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Some Finglas residents are fighting City and planning authorities over a new estate, An Riasc, which has just been purchased – through co-op Túath Housing – for “social and affordable” housing. Locals have also voiced worries about other developments, including modular THE FIELD: units, planned for Finglas South. Finglas activists John Redmond and Sandra Devlin.

SPECIAL REPORT Far from having booming admitted to both the Finglas and Cabra are numbers, Finglas schools are permanent schemes (in An temporary, with shuttered BY PAUL KELLY barely recovering from the Riasc and Scribblestown) and classrooms being re-opened as THEY SAY that the skewed “population bust” of the 1980s the stopgap houses (including the “Finglas flight” is of a generation ago is now social mix and sheer numbers and 1990s, when their 40 modular units planned for reversed. planned for the 49-house An catchment pool crashed from the old St Helena’s site near Local News spent many Riasc estate, make this and 55,000 to 30,000 residents. Farnham Drive). Others issues, hours going over the concerns other planned units Since about a decade ago, including the shortage of of local residents, many of unsuitable. They claim that Finglas has started a slow school places, were also raised. BY CONSENT them members of the Finglas schools, crèches and other recovery, going back up from However, planners, Action Group. facilities are already bursting, 30,000 to 34,000. All the new politicians and charity chiefs Have you been separated for at least 4 years and We have also spoken to the turning away young pupils. planned units will add, at cite the “extreme urgency” of agree on all matters in relation to divorce? Túath Housing boss James Any new arrivals — three to most, 2000 to that figure — many cases on the Local We will draft and process your Pike, to local activists John five hundred families, with and then only after four or five Authority housing list. Many of Redmond and Sandra Devlin, divorce documents for Court. perhaps a thousand children years. them, they say, live in and to politicians including spread over five new schemes Meanwhile angry voices, intolerable conditions in B+Bs. Personal, professional and confidential service from as little as Dessie Ellis TD (SF, — will, they say, have nowhere attacking the new schemes, (My Homeless Family, seen €600 per couple • We also process Dissolution of Civil Partner- North West) and Cllr Paul ship • Separation Agreements fixed fee €500 per couple. to go. were heard at a residents’ last Monday on RTE 1, offered McAuliffe (FF, Ballymun), the But a Local News meeting in Erin’s Isle before a sample of that squalor.) latter submitting a lengthy Mobile: 086 1211 820 investigation has uncovered Christmas. Many raised Others, notably Sinn Féin statement. www.divorcebyconsent.com arguments and concerns on concerns about the calibre of TD Dessie Ellis, note that any Email: [email protected] both sides. tenant and client being school-place shortages in continued on page 2 HARRISTOWN CONSTRUCTION NO MORE TV BILLS EVER ALL ASPECTS OF BUILDING TOP New Builds • Extensions • Renovations • Plastering • Plumbing • Carpentry CLASS Electrician• Patios • No job too big or small WORK FROM MULTI-ROOM GRANTWORK UNDERTAKEN EXCELLENT OPTIONS AVAILABLE Tel Robbie Bennett TESTIMONIALS www.billfreetv.ie for more details 2 | THE LOCAL NEWS from page 1 SCHOOLS 34,000, rising to just provided best-in- deserve reward, SHORTAGE 35,000 or 36,000. class examples of how recognition and The new Finglas Objection: Those There are shuttered such schemes should above all respect for houses and living in the area classrooms in these be run. In the taking on more than apartments planned cannot even find schools, and these modulars, all their fair share. include: school places to put will open again. concerned, including Above all, they • A future “valley site” brothers and sisters the City, are under need active and development of side-by-side with FACILITIES scrutiny. Many some 130 houses their older siblings. SHORTAGE movers-in will feel the jealous protection between Lake Glen How can Finglas Objection: Other need to put best foot from official and Barnamore, possible cope with a (non-school) facilities forward. incompetence. adjacent to St further thousand are wanting, and Later on, “voids”, Estate Helena’s, of which children? cannot serve those when legal and maintenance and 25 to 30 per cent Rebuttal: The living here, let alone refurbishing barriers management has not increase will be more will be social and those moving in. A are overcome, will been done well in like a hundred than a simple playground for affordable. seed small numbers many estates, and thousand to begin South Finglas took • Scribblestown, with in large areas, hiring the likes of with. The remainder, forty years’ of creating a good social some 170 units, a Túath Housing social, affordable in families that move, agitation. What hope mix. instead of the council and private mix of for example, into the have we for more crèches, doctors, may need to be apartments and Scribblestown In summary: scheme, will arrive shops and leisure looked at. Quality houses. Nationwide, objec- many years from now. centres? control is more, not • An Riasc (see above), tions were harsh and Rebuttal: In and The Finglas of the shrill when people less, important with near Farnham around An Riasc 1950s and 1960s was a learned that the modular schemes as Drive, managed by alone, in St Helena’s, working class area government had built it is with permanent Túath Housing, and elsewhere in the with the traditional just dozens of housing. comprising 49 district, there are the 7- to 10-child houses – far from the high-quality crèches, there is families of the time, promised thousands – houses, all but 8 to Erin’s Isle GAA, • Local News was and the myriad of during the past year 12 of which will be 1950-60s–era schools there’s The Den, the assisted greatly in social (rental) and Rivermount Club. or two. Now, with at compiling these facts built to cater to them least some areas affordable (lower- There could be more and views by Sandra are still around today: seeing serious cost). and better, but these Devlin, John Coláiste Eoin, St building, there is as • A scheme of 40 will attract more Canice’s, St Brigids’, much worry as Redmond, Dessie Ellis, modular houses in funding as the the list goes on. welcome. TD and Túath the place of the old population grows. Yes, there were We agree with Housing boss John St Helena’s closures, notably Deputy Ellis that, as Pike. We acknowledge building. POOR SOCIAL MIX when Patrician joined he puts it, “every area the patience and good Here is our the Tech to become Objection: Normally, has to do its fair faith of all concerned, summary of the case New Cross College... the “social and share”. and welcome their we heard for and But schools built for a affordable” quota in However, we also contrasting views. against the new 55,000 population an estate is 5 to 25 per cent, with the rest note his comment These are highly schemes: now cater to a mere privately owned or feel short-changed. costs there are that, for reason of complex, sensitive and rented. In An Riasc, Rebuttal: No real prohibitive. That’s land economics, emotional issues. and in all the modular answers to this. unfair, that’s life. As to Dublin’s well-heeled “problem families”: aren’t being asked to Residents and others Ellis: the City has failed as do a damned thing. are assured that we fair vetter and manager, Those who are — will return to this share but nonprofits like notably the people of topic in future GET A FREE Túath Housing have Finglas and Cabra — editions. FINANCIAL REVIEW You need to check if your Life Cover / Mortgage Protection is value for money. €150,000 Life Cover Each Including Terminal illness & Child Life Cover €6,000 is only €5.00 per Week *Guaranteed Life Cover for Over 70's Irrespective of Medical Condition *Life Cover Quote is based on Male 34 & Female 32 next birthday both non smoker s. Focus Life & Pensions is regulated by the financial Regulator as an Authorised Adviser developments, the “Here’s your money quota will be an back” is hardly an Contact your Local Independent broker unprecedented 100 adequate response. At Aine on 8022336 For advice on the above per cent, or close. minimum, Túath Rebuttal: There is Housing should offer some truth to this. their own However, future “affordable” price (or Túath renters/buyers lower) to those in for An Riasc will be mid-purchase. referred mainly from City housing waiting WORKING CLASS lists. Many don’t fit AREAS TARGETED any stereotypically FOR POORER AND “problem” profile: “PROBLEM” some were simply FAMILIES priced out by rent Objection: Why are hikes; others lost Dublin 2 and 4 not houses to the banks. building their share of Túath has a stellar “social and reputation for estate affordable” — and management, far hosting modular better than Dublin houses, for that City — and better matter? In Dev’s time even than some public housing was private developers. built in Cabra and Crumlin, but also in AN RIASC BUYERS Beech Hill in leafy UNFAIRLY TREATED Donnybrook. Why not Objection: Those today? handing over €5000 Rebuttal: Again, a fair to €30,000 deposits point. But spare for €290–320,000 An Council land tends to Riasc houses were be in less-affluent buying into an all- areas. They could private scheme. They build in Dublin 4 but THE LOCAL NEWS | 3

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.IE 4 | THE LOCAL NEWS High dropout rates linked to lack of student support THE Union of Stu- phasised that stu- financial difficulties. veyed said they were were worried about “We seriously years alone, and stu- Further survey dents in Ireland has dents will vote for Three-quarters of concerned about the cost of college need to address the dents are keen to use results: released research parties who priori- students (74.8%) their future at the before they even support that is avail- their voice and vote • 31% of students which shows a link tise education in the were worried or con- time of leaving their started their course. able at third level.” in a party that priori- thought about between the high General Election. cerned about money college course. The cost of college Donoghue said, tises education in the leaving their dropout rates in 22.1% of stu- prior to starting col- “High dropout came into the top “Fees are far too high General Election. course in the sec- third level education dents who dropped lege (46.6% were rates in third level three reasons people and grants are insuf- The new government ond year. and their financial out of college said ‘very concerned’). education are di- dropped out. It ficient. Political par- needs to follow the • 13.8% of students situation, and em- the main reason was 84.5% of those sur- rectly linked with the proves that the lack ties say we can’t example of other EU thought about lack of student sup- of student support reduce fees or in- countries and intro- leaving their port.” Kevin such as the Student crease grants, but duce free, publicly- course in their Donoghue, USI Pres- Assistant Fund, every other country funded education.” first year up to the ident, said, “Three- grants and coun- in the EU, with the Anxiety about end of January. quarters of students selling has a direct exception of the UK, college life is more • 11.2% of students who dropped out of impact on the stu- has significantly common in females thought about college in 2014/15 dent retention rates.” lower tuition fees (54%) than males leaving their than us. 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KARL: cruel and a short essay on Mr Ireland Karl Bowe Bowe confirmed that Meanwhile Karl mons — he dated on his idea of the role. cruelly snatched he was now down to Bowe got the good the programme. 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He says that this including Túath whatever in public is unlikely to happen Oscar Traynor Road, “given away”, he small apartments, Meath Street were left without water or Housing (see else- housing. They want without “wholesale Dublin 5, will effec- says, to private de- aimed at senior citi- heat for several where in this edi- to outsource every- change” in the per- weeks, as the Council tion), had a good thing. It’s ideologi- manent manage- shunted tenants record of estate man- cal.” ment at Dublin City from Maintenance to agement: He believes that a Council. PERRY: pro-public Water and back housing again, as floods and burst pipes created FINGLAS CREDIT UNION zens, could be built havoc in their City- for about €200,000. owned flats. Land being given Deputy Ellis REACHES OUT TO WORKERS SPECIAL away to get each noted that the DCC Finglas Credit Union is now accepting members who are working in the area. Now in “free” apartment is Maintenance De- its 49th year serving residents of the Finglas area, the ‘Peoples Bank ‘is now opening worth well over partment had “gone its doors to employees and employers in the locality. OFFER €300,000: downhill” in recent People working in Finglas can avail of the same attractive loan terms for cars, “This is a bad years. In part budget home improvements, holiday and other expenses that people living in the area have Boiler Service €55 deal for Dubliners. cuts are to blame, benefited from for many years. For as little as 5% or but they have also New members can also avail of free insurance and Life Savings Protection; Death New Gas Boiler €200m of Minister suffered, he says, Benefit Insurance and will not incur hidden charges or early payment penalties. Mem- Kelly’s oft repeated from “legal chal- bers will also be entered into a prize draw by providing up-to-date photo ID and proof proposed finance for lenges”: of address. Supply & Fit €1299 social housing, “They suffered a Finglas Credit Union manager, Adam Conlan said: “This is a major new departure All plumbing repairs carried out Dublin City Council number of defeats for the Credit Union in Finglas and we look forward to welcoming all the hard-work- could build over when they tried to ing people in the area. There are real benefits to joining the Credit Union instead of Breakdown call out available 1,300 homes.” get rid of difficult going to a bank, so we are asking people to just pop in and talk to one of our friendly However, Sinn tenants,” Deputy staff members. You will be dealing with real people not machines. A lot of members are Féin housing Ellis told Local News. already saving to cheer on the 'the boys in green’ in France next summer. We are also spokesman Dessie These court cases looking for volunteers who would like to give something back to the local community Ellis defended the have undermined by helping out with running the Credit Union.” deal, saying that City the Council’s ability budgets meant that to act as estate man- the land swap was agers, he believes. the only way the While Cllr Perry units would get built. agreed that the The new land Council’s recent this year we celebrate 24 years in business deals are for mixed maintenance record developments in was poor, he argued three Dublin loca- that this was no rea- tions, northside and son to give up on southside: public sector hous- • Oscar Traynor ing: Road, Artane, Dublin “Many tenants LICENCED LETTING AGENTS 5 will tell you that they • O’Devaney Gar- would prefer to be Serving North Dublin for over 10 years dens, Stoneybatter, managed by the Dublin 3 Council than by a • St Michael’s Es- private developer or SPECIAL OFFERS ON • Property Rentals tate, Inchicore, a private charity.” Dublin 8. 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Other social 62 Lower Mount Street, Merrion Square, Dublin 2. € and affordable developments in the area could see an additional 2,000 residents moving into the area. It is also understood that once-shuttered class- Phone: (01) 6612220 • Eamonn Brennan 087 199 5574 30 rooms in existing schools, including Coláiste Eoin, St Canice’s and St Brigids’, may be reopened as the population creeps up from a low of 30,000 to 34,000. Large families born during the 1950s and 60s saw the Finglas population peak at around 55,000 in the 1970s. It declined steadily until the late 1990s, when the current mini-boom began. • See our story about the Finglas housing row elsewhere in this edition. CARNEY BOUD WELCOMES NEW WHITEHALL SCHOOL

A NEW non-denominational school, Clonturk Community College, will soon welcome secondary-level pupils to its premises in the grounds of Plunkett College, Swords Road in Whitehall. Local News under- stands that the Educate Together school will initially be housed in buildings owned by Plunkett College. “Eventually, we will build a new premises for the school,” Educate Together told Local News earlier this week. Cllr Catherine Carney Boud (SF, Ballymun) welcomed the new school, and criticised the shortage of options open to non-Catholic parents: “We have serious flaws in our education system where 90% of our state-funded primary schools have religious patronage. The demand for more multi-denominational CARNEY schools such as Educate Together is growing.” Educate Together has already advertised for a Principal for BOUD: the school. It will soon begin to enrol pupils for the academic year beginning September 2016. Clonturk

A Medal Presentation Night for our 2015 teams and The 1 to 2500 Fundraiser Draw will take place in Russell Park on Friday 29th January. St Brigids GAA Nursery returns this Saturday 23rd January in Rus- sell Park from 9.30am to 11am. We welcome all 4-7 year olds in the Castleknock and Blanchardstown ST. BRIGIDS area. New members and families are always welcome. For further information and queries contact David: 0858340169. The Annual Mass for deceased members will be held in the clubhouse on Monday 1st February at 8:00 p.m. All members are welcome to attend. St Brigids GAA Club member registration is GAA now open for the 2016 season. The deadline for registrations is 31st March 2016. All memberships must be registered and finalised by this date. Full details and online payment are available on club website. The ticket book for Dublin GAA Spring Series Tickets is open in the bar and will close on 24th January at 10pm. Group Passes are also available for teams - contact Mary O'Connor. Managers and mentors wanted NOTES for adult teams for the 2016 season. If you are interested please contact Paddy Davey: 086 8229312 Our deepest sympathies are extended to the Cahill, Balfe and Curran families on their recent losses. THE LOCAL NEWS | 17 Why Colaiste Eoin is the right choice for your child “Happy engaged students achieve their potential in a safe, inclusive school”

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Clinical Hypnotherapist product of misrule. If great opposition people – men and fighting for them im- which eventually cul- women – came KIERAN FITZPATRICK proves their condition minated in an attack around us. They advises in his regular column on that alone consoles. on a Volunteer by a jeered and shouted at how to achieve your goals. Maintenance money man who formed one us. One man in the has changed them. of the crowd with the crowd was very ag- NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS Tomorrow they object of disarming gressive. He tried to Happy New Year! Another fresh start. A time to will cheer us. the Volunteer. This take the rifle off one of leave the past behind and to look forward to the A volunteer man was shot and our party. Lieutenant future. A time to remember that the past is over, Michael Walker re- bayonetted, I believe, Billy Byrne told him to but the future is a blank canvas. Today, just like called that ‘The inhab- fatally’ (BMH WS 139, keep off or he would any day, can be your new start, a time to make itants of Blackpitts p. 4). Volunteer Vin- be sorry. The man, were very hostile, cent Byrne was possi- however, made a grab a change…if you want it to be! singing and dancing bly describing the at the rifle. I heard a This is the time of year when we hear a lot to English songs of a same incident when shot ring out and saw about “New Year’s Resolutions”. Sometimes the quasi-patriotic type – he wrote that ‘a lot of him falling at the wall’ term is almost a joke. A failure before it starts. pelted stones at us soldiers’ wives and, I (BMH WS 423, p. 2). Did you know that gyms and evening classes get and generally showed expect, imperialistic The women ‘were like huge enrolments at this time of year and very soon the enthusiasm has died away? Many gyms depend on this fact to function. If every- one who joined a gym came all year around there’d be no room for them! YOUR GUIDE TO LOCAL COUNCILLORS Some people have given up already. Have Take a look inside you? Seosamh de Brún’s If there is a change that you want to make Our guide to local Councillors is not necessarily a complete guide to all in your life. If there is a goal that you would like first-hand account of Councillors in a particular area. Some opted not to be included. We invite to achieve. Then, let’s take the “New Year’s Res- what it was like to be all Councillors to include their details in our ongoing guide. You can contact olution” jinx off it! us at 087 913 3614 or [email protected] First, instead of attaching your goal to the on the ground in one calendar date of the first day, or the first Dublin during 1916. month of the year, let’s attach it to the positive Photo by: Mercier Press ongoing, natural changes which are occurring, DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL the green shoots and the days becoming longer. That, straightaway, gives you five more WHAT was it like to who ‘did not expect to Thursday 20 Central – Cabra/Glasnevin months of active attention to achieving your fight in the 1916 Ris- be involved in Revolu- Strike still on. CIERAN PERRY goal. As the days get longer, our form improves ing? If you want a tion at least so sud- Cabinet crisis settled and we feel more energetic and we have more glimpse of the experi- denly.’ And because secret session of par- Phone: 087 147 7316 daylight during which to do things. So, instead ence from a first-hand he kept the diary from liament, something Email: [email protected] of your determination and enthusiasm fading perspective, look no late 1915, we even wrong with the Em- out, let it grow and increase with the lengthen- further than the diary come to know some- pire. ‘Nerves’ perhaps! Central – Cabra/Glasnevin ing days. of Volunteer Seosamh thing of de Brún’s cir- Sunday 23 If you have a “New Year’s Resolution” in de Brún. cumstances in the Easter Sunday SÉAMAS McGRATTAN A dedicated if suc- months before the Mobilisation of mind, the first thing to do is to remember that a Phone: 087 784 8153 • (01) 868 3934 year is 12 months long! In order to make any- cinct diary keeper, Rising – not just the Volunteers called off thing happen, you have to be able to see it hap- Brún did not stop hard times he was by Eoin MacNeill(^2). Email: [email protected] pening in your mind’s eye. So, when you recording his thoughts going through, with a Excitement in- visualise it and imagine it in your mind, imag- and impressions even drastic shortage of tense. The crisis is Central – North Inner City ine it happening in Spring, Summer and Au- while fighting in the work and wages, but near NIAL RING Rising. His full diary also the problems he Monday 24 Easter tumn too. Phone: 087 248 9372 By doing this you are giving yourself a rea- was published in 2014 was having within his Monday by Mercier Press in company of Volun- Going to Scalp Email: [email protected] sonable timescale for achieving your goal. If Web: www.nialring.ie you want to lose weight for example, it is easier “The 1916 Diaries of teers: ‘B. Coy. Cold- with Mattie. Mobilisa- to believe that you can be at your desired an Irish Rebel and a ness. The limit tion unlikely, perhaps. North West – Ballymun/Finglas weight by the Summer. This gives you more mo- British Soldier,” by reached. Left early.’ Return to buy tivation, as opposed to the demotivation of set- Mick O’Farrell. “Despite his per- pamphlet. Meet Vols PAUL McAULIFFE We previously ex- sonal difficulties, and hurrying. Emergency ting yourself an impossible task. Phone: 087 672 7060 cerpted the diary of an apparent disillu- mobilisation Excited & Email: [email protected] The other motivational help of this is that the British soldier, Ser- sionment with the Vol- hurried movements Web: www.votemcauliffe.com everything looks better in Spring and Summer geant Samuel Henry unteer organization, Barmacks, New Twitter @paulmcauliffe and all things take time and usually more time Lomas, and now bring de Brún responded Street, Jacobs occu- than we expect. So we can reduce the pressure North West – Ballymun/Finglas you Seosamh de immediately and en- pied. ‘We are in action, on ourselves and save ourselves the usual dis- Brún’s account. thusiastically to the boys’ Commandant appointment by aiming at an achievable ANTHONY CONNAGHAN As O’Farrell writes rebel mobilization on Hunter says. timescale with reasonable effort required, es- in the introduction, Monday, April 24: ‘We We know fight & Phone: 087 237 6762 pecially during the final dark cold days of win- “Volunteer Seosamh believe we are going to die is necessary for a Email: [email protected] ter when our energy and mood is at its lowest. de Brún’s diary is make a sacrifice. We free Irish Republic. Then, we can ramp up our efforts as the days unique among ac- offer it to god & our Excitement, fear, North West – Ballymun lengthen and the weather gets better. counts of the Easter country.’ Later in the nervousness amongst If I am spoiling some of your best excuses Rising – it’s the only week he was one of us at unexpected de- ANDREW KEEGAN for not achieving this year’s “New Year’s Reso- known diary kept by just fourteen Volun- velopment. But action Phone: 087 667 5895 lution”….I’m not a bit sorry! If you don’t have an ordinary Volunteer teers who left Jacob’s was inevitable. one yet, let me remove another excuse…. it is under fire. Naturally it on bicycle to try to re- Barricades in Email: [email protected] NEVER too late. Let this be the start of YOUR contains the fascinat- lieve the pressure on Blackpitts. Intercept new year. ing and the hum- Éamon de Valera’s po- military. Populace North West – Cabra/Finglas If I am making you feel a little uncomfort- drum, but along the sition near Mount don’t understand, ex- able, great. You’re close, shake yourself up, life way it reveals what an Street – one man was ecration & jeers. Free DAVID COSTELLO begins at the edge of your comfort zone! ‘ordinary’ rebel was fatally wounded, and fights between them- Phone: 087 222 1589 Kieran Fitzpatrick ADHP MIAEBP (Member experiencing during de Brún, on his return, selves. of The International Association of Evidence Easter Week – not only opened his diary and Imperial ___. Are Email: [email protected] Based Psychotherapy) is a fully qualified Clinical do we get a first-hand, wrote: ‘I did not think these the people we Hypnotherapist, NLP, Practitioner and Personal unadulterated version I would return.’" are trying to free? Are North West – Cabra/Finglas Coach. His practices are in Dublin 12 and in of the events and the Explore his short they worth fighting TERESA KEEGAN Dublin 2, City Centre. For more details call 087- history he was part of, notes, as he wrote for? The dregs of the 1227361, e-mail: [email protected] but we also get a them from the Rising population. They Phone: 087 146 9902 • 087 915 1126 or see www.kieranfitzpatrick.com glimpse into the here, complete with don’t understand. Pa- Email: [email protected] mindset of a Volunteer footnotes: tience! They are the THE LOCAL NEWS | 21

French revolution fu- fice. We offer it to god cheerfully brave. Plug. Plug. Plug Approaching 12 past Red Cross hospi- Stores, Cuffe St., and they were made in ries’ according to Vol- & our country. I have been to ……. o’clock. tals. several trays of loaf Jacob’s factory by unteer Thomas Pugh Wednesday 26 confession. First time Myriad soft sultry Resting at base on Soldiers at end of bread. … some young volun- Thank Heaven, or- I am well in ad- for years. I feel better sounds of bullets per- luxurious improvised Sqr. Dismount opened I conscripted civil- teers who could not dered to ‘fall back to vance of my diary. But for it. I do believe that forating walls. settees. It suggests an fire remount return. ian help [to carry resist making them Jacobs’, inside, relief, now time our time the Catholic Religion Expect to be rid- hospital Our fellows awful cool, these] and marched during Easter Week darkness & nervous- [sic]does not trouble and Irish nationality dled though inside The boys dis- back same direction, the convoy to Jacob’s despite being told not ness. us. Our time is Ire- are better in meaning building. cussing the the gauntlet of shots. Via … to touch machinery. Jacobs is a vast land’s and Ireland’s than synonymous Guard ended, not chances the rumours York St. I got permission They were burnt place. A big place for a only. Paddy Callan is they are so inter- fearsome but highly & the probabilities of Snipers at top to reward the con- to a cinder, but the small number of men quite calm today. Poor woven. The spirit of strung, can’t sleep ex- the revolution. Politics Grafton St. scripts with two loaves company name was to hold. Sleep in Pat. Like me he did not Christ & Irish Nation- pecting attack, which municipal local. Na- O’Grady shot apiece for their serv- still legible.’ snatches. expect to be engaged ality. The spirit of does not come. tional & International. here, helped along ices’. When martial law Tuesday 25 in Revolution at least progress & sacrifice. Friday 28 People personalities & down York St past Col. According to Séa- was declared on Location. Prepara- so suddenly. We ex- After tea. Inspec- Com. Hunter al- figures. of Surgeons held by mas Ó Maitiú, in his tion. Barricading. pected the offensive tion of position. With- ways optimistic. Offi- May the Republic our fellows & back to history of Jacob’s (p. Thursday 27, The Irish Strengthening our po- would be forced on us. drawal to ___ do. cers cheery men endure, Ireland will factory. 43), the rebels ob- Times editorial asked: sition. Volunteers Eoin MacNeill we hear Attack expected. Men resigned. Sent to base endure. I did not think I tained plenty of provi- ‘What is the fire- brave & hopeful. is fighting as a private. of our section nerv- for rest. Inside Freedom has been would return. END. sions from the side citizen to do with Manly fellows. Hobson and MacNeill ous. Officers also ap- arrangements very asserted. Help from outside surrounding area, and those hours?’ Among P. Callan nerv- did not favour revolt it prehensive. This is the perfect. Food supplies Ireland has ad- the factory came in ‘they also had a quan- other suggestions, it ous. Can’t sleep & bad appears. Jas Connolly culminating point of perfectly regular. Red vanced to a higher & I various forms. tity of boots and the recommended: digestion. He was & Citizen Army doing our first experience. Cross section ready. believe a holier phase Two sisters, Mary contents of McEvoy’s ‘Best of all, per- calm yesterday. Reac- splendid work. Mac- Over tonight & we will Girls singing na- of her Destiny. and Anne Reynolds, stores on Redmond’s haps, he can acquire, tion I suppose today. I Donagh, Hunter, face anything. tional songs dressed Afternoon passes who had a clothing Hill, and Larkin’s to- or re-acquire, the art review my life. I be- McKee, All our fellows 1 A.M. new barri- in green. quietly. business nearby, sup- bacco and chandlery of reading … lieve I was fated to be working wonderfully. cades finished jaded Men dress in all Refreshed after plied many of the men stores, Wexford Street.’ How many citi- here today. I could not We are becoming tired. Sleep in equip- sorts of costumes, rest. with clothes during Towards the end zens of Dublin have have escaped it. It ‘soldiers’ now. The ment. No soft bed dungarees look more Reading. Smok- Easter Week. In other of the week, it seems any real knowledge of seems I was irre- Volunteer ‘feeling’ is now. like mechanics at ing & playing cards to instances, the rebels the garrison were the works of Shake- sistibly drawn. past, we are now cam- Thursday 27 work than soldiers. music of gramophone left the factory to get preparing to provide speare? I was annoyed at paigners & we will No attack. A few Plenty of new clothes, & piano. Great temp- supplies. their own food. Could any better mobilisation yester- make good ones. hours improved rest boots + Tobacco. tation to smoke but Volunteer Seamus Thomas J. Meldon re- occasion for reading day. It spoiled my an- Some of our fellows good wash & shave. A If it was not for oc- then I would break my Pounch recalled that membered that ‘the them be afforded than ticipated day’s outing. quite young but mag- general inspection of cassional sniping the resolution the terms of he ‘was detailed to ovens were being got [this] enforced do- But ‘man proposes’ nificent courage. We factory by myself. It is Factory would remind which now are on the lead a second patrol to ready for baking when mesticity …?’ etc. are beginning to know well to know our one of a huge enter- __ of the gods & in the obtain supplies of po- the order to surrender This, then, is the Tuesday passes. each other ___ talk, whereabouts. tainment, everybody breeches of our rifles. tatoes, bread, etc. came’. ‘advice of Irish Times’ Better sleep. No night fun & good spirits. Tea 1st watch. Untill 1 merry & cheerful. Saturday 29 I was handed a In fact some may attack. Men settling ‘Hurry up up’ Provi- P. M . In the Civilian Called early & se- warrant signed by have already been ex- that de Brún is refer- down, news favour sioning here is perfect Heavy firing on mind, it is a most in- lected to form ‘Divert- Thomas McDonagh, perimenting, because, ring to just two days able. Coming in often tons of flour, sugar, & my post, not certain if tensely realistic ing party’. De Valera at headed – I, as an offi- according to Ó Maitiú after it was printed, – keeps up our spirits. biscuits and those in Building. Suspense, change in which every Westland Row hard cer of the Irish Repub- (p. 48): showing that within We now thor- girls working so hard. tension. Darkness & element and [?] phase pressed. 14 cyclists are lican Army, is duly ‘In 1961, at an ex- the Jacob’s garrison, oughly realise our po- Only in great mo- silence save for the of life is apparent as ready. we proceed to authorised, etc. … hibition night held by there was access to a sition and are ments like these does rattle of rifles & ma- the mind dwells on the places named, I commandeered the Old Dublin Soci- daily newspaper, if not becoming reconciled one get a true glimpse chine guns. Machine the actual situation York St, St lard from Cavey’s, ety, two burnt biscuits on the day of publica- to it. We believe we are of Womanhood, pa- guns seem to be dis- the spirit of comrade- Green south, Leeson Wexford St., and pota- were displayed. tion, then very soon going to make a sacri- tient, self-sacrificing & tinctive. ship dominating all. St towards Merrion Sq toes from Quinlisk’s It was said that after.

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erty and pensions. ple). They also deal BY DAMIEN MARA If the husband with Dissolution of THE YEARLY highest legal profession. and wife feel they are Civil Partnership. number of divorces Those fees have been unable to obtain and DIVORCE BY € complete the formal granted in Ireland reported as 5,000 CONSENT deals with was in 2007 when (per spouse) for an documents required clients from all walks 3,658 divorces were uncontested divorce for Court, DIVORCE of life and offers a granted in the Circuit and €2,000 to €3,000 BY CONSENT is a Court while 26 di- (per spouse) for a company that assists personal, affordable, vorces were granted separation agree- those couples with professional, and that year in the High ment. the process. confidential service. Court. Coinciden- This unafford- DIVORCE BY [Damien Mara tally, the year 2007 is ability of legal fees CONSENT prepares B.L. Dip. L.S. is the and the downturn in widely recognised as the formal docu- principal at DI- the year in which the the economy has ments required for VORCE BY CON- so-called Celtic Tiger seen a significant in- the Court hearing. ended and the eco- crease in the number The fee charged is SENT. nomic downturn of separated couples FROM AS LITTLE AS He is a Commis- began. who choose to be- €600 (per couple) for sioner for Oaths and The Annual Re- come personal appli- a consent divorce. An a Peace Commis- port from the Courts cants and process exact quotation (not sioner. their own applica- Service shows that in an estimate) is given His website is the year 2014 a total tions for divorce. before any case is www.divorcebycon- of 2,612 divorces This is particularly taken on. sent.ie were granted in the evident in the case of The company couples who have re- He can be con- Circuit Court, while also drafts Separa- solved all family 26 were granted in tion Agreements (in- tacted at 086- matters such as the High Court. The cluding a Deed of 1211820 or by email maintenance, child majority of the appli- Waiver) for a fixed to damienmara@eir- custody/access, prop cations in the High fee of €500 (per cou- com.net] Court were made by husbands (56%) while in the Circuit GREEN FLOYD Court 56% of the ap- plications were IRELAND’S PREMIER PINK FLOYD TRIBUTE SHOW made by wives. SAT 6 FEB 2016 8PM Main Auditorium // €20 / €18 conc In the year 2013 a total of 2,924 di- Green Floyd is a complete tribute show that recreates as closely as possible the sound vorces were granted of Pink Floyd throughout the decades. Green Floyd was founded by Dubliner Mark in the Circuit Court Hegarty, the band's lead guitarist and main vocalist who is a life-long dedicated Pink and 25 divorces were Floyd fan. granted in the High Court. The show is an absolute must see event for Pink Floyd, Waters and Gilmore fans. Based While there was in Ireland and made up of an astonishing talented group of musicians and vocalists, an increase of only 1 Green Floyd bring the legendary huge Pink Floyd sound and visual show to a more in- divorce in the High timate level. All eras of Pink Floyd music and songs are performed with astounding ac- curacy. The visual aspect of this show is mesmerising and combined with the incredible Anne McEvoy and John Fox celebrated their wedding at the Coolquoy Lodge Court number for 2014 the reduction of live performance of Green Floyd, any Pink Floyd fan, new or experienced, will be en- thralled and satisfied. last week. Our photos show the happy couple and some of the guests 312 divorces granted pictured prior to the main reception. in the Circuit Court is in keeping a steady decrease in the num- ber of divorces appli- cations made. In 2013 there were 472 fewer applications St. Valentine’s for divorce than in 2007. An explanation Weekend Special for the decline in di- vorce applications 4 Course Meal for may be that couples €50 have seen the value of their shared prop- Two People erty fall to rock bot- tom, or possibly into FUNCTIONS FUNCTIONS ROOMS plus bottle ROOMS negative equity. 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Great night out at the Village Inn Enjoying the Who’s Eddie gig at the Shamrock Lodge

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Teresa celebrating her 30th at O’Riordans Rooftop Terrace Function The Usual Suspects held a reunion gig in a packed St. Finbarrs last week. Room- a great venue for a private party night. ST FINBARRS GAA CLUB

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