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Blanchardstown • Blakestown • Hartstown • Coolmine • Tyrrelstown • Dunboyne • Corduff • Mulhuddart • Ongar Month XX, 2012
INSIDE: Back to school for former pupils as Coolmine CS celebrates 40 years P6
tsunami aid: Local school’s boat gift puts villagers back on track See Page 5
Picture perfect: Trophy given in memory of Tom in memory of the founder of St Brigid’s
Football:
St Brigid’s run as county champs ends Page 31
Soccer:
Fledgling Dublin 15 club in top class AUL form Page 30
ALSOINSIDE: GALLERIES.......................6 DUBLIN LIFE....................11 OUT&ABOUT...................17 CLASSIFIEDS.................26 SPORT............................27
Photography Group,the late Tom Shanahan, Fingal County Council has offered the group a magnificent trophy. The bronze sculpture of a stag symbolises Tom’s connection with Phoenix Park and was given to the winner of the best photograph in this year’s annual Tom Shanahan Photography Competition. Pictured at the event are competition winners Derek Byrne, Tony McIntyre and Susan Gavin with Mayor of Fingal, Cllr Cian O’Callaghan (Lab) and competition judge Mark Sedgwick.
Shock over road crash deaths in Hartstown Two young men perish as their vehicle goes off road and crashes into tree
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There is shock and sadness among the local community this week following the death of two young men in a single vehicle car
crash in Hartstown. In the early hours of Monday morning [October 22] at around 4.15am, two young men, named locally as 21-year-old Dean Cullen from Clonsilla and 24-year-
old Simon Hand from Huntstown, were travelling on Hartstown Road when the car they were travelling in veered off the road, crashing into a tree. Dean, a passenger in
the car, died at the scene, while Simon, the driver of the car, was brought to Connolly Hospital were he passed away a short time later. Full Story on Page 4