Funding has been granted to support remote working in our community under the Connected Hubs Scheme. Minister Martin Heydon tells me that ACDAL Allenwood have been awarded a grant of €30,286 to enhance their facilities, which include 16 remote working spaces, own door offices and a conference room. Learn more and book these remote working…
On behalf of Allenwood Tidy Towns, my thanks to local landowners, residents, bog owners and our neighbours AES Bord na Móna in Drehid, for gathering up and removing almost 22 tonnes of waste from the laneway to Blake’s Bog in Allenwood. Now that we have it clean, we are going to do our best to…
I was very impressed by the students of St. Brigid’s National School, Ticknevin recently. The speeches were excellent and it was great to meet their Active School committee and raise their new flag for them. The teachers were surprised to learn that I only live 4 kilometres from Ticknevin on the other side of Killina…
My thanks to the Water Safety Development Officer in Kildare County Council for providing a new lifebuoy for Ticknevin Lock. Kindly mounted by our local roads team. Thanks also to the resident who made me aware of the lack of a lifebuoy here recently.
I am delighted and honoured to have been elected as Cathaoirleach of the Clane Maynooth Municipal District at our AGM today. From the hinterlands of the Bog of Allen to the thriving town of Maynooth, myself and the other councillors along with our excellent council MD team, will do our best to continue the good…
I was delighted to speak last week with Minister Malcolm Noonan T.D. at the 20th Lock in Ballyteague. I explained to him the great value that the Barrow Blueway on the Grand Canal has brought to Lowtown, Ballyteague and the surrounding areas. We also met the Waterways Ireland and Kildare County Council teams involved in…
The draft turbine layout for the Ballydermot Wind Farm has been published on https://www.ballydermotwindfarm.ie/. Bord na Móna is proposing to install 50 turbines with a blade tip height of 220 metres, applying a minimum setback distance of 880 metres. They intend to apply to An Bord Pleanála for planning permission next year. A second round…
I was very honoured to attend the launch of Football for All at Coill Dubh AFC’s Cusack Park last weekend with my colleague, Cllr. Brendan Weld. We are pictured with Jenny Ward, who was the main organiser, volunteering a lot of her time to make sport accessible for all children in our area. Football for…
Beautiful Ballyteague Forest was the latest target of illegal dumping this week. Evidence was found by myself and the Community Warden today. A family in Bray, Co. Wicklow, will be fined and possibly brought before a judge now to explain why their household waste ended up in a lovely local amenity in Co. Kildare. I…
More focus on making the journey to school safer for the children of Killina and Ballybrack, with repairs to the road from Hamilton Bridge. Last year I requested LPT funding for the new speed feedback signs on the approach roads to the school. Each year, our brilliant council team on the ground keep the hedgerows…