Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council is hiring tour guides for its summer programme of guided tours of heritage sites in the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown area. If you’re interested, you need to have a strong interest in history and heritage, and have excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Training and/or previous experience as a guide will be an advantage;…
DetailsI visited Deansgrange Cemetery this afternoon for a tour of 1916 civilian graves by Ray Bateson, who has a wealth of knowledge on all things related to graves in Ireland. Deansgrange is one of Ireland’s most significant cemeteries, particularly for 20th century graves. Below are some pictures, including John A. Costello’s grave.
The Irish Times has reported that there has been an arrest in the armed robbery in Blackrock this week: “A man in his late twenties has been arrested following a robbery at a Post Office in Blackrock, Co Dublin this afternoon. A man entered the Post Office at approximately 4pm and threatened staff with what is…
DetailsThis Government inherited a jobs market in freefall with 250,000 private-sector jobs and 45,000 jobs in exporting sectors lost between 2008 and 2010. Since taking office, the Action Plan for Jobs, has provided for a transition from the old, failed economy – reliant on property, banking and debt – to a new, sustainable economy based…
DetailsToday, I attended a ceremony in Ballybrack village to dedicate the obelisk there to the memory of Michael Davitt, founder of the Land League, who lived close by. Davitt’s first monster meeting took place in Irishtown in South Mayo in 1879 and he stayed in my great-great-grandfather’s house, nearby in Doonmacreena Bridge, that night.
It was a bleak morning, this morning, on Killiney Beach for the unveiling of a commemorative plaque to Robert Mallet, the father of seismology. In October 1849, aged 39, Robert, and his son John, who was a geology student at TCD, decided to carry out a remarkable experiment on Killiney Beach. They wanted to prove…
DetailsI recently had the pleasure of attending the Inaugural Meeting of the John M. Kelly Branch of Young Fine Gael, in the Honorable Society of King’s Inns. The meeting was also attended by John-Paul Phelan TD, Alan Shatter TD, Minister for Justice & Equality, Paschal Donohoe TD and Councillor Ruairí McGinley (Dublin City Council).
Disgusted to see that the plaque commemorating Kevin O’Higgins near the place where he was assassinated in 1927, at the corner of Booterstown and Cross Avenues, was vandalised last week, for the second time since it was unveiled by An Taoiseach. Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council has ordered a replacement, but consideration will have to be…
DetailsNot a nice day for Daffodil Day volunteers today. The Irish Cancer Society has confirmed that they will still be out there, so if you see them, please support the cause by buying a daffodil. If you can’t/don’t want to make it outside today, you can still text DAFF to 50300 to donate €4 to…
DetailsGay Mitchell not to Contest European Parliament 2014 Elections Speaking in Strasbourg, Dublin MEP Gay Mitchell said today (Thursday, 14 th March) he will not contest the 2014 European Elections. “When I first stood for the European Parliament in 2004 I did so at the request of the Party Leader, as Fine Gael had only…
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