This will hopefully become a weekly feature looking back on things that caught our eye during the previous week in Dublin. Starting with yesterday and it was a pretty busy day for DublinObserver.com. We covered zombies, the pride festival and a Socialist Party protest (more on that later). Earlier in the week, we had a [...]
Onlookers were left bemused as around a hundred people dressed as zombies assembled in St.Stephen’s Green park and roamed the city streets in an attempt to raise funds for the Irish Cancer Society and RNLI Lifeboats. More images can be viewed here. Video of the Dublin Zombie Walk
Up to 22,000 people lined the streets of Dublin today for the culmination of the 2010 Dublin Pride festival. The parade began on Parnell square and moved down O’Connell street and on to Westmoreland street before reaching Dame street. It reached its finishing point near Christchurch cathedral. More photos can be viewed here.
Public information days are to be held this week on the on the River Dodder flood study, hosted by Dublin City Council and South Dublin County Council.
School inspection reports were publiched on the website of the Department of Education and Skills on Thursday.
Sections of the Dalkia Ireland were sold to UK outsourcing company Mitie for €12.5 million. Mitie paid €9.5 million upfront to Dalkia Ireland Investments Ltd for what was described as its ‘soft facilities management’ divisions — which includes cleaning and security services. The payment of the remainder €3 million depends on the performance of companies. The [...]
By Niall Farrell (extratime.ie) A late winner from UCD captain Evan McMillan gave the students a dramatic last-gasp win over Sporting Fingal last night at Morton Stadium. Goals were the priority for both sides from the opening whistle, with Eamon Zayed scoring the opener after just 4 minutes. Alan Kirby played the ball into Zayed [...]
By Daire Walsh (extratime.ie) The final scoreline might not suggest it, but Bray Wanderers and Shamrock Rovers served up an entertaining and engrossing match at the Carlisle Grounds on Friday evening. This was only Bray’s fifth point of the season, whereas this was the fourth draw in-a-row in what has been a stop-start season for [...]
By Philip O’Rourke (extratime.ie) Bohemian FC beat ten man Dundalk 3-0 to go second in the Airtricity League at Dalymount Park as the race for the title hots up. It was only the fourth minute when the game produced it’s first chance. A great ball whipped in from Dundalk’s Fahrudin Kuduzovic found former Bohemian’s player [...]
1,000 one-day, all zone Luas tickets are being given away by the Railway Procurement Agency (RPA). The agency says the promotion is its way to support a number of summer events. The 1,000 free Luas tickets are aimed at people travelling to the Kings of Concrete Festival next weekend, Saturday and Sunday July 3 – [...]
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