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…
Category: Allenwood
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…
I recently wrote about the video I made for Allenwood GFC to advertise the 24 hour walk for a new all weather pitch. See Allenwood GFC Fundraiser. The walk took place at the weekend, and myself and my family were part of the Under 8 team on the day. Early indications are that the event was…
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…
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…
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…
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…
This morning I attended the Maynooth Area Municipal District meeting in Kildare County Council. I went with the aim of observing the level of rural interests represented at the meeting. The district contains the towns of Clane, Kilcock and Maynooth and a majority of the councillors live in Maynooth. The kind of issues that were…
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…
Drehid Against Wind Turbines Action groups including Drehid Against Wind Turbines have begun to raise awareness of a renewed effort by Element Power to seek planning permission for a wind farm in North West Kildare. I have sought further information from Element Power but have not received anything back yet. They have notified some residents,…