Well done to the members of Balyna Foroige, for hosting a very successful Kildare Foróige’s Got Talent in Johnstownbridge tonight. Tonight we saw some really amazing, confident young people perform to a packed hall. They’re a credit to their parents and their leaders.
Category: Coill Dubh
At our full council meeting yesterday, I raised a motion to ask if the council has every power available to it to stop fly tippers from desecrating our countryside. I also asked that the council formally notify the Minister for the Environment of our concerns over the ineffectiveness of the €150 fine. With the support…
I was at the launch of the Kildare Community Biodiversity Project on behalf of Allenwood Tidy Towns last night. Well done to County Kildare Heritage Office for organising this massive initiative. We will be writing to local schools and groups to invite them to the training in the coming weeks. Interested individuals are welcome to attend also. Please keep…
The constituencies for the next General Election were reviewed and will be updated for 2020. Kildare South is now extended right up to the north west of the county. In addition some areas of West Kildare return to the constituency along with some parts of Laois and Offaly. I have created an updated map of…
Our first ever Goal Mile in Allenwood was a great success on the morning of Stephen’s Day. We were very lucky to avoid any showers and had over 300 participants, with great representation from Allenwood, Ballyteague and surrounding areas. Well done to Celine Cronly, who organised the entire event at very short notice. Celine lined…
I was honoured to present Craig Lenehan with his Senior Team Young Player of the Year award for Coill Dubh AFC at the weekend. I had the pleasure of working with Craig for many years as he played for our very successful youth team at Allenwood Celtic AFC. It’s great to see him getting better and better now with Coill…
The rollout of the National Broadband Plan will include areas that are not currently covered by commercial operators, such as Eir. Please search using your Eircode on the map at https://b-wy.se/nbp, if your home does not have high speed broadband at the moment. If you are in an amber area, then your home will be covered…
At the October full council meeting today, I proposed that the council make a bye-law to set the speed limit at all primary and secondary schools in the county to 30 kilometres per hour, at all times of the day. At Killina National School, the nearest school to the entrance of the Drehid Waste Management…
Attended the Kildare & District Football League October meeting tonight where Coill Dubh AFC goalkeeper, Luke Anderson from Allenwood, received a monthly award. Incidentally, the superb trophy was made by local business, Ace Sports Awards, based in Kilmeague. Great to see the KDFL supporting local businesses whenever they can.
In February, I had the opportunity to update An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar T.D., about our local West Kildare Fine Gael branch. The branch is the Fine Gael party organisation on the ground, and in our local branch we discuss local issues and what we can do to fix them. The branch also serves as a link to our…