offs l Attic Conversions l City you have yet other needs Extensions l l Disability Grant & and different challenges Roofing, Plumbing l Insurance work again.” Frank Delaney, celebrated his 100th Birthday at the Ballyfermot United Sports and Social Club last Solar Energy l l He said that the party week. He was surrounded by friends relations and many well wishers. Frank who still lives in his home Plastering Architect Provided plans to take up where the old on Claddagh Road was once described as "the Best Bricklayer in the Corporation" and "the man with Tel: 087 706 5500 • (01) 503 5333 County Enterprise Boards the golden trowel". Among the relations with Frank on the day included, daughter, Ellen, grandchil- (now abolished) left off — but dren, William, Anita, Fiona, Edel, and Kim, great grandchildren, Cameron, Devon, and Kyra. www.1stchoicebuilders.ie that he would push for even smaller divisions than in the parents around here have breaks to people who don’t 90 per cent of employment. old county-by-county system: children of school age, and actually need them!” And the majority of those are “There should be, if not a micro-enterprises. They are one-stop shop for micro they have been turned down He believes that the jobs the people who need enterprise in Clondalkin alone, for enrolment by one primary potential of small, local encouragement.” then a single office for after another.” businesses has gone And all the better if that Clondalkin, Bluebell, Crumlin Many had to search far unrecognised. Again and encouragement was provided and the ‘old village’ areas of outside Clondalkin to find a again, he makes the point that locally? the southside.” suitable school. has echoed in these columns “Exactly!” SPECIAL OFFER He would take a similar And he claimed that only since the 2008 collapse: it is And he is not talking just approach to challenges like Sinn Féin had the policies and the local butcher, the local about garden-shed companies Boiler Service €55 housing and overcrowding in the determination to deliver beauty salon, that actually that come up with world-class schools: on schools, jobs and provide most of Ireland’s jobs: New Gas Boiler export ideas — though there “Clondalkin parents are healthcare for Clondalkin, “It’s not the Googles and have been a few. He has in Supply & Fit €1299 being turned away at the Lucan and all of Dublin Mid the Facebooks, though they mind a much larger cohort: school gates every day,” Cllr Ó West. are important. In aggregate, All plumbing repairs carried out. Breakdown call out available “Exporting companies are Broin said. The key to funding this it’s the SMEs [small and another day’s work. I’m talking “That’s what I’m hearing work? medium-sized enterprises] on the doorsteps. Many “Don’t give any more tax that are responsible for 80 to continued on page 2 We specialise in designing and installing CCTV, access control, coupled with professional NO MORE TV BILLS EVER installation and Service. Licence No. IAS-1074 Telephone: 201 1687 • Mobile: 087 257 4189 FROM MULTI-ROOM Fax: 201 1690 24 HOUR SERVICE: 209 3994 OPTIONS AVAILABLE E-mail: [email protected] www.huntsecurity.com www.billfreetv.ie Room 5, Unit 4, Marvick House, Kilcoole for more details Industrial Estate, Kilcoole, Co. Wicklow. 2 | TH E LO CAL NEWS from page 1 Féin election Hopeful because, about small machine, in Dublin with even half of the Ó LEGAL ADVICE enterprises that Mid West and Broin camp’s energy, provide services to elsewhere. flood courses could local people.” “We have actually be built and the FROM Ó Broin insists been canvassing since Shannon drained if that his party is ready the local elections of necessary; every to govern, and is 2014. We would have hairdresser would JOHNSTON surprised to hear that had several canvasses have a new-and- some senior SF a week and we only improved website; Dónall people privately stopped in early every local butcher a SOLICITORS prefer to talk about December.” marketing plan; every Johnston the next electoral He resumed in the Clondalkin school cycle rather than this middle of last week extended and Enduring power of attorney one: (i.e., around January improved to cope “I’m ready this 6), and had an hour- with an expanding HAVING AN Enduring Power of Attorney is as important as having a Will. time. The thing is, it’s and-a-half done by intake. An Enduring Power of Attorney allows a person or persons known as an always difficult for a the time Local News One thing is attorney, to manage the donors, the person creating the Enduring Power new party or grouping met him at 2:30pm in certain: Eoin Ó Broin of Attorney affairs if the donor becomes incapable of managing their af- to take over. It’s the freezing cold car himself is too much of fairs by becoming mentally incapacitated (for example, because of ill- always going to be a park of Boomer’s Pub a policy person to ness, disability or a progressive degenerative illness) challenge.” in Clondalkin’s Dutch have any interest in The Enduring Power of Attorney only takes effect when a doctor gives a As we joke about Village. driving an old-style, the levers of power That kind of medical certificate confirming that the donor is incapable of managing Tammany Hall party their affairs. being permanently — canvas commitment machine. And he and, as we both is admirable — and seems too pragmatic The Enduring power of attorney may give general authority to the attor- suspect, deliberately frightening. ney to do anything that the attorney might lawfully do or it may merely Candidate for Dublin Mid West, Eoin Ó Broin to run policy on — jammed by senior Don’t all these dogma — left or right give authority to do specific acts on your behalf. The general power given civil servants, he helpers (and the SF Ireland? closed shop? I — that omits the to the Attorney gives total power over all property including Bank ac- insists that they can ones are famously “No, for the very confessed that I knew opinion of the counts and property. It is possible to include restrictions i.e. that your be unjammed. And numerous and hard- simple reason that of many brilliant shopkeeper or the house is not be sold. In addition the Attorney is normally authorised to what about the working) need to be these people are policy ideas (some school-gate parent. take personal care decisions. media, nationally and recognised? Wouldn’t doing it for the same pushed by this “A lot of what’s in A personal care decision is one or more of the following: locally, talking about the Public reason I am: not for newspaper) cold- the party’s policy • Where and with whom you should live Eoin Ó Broin as an Administration power, but to make shouldered by FF, FG documents has been • Whom you should see and not see emerging front-bench Yearbook of the Bertie Ireland better, to and, alas, SF: suggested by the • What training and rehabilitation you should get figure? era — with its pages bring in policies that “Send it into me, people we meet, up • Your diet and dress “Let me say, first, and pages of quangos will provide decent whatever it is! We and down the • Inspection of your personal papers of all, that for any of stuffed with Ahern jobs, good schools always welcome new constituency, up and • Housing, social welfare and other benefits that to happen, I have cronies — look like a and better ideas!” down the country.” slim volume to be elected first.” healthcare.” Even from There’s a good Creating an enduring power of attorney That brings us to compared to what we So there’s no Sinn outsiders? chance he’ll get in: An enduring power of attorney involves the transfer of considerable pow- the formidable Sinn will see in Sinn Féin’s Féin priesthood, no “Especially from Dublin Mid West, still ers from the donor to another person. The enduring power of attorney outsiders! I worked a four-seater, has a can only come into effect when certain procedures have been gone for Pearse Doherty for reputation for being through.

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