Members of Balyna Foróige had a big stall at the Balyna Parish Spring Craft Fair yesterday. The group made some nice items which they then sold on the day. It is great to see young people getting involved in their community events. Well done to all of them and their Foróige leaders.
Category: Johnstownbridge
The spring cleans continue with a great turnout in Johnstownbridge last weekend. Organised by JARA Tidy Townlands and supported by Kildare County Council who provided some trees which we planted near the Johnstown Bridge. Thanks to the members of Balyna Foróige who also helped.
Very happy to announce that I have been selected as candidate by Fine Gael for the Local Elections next June, alongside my fellow candidate, William Durkan. We are both looking forward to working together for West Kildare in the coming months. Thanks to Damien English TD for chairing the meeting.
The NTA have confirmed to me that bus stops will be installed in Kilshanroe, following on from the new stops in Johnstownbridge. I justified these new bus stops in a submission to the NTA in December 2021, which you can read at https://b-wy.se/nta. It will be a great service for the residents of Kilshanroe and…
Go Ahead have not yet published an updated timetable for the 120C service for Johnstownbridge with times for the new bus stops, so I have created the timetable myself using data from the NTA. It is available from my website at https://b-wy.se/120C The latest timetables for the 120 Dublin – Edenderry and 821 LocalLink services…
The new bus stops in Johnstownbridge are now in place and getting good use throughout the day. It made no sense for the 120C bus service to pass through the village without stopping, given the population and services in it. The BREDA Centre has been campaigning for this for a long time and myself and…
Thanks to County Kildare Leader Partnership CLG., and North West Kildare Womens Group for organising a great community event in Coill Dubh last week. It was the largest crowd I have seen in Coill Dubh Community Centre for a long time and well done to Thomas and the residents group for making it available. Fair…
I have had a number of people looking for the latest timetables for the 120 bus from Edenderry (updated 19th February 2023) and the 821 Local Link service between Naas and Newbridge (updated November 2022). For your convenience, I have placed the latest timetables for both services for easy download to your phone on my…
The Drehid Community Grant Scheme 2023 will open for applications from January 23rd to March 16th. Guidelines for the scheme and the link to make submissions are available at https://b-wy.se/drehid A reminder that Resident Associations and Parent Associations are able to apply for certain types of projects that would benefit their local community. Applications by…
A new Women’s Shed for the community of Balyna and surrounding areas was formed recently and they held their first event in Cadamstown Hall last week with support from Local Property Tax community funding. The formation of the group was facilitated by the excellent team in the BREDA Centre in Johnstownbridge, and Doreen Daly and…