UPDATE: Gardai say that Shannon Jackson has been located safe and well. Gardai are asking for help from the public finding a 15-year-old girl from Dublin 8. Shannon Jackson has been missing from New Street since last Thursday, March 31, 2011. “Shannon is described as being 5’ 4’’ in height of slim build with brown shoulder [...]
A Dublin TD wants a 120-year-old church on the grounds of St James’s Hospital to be saved. Fine Gael TD Catherine Byrne says she will be seeking a commitment that church will be now saved after it was announced that plans to co-locate private hospitals on public grounds would be scraped. “It’s great news that [...]
A traders-led campaign to more than double the pedestrian zone around Grafton Street has gained the support of 41 businesses in the area. The proposals include maintaining access routes to the large multi-story car parks in the area. If the plan was adopted by Dublin City Council most of the streets between Georges Street and [...]
Gardai in Dublin City Centre are looking for help finding 16-year-old Jonathan (JJ) Kane from the Store Street area. He was last seen in the Dublin City area last Friday, March 18. “When last seen, he was wearing navy tracksuit bottoms, a black jumper and a black woolly hat with a peak. He is described [...]
Temple Bar Cultural Trust should be taken under the direct responsibility and control of Dublin City Council a councillor said. Cllr Mannix Flynn (Independent), who sits as a council rep on the board of Temple Bar Cultural Trust, said he was told by the trust that it was a private company. He raised the issue [...]
It could nearly be mistaken for a headshop selling legal highs. Some people even view the products at Happy Pills as legal highs — sweets. There are different kinds of sweets on offer but the real selling point is mixed sweets in a jar that you stuff in as many as you can. Strangely, there’s [...]
These images of the March Market of the Smithfield Horse Fair were taken in the afternoon. Earlier in the morning gunshot were fired causing a stampede and afterwards the DSPCA renewed their call to close the horse fair. If the call for emergency legislation to ban the fair is heeded by the incoming government this could be one of the last horse fairs at Smithfield.
Renewed calls to shut down Smithfield Horse Fair were made after gunshots from a homemade shotgun caused a stampede today. Horses bolted after hearing the gunshots leaving crowes of people including small children caught up in the stampede. The homemade shotgun was taken by Gardai and army explosives experts shortly afterwards made the device safe, as we reported earlier. The [...]
Gun shots were fired on Smithfield square this morning in Dublin City Centre. Two people were injured. “Guy with a gun in Smithfield just caused havoc in Smithfield. People think a horse bolted – horses bolted because some scumbag fired a gun,” said twitter user John Healy. Garda Sergeant Tony Connaughton said: “Gardai at the Bridewell are [...]
Dublin Bus is making further bus route changes in Finglas East, Glasnevin, and Drumcondra as part of its Network Direct service cutting project. Dublin Bus says routes 13 and 13a will be merged into the 13. Route 19a will be renamed the 19 and the current 19 will be merged with the 83. It says that the [...]
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