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December 8, 2011
FESTIVAL: Getting ready for Dun Laoghaire’s Christmas bash Page 6
Delight on plan for new all-Irish college Q NATALIE BURKE
PLANS for a new Gaelcholaiste in the Dublin South area have been warmly welcomed this week. It has been proposed that the new Gaelcholaiste will be established at the existing VEC premises on Sydenham Road, Dundrum, with Fine Gael TD, Olivia Mitchell, welcoming the news. “I am delighted that the Department has responded to
the growing demand for Irish language schools in the Dublin South area by identifying a need for a Gaelcholaiste in the Ballinteer and Stepaside area,” said Mitchell, following a public meeting held by Co. Dublin VEC and Gaelcholaiste Dheisceart Atha Cliath. Mitchell went on to say that the site makes “perfect sense from a financial and efficiency point of view”. Full Story on Page 4
Insight: 300 years of Mount Merrion and its people THERE was a huge turnout for the
official launch by local historian James McGuire of the Mount Merrion Committee’s new book, Mount Merrion 300. Many people, including Nollaig Downing and Alice Smyth
(above) turned up to Monk Gibbon Hall and eagerly looked through the book for photos of themselves or family, or their properties in the glossy, full-colour hardback. Full Gallery on Pages 8-9