Clondalkin GAZET TE FREE
YOUR COMMUNITY • YOUR PAPER
INSIDE: Local girl helps make the big match an event to remember P4
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September mb 22, 2011
BRIDE & GROOM: Essential reading
for the blushing bride-to-be P17-23
Giving Kevin the Blues: School’s party for star PUPILS and fellow staff at Adam-
Sam’s back: Dublin finally reclaims the mighty Maguire Pages 29 and 32
stown Community College decided to teach Kevin Nolan a thing or two about pre-match parties when they held a good-luck celebration for the Dublin player ahead of the county’s All-Ireland final. Perhaps buoyed on by their good wishes, Kevin, a PE and science teacher at the school, went on to be a key player, and was awarded Man of the Match for his superb skills. See story on Page 3
Decisive win: Peamount Utd start DDSL U-12 season in style Page 30
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Millionaire’s funds for local charities Total of €40,000 Q PAUL HOSFORD
donation hailed in ‘Secret’ show
LOCAL charities were left celebrating this week after they received a vitally-needed boost when Secret Millionaire, John Concannon, made a combined donation of €40,000 to them. The charities, Pieta House,
Clondalkin Carers and St Mark’s Rangers, were given the money in February, but the airing of RTE’s Secret Millionaire show last Monday made the news public. Among those Concannon met were John Quinn, from Pieta House, the suicide prevention charity, who said that,
quite simply, the money was a lifesaver. “The €25,000 saves 25 lives. It’s that simple. We worked out that it costs €1,000 to put someone through counselling in Pieta, and that’s the bottom line. The money saves lives,” said Quinn. Full Story on Page 5