Category Archives: Local interest

Accident on Rochestown Avenue

A pedestrian and a motorcylist have been seriously injured in a road collision on Rochestown Avenue in Dun Laoghaire at 9pm last night. Both are being treated at St Vincents Hospital. Rochestown Avenue is closed until further notice.

08/05/2011

Evening Herald: Safety fear over move to silence foghorn – 12th January 2011

Environment Local interest Transport

Safety fear over move to silence foghorn By Andrew Phelan Wednesday January 12 2011 DUN Laoghaire Harbour Company has been called on to reverse a decision to decommission its foghorn in a step described by local councillors as “dangerous and retrograde”. From today the foghorn warning vessels of hazards in misty conditions will no longer…

04/05/2011

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DLRCoCo Traffic News 19th-25th February 2011

Local interest Transport

Avoca Place, Blackrock The Drainage section need to implement a temporary emergency road closure for drainage purposes on Friday and Saturday 18th and 19th February between the hours of 9am -5pm. A manhole in the middle of the carriageway must be re-built. Diversion route will be in place via Sydney Avenue, Green Road and Sydney…

18/02/2011

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The Evening Herald – 16/02/2011

Council business Local interest National interest

Now smokers face ban from playgrounds By Cormac Murphy Wednesday February 16 2011 A NEW move to ban smoking from south Dublin playgrounds is to come before Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown County Council. Fine Gael’s Barry Ward has urged the council to adopt a new bye-law to prohibit smoking “in or around children’s playgrounds”. It follows a…

18/02/2011

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Traffic News: 5th – 11th February 2011

Local interest Transport

DLRCC TRAFFIC NEWS Saturday 5th February 2011 –to – Friday 11th February 2011 ROAD CLOSURES Road Closure Avoca Place, Blackrock Emergency road closure is required to repair a collapsed culvert between 9am-5pm on Friday 4th and Saturday 5th February 2011, diversions will be in place via Sydney Avenue, Green Road and Sydney Terrace. ROADWORKS /…

04/02/2011

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Death of Lynda Collins

Local interest News

I was very sorry to hear of the truly tragic death of Lynda Collins, from Booterstown, who was killed in a freak accident on Waterloo Road in Ballsbridge yesterday evening, when high winds caused a tree to fall on her. My thoughts are with her husband Richard and their three children, who would have been…

04/02/2011

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