Kerbing replaced at Cushalla

Earlier this year, the contractors working on behalf of Irish Water removed some kerbing near Cushalla in Allenwood. I reported the issue and wrote it about it at https://brendanwyse.ie/2018/08/02/kerbs-removed-during-road-works/. Cllr. Mark Stafford raised a motion on my behalf, in relation to the issue, at the October council meeting. I see that the kerbing has now been…

Dumping in Allenwood Village Centre

Allenwood Tidy Towns has been working with Kildare County Council in recent months, to act on the disgraceful dumping of household rubbish at the derelict house across from Cushalla. The owner of the site has been contacted by the council with regard to their responsibilities to the site. Some of the rubbish had labels with…

Playgrounds in North West Kildare (2018)

At the public meeting I hosted in order to get the Allenwood Playground project moving again, I presented some statistics regarding the availability of playgrounds to the communities of North West Kildare. These figures are available in the presentation at Allenwood Playground Public Meeting. Today, I am providing a map showing all existing playgrounds and those…

Lumsden Cup Semi-Final

Busy day today doing car park attendant for Allenwood Celtic as we hosted the Lumsden Cup Semi-final between Clane United and Ballycane Celtic. Ballycane won 3 -2 in the end after extra time after Clane took a 2 goal lead. We had over 100 cars come in to the club grounds on the day, but…

Kildare Newbridge MD Meeting

Today I attended the Kildare Newbridge Municipal District meeting for September in Kildare County Council. Allenwood Playground was on the agenda, along with some other local issues. The update for Allenwood playground mentioned the current design phase as I wrote about at Architect selected for Allenwood Playground. A proposed playground in Robertstown was also mentioned and…

Allenwood GFC Fundraiser

To help promote the upcoming fundraiser for Allenwood GFC, I recorded and edited a short video with former Kildare player Johnny Doyle and current Kildare player Johnny Byrne. The fundraiser aims to raise funds for the new all weather surface that I made a presentation on earlier this year. See Allenwood GFC Fundraiser for more details about…

West Kildare Fine Gael

Last Monday night, 10th September, the new West Kildare Branch of Fine Gael was launched in Glennons of Allenwood. The formation meeting was chaired by Martin Heydon T.D. Chairman of the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party, and attended also by Cllr. Mark Stafford and Cllr. Brendan Weld. Deputy Heydon and Cllr. Stafford have been very supportive…

Road Repairs Allenwood South

Kildare County have a scheme called Green Kilometre where you nominate a section of road that you are going to maintain. See http://www.kildare.ie/CountyCouncil/Environment/GreenKilometreScheme/ for more information on this interesting scheme. I nominated a section of the main road to Lullymore near my home, on behalf of Allenwood Tidy Towns. A few weeks ago, I was out…