Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company has today launched a public consultation on the development of a floating swimming pool and ‘urban beach’ alongside the renowned East Pier of Dún Laoghaire Harbour. The project has been inspired by the popular Badeschiff facility in Berlin, a floating swimming pool on the River Spree, and has the potential to…
DetailsThe Blackrock Dolmen, by Rowan Gillespie, depicts three elegantly elongated figures holding up a large capstone to symbolise the essence of Blackrock. The figures – two male and one female – are of cast bronze, whilst the capstone is of lighter, resin bronze on fibreglass and is in the typical triangular form of a dolmen.…
DetailsLocated in Toverna Park in Blackrock, at the junction of Newtown Avenue and the bottom of Temple Hill, Stele for Cecil King, by Colm Brennan, is a sculpture dedicated to the memory of painter Cecil King. The late Cecil King was a, largely self-taught, artist from Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow who, despite having started painting in his…
DetailsA renovated Deansgrange Library, having been closed for a year, will re-open its doors to readers on Monday morning from 10am. Read more here and get details on Deansgrange Library here.
Minister for Finance Michael Noonan has said he wants to “engage seriously” with Troika representatives in the coming days on how Ireland will exit its bailout and what assistance the EU and IMF might be able to provide. Speaking after a meeting of EU finance ministers in Brussels, he said “I would like to engage…
DetailsDún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, as part of of its Summer of Heritage 2013 programme, is organising tours of “Historic Blackrock”, every Wednesday and Sunday at midday until the 1st of September. Starting at the main gates of Blackrock Park, at the bottom of Mount Merrion Avenue, the tour will bring you back in time…
DetailsLa Route des Princes is a 3,045 nautical miles race between Valencia and the Bay of Morlaix, via Lisbon, Dún Loaghaire and Plymouth. Open to all multi-hulls of 50 feet and over, this race is a tour of Europe that focuses on the regional and the local, taking a dozen crews in three multi-hull classes (Ultimates,…
DetailsFine Gael Group on Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council –
3rd row: Marie Baker, Neale Richmond
2nd row: Donal Marren, Pat Hand, Jim O’Dea
Front row: Patricia Stewart, Maria Bailey, newly-elected Leas-Cathaoirleach Barry Saul, John Bailey, Tom Joyce
Freewheeling Champ, by Cliodhna Cussen, was commissioned at the behest of the bicycle shopkeeper in Dundrum who supplied parts and gave encouragement to the young Stephen Roche. Stephen Roche had a 13-years professional cycling career, during which he won the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and UCI World Road Race Championship, making himself one of…
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