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December 20 & 27, 2012 Find us on

Month XX, 2012 Blanchardstown • Blakestown • Hartstown • Coolmine • Tyrrelstown • Dunboyne • Corduff • Mulhuddart • Ongar

INSIDE: Look back on 2012 with our News Review of the Year P25-33

charity: Luttrellstown hosts benefit evening for St Francis Hospice Pages 6-7

Game for a laugh: ITB age-friendly initiative a winner Soccer:

Stunning View second half spell wins D15 derby Page 38

MARIE Cummins from Coolmine and

Anne Flanagan looked set to teach ITB sports management student Luke Philpott a thing or two about health and fitness when the college celebrated their Age Friendly County Strategy, a collaboration with Fingal County Council. Older adult groups attended classes in ITB for the past 12 weeks, as part of the fitness, health and wellbeing programme. Picture: Andres Poveda

Football:

Castleknock into All-Ireland semi-finals Page 39

ALSOINSIDE: GALLERIES............. 6-7, 10 DUBLIN LIFE....................11 OUT&ABOUT...................17 CLASSIFIEDS.................34 SPORT............................35

Early Christmas gift for local sports club Hartstown/ Huntstown FC gets €10k to replace damaged facilities

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A local football club which lost its changing rooms during the summer following an arson attack has received funding to acquire new facilities.

Hartstown/Huntstown Football Club has been allocated €10,000 by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Frances Fitzgerald, under the Lottery Grant Funding for Youth Affairs.

Five hundred children play regularly with the club but it has not had dedicated changing facilities since the summer when its facilities were destroyed in a fire. Local Minister Leo Var-

adkar said: “This is great n e w s f o r H a r t s t ow n / Huntstown FC. This new funding will help the club to get its new changing rooms and club facilities up and running in the New Year.”


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