Health and OAP Centre on Annunciation Site SPECIAL to LOCAL NEWS by PAUL KELLY the CITY, the HSE and the Church Promised It the Summer of 2016
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E RE F E eri pap nFin s g H w l e a n s l & a T c c a o b l r 1 a . o n d e V t o LOCAL NORTH EDITION 4th October 2018 Phone: 087 252 4064 • Email: [email protected] • www.localnews.ie Stoneybatter l Phibsboro l Cabra l Ashtown l Santry l Finglas l Glnasnevin l Drumconedra l Ballymuwn l Inner City l Tyrrelsts own l Corduff l Mulhuddart l Blanchardstown l Ongar l Tyrrellstown l Clonsilla Health and OAP Centre on Annunciation Site SPECIAL TO LOCAL NEWS by PAUL KELLY THE CITY, the HSE and the Church promised it the summer of 2016. As we reported in Local News, August 4 2016, Annuncia - tion May Offer Finglas Land for Housing, Health. They promised it again that Christmas: Decem - ber 1, Finglas OAPs Edge Closer to New Houses on Annunciation Site. Now, finally, according to Dessie Ellis, TD (SF, Dublin NW), the deal just needs the signature of Dublin City housing boss Brendan Kenny. “At last! At last! But it’s worth the wait,” a thrilled Deputy Ellis told Local News in Dáil Éireann Over 700 Intel employees put together over 1,200 care packages for Inner City Helping Homeless. The pack last week. events took part on both days and nights last week, with all shifts engaged. The packs were then handed “This will make a huge differ - out by ICHH volunteers that night, ensuring that those less fortunate got the supplies they needed. In NAVAN ROAD 01-882-3600 ence to Finglas.” addition to the donation of the care packs, Intel will also match the hours contributed to the charity by The Cappagh Road site will € DRUMCON DRA 01-836-9555 employees with 10 per hour paid from the Intel Foundation to ICHH. ARTANE 01-832-9560 see the leaking, hard-to-heat Brian McLoughlin, Head of Communications from Inner City Helping Homeless, added: “We are so church razed to the ground. In appreciative of the hard work and support from everyone at Intel Ireland as part of their Do Wonderful its place will be a much smaller, Month. Our outreach volunteers are assisting 120-160 people a night on the streets of Dublin and more eco-friendly building. surrounding areas 7 nights a week”. On the same 6 acre (2½ At the same time there is paying for it, and the roof kept Now, one or two was the hectares) site there will be: also some bitterness about the on leaking!” norm, with the resulting pop - • a new, smaller church burden that a leaking building Even at the best of times, ulation plummeting from • a Primary Healthcare placed, for decades, on the the Church proved impossible 50,000 people in the 1960s to Centre dwindling Catholic faithful of to heat and, by the 1990s, had about 34,000 today. That said, NO MORE TV BILLS EVER • a Community Centre the parish: become far too large for its Ellis agreed that the new, rein - SPECIAL OFFER • housing specially designed vigorated Finglas could easily for Senior Citizens. “Year after year, we kept on ever-dwindling faithful. hearing the same message, “Part of it, in fairness, was creep back up to 1960s figures. and putting money into the to do with end of those huge Meanwhile, between the IRISH COMPANY site associated with the ful€ly 2ins5ta0ll ed jubilation same little envelopes,” one Catholic families,” Deputy EXCELLENT Church, and an adjacent patch AFTERCARE SERVICE parishioner told Local News . Ellis recalled. There is cross-party jubila - known locally as “Feargal’s “First it was, ‘Oh, we only “Back in those days, it was tion about the breakthrough — Land”, there will be enough which involved the City having owe €300,000, aren’t you normal for Finglas families to space to landscape all these to negotiate with both Church great!’ Then it was €250,000. consist of seven, eight or nine authorities and the HSE. We kept on paying for it and children!” continued on page 2 Tel: 083 3133133 2 | THE LOCAL NEWS continued from page 1 Tolka River suffers second major fish kill in a year THE TOLKA RIVER has suffered a second Committee to explain to us what they are major fish kill in just over a year, according going to do to protect the Tolka River. to Mulhuddart Solidarity Councillor Matt "I have to say, I now have major reserva - Waine. tions over the 9C sewer duplication works It is scheduled to begin at 3:00pm, pre - that are due to commence shortly through cisely the time when Pope Francis is due to the Tolka Valley. If Irish Water cannot protect say Mass in Phoenix Park. the Tolka from discharges and blockages on "I was contacted by local Anglers on the existing sewer line, what are the chances Wednesday who reported that they had ob - of a more serious incident while these works served a number of dead fish in the Tolka. are being carried out. Irish Water have a lot They reported the incident to Inland Fish - of questions to answer and they have a duty eries Ireland and Fingal County Council," to the residents who live beside and who said Cllr Matt Waine. use the Tolka valley and river as a vital local "This is the second time in almost a year amenity." that the Tolka river has suffered a substan - Meanwhile anglers who have been de - tial level of contamination and pollution re - nied seabass fishing are now allowed one sulting in a significant fish kill. It was a seabags a da y until the end of December. miracle that there were fish in the river re - The strict bass management regime cur - cently, given what happened last year, as it rently operating for Irish waters is based on can take many years for rivers to recover a heavily controlled and restricted recre - LEAKING CHURCH: a burden on the faithful from such incidents." ational fishery. Bass anglers have an ex - "We are still awaiting a conclusive report tremely positive approach to bass new, community- on mental and physi - as to cause of this contamination however, conservation using ‘catch and release’ based facilities — cal health,” says we do know from Fingal officials that the alongside good handling in order to main - most notably the Deputy Ellis. source of the contamination was a blockage tain the species and their recreational activ - scheme of houses and Local News tried to on the 9C sewer at Damastown, which then ity. apartments for the contact Brendan spilled over into the Tolka." Inland Fisheries Ireland would like to ac - elderly. Kenny, to confirm that "Responsibility for ensuring that sewers knowledge the support of anglers for Inland the deal was finally are well maintained and that blockages are Fisheries Ireland’s ‘Citizen Science’ Bass physical therapy signed and sealed. We detected and remedied before causing such Conservation Programme. Anglers, through did not reach him, but environmental destruction lies with Irish their conservation-oriented ethos, have a source close to the Water. Given that this is the second time in been the key stakeholders in supporting re - Those moving in deal said it was “just a year that the flora and fauna of the Tolka, search into bass stock status over the past will be particularly about to be signed and indeed it's future, has been jeopardised, five years by providing catch and fish stock fortunate: off”. It is believed that I am calling on Irish Water to attend a meet - data, which has underpinned provision of “The facilities be - the Church authori - ing of the Castleknock Mulhuddart Local scientific and management advice. side them will offer ties are to receive a ELLIS: “Worth the wait!” physical therapy, so - sum of money, as well return for the 6 acres to the entire Cappagh cial care, and advice as the new church, in they are contributing Road complex. 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He’s “Last weekend Ambrose appeared stopper: on those shared the joys (and was the first time we on Austrian televi - rare occasions, he sorrows) of ageing, saw anything that sion, hailed as “Neil will take on Neil’s one-to-one, with the big in Dublin — Diamond’s greatest voice, doing his best great man himself — apart from Neil Dia - fan”. to complete the illu - in Dublin, Las Vegas, mond himself, that “The Austrian trip sion with all the and all over the is.” came about because moves — not to mention the outfits, States. I entertained Jess SHARED PASSION: Ambrose O’Shea, left, onstage in Robin and his wife in musical arrange - Graz with famous Diamond tribute artiste Jess Robin And just a week austria my house in 2017,” ments and all the ago, he was hauled nary guy” banter was ers as varied as Elvis Ambrose recalls.