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…
Tag: Local Issues
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…
The contractors working on behalf of Irish Water have finished the Derrymullen Road out of Allenwood, but when I was litter picking one morning in June, I noticed that they had removed some kerbs and didn’t replace them. I reported the missing kerbs to the roads department of Kildare County Council and they have told…
Earlier this year, I submitted quotations from four Landscape Architects to Kildare County Council to design a high level plan for the site at ACDAL where we are going to build the playground. I am happy to confirm, as reported on KFM (https://kfmradio.com/news/21062018-1054/architect-retained-prepare-allenwood-playground-design) that one of these architects has been asked to begin work on…
Allenwood Tidy Towns had a very positive AGM last night, as we reviewed all the work that we’ve been doing in the last year. We are very aware of the massive support from the community for our work and we hope that as we continue to make progress on multiple areas around the village that…
Our daughter is starting Junior Infants in Allenwood this August and we are delighted to hear the update yesterday by Martin Heydon T.D. that the girls and boys schools will be amalgamated in time for the new school year. I was at the Parents Association meeting where the very productive committee, led by Chairperson Brenda…
My thanks to all those that attended the public meeting in Allenwood GAA Hall yesterday evening. It was great to have the support of Martin Heydon T.D., Cllr. Mark Stafford, Cllr. Murty Aspell and the Chairperson of ACDAL Richard Pearle. I’ve linked the presentation I gave here: Allenwood Playground Presentation At the meeting we took names…
I’ve been gathering information on the stalled project to build a playground in Allenwood. I am now in a position to share the information and make a suggestion to the community on how we can proceed with this project. On 15th June, I will be hosting a public meeting in Allenwood GAA Hall where I…