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INSIDE: Humanities’ Week under way at IT Blanch P6
May 5, 2011
CABLE GUY: Leo Varadkar and team on local clean-up mission: See Page 2
Charity Bell: D15 bar comes up trumps THE BELL, in Blanchardstown,
Football: Local ladies aiming for Division 2 crown Page 32
celebrated the success of their wax or shave campaign in aid of cystic fibrosis recently when the local bar raised a whopping €14,491 for the charity. Pictured presenting the cheque are Gardai Michael Parry-Jones and Sinead Swan with Barry Horgan, Martin Cahill, of the Cystic Fibrosis Association (CFA), and Mia and Rebecca Horgan. Full Story on Page 5
Sports Awards: Esteemed April winners are announced Page 29
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Call for action on ‘war zone’ sites Council urged to make developers clean up their act
Q LAURA WEBB
DERELICT sites at unfinished residential developments across Dublin 15 have been described as resembling “war zones”, with local politicians urging Fingal County Council to force developers to “clean up” abandoned sites.
At a council meeting this week, Socialist Party councillor Matt Waine will press FCC to “take action” on abandoned and uncompleted residential developments in D15. Councillor Waine said he visited a number of unfinished developments and “could not believe the state” the sites are
in. “The rubble and other construction waste discarded on these sites make the area look like a war zone,” he said. He said he now wants the council to actively move to force developers to “return these sites to an acceptable level of care”. Full Story on Page 3