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Press Pack Spring / Summer 2019 AREA FEATURE BALLSBRIDGE LIVING Just when you thought this lovely leafy suburb couldn’t improve! 40 Elgin Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 FOR SALE by Sherry FitzGerald. Sherry FitzGerald are delighted to be one of the proud supporters BER Exempt. of this exciting new initiative, Ballsbridge Living, whose purpose is to promote Ballsbridge as a premium area and popular destination in which to live, visit, work and socialise. With its tree-lined avenues and beautiful Victorian red-brick estates it’s easy to forget that this bustling vibrant village is only a stone’s throw away from Dublin’s city centre. Village Life At its centre is an array of top-quality restaurants, cafes and bars which cater for all tastes, Dylan McGrath’s Shelbourne Social, Avoca and Butlers Chocolate Café have all opened recently bringing even more variety to the area. Your choice looks set to expand further with the arrival of Facebook’s sizeable workforce when they begin to settle later this year into the former AIB Bank Centre premises, their new International Headquarters. There are endless leisure activities available with the RDS hosting regular music, sporting, educational, lifestyle events and seasonal funfairs and ice skating. But what’s sure to appeal to families is the 32- acre amenity which is Herbert Park, complete with tennis courts, playground, croquet lawn, numerous walkways for a leisurely stroll and junior soccer. Enjoyed by the residents of both Donnybrook and Ballsbridge villages, the area enjoys a real sense of community, especially on Sunday’s when it plays host to the Herbert Park Paddy Byrne - food market from 11am – 4pm. Co-Founder of You can also explore a range of sporting Ballsbridge Living clubs in the area, Ballsbridge is home to the world-famous Aviva Stadium, formerly known as Lansdowne Road. Today, Ballsbridge and neighbouring Donnybrook are home to half a dozen active rugby clubs including Wanderers Buying/Renting/Staying Here RFC, Old Belvedere RFC, Lansdowne RFC, Old You have a great selection of hotels and 33 Wellington Place, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 Wesley, Leinster and Bective Rangers – all catering guesthouses to choose from when you’re FOR SALE by Sherry FitzGerald. for men’s, women’s, mini and youth rugby training. If BER Exempt. attending events in Ballsbridge or if you want to cricket is more your style then Pembroke and Merrion put down more permanent roots then contact BALLSBRIDGE LIVING Cricket Clubs are on your doorstep and you have a choice our Sherry FitzGerald Team on 01 269 8888 of tennis clubs, Bective Lawn Tennis Club and Donnybrook Lawn / [email protected] to explore your Join us in supporting this Tennis Club to name but two. options. Alternatively if you prefer to rent, then great initiative, embracing our Lettings Team are here to help on 01 246 Living Here 1155. village life, and get involved. From an unusual bottle of wine to an indulgent manicure, Ballsbridge has it all, salons, supermarkets, boutiques, jewellers, Getting Here City & Country Magazine art gallery, medical centre and pharmacy. In fact, the co-founder Ballsbridge is served by three stops along Email: [email protected] of the Ballsbridge Living initiative, Paddy Byrne is the owner of the Dart local railway service, Lansdowne Road, Instagram: @ballsbridgeliving Life pharmacy and has served as a community pharmacist in Sandymount and Sydney Parade and there are Ballsbridge since 1991. He is passionate about the area and several bus routes running through the village Twitter: @ballsbridgelive Spring 2019 highlighting the many benefits and potential the area has to offer. including the 4, 7 and 18. 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P8 [email protected] PROPERTY EDITOR TINA-MARIE O’NEILL light at the end of the tunnel ith a building- boom battle ongoing in Don- An Culu in Kenmare, nybrook village Co Kerry: a castle and its residents fit for a king fearing a loss of Wtheir sense of community, our atten- tion turns to the neighbouring Dublin 4 borough of Ballsbridge. An 18th-century settlement and Clockwise from main picture: Number One Ballsbridge, The upstairs landing, where no expense has been spared once part of the estate of the Earl of built by the Comers; Paddy Byrne of Ballsbridge Pembroke, this affluent hamlet at the Living; the RDS; Paddy Cullen’s pub in Ballsbridge heart of the capital’s embassy belt is village; an aerial shot of the suburb Fennells coming out the other side of a trans- formative wave of construction and in the Tidy Town programme, mem- courses in event management and Bankcentre site with both Byrne. “It’s been a long time on the is actively reviving its village identity bership of which comes with its own its students have organised their own and the €450 commu- boil, and was interrupted by a need to through a new initiative called Balls- benefits. clean up event; and its horticulture million landmark nities, par- build a flood wall along the river Dod- bridge Living. “I lived in New York briefly, and students have be given permission to Comer Group de- ticularly in der, following a major flood event in Spearheading the drive is Pad- used to visit Washington Square Park plant a [bee-friendly] ‘buzz garden’ on velopment at Num- Herbert Park. October 2011. dy Byrne, a fourth-generation local for its Friday night comedy events,” a small patch of waste ground beside ber One Ballsbridge. We’re playing “Now that the wall is almost com- pharmacist whose business is located said Byrne. “There’s a bandstand in Pembroke Library. So involvement is Located on the former catch-up with plete, I’ve refocused on Ballsbridge on Merrion Road. Nicknamed the Herbert Park and I’m pushing for evolutionary. University College veteri- what has been done Living, which will eventually be Lord Mayor of Ballsbridge, Byrne has comedy nights there during the sum- “The community has always been nary college site, the mixed-use in Donnybrook in terms membership based. We have a lot of worked in the area for some 30 years mer months. Once you have Tidy there, but it’s never had any focus. campus is home to 88 high-end apart- of Tidy Town initiatives. Every- events planned initially, including a The living-room is sumptuously decorated and knows most of the people who Town insurance, it allows you to hold Tidy Towns is about getting pride back ments, the swanky headquarters of one learns from the process.” Fourth of July event, nature walk- live in the borough. community events. in the area and that’s what Ballsbridge aircraft leasing company Avolon, and a Ballsbridge Living has had a few ing trails, the [last Carnegie-funded] “We’ve gone through the phase of “And in terms of support, Dublin Living is about. delectable choice of eateries including initial rounds of fundraising: key sup- Pembroke Library, the Herbert Park losing our village identity, and feel that City Council has been instrumental “People love living here because it’s Avoca, Shelbourne Social and Butlers. porters include Chartered Land, the comedy events, and a host of events it’s now returning,” he said. “There are in providing high-vis vests and paint so close to town and convenient, but They join stalwarts such as the Roy- RDS, Irish Life, Dalata Hotels and local being held in the RDS, including five a number of things that are feeding for our voluntary road mark painting they go into town to socialise and to al Dublin Society (RDS), established real estate group Sherry FitzGerald. concerts as the Aviva Stadium is being into that change, including Lans- event a few weeks ago and the council eat and forget that there’s lots on their in 1879, and the Aviva Stadium, the Its immediate focus is to raise aware- re-seeded this summer.” downe Place [Chartered Land’s luxury provided bags, gloves and pickers for own doorstep. headquarters of Irish football and rug- ness about Tidy Town-related events Byrne’s involvement is wholly vol- 215-unit development on the corner our local community clean-up. “Ballsbridge Living is about putting by, along with Roly’s Bistro, a slew of in the suburb and to encourage local untary. He is known as someone who of Lansdowne Road and Shelbourne “So, if DCC can’t provide physical Ballsbridge firmly in their minds as the high-profile embassies, Herbert Park residents and businesses to become gets stuck in and gets the job done. He Capture the castle Road], which has come on board and manpower, they offer support in other place for them to do business, to live, and numerous premium hotels, in- involved. said he got enjoyment from watching is very much geared at the owner- ways like that, which makes a huge to socialise and to enjoy.” cluding the Herbert Park, the Clayton At the moment the Ballsbridge Tidy people come together and have fun. occupier market. We’re seeing more difference to us.