The promotional video for this year’s All Ireland Turf Footing competition in Ballyteague GFC was excellent. It includes some great footage of the 1934 Turf Cutting competition which was officially opened by Éamon de Valera and took place in Allenwood South. The event was my first official engagement as an elected representative and there was…
I am delighted to have been elected to represent the people of North West Kildare on Kildare County Council. Thank You to every single person that voted for me. I am looking forward to working hard for you for the next five years. Details of the count are below, or for more detail see Clane…
I was asked to write a little about myself for the local papers recently, just to let people know my priorities coming up to the local elections. My main reason for getting involved with the community, which is now also my main reason that I am running in the local elections, is that I am…
For four months now, I have been trying to work with Kildare County Council to clarify the ownership of a road in Killina Lower, that I wrote about in November 2018. It has been an extremely frustrating ordeal, to say the least. Eventually, following a Freedom of Information request, the council have admitted that they…
A local man brought to my attention a large amount of fly-tipping in the bog between Allenwood South and Ballyteague North. Disappointingly, it took place very close to the target area for our recent community cleanup event. I met the Community Warden from Kildare County Council out at the location today, and the warden has…
Very positive news came in regarding Allenwood Playground yesterday. I received notice that Allenwood Tidy Towns have been awarded €51,385 from the Drehid Community Grants Scheme to help build the playground. Whilst we will need additional funding to be provided by Kildare County Council, this grant will go a long way towards getting our playground started. We…
What started out as an investigation into the overloading of the waste treatment plant in Allenwood last November, is starting to escalate more and more to other areas of the waste water system, as I dig deeper and talk to more affected residents. I have discovered through Freedom of Information, that a land dispute has…
As club secretary, I was very proud to represent Allenwood Celtic AFC at the Intel community grant awards with my daughter, Aisling. The contribution by the Intel employees volunteering their time to local organisations in Allenwood is immense and it is great to see Intel reward their employees in this way every year. The Intel employees associated with Allenwood…
At the recent Fine Gael National Spring Conference in Wexford, I asked a panel of government ministers what we can do as a party to address the issue of private roads, for once and for all.
A great response this weekend to our call to action from Allenwood Tidy Towns and Ballyteague Community Text Alert to clean up the northern road by Ballyteague Forest. This was done as part of the An Taisce National Spring Clean and Kildare County Council’s Lilywhite Cleanup Day. Situated midway between Nursery Road in Allenwood South…