Following on from our success on Culture Night, Allen Area Historical & Heritage group held a very popular photo exhibition in Glennons of Allenwood last week. We now have a nice collection of over 600 photographs donated from all around Allen Parish covering a wide range of the history of the parish. Thanks to all…
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Clane will receive funding to prepare a Town Centre Plan under the the Government’s Town Centre First Policy. One of the first steps is a short survey which residents and people from the surrounding areas are being asked to complete. Please take a few minutes to give your feedback on the services in Clane and…
Lullymore Graveyard is maintained by the local community with support from the Doyle family, and always looks well. It is located on the site of an historic monastic settlement, which was known as Lilcach. An ideal location, as it was surrounded by the Bog of Allen on all sides. Some of the stone slabs from…
This year’s Culture Night event by Allen Area Historical & Heritage group will be held in Allenwood and will celebrate the culture and history of the village. All are welcome to attend what will be a very interesting night with lots of live interviews, music and poetry by residents of Allenwood. It will take place…
Well done to the Oakwood Park Residents Association on all the good work done this year in preparation for the Price in your Place competition. The children of the estate helped out with the work and they celebrated with a fun day and BBQ recently. Your estate is looking very well. Keep up the great…
I attended the Clongorey Evictions Walk last weekend, which was organised by Clongorey and District Community Association for Heritage Week. It was a great event and very well organised and informative. Well done to Cllrs. Noel Heavey & Peggy O’Dwyer and all involved. All the presenters, actors, musicians and singers were brilliant.
I was out with George from Ashgrove Residents Association at lunch time to see the new notice board that has been put up on the way into the estate. It looks really well and will keep everyone informed of the events that are being held. The community cabin has been upgraded too and is like…
We had our council meeting on the 52M barge in Robertstown last week and we took a trip down to Lowtown and back afterwards with John McNamee at the tiller. Thanks to Mayor of Kildare, Daragh Fitzpatrick for organising and to Peter Dunne and the barge team for all their work behind the scenes preparing…
Well done to Dinny and the team for organising the very successful Sunday Funday in Coill Dubh at the weekend. €4,100 was raised for Relay For Life Kildare and the Irish Cancer Society. I was not expecting to be hauled into a tug-of-war in my good clothes though by Dag Kelly. Best of luck to…
Grace’s Park in Derrinturn is now taken in charge by Kildare County Council, following agreement at our council meeting today. It has taken some time to get it up to the necessary standard but this work been supported by all councillors throughout. Well done to the residents who got organised and made the request to…