The County Kildare Heritage Office is now accepting applications for Heritage Grants. Projects must benefit the community and can be related to monuments, archaeological objects, heritage objects, architectural heritage, flora, fauna, wildlife habitats, geology, heritage gardens, parks, and inland waterways. Some ideas to think about for your area are the creation of a wildflower meadow, carrying out…
Tag: Local Issues
Just back from a walk around Ticknevin and the old Lullymore Briquette Factory. I am delighted to see that work has started on the new walk and cycle way along the edge of the site. Myself and Cllr. Daragh Fitzpatrick met out here last year, with a representative from Bord na Móna, to seek assurances…
Delighted to meet Santa and the Santa Truck crew this evening before they head off to spread some Christmas cheer to more local communities. You can check out their schedule at https://www.facebook.com/SantaTruckIreland Please support the team with their excellent fund raising effort for LauraLynn by donating at https://idonate.ie/santatruck Thanks to Debbie, Tony, Noel and all the team for all…
I was delighted to welcome Colm Markey MEP to Allenwood yesterday to show him around the village and bring him up to date on local issues in West Kildare before he heads back to the European Parliament. We took the opportunity to wish the best of luck to Trasa and Sinead, staff of Blake’s Pharmacy, in their new…
This week is Kildare Climate and Energy Week and there are some good events taking place in-person and online over the next few days. There are a couple of talks featuring peatlands which I am interested in myself, but there is something for everyone. Check out the full list of events and register at https://kildare.ie/…/Clima…/KildareClimateandEnergyWeek/
If you are living in Ireland and over 18, or will be 18 on February 15th 2022, then you can register to vote now by FREEPOST, without needing a Garda witness. Simply print out and fill in the form at https://b-wy.se/voting-form and send it to: Kildare County Council Áras Chill Dara Devoy Park FREEPOST Naas…
The disgraceful and disrespectful littering around the picnic benches at Allenwood Cross has to stop. There are two bins kindly provided by Texaco Spar Allenwood just beside the area. It is inexcusable that this is happening when bins are available. A minority are abusing the benches provided for the community by Allenwood Tidy Towns and paid for by money…
It is very disappointing to see the recently broken windows in the prefab in Derrinturn Community Garden, after all the work done to secure the area with new fencing. I wrote yesterday to Superintendent Curley in the Garda District HQ in Leixlip asking for more patrols around St. Conleth’s National School and the Community Garden…
A few months back, I wrote about the damage that was done at Derrinturn Community Garden and how I was going to work with the volunteers involved to make it more secure. In April, we secured funding of €6,550 from a Local Property Tax fund for Community Gardens & Markets, to install a fence around…
Fresh new car park for Broadford Church and National School with thanks to our Clane Maynooth Area Engineer and his team. I was very happy to work with Broadford Area Residents Association to request the allocation of €1,500 from Local Property Tax to get this done.