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Opinion: Sr Stan launches an appeal for Focus Ireland as housing crisis worsens Page 12

Gallery: Revised heritage book marks the legacy of our period buildings Page 14

December 3-9, 2015

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memorable day for the pupils at our lady’s

MEMBERS of the Air Corps, Lieutenant Paul McDermott and Flight Sergeant Ollie McKeown, were warmly welcomed at Our Lady’s Clonskeagh Parish NS recently by principal Gerard Heneghan, staff and pupils, where the corps members presented a Tricolour flag and a copy of the Proclamation.

Reema Alzahiani and Nikola Jamicka were happy to be part of the ceremony at their school, where pupils were encouraged to write their own proclamation, what they would like to happen and see change in Ireland.

Teacher Aoife Kilbane played the pipes to lead the dignitaries to and from the hall, lending a great sense of occasion.

Picture: Geraldine Woods

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Two men get jail terms for ‘savage’ attack on cyclist Victim punched in face, then attacked by second man when defending himself

A SECOND year engineering student and an apprentice electrician have been jailed for a “savage” attack on a passing cyclist.

Kenneth Valentine (27) punched the cyclist in the face and Richard McCudden (24) joined in with the

beating when the man tried to protect himself.

Valentine, an electrical engineering student of Rosemount Glade, Dundrum, and McCudden, an apprentice electrician of Nutgrove Avenue, Rathfarnham, pleaded guilty at Dub-

lin Circuit Criminal Court to assaulting Mr Darren Molloy, causing him harm at Dundrum Road on November 20, 2013.

The men also pleaded guilty to damaging the front passenger window of a taxi on Churchtown Road

Lower, Churchtown, on the same date.

Judge Martin Nolan jailed Valentine for 14 months and McCudden for eight months, as he had a lesser role in what the judge described as a “savage” attack.

Full Story on Page 8

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politics | senator, councillor argue over jobs-focused campaign

FF slam FG over ‘knee-jerk’ claims A WAR of words has erupted between a Fianna Fail senator and Fine Gael councillor from the Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown constituency over what has been described as a “misleading antiGovernment campaign”.

Cllr Neale Richmond (FG) has slammed Senator and General Election hopeful Mary White (FF) for her campaign, entitled Where Are The Jobs?

In a damning criticism, he said: “Senator White has festooned DublinRathdown with bright pink posters for her latest public meeting, this time asking: ‘Where are the jobs?’

“Well, I can tell Sena-

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tor White that there are more than 200 positions available locally, with many more opportunities emerging every week.”

Senator White fought back, dismissing Cllr Richmond’s “knee- jerk” claims as “defensive” and “petty”.

She told The Gazette: “I’m afraid Cllr Richmond has been too hasty in interpreting my forthcoming public meeting, Where are the jobs?, as

anti-Government.”

Discussing her campaign, Senator White insistes that Cllr Richmond’s reaction was based on his premature view of the idea behind it.

Cllr Richmond criticised Senator White’s research of the local job vacancies, saying: “As a successful businesswoman, I would have expected Senator White to know the signs of economic recovery and to be able to appreciate the new-found positivity in the Irish jobs market.”

He added: “Locally, there are dozens of vacancies currently available in both Dun-

drum Town Centre and The Park, Carrickmines, for those wanting to work in the retail sector.

“Furthermore, there are 55 positions available in Microsoft at their Sandyford offices; there are 30 positions available in the Beacon Hospital; there are 28 positions available in Vodafone at their Leopardstown base; there are 15 positions available at Car Trawler in Dundrum; there are 11 positions available in Bank of America, also in Sandyford.”

In a direct response, Senator White said: “I am organising the meeting in response to feedback from parents and young people who are pleased that the economy is recovering and jobs are being created, but are not sure where the jobs are, what sectors they are in

Senator Mary White (FF) and Cllr Neale Richmond (FG) – at odds over different intrepretations of jobs, growth and employment in the area

and how they can have a chance of getting those jobs.

“My aim is to provide more information and detail than a simplistic listing of jobs in the area.”

She said she wants to “inspire young people to keep studying for the job of their dreams on the basis that the economic

Magical Fairy tree at Marlay Park There’s a 300-yearold beech tree in Marlay Park, Rathfarnam, designed by St Michael’s House to keep the imagination of young children alive.

A wander through the park’s forest reveals a surprise within one of the trees; a small fairy door at the base of the old tree with a fairy castle perched on top.

This magical sight is part of the Art Outreach project at St Michael’s Ho u s e Te m p l e o g u e House Training centre.

The Fairy Tree in Marlay Park was an idea that

came from the Art Group at Templeogue House in St Michael’s House in 2009. Art facilitator Paul O’Hare and the team regularly use Marlay Park as a source of inspiration for social and educational purposes.

Over the past five years, over 20 people with intellectual disabilities have worked in the St Michael’s House Templeogue Training Centre creating all the additional pieces that have helped transform and maintain the tree into the popular Fairy World that it is today.

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recovery is creating jobs, and the more they know about those jobs, the better – the aim is to help with long-term academic and job goals”.

Cllr Richmond said: “I give credit to Senator White for supporting the print industry by producing so many posters about her public meeting, but running such a

misleading anti-Government campaign on an issue where real progress has been made is simply careless.”

Senator White’s public meeting, which promises advice from an “expert panel of speakers”, is in the Irish Management Institute, Sandyford at 7.30pm on Thursday, December 10.

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charity | fundraising evening to help support two hospices

health

Can you check your own pulse?

A delicious way to help raise €10,000  emma nolan

ONE of Stillorgan’s oldest butcher shops is aiming to raise €10,000 for charity by sponsoring An Evening with Rachel Allen – a delicious demo evening of food and fun in aid of the LauraLynn and Blackrock Hospices next March.

TV cook Rachel Allen dropped into Fenelon’s Butchers in Stillorgan Shopping Centre on Friday, November 20 to meet owner Clif Lenehan to help raise awareness of what promises to be a mouth-watering culinary event at the pavilion in Leopardstown Racecourse on March 2.

Joining Allen and Lenehan were fundraising directors Eleanor Flew,

from the Blackrock Hospice, and Sarah Meagher from LauraLynn children’s hospice.

The evening will also feature TV3 presenter Anna Daly as master of ceremonies, as well as local artisan food and craft stalls.

Speaking about the event, Allen said: “I will be showing how to cook some of my favourite seasonal dishes and, hopefully, we’ll also have plenty of fun along the way.

“The Lauralynn and the Blackrock Hospices do wonderful work and I am very pleased to be involved with Fenelon’s in helping to raise much needed funds to help them continue the outstanding care and support they provide to patients

and their loved ones.”

Established in 1966, F e n e l o n ’s B u t c h e r s employs 16 staff in its Stillorgan Shopping Centre store. Owner Clif Lenehan started work in Fenelon’s in his teens, and took over the business in 2007.

He said: “50 years in business is a major milestone and I wanted to celebrate by giving something back to our local community.

“I’m over the moon that Rachel is headlining this very special fundraising event. The tickets are now available in plenty of time to make a fabulous Christmas present or stocking filler for anyone looking for ideas.”

Tickets for An Evening with Rachel Allen are priced €25 each.

the boss and the girls

LEINSTER rugby player Isaac Boss was delighted to meet Zara Kos, Keelin Murphy and Nicole mcDermott at LauraLynn children’s Hospice in Leopardstown recently, where a number of well-known faces joined people of all ages for a special ceremony – the official lighting of a 30-foot Christmas tree. The ceremony was a great, upbeat way to add some cheer to the hospice, which remains a cause close to the heart of the local community, as well as much further afield. As Ireland’s only children’s hospice, the LauraLynn facility provides palliative care for children with life-limiting conditions, and support for their families, making Christmas a particularly special time for all those availing of and working at the hospice.

A RECENT study conducted by Empath Research for Mater Private revealed that only one in three people in Ireland know how to correctly check their pulse.

To help teach people how to check their own pulse in order to recognise irregular patterns which can lead to strokes, the Mater Private, in conjunction with McCabe’s Pharmacy, are launching the Pulse Check initiative in Dundrum Town Centre next Tuesday, December 8.

This walk-in, pop-up event aims to teach the public to become familiar with their pulse and heart rate, and encourage regular checking so that irregularities can be discovered early on.

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crisis | sinn fein blast state’s national, local response to emergency

Empty housing units criticised

 emma nolan

CLLR Sorcha Nic Cormaic (SF) has condemned the number of vacant housing units across the council in the midst of an unprecedented housing crisis.

Responding to new figures which showed a larger number of social housing units were empty across the State than the government plan to build in 2016, Cllr Nic Cormaic said that there is no excuse for the 29 idle units in her constituency when more than 5,000 families are on waiting lists for such housing.

She said: “That there are 3,000 empty units

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across the State is a disgrace, especially when the Government plan to deliver far less than that in 2016 at the height of a housing and homelessness crisis which has 1,500 children sleeping in hotels and B&Bs.” Responding to Cllr Nic Cormaic’s statement, a representative from Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council told The

Gazette: “Every effort is made to ensure that vacant dwellings are made available for letting at the earliest possible date.

“However, various factors can affect the length of time a dwelling remains vacant.

“For the period from January 1 to August 31, the turnaround time from the date the key

[was] surrendered to the date of re-let [was an average of] 10.5 weeks.”

The representative said that the council use the opportunity of a vacant dwelling to upgrade its condition before re-letting it.

T h e s e wo r k s c a n involve the installation of new windows, rewiring, heating system upgrades/replacements, smoke alarms, attic insulation and external maintenance works, as well as internal decorative works.

Cllr Nic Cormaic also raised points on the cost of building new housing units. She said: “The average cost of refurbish-

Blackglen Road to get an upgrade The extremely narrow Backglen Road in Sandyford is finally due to be upgraded following delays in its maintenance since 2007. The road is in severe need of redevelopment as it currently lacks footpaths and cycle lanes.

Councillor Neale Richmond (FG) has welcomed new plans, he said: “This project initially received planning permission in 2007 but was shelved as the financial crisis hit home.”

The new plans for the Blackglen Road were presented to the Dundrum Area Committee. “The new plans differ from the 2007 plans including the removal of a planned roundabout at the top of Harold’s Grange Road and the inclusion of cycle lanes and tree planting.

“I hope these plans are received favourably and I look forward to seeing work begin as soon as possible.”

In response to Sinn Fein comments on vacant housing units across the region, a council spokesperson detailed the process by which such units are let

ment of a social housing unit is €18,039, according to the Department of Environment. The average cost of building a new social housing unit is more than €170,000.”

She stressed that refurbishment should remain a priority ahead of building units from scratch, and added: “Idle units

can also be a breeding ground for antisocial behaviour and crime, which only makes refurbishment and occupation more valuable as a strategy.

“We need to invest in refurbishments now with a view to ensuring that, while waiting lists are so high, no unit is

allowed to lie empty in disrepair.”

The council representative told The Gazette that 19 of the 29 vacant properties have “been accepted by eligible applicants”, with the remaining 10 on offer to applicants in accordance with the council’s allocation scheme.

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justice | concern as ibrahim halawa to turn 20 in cairo jail

Postcards to help support jailed youth  emma nolan

DUNDRUM teenager Ibrahim Halawa’s suffering in an Egyptian prison has been increased in light of the hunger strikes he has been participating in since October.

Halawa (19), son of the Imam of Clonskeagh mosque, has been held in the Egyptian jail for more than two years as part of the mass trials against 420 people who have been accused of a number of crimes including murder, attempted murder, and taking part in a banned

protest against the ousting of President Mohamed Morsi in July, 2013.

The youth was arrested for taking part in the banned protest when he was 17 years old, and has been held since awaiting trial, which has been postponed nine times.

The trial is now due to take place on December 13, two days before his twentieth birthday.

Ibrahim’s sister, Somaia, has started a postcard campaign to highlight her brother’s plight. She said: “He can’t take any more.

He hopes something can

be done before the trial.”

There are fears for the youth’s health and wellbeing following the hunger strikes.

Somaia said that her brother “lost consciousness four or five times” last week during a visit from his mother and a representative of the Department of Foreign Affairs.

The postcards are intended to let Ibrahim know he has not been forgotten, and to wish him a happy birthday. The postcards, with an Irish stamp, will be sent to him at Wadi el-Natrun prison

Dundrum youth Ibrahim Halawa, who will turn 20 in a Cairo jail on December 15, having been imprisoned for more than two years for taking part in a protest

c/o the Irish Ambassador to Egypt Damien Cole, at the Department of Foreign Affairs in Dublin.

Halawa is hoping that members of the public get behind the campaign by placing a stamp on the postcard and sending them to the Department of Foreign Affairs.

The Free Ibrahim Halawa Facebook page, run by his sisters, released a statement urging the public to send a postcard: “Anybody who wants to send Ibrahim a postcard for his twentieth birthday, they are available from the SF Shop at 58 Parnell Square, [and the] Future

Voices Office, Millennium House, Strand Street.

“Hopefully, we will have them [sent] out to the various students unions over the next few days.

The postcards are nonpolitical, but it is hoped that they will lift Ibrahim’s spirits as he faces his tenth trial date.”

education

Tanaiste at Loreto school LORETO Primary School on the Grange Road in Rathfarnham had a visit from Taniste Joan Burton last Tuesday.

She announced a major building project for Loreto Convent which sets out 310 major school building projects that are scheduled to begin construction over the next six years as part of the Government’s €2.8bn capital investment programme.

The Tanaiste said: “There was a really open, positive and friendly atmosphere in the school when I visited. In fact, the first primary school I attended was a Loreto school, where I had a very positive experience, so I’m delighted to be here in a Loreto school that’s going to get a new school building.”

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courts | men attacked a passing cyclist at dundrum road

Two jailed for ‘savage’ assault

A SECOND year engineering student and an apprentice electrician have been jailed for a “savage” attack on a passing cyclist.

Kenneth Valentine (27) punched the cyclist in the face and Richard McCudden (24) joined in with the beating when the man tried to protect himself by swinging his bike lock.

The cyclist, Darren Molloy, told gardai that he thought Valentine had wanted to know the time when he stepped onto the road and pointed to his wrist.

Valentine, an electrical engineering student of Rosemount Glade, Dun-

drum and McCudden, an apprentice electrician of Nutgrove Avenue, Rathfarnham pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to assaulting Mr Molloy, causing him harm at Dundrum Road on November 20, 2013.

The men also pleaded guilty to damaging the front passenger window of a taxi on Churchtown Road Lower, Churchtown on the same date.

Valentine has 11 previous convictions, including two assaults, and McCudden has four previous convictions.

Detective Garda Paul Corcoran told the court that the men caused €100 damage to the car

window when they started fighting each other a short time after Mr Molloy had escaped from them.

Judge Martin Nolan jailed Valentine for 14 months and McCudden for eight months, as he had a lesser role in what the judge described as a “savage” attack.

Det Gda Corcoran told Fiona McGowan BL, prosecuting, that Mr Molloy had been cycling home just before 4am when he saw Valentine step onto the road near a pub and point to his wrist.

Det Gda Corcoran said he tracked the men down through CCTV

footage and a pub owner’s description of two regular customers who had been playing darts that night.

The pub owner told gardai that Valentine had been aggressive when he’d left the premises with McCudden in the early hours of the morning.

Det Gda Corcoran agreed with Patrick Reynolds BL, defending Valentine, that his client had raised €2,000 for Mr Molloy as a gesture of remorse, and €150 for the taxi driver.

He agreed that Valentine had been co-operative with gardai and had not come to any atten-

College celebrates its fiftieth STILLORGAN College of Further Education celebrated its 50th anniversary recently.

More than 100 guests, including staff members and students past and present, attended the event on Friday, November 20, which showcased some of the work done by the students in the art, animation, multimedia, media and photography departments over the years.

A number of local politicians were also in attendance, including Deputy Peter Mathews (Ind), and councillors Pat Hand (FG) and Sorcha Nic Cormaic (SF), who are on the college’s board of management Labour TD for Dublin South and Minister for Communications, Alex White launched a commemorative booklet charting the history of the college.

Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard details of how a cylist was assaulted by a man at 4am, while a second man joined in with the beating

tion since.

The detective agreed with Justin McQuade BL, defending McCudden, that his client had raised similar amounts for both injured parties and had had a lesser role in the attack on Mr Molloy.

Mr Reynolds submitted to Judge Nolan that his client had hoped to achieve an honours degree in his subject in a couple of years. He submitted that Valentine’s uncle had died suddenly at the time of the offence, and that he had been

drinking heavily.

Mr McQuade submitted that McCudden had also been drinking heavily at the time as his father had been very sick. Both defence counsel asked the judge to take into account their clients’ guilty pleas.

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| ice skaters try their skill in centre of dundrum

Michael kealey and Bronagh Stapleton

Ivy and Eric Wang

Snow joke – fun for all at the rink

Juan Robledono, Patricio Poullet Lizaso and Juan Carlos Zaldivar. Pictures: Rose Comiskey

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HILE some people wobbled and others took to the ice like award-winning penguins, there was no denying that people were having great fun at Dundrum On Ice, which opened recently in the run-up to Christmas.

As with its sister operation

Sohie Cassidy and Jamie O’Connor

Sarah and Bronagh Ryan

on the other side of the city in Swords, the Dundrum experience welcomed completed ice-skating novices and comfortably skilled skiiers alike to the ice, set up by Dundrum Town Centre for people to try their hand – or feet – at the task.

Suitable for ages three and up, the ice-skating experience requires little more than warm clothes, gloves to help protect hands, and a willingness to give it a go, with any potential initial slip-ups just part of the fun of skating along with family, friends or the community.

Killian and David McCoy

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| students celebrate at graduation ceremony

Dr Michael Mulvey, director of academic affairs and registrar, DIT

MIchael, Hannah and Mary McGovern

Rowena, Karla and Stephen Walsh. Pictures: Geraldine Woods

Yes, we all DIT it!

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SEA of black capes fluttered around the environs of St Patrick’s Cathedral in the city centre, stirred by the movements of the excited DIT graduates and their family members and friends attending the College of Business graduation ceremony recently.

College president Brian Norton welcomed

everyone to the assembly, with the serious but upbeat proceedings marking the culmination of the collective endeavours of the students.

Afterwards, precious qualifications in protective folders to hand, the students were delighted to pose for celebratory photographs, congratulating each other on their achievements.

Colin Hughes, assistant head of school of retail and services Mark Staunton and Jack Brady

management

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opinion | ‘The human stories tell us not enough is being done’

It’s the children who suffer most from homelessness

Sr Stan makes an urgent Christmas appeal to help support the unprecedented numbers of people who are losing their homes WE ALL think about our home at Christmas.

How will we celebrate this special time of year with our family and friends?

It’s the one time of year that people living away always make that special journey home to spend with their loved ones.

It’s hard to imagine as you read this that there are many parents actually dreading Christmas like a nightmare, as they are homeless Sadly, this is true for more than 800 families and 1,500 children who do not have a place to call home as they are homeless.

One mother told me how she can’t wait for the festive period to be over. She said: “I hate having to spend another day seeing my two young children homeless, stuck living in one little hotel room for the past eight months. It breaks my heart.”

The harsh reality is that, as you read this, at least two families lost their home today. More single people will also become homeless.

I have never seen it so bad. These families live under terrible stress, and it’s the children who suffer the most.

I wrote a piece for The Gazette this time last year, when I thought things were as bad as they would ever get.

Sadly, since then – despite all the good work being done by many – the homeless crisis has deepened to an emergency

situation as the number of children and families homeless in Dublin has doubled in a year.

The major change in recent years has been the fact that many families and individuals are now losing their homes and becoming homeless purely for economic reasons.

At least two families lose their homes every day in Dublin alone, and the key reason is that they can’t afford their rent increases. The Government has taken some actions that have helped to prevent some families becoming homeless, and this is positive news.

Increasing figures However, the constant rise in the number of people losing their homes every month, and the human stories behind these increasing figures tell us that not enough is being done.

Rents have shot up by between 30 to 40% across Dublin over the past three years. Many people can’t manage, as rent supplement is too low. They end up getting in to debt and losing their homes.

Let us be clear on this: the Government has the power to prevent more children and people becoming homeless.

They must raise the rent supplement to match market rents. The Government has taken some actions that have helped to prevent some families becoming homeless, and this is positive news.

Focus Ireland’s fam-

Focus Ireland (FI) founder Sr Stan with FI family team manager Roisin McDonnell and her daughter, Feile, launching the charity’s Christmas Appeal outside Government buildings. Picture: Robbie Reynolds

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‘With 70 to 80 families becoming homeless every month, the need for our services has never been greater’ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

ily team supports families and children who are homeless and works to help them secure a home.

Our team helps 15 to 20 families to secure a home each month (often in co-operation with local authorities and other NGOs), but with 70

to 80 families becoming homeless every month, the need for our services has never been greater.

There are also many people struggling to pay their mortgages, and the Government must take a firm hand with the banks and financial institutions to ensure we do not see

the avalanche of repossessions of family homes that many have warned about.

Focus Ireland is working hard to help these people who are at risk of homelessness, and we depend on the generous support of the public and businesses to help keep our lifeline support and prevention services there for people when they need support.

I am asking people to please give what they can afford to support

our urgent Christmas appeal.

People can donate at www.focusireland.ie, or call 1850 204 205. We need your support more than ever, as we have seen a 44% increase in the numbers seeking our help, from 8,000 to 11,500 people last year.

This year is Focus Ireland’s 30th anniversary.

Our work has touched many thousands of lives since 1985, and continues to do so today.

You can help to play

a part in helping more people to make the journey home by supporting our work.

Sr Stanislaus Kennedy Life president and founder, Focus Ireland

Editor’s Note: If you are worried about your housing situation or becoming homeless, contact Focus Ireland at www.focusireland. ie, or telephone 01 671 2555.

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Some residents at the privately owned Levmoss Park complex at The Gallops in Leopardstown were left without water for several days after Irish Water contractors allegedly began installing water meters – however, the utility said no such work had been undertaken in the area at the time

WORKS | utility deny claims it was behind shutting off of service at complex

Anger wells up as water is cut off

 emma nolan

IRISH Water allegedly left several families from the privately owned Levmoss Park complex at The Gallops in Leopardstown without their water supply last Friday when the utility’s contractors began installing water meters without permission from residents or property management company, Savills.

Having been denied permission to continue the works, the contractors left the site, but allegedly failed to switch the main water supply to the complex back on.

Resident Doville Bitiaute told The Gazette that her water was switched off from Wednesday, November 25 to Saturday 28.

As she and her husband were not home when the water was initially switched off, the contractors didn’t check if their water was switched on

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‘There was confusion surrounding the lack of water as many residents called plumbers to their homes’

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before leaving, so they arrived home to no water – her neighbours informed her that Irish Water workers had been carrying out work in the estate.

However, Irish Water has denied this.

She said: “Usually our management company notifies us about works that are being carried out, and we always comply, but we had no notice about this and we came home to no water.”

Bitiaute lives with her husband and two children under the age of

three who have been sick for the last week, and not having any water during this time made it even more difficult for her to look after them, she says.

She added her water was eventually switched back on when the council intervened on Saturday morning: “It took them two seconds to sort it out.

“I had to go to our neighbours to get buckets of water so I could wash my kids, and we bought drinking water from the shop.”

Irish Water incurred strong criticism for their handling of the incident

by Cllr Sorcha Nic Cormaic (SF), who is calling on the utility to apologise for the situation.

Condemning the company’s “incompetence”, she said: “I’m calling on Irish Water to apologise to the residents of Levmoss, who lost their water supply, and to reimburse

residents who incurred costs as a result of their mistake.”

There was confusion surrounding the lack of water, as many residents, including Bitiaute, called plumbers to their homes, not realising that the issue was external and solely due to Irish Water workers allegedly switching off the mains.

When contacted by The Gazette, an Irish Water spokesperson said: “Irish Water did not carry out any metering works at Levmoss last week.

“The utility had planned to do so, but due to health and safety concerns these did not go ahead.

“Contractors were on site but did not carry out any works. These planned works have now been rescheduled.

“Irish Water (nor contractors working on behalf of Irish Water) did not turn off the water on this estate.”

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| heritage book launched at dublin castle

Joyce MacHale with Lee and Noreen Motherway

A new chapter in our period houses’ lives

Author Frank Keohane with Dublin Civic Trust chief executive Geraldine Walsh and Senator David Norris. Pictures: Rose Comiskey

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ENATOR David Norris was a fine choice to launch Dublin Civic Trust’s flagship publication, Irish Period Houses – A Conservation Guidance Manual at Dublin Castle recently.

With his passion for architecture and the city’s rich heritage, Senator

Norris highly praised the book, which is a complete revision of the previous edition of the book, Period Houses, printed in 2001.

The new edition, undertaken by the same author – conservation surveyor Frank Keohane – greatly widens the scope of the manual, with a com-

prehensive array of new topics now covering all of Ireland, with Ireland’s distinctive period houses given great attention. Irish Period Houses is available to buy directly from Dublin Civic Trust at www.dublincivictrust.ie, priced €45 (€54 with P&P), and many good bookshops nationwide.

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Aisling Dunne and Livia Hurley

Liam Boylan and Katrina Bouchier

Adam Browne, Stephan Farrell and Graham Hickey

Danielle O’Donovan

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dublinlife

the big interview

tommy bowe: Ireland and Ulster rugby winger

On the ball with some thoughts of playing for Ireland and his life beyond sport  emma nolan

AFTER sustaining a serious knee injury in one of the Irish rugby team’s most important games, to date, at the recent Rugby World Cup, Ireland and Ulster winger Tommy Bowe is making a swift recovery and is hopeful he will be better in time to play at the Six Nations early next year.

In a match that saw the team’s World Cup run come to an end, Bowe tore a ligament in his knee, requiring surgery.

He says: “I’m four weeks after having surgery on my knee and so far the recovery is going very well, although it’s kind of a slow process.

“The first couple of months is about just letting it heal, so I can’t really do a whole pile at the minute.”

Though he’s currently on crutches, he’s still training every day: “The first two weeks after the operation I was at home, bored out of my mind, so it’s nice to be back doing a bit of physio and weights to keep active.”

With a few of his teammates injured for the Argentina match, he admits it was tough going into the game without them.

“We put in so much hard work and effort to get ourselves to the World Cup, so to pick up an

injury then was very difficult.”

Bowe is hopeful he’ll be recovered in time for the Six Nations next year, but he is being realistic: “To be honest with you, I’d be doing very well to be back in time, but who knows?”

Getting back into the game without captain Paul O’Connell will “take some getting used to,” he tells The Gazette.

He compares his departure to when former captain Brian O’Driscoll finished up: “It’s always going to be difficult to have such an influential person that’s been in the squad for over 10 years leave, but that’s the nature of sport – people move on pretty quickly.

Opportunity “But we were able to move on from Brian and I’m sure with Paulie gone, it will give an opportunity for new guys to come in and fill that hole.”

T he recent terror attacks in Paris, some of which occurred at the Stade de France during a match, shocked Bowe, particularly as a fellow sportsman.

“With everything that was going on in Paris, I know there were quite a few rugby teams over there at the time – it was scary, it was unthinkable.

“You don’t expect that sort of thing to happen; the response from fellow

teams was incredible and a huge sign of solidarity.”

Speaking on life as a newlywed, Bowe says it’s been great: “The first couple of months were pretty crazy, but it’s so nice to be back home and back to normality, and to have a new wife!”

Post-grad diplomas Bowe tells The Gazette how he and fellow Ulster player, Andrew Trimble, recently got their postgrad diplomas in business management from the Hibernia College at the University of London.

“It took us three years to finish it – I thought it was never going to happen, but I was delighted to go and get my certificate.”

Although he reckons that’s the end of his studying days, he says that it’s nice to achieve something he can focus on when he finishes his rugby career.

His other ventures – XV Kings Clothing, and Lloyd and Pryce Shoes – have been growing steadily since they started in 2013.

“The feedback has been brilliant; even to hear that the rugby lads are going out and buying it for themselves and for Christmas presents is a huge compliment.

“It’s nice to have something outside of rugby, learning about selling and designing. It’s off the wall, compared to all the rugby

stuff I do every day.”

At the moment, he’s taking on a Subway campaign and visiting school sports teams for a Train with Tommy day, where he trains and gives talks to the teams on nutrition, sports and staying active.

“I’m delighted to get to meet these young players and answer any questions they have,” he says.

Tommy Bowe and SUBWAY franchisee Mark Ryan at St Mac Dara’s Community College, Templeogue – the Leinster winner of the SUBWAY chain’s #TrainwithTommy competition, which offered the chance to win a training session with Bowe, €1,000-worth of rugby gear for the school, lunch courtesy of their local SUBWAY in Applegreen, Knocklyon Road and a team picture with Bowe. Picture: David Maher/Sportsfile

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Budding bakers needed to bake in aid of charity The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (ISPCC) recently launched its Christmas Holly Appeal and are calling on budding bakers to host a bake sale in aid of the charity.

Holly Carpenter, who launched the campaign, is calling on the nation

to join her in supporting their Christmas Fundraising appeal #NoSilentNight.

The campaign aims to run these fundraising initiatives to raise much-needed funds and to highlight the difficulties many children face at Christmas time.

In addition, ISPCC will be selling their annual Holly Badges throughout the country for €2 in early December and are looking for people to buy the badge and wear it with pride to show their support for every child in Ireland.

For more information

on how you can help and on all the fundraising activities running throughout the festive season, visit www.ispcc. ie.

top culinary student chefs The search is on to find Ireland’s top culinary student chefs. The KNORR Student Chef of the Year, now its 19th year, is open to the very best student chefs from culinary colleges across the island of Ireland.

KNORR Student Chef of the Year is the biggest competition of its kind in Ireland and allows up-and-coming student chefs to showcase their talent, love of food, creativity and innovation in front of some of Ireland’s leading food professionals.

This year students are being challenged to create a starter using sustainable Irish seafood and a main course celebrating Irish venison.

Students must demonstrate an understanding of the challenges of culinary sustainability, incorporating food waste management and allergen awareness.

T he 2016 KNORR Student Chef of the Year competition is open to second year students from participating catering colleges, training centres and Institutes of Technology.

Deadline for entries is Friday, January 22.

Holly Carpenter is calling on the nation to join her for ISPCC’s Christmas Holly Appeal and help to ensure that there is #NoSilentNight in Childline. Picture: Robbie Reynolds

For more information, see www.unileverfoodsolutions.ie/knorrstudentchef.

retained a dancefloor space that will hopefully continue to book great music acts.

across the country are offering free soft drinks for the designated drivers on nights out

Wigwam Bar open for business

promoting safe driving practices

biggest Christmas market yet

One of the latest additions to Dublin’s nightlife scene is Bodytonic’s Wigwam Bar. Located at the old Twisted Pepper premises, the new venue offers a slightly more mature night out than its predecessor, boasting an extensive range of the best beers, spirits, wines and coffee from around the world.

The interior has been extended to facilitate a table service restaurant with a menu from Chef Pedro that is inspired by his Brazillian roots, Italian training and Irish home.

Ser ving breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, Dublin’s newest hotspot also houses the popular Vice Coffee and Boxcutter Barbershop.

Not straying too far from its roots however, the famed basement, though much less grimy than it used to be, has

Minister for Transport Tourism and Sport Paschal Donohoe, has officially launched CocaCola’s Christmas Jumper Car campaign which promotes responsible and safe driving practices using designated drivers during the party season.

Ambassadors Vogue Williams and Northern Ireland comedian Shane Todd are celebrating the designated drivers across the county who stick to water or soft drinks on nights out to ensure their friends and family get home safely.

Nominations from families, friends and bar staff are accepted via www.DesignatedDriver. ie and a winning driver from each province will get a surprise visit from the Christmas Jumper Car with a boot jam-packed full of prizes.

To further promote road safety, participating pubs and restaurants

The Dublin Christmas Cracker Flea Market at Newmarket Co-op has become a tradition for many Dubliner’s at this time of year for both shoppers and traders, and is the place to go for all unique stocking filler needs.

This year the Flea is moving to the disused Old John Player Wills Factory on South Circular road to facilitate its biggest market yet – with over 100 market traders, food stalls and music all housed under the one roof.

Organisers have always deemed the event, which is taking place the weekend of December 11 to 13, as “more than just a market” but a gathering of like-minded people, friends and bargain hunters with the best selection of design, craft, vintage, second hand, upcycled, downcycled, and handmade gifts for Christmas.

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theatre: musical interpretation at the project arts centre adapts joyce’s classic

Bringing The Dead to operatic life  Keith Bellew

AN OPERATIC interpretation of James Joyce’s The Dead is set for its world premiere at the Project Arts Centre, with six performances from December 9 to 12.

For those who are not familiar with the story, it is centred around a married couple, Gretta and Gabriel, who go to a Christmas party at the house of the husband’s elderly aunts, Julia and Kate.

The tale, which was hailed by TS Eliot as “one of greatest short stories ever written”, and “just about the finest short story

in the English language” by the New York Times, explores the themes of life, love and death.

This new version was adapted by acclaimed Irish composer Ellen Cranitch and awardwinning playwright Tom Swift, and taps into the deep vein of musical references running through the original story.

Speaking to The Gazette, director Jo Mangan said that the show is not overly complex, but is very accessible and enjoyable. She described it as operatic in “a beautiful, almost Sunday afternoonkind of way”.

While the story itself is quite melancholic, it has many humorous moments, and Mangan says that the cast make full use of these to provide some comic relief.

“Julia and Kate’s characters are great fun, so Ruth McGill and Clare Barrett are playing them and they’re great comic actresses. They’re milking every bit of comedy out of it.

“It’s great comedy written by Joyce, and then adapted by Tom Swift, and then by adding in a couple of fantastic actors it really kind of pulls [all the comedy] out.

“I would say Kate and Julia are our main comic relief, but then there’s also a great character – Millie, the maid,” she said.

She said that all of the comedic goings on are leading up to the moment at the end of the night when Gabriel’s wife, Gretta, tells him that she had loved another man before him who died, and infers that she loved that man more than she could ever love him.

“That, for me, is the high point of the whole piece; everything else is sort of working towards that moment. It allows you to look at those two charac-

ters from the beginning.

“Gretta is quite separate from a lot of the action, but [in this adaption] she is doing a bit of narrating herself, and we have framed it so it is kind of Gretta’s story all the way through,” said Mangan.

She said this gives their piece a different thrust to other adaptations, and it allows Gretta to step in and out of the action from time to time, which is useful as the cast comprises just four actors.

Tickets are on sale now from the Project Arts Centre Box Office, and online at http://projectartscentre.ie/event/dead-2/.

Actress Ruth McGill – one of the reduced but highly talented cast members starring in the production

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TRAVEL OUT&ABOUT fast TRAVEL NEWS Seize the day and enjoy the City of Lights visiting paris: standing in solidarity with Parisians

 Yvette Dolan-Collins

Journalist living in Paris

Alongside fantastic natural beauty, Malta is home to a fascinating blend of cultures and rich heritage

Make Malta your place for a winter getaway Escape the cold, grey skies of Ireland this January by jetting away to sunny Malta for the perfect winter getaway. There is no better place to recover from the hectic Christmas period and to escape the January blues as this magical paradise has everything holidaymakers could possibly want.

It’s not too late to plan your trip and there are some fantastic deals on offer at this time of year.

With Budget Travel, you can depart on January 3 and stay at the 3-Star San Pawl Hotel, St Paul’s Bay for €289 per person. Alternatively, you can depart on January 5 and stay at the 4-Star Park Hotel, Sliema (B&B) for €249 per person.

With Mercury Direct you can stay seven nights at the 3-Star Panorama Hotel, Mellieha, departing on the January 5 for €358pp. Alternatively, you can jet off on January 26 and stay seven nights at the 3-Star Porto Azzurro, Xemxija Bay for €333pp.

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Hemingway’s memoir of Paris in the 1920s, A Moveable Feast, is in French so aptly entitled Paris est une Fete (Paris is a Party). The party is far from over, but for a time on the weekend following the recent barbaric terrorist attacks, the City of Lights was plunged into darkness.

The most often quoted line from Hemingway’s book is “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast”.

Having just moved to the countryside of southern France after seven abundant years living in the the French capital, I know that these words still hold true today.

Although happy as a clam in my new sylvan setting, I will always have an itch to go back.

A proviso of my departure from my urban perch was that the new ‘chez nous’ would have to be within a short distance of the dedicated train station for the high-speed train, Le TGV. I know that a regular fix of Paris is vital to me and my vital organs.

As I sit in my kitchen and think about the city that usually spakles, I ponder on whether it has lost its glow. Yesterday my friend Emmanuelle, 40, who works in the music industry, emailed me with news of her weekend, the second since the heinous terrorist attacks

were carried out on Paris.

Although grief is still very raw and palpable, she said, ‘Parisians are making it a ‘point d’honneur’ (a point of honour) to go out, to fill cafes and restaurants. It’s as though, by this refusal to accept the terror, La Resistance Française has been reincarnated.

In the same spirit, last week an ensemble of high profile personalities from the French cultural scene coined the rousing slogan ‘Paris, France, Le Monde, Debout!’ (Paris, France, The World, Stand Up!).

This ‘élan patriotique’, or recent resurgence in patriotism is essential in order to ‘keep calm and carry on’ in the face of the uncertainty left in the wake of the terrorist attacks.

Despite the serious infraction inflicted on French Homeland Security, the French, and Parisians in particular, will not allow their ‘art de vivre’, or lifestyle, be compromised. Nor should you compromise your plans to visit Paris.

L a s t we e ke n d I received an email from a discount travel website offering luxury city breaks in Paris, discounted 70%. An indication no doubt of the fall-off in sales, combined, no doubt, with cancellations, owing to fear following the terrorist attacks. An opportunist might say it’s the ideal time to travel to Paris, stay in an top hotel and dine at a Michelin Star restaurant, all at a fraction of the usual going rate.

If only one could grasp

Yvette Dolan-Collins grew up in Dublin but spent the last seven years living in Paris, in the 11th arrondissement, just metres from the recent atrocities and the January attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine occurred

a crystal ball and gaze deep into it, one could plan life in such a way as to avoid all mishap, misfortune and sadness.

Alas that’s not possible.

Instead we can visit Paris, with Versailles Palace and its ever luminous crystalcut mirrors. A myriad of other marvels also cry out for attention in the French capital.

Something as simple as a ride on a local bus is a visual feast. Traversing the city from the bobo 11th Arrondissement to the chic quarter of St Germain fills me to the brim with Paris and its beauty.

The No 96 is my favourite route.

Le Champs Elysees is all-a-sparkle in the run up

to the festive season. Its Christmas market chalets sell all kinds of gourmet goodies which make perfect presents and stocking fillers.

A visit to the Pantheon, sitting as it does like a sumptuous religieuse pastry upon a hill in the 5th Arrondissement overlooking all of Paris, is a preferable alternative to the overcrowded basilica of Sacre Coeur, and so awe-inspiring for all the history it exudes.

A wintry walk through crunchy fallen leaves in the Jardins de Luxembourg, followed by a meltin-your-mouth macaron from nearby Pierre Herme (beats any competitor, hands-down), is a

priceless experience.

A stroll from Place de la Bastille with its genie atop the column, along Boulevard Beaumarchais as far as Place de la Republique, is retail therapy not to be beaten.

The answer to the question of whether the City of Lights has lost its glow lies with you and me.

What the terrorists want is to divide and conquer, to cause chaos, to plant fear and loathing in the western world.

Whether to visit or not, is an agonising quandry.

My firm answer is carpe diem. All our cards lie in the hand of destiny. So go, visit Paris, and stand in solidarity with the Parisians.

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Make your own soup for a real winter boost

 yvonne sheehy

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BA (hons) Culinary Arts

‘I don’t tend to use stock cubes.If you layer your soup with herbs and spices, it will have its own flavour.’

WINTER is here and it’s time to nourish the body and strengthen our immune system. There’s no better ways than super-soups; warming, nourishing and satisfying.

The best thing about soups is that there are no correct quantities – it’s all right to put your own touch and taste to the pot!

The more you make soup and play around with the process, such as the ingredients-to-liquid ratio, the better you will master the consistency and depth of flavour.

Soup is an easily digestible meal which can provide a bowl jam-packed with valuable vitamins and minerals to help strengthen the immune system, and protect ourselves from winter colds and flu, and – although we may not escape them completely – the help from soups to have a strong and functioning immune system will help to alleviate their symptoms and minimise their duration.

Garlic, fennel, onions, leeks and celery provide us with prebiotic goodness. Prebiotics feed probiotics through their fibre and natural sugars.

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bread, miso, yoghurt, kefir or through a supplement) improve our gut function. This process helps to strengthen our microbiome, which is our defence system against toxins and viruses.

The following tips are a few basic rules I follow when making soups ...

1. Soup base: this can be a combination of onions, leeks, garlic, carrots, fennel and celery. Chop finely and saute over a low heat with some sea salt and crushed black pepper to bring out the sweetness of the vegetables.

I use coconut oil to saute the base in all my soups as it is a good oil to saute with, and I find it adds a nice flavour.

I try to incorporate leeks, carrots and celery as a base to all my soups, and more often than not add all above ingredients to pack in as much variety and nutritional value

as possible.

To this base, you can begin to build on the flavours and ingredients to your soup.

2. If a soup is to be pureed I like to keep the same colours in the pot so as not to end up with an off-coloured soup; for example, if I am making a tomato soup, I stick to red onions, carrots and red/orange ingredients, or if the soup is to be a green soup, I stick to asparagus, courgettes and peas, and add vibrant green leaves towards the end of cooking to keep the bright-green colour.

3. Once the main ingredients have been added, then add your liquid of choice to completely cover them, so as to easily stir the soup while it simmers.

It is worth making your own stock as it takes the nourishment to another level. If you cook a chicken once a week, just keep the carcass and make a stock.

I don’t tend to use stock cubes as they mostly contain salt and flavour enhancers. If you layer your soup with herbs and spices, it will have its own flavour.

I keep fresh rosemary, thyme and bay leaves on hand to add to most soups as they simmer and, depending on the soup, fresh ginger, cin-

namon, paprika and turmeric are great to add flavour naturally.

4. Taking your soup to another level can make it a meal. By adding lentils, pasta or beans and keeping it chunky, you can serve your soup as a light and comforting winter’s evening meal.

When serving a chunky soup, it helps the consistency to give it a small blend with a stick blender so as to blend it a small bit – but to keep it chunky, just blend for a few seconds.

5. Finishing your soup’s presentation can enhance the flavour and make it visually appealing.

Serve in nice soup bowls with a drizzle of olive oil, some grated parmesan, home-made sourdough croutons, basil oil, balsamic vinegar, shredded seaweed or fresh herbs, depending on the soup.

The three most popular soup recipes rotating through my kitchen at the moment are puy lentil soup topped with roasted cherry tomatoes and crumbled Clonakilty pudding; carrot and red lentil soup with garlic sauteed Swiss chard, and “Green goddess” (see recipe, right).

So, pack a punch for your winter wellness with any of these three soups.

Make your own soup with carefully-chosen fresh ingredients, and you’ll be giving your immune system a great boost for the winter months

GREEN GODDESS SOUP

This is a thick and creamy soup. The amount of liquidto veg-ratio can vary according to your ingredients, but cover the veg with stock/ liquid.

The greens will cook down a lot at the end of cooking; be sure not to cook for too long or put on a lid on after adding the final greens, in order to maintain that vibrant green colour.

This may look like a lot of vegetables in the pot at first, but this soup is to pack a punch of green goodness.

Ingredients – 2 leeks (finely chopped) – 2 sticks celery (finely chopped) – 1 fennel (remove tough stalks and core and finely chop) – 1 tablespoon coconut oil – 1 clove garlic, crushed or finely chopped – 2 bay leaves – 2 sprigs thyme – Quarter teaspoon cinnamon – 1 courgette, chopped – 1 small bunch asparagus (if in season – if not, replace with one cup of frozen peas), chopped – 200g bag of spinach, or half head of Swiss chard or kale (about 4-5 leaves)

To Serve – Extra virgin olive oil, red chilli seeds – Sourdough bread Preparation – Saute celery, leeks, fennel, salt, pepper on a low heat in coconut oil for 10-15 minutes until reduced in size and soft.

– Add garlic to the pot and continue to saute for a further 5 mins.

– Add thyme picked form sprigs and bayleaves and cinnamon.

– Add courgette and peas/ asparagus and continue to saute for 5 mins.

– Cover with stock/water and add more liquid, if required,

to cover ingredients.

– Bring to boil then lower to a simmer for 30 mins until vegetables have softened.

– Meanwhile, wash spinach and drain or wash and destalk chard or kale. Chop and add to the pot. Just as the greens have wilted (about 5 mins), turn of the heat and stir for a minute.

– With a handheld or jug blender, blend the soup together. Season to taste.

– Ladle into bowls and top with a tiny sprinkle of red chilli seeds (or cayenne powder), drizzle with olive oil, and serve with sourdough bread.

– Serve, and enjoy!

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PAN

Generally charmless PAN (Cert PG, 111 mins) by name, and panned by nature – by critics around the world, at least, who sharpened their knives to make this “origins” story of Peter Pan one of the worst-scored films of 2015.

Telling of how Peter Pan became the boy who never grew up, and how he made an enemy of Captain Hook, it’s a mish-mash of jumbled ideas and poor editing, making it one to fly past.

There is, perhaps, an unintended resonance to Bridge of Spies thanks to current European events and increasing tensions and divisions. Such themes echo through this Soviet era-set tale of Cold War spying and frosty international relations, with Tom Hanks (above) adding some everyman warmth and integrity to Spielberg’s film.

bridge of spies: spielberg’s political thriller sees hanks on fine form

Feeling the Cold War’s heat PATRIOTISM lies at the heart of Bridge of Spies (Cert 12A, 141 mins), Spielberg’s fourth collaboration with Tom Hanks, though there is none of the brash flag-waving you might expect.

The “inspired by true events” story sees Hanks take the lead role as James B Donovan – an IrishAmerican lawyer whose legal stringency sees him unexpectedly dropped into the mire of Cold War politics, where he must question what it means to be an American.

In 1957, as tensions between the United States and Russia ramped up, Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) is arrested in New York City and accused of being a Soviet spy.

At the request of the US government, Donovan agrees to provide

 Dave phillips

legal defence for Abel, but quickly realises that all the US are looking for is the pretence of a defence – this is a situation, he is told unequivocally, in which there is no rulebook.

The trial of Abel sets the scene for a much longer story of hostage negotiation that plays out in the film’s latter half when the action moves from New York to Berlin.

And, while the streets may be meaner in the newly divided city, we do not see an awful lot of them – following on from its courtroom drama beginnings, Bridge

of Spies is the kind of film that takes place in large armchairs, in vast drawing rooms, and under gargantuan portraits.

With visually lavish sets, Spielberg masterfully and immediately sets the tone for this Cold War showdown. It is a time of terseness and temerity, where orders are given and never questioned, and conversations ended by the cold clack of Bakelite phones being shoved back onto receivers.

It is up to Hanks, who invokes that impossibleto-dislike quintessential everyman quality, to bring some warmth to this frigid environment.

However, there is plenty to help him along, complementing Spielberg’s fine attention to detail is some serious on-screen talent – Mark Rylance, who with clipped utter-

ances and boundless intensity, steals the show time and again as the quietly enigmatic Abel.

A Cohen Brothers screenplay brings a welcome sense of humour and philosophical whimsy that at several points saves scenes from falling into that staid, grey grimness we associate with Cold War-era movies.

Bridge of Spies is a timely film, as through this mostly true story Spielberg not only brings an interesting period of history to life – he also brings into question what it is to be an American.

The character of Donovan provides that answer loud and clear: The American Constitution.The Constitution is a rulebook, and if you stop playing by that set of rules, then you have ceased to be an American, and have

become something else.

The patriotism expounded in Bridge of Spies is not of the overt variety, like, say, in Clint Eastwood’s shockingly galling American Sniper – rather, it is concerned with interior ideals.

To be a real American, Spielberg seems to suggest, is to be virtuous, honest, and to honour the spirit of the law above the letter of the law.

It is fitting that this exaltation of interior values plays out mostly indoors, unfolding through conversations and negotiations.

Indeed, the one or two scenes with more typical action rankle, and seem

out of place. The distinct lack of loud and frantic action may be off-putting for some cinemagoers, but it shouldn’t be.

Bridge of Spies is a solid film, with more than enough given by Hanks and Ryland to carry it through its 141-minute running time.

Spielberg may apply a liberal dose of schmaltz to the affair, but there is no denying he knows how to tell a great story.

Verdict: 8/10

black mass

Lives up to the hype AS REAL-life Irish-American mobster James ‘Whitey’ Bolger, Johnny Depp’s prosthetic makeup is a little distracting – however, it’s one of the few unwelcome distractions about Black Mass (Cert 15A, 123 mins).

Although broadly familiar content, it’s a skillfully told tale of the criminal underworld’s clash with law and order, with ’70s South Boston providing the backdrop to a great tale.

spectre

Bond’s latest romp DANIEL Craig takes another shot at playing Bond in Spectre (Cert 12A, 148 mins), with his latest outing smashing its way through the cinema charts, despite more than a few shortcomings. An overly convoluted attempt at creating a larger overall story from Bond’s recent films and adventures, Spectre ticks all the right 007 boxes, but misfires a little along the way.

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FastSport Frustration as rain wipes out dublin games: THE Continental Women’s Nathonal League Dublin derby between Peamount United and Shelbourne Ladies and the UCD Waves against Galway WFC game were both postponed due to unplayable pitches over the weekend.

For Shelbourne and UCD, it was the second time their fixtures have been called off in the league already, meaning they will have a busy second half of the campaign. The pair are due to play again next weekend on Saturday at 7pm.

Both have won their two games in the competition thus far in impressive style to share second place at this early stage of the campaign.

Elsewhere, Castlebar Celtic collected their first victory of the season with an impressive 3-0 home win against Kilkenny United WFC on Saturday evening .

Reigning champions Wexford beat Cork 3-0.

athletics: blanchardstown distance runner back in top form

Olympics on Flynn’s agenda  james hendicott sport@dublingazette.com

COOLMINE athlete David Flynn has targeted a place at the Rio De Janeiro Olympics in 2016, after a successful end to the 2015 that has

seen him move right the way back into the frame for qualification.

Flynn hopes to compete in the 3,000m steeplechase at the Olympics, and is also targeting the world half-marathon championships, with

Flynn in action during his time in Arkansas

a qualification run in Houston, Texas on January 17.

“I expect the strength [of my recent runs] to carry over into qualifying for the Olympics in the 3,000m steeplechase. The A standard is 8.28 and B standard 8.34; they are extremely hard to achieve as it’s very hard to find a world class steeplechase field without pacemakers but I’m very optimistic with my latest performances, new coach and training environment,” he said.

Flynn has had a tough couple of years, and his seventh overall at the national cross country championships – ahead of Olympic qualified athletes and European finalists – shows the strength

David Flynn in training in California earlier this year

of his ambitions.

He puts the performance down to three months at altitude in California as the key to Flynn’s ambitious return.

“I went to University of Arkansas on an athletic scholarship,” he explains.

“I had a very successful few years, including a national championship in 2013 where they flew us to the White House to meet president Obama.

“After my eligibility was up and I graduated, I was about to join a professional group in Austin, Texas but I got diagnosed with mono [glandular fever] and wasn’t able to train for 11 months.

“Instead, I became a coach at Arkansas during that time which I learnt a

lot. I then returned home to Ireland which I found very hard to settle back into living full-time.”

Since then, he has been given the okay to train on a more frequent basis and admits that he initially found it “extremely hard to get back into shape” prior to his return to the US. “Moving up to the mountains in California was the best choice I have ever made in my life,” he adds.

“I had been there for a few weeks in 2013 but the group had changed a lot over that time. It is at 8,000ft altitude every day I run with some of the best athletes in the world.

“My coach Andrew Kastors’ wife Deena was

third at the Olympics in Athens and recently broke the masters world record in the Chicago marathon.

“Having people like her around everyday is great.”

And Flynn is now keen to get his local community behind him, speaking of the importance of support, and would be keen to hear from local businesses who might be able to help him attain his Olympic dream.

“Support and sponsorship is extremely important for all athletes targeting the Olympics as the training and recovery involved is a full time job in itself. Some sponsorship from local businesses could really help me chase this dream.”

Loreto knock out second national league side in ISC  sport@dublingazette.com

Loreto’s Sarah Evans gives chase to a ball in her side’s 3-0 win over UCC. Picture: Adrian Boehm

LORETO knocked out higher ranked opposition for the second round of the women’s Irish Senior Cup quarter-final draw after they disposed of UCC on Saturday to be the one of just two provincial league sides still standing in the competition.

The Leinster league outfit progressed as they beat the Cork side 3-0 with a superb second half showing.

Hannah Matthews made it 1-0 before efforts from Sarah Evans and Niamh Small from

a corner move extended the lead out, adding UCC to Pembroke in their list of victims in this year’s competition.

Donnybrook side Muckross, however, were unable to join them as Ballymoney eventually prevailed on penalty strokes in Donnybrook against Muckross after normal time had finished 2-2.

Jane Gilsenan had give Muckross the early lead from a corner before Money swapped the lead by the 52nd minute.

A minute later, Sarah Green equalised from another set

piece, setting up a lively closing quarter in which Nicci Daly saw one effort saved on the line and another hit the post with three minutes to go.

It sent the tie straight to penalty strokes in which Ballymoney netted each of their first three while Muckross missed twice to set up the victory.

Other wise, all the main players advanced to the quarter-finals of the competition with six EYHL sides making it through.

For the second week running, Cork Harlequins put it up

to Booterstown’s Hermes but could not quite get the reward their performance deserved as they eventually succumbed 2-1 at St Andrew’s.

Like a week ago, the first half ended scoreless. Nikki Evans broke the deadlock ten minutes into the second period with a classy reverse-stick finish.

Quins fought back with Miriam Crowley equalising but the Hermes’ reply was instant with Chloe Watkins restoring the home side’s lead, one which they held to the end.

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Pendred steps out of the MMA Octagon Dubliner ends his competitive career in the cage but says his love for mixed martial arts is not likely to be dimmed  james hendicott

sport@dublingazette.com

CATHAL PENDRED - a high-profile UFC fighter based at Conor McGregor’s Straight Blast Gym in central Dublin - has retired from the sport, citing a loss of passion.

T h e we l t e r we i g h t fighter represented Ire-

Cathal Pendred

land and is a former Cage Warriors champion, and also reached a semi-final in American UFC-based reality TV show ‘The Ultimate Fighter’. He was born in Boston to Irish parents, and relocated to Dublin as a toddler, where he played in a Leinster Schools senior cup winning Belvedere

College side alongside Cian Healy before getting involved in mixed martial arts.

Announcing the retirement, Pendred said: “I am a passionate person and I always give 100% to what I do.

I have been passionate about MMA for a long time and my focus on the sport has been my

driving force for the last 9 years.

“I now find that my passion is no longer what it was and I feel that it is time for me to move on.

“I have other interests that I want to pursue. The time is right to close one door and open another.

“My love of MMA remains with me. I intend to maintain my involvement with the sport, but I no longer wish to compete.”

He continues: “I have developed as a person because of mixed martial Arts, as I learned to cope with the discipline and demands of the sport. MMA has made me a stronger person.

This strength will carry through into other areas of my life, as I move on to pursue new goals.

“I would like to thank all my coaches and teammates for their friendship and support.

Thank you to ever yone who has followed

and supported me on this journey. Indeed, thanks to everyone that I met through MMA from star t to finish.

This chapter of my life wouldn’t have been the same without you.

“My participation in competing in MMA has come to an end, but my love for the sport has not.

“I will maintain my interest in the sport and continue to support my team mates as they follow their dreams.”

Pendred has recently opened a salad bar in Dublin called Chopped and he has also become involved in domestic v i o l e n c e aw a r e n e s s campaigns.

He also found viral fame last year when he was pictured returning a stranded dolphin to the water on a beach on Doonbeg, County Clare.

Pendred retires with a professional record of 17 wins and four losses, with one draw. He lost his final two fights.

FastSport Road races play big role in city’s Resolution Day DUBLIN’s New Year Festival has been named Resolution Day, a January 1 event intended to kick start those with New Year’s ambitions.

The first of January event will incorporate the Lord Mayor’s Five Alive challenge at Liffey Valley Athletics Club (already fully booked for race one) through the Tom Brennan 5km road race in Phoenix Park, as well as TED Talk style motivations speeches. The Lord Mayor’s challenge continues into April, with five events in total.

Alongside the sporting events, there will be a candlelit Procession of Light (December 31, St Stephen’s Green), a St Stephen’s Green Street Festival and the lighting up of buildings in an event called Luminosity.

The festival will also attempt to beat world records for the largest Bodhran Session, with in excess of 980 people expected, as well as taxi drivers sharing their stories in talks called ‘On the Move, City Wide’. A music trail and arts workshops are also expected.

Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport Leo Varadkar said of the event: “We have had an exceptional year in terms of tourism and we intend to end the year with style.

Failte Ireland and Dublin City Council have developed this Festival together to grow Dublin’s reputation as a destination for New Year celebrations.”

“The range of entertainment and events on offer during NYF will entertain visitors and Dubliners alike. I am confident that everyone who takes part in the New Year celebrations will have a great time and be impressed by the manner in which Dublin marks the year’s end.”

He continues: “A young festival by any standard, the NYF is quickly becoming the jewel in Dublin’s winter crown, and proving to be a great draw for international visitors, with last year’s event attracting thousands of visitors from both home and abroad. The St Stephen’s Green Street Fest is a great new addition to the Festival and will provide festival-goers with more options to ring in 2016.”

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athletics: DSDAC produce series of stellar performances

Kearns kicks Wesley to touch as Mary’s win OLD Wesley and St Mary’s had not met in the All-Ireland League in 19 years and the Ballinteer old boys will have to wait a while longer for a first ever win in the competition over the Templeville Road side after they succumbed 19-9 last Saturday.

Playing with the wind in the first half, they were unable to breach the goal line but did take a 9-0 lead through three Barry McLaughlin penalty goals.

But, as the game progressed, St Mary’s started to turn the game using their physical pack, led by captain and tight head prop Robert Sweeney, and their mobile back line that included Leinster winger Darragh Fanning.

With forwards driving the Old Wesley pack back, Mary’s looked to be over only to be denied a try by a knock on at the last.

But they continued pushing and eventually proved too much for the Wesley defence and, from a scrum, the ball went to Fanning who had no difficulty in crossing for a try. Out half Sean Kearns converted to leave the score at 9-7 to Old Wesley at half-time.

And the hosts continued where they left off with the wind at their backs.Wesley’s only advantage area was their line out as they stole opposition ball a couple of times when a score looked inevitable.

Mary’s kept plugging away, though, and added a penalty six minutes into the half.

They extended their lead with two further penalty kicks, all by Sean Kearns to take a 16-9 lead going into the last quarter. The floodgates never opened, however, as the back row of Darren Horan, Rory Kerins and Mark Rowley put in some fearless tackling.

Clinging on to a seven-point deficit it was becoming clear that any further scores from Old Wesley were unlikely as they sought the losing bonus point. That position looked to be strengthened when Hugo Kean was sinbinned.

However, in their haste to use the extra man, they conceded a late penalty in the last play of the match and Kearns converted the kick to leave it 19-9 to St Mary’s.

The result leaves Mary’s in top spot while Old Wesley are in fourth place after eight rounds of matches.

Joe Sweeney leading the way at Santry last week

Sweeney back with a bang sport@dublingazette.com

JOE SWEENEY’S spectacular return to racing last week saw him become one of three DSDAC club members to earn a place in the Irish team to run at the European CrossCountry Championships, on the December 13 in Hyeres, France.

Sweeney will be part of the Irish senior men’s side while Brandon Hargreaves (Under-23 men) and Sophie Murphy (junior women) who have all been selected to represent Ireland.

It follows a spectacular showing at the national championships in Santry

with the club’s junior women retaining their title in with the Under-16 girls also winning. The senior women’s team were third and the men fourth.

Sweeney came home in a brilliant fifth. Many times a national champion before, he has previously finished fifth at the Europeans.

He returned from a frustrating time of injury and a study programme, which did not allow him to race for over a year and a half. Form is temporary, but class is permanent, and Sweeney paced his race to perfection and worked his way gradually

through the large field of runners to ensure his place for a return to the Europeans.

He was well supported in the team effort by John Eves, Hargreaves, Robert Corbally, Leon O’Connor, Emmet Jennings and Kevin O’Connor, to finish a gallant fourth team.

Hargreaves put in a brave performance despite a very sore Achilles, which slowed him over the final mile, but he has been rewarded by being selected for the Irish Under-23 team.

The senior women’s team was also weakened by defections, but they got stuck in, led home by

south dublin swans Local Aussie Rules side get special visitors the south Dublin Swans Aussie Rules team had a number of special visitors at their 10th annual awards night, coinciding with the visiting AFL international rules team.

Swans tall ruckman Paul O’Halloran won the Best and Fairest award and top goal kicker was rookie Seamus Owens from Terenure. Included in the group photo are Luke Breust and Jarrad Roughhead from Hawthorn the 2015 AFL Premiership winners, Leigh Montana from St Kilda, Dyson Heppell from Essendon and Bob Murphy from Western Bulldogs.

Fiona Clinton, to take the bronze medals. Maria McCambridge, just over her marathon preparation, found the ground conditions not to her liking, but was there for the team, as did Meghan Ryan (fourth Under-23) and Nicole Kenny.

One of the outstanding records, in Irish sport of any discipline, is that of the club’s junior girls’ team, and they lived up to their name, winning their 16th junior title in a row at National Cross-Country.

Sophie Murphy (third Under-18) was always in the lead group as was Niamh Carey (fourth Under-18) in the com-

bined U-18/20 race with the former finishing sixth overall and Carey – recently selected to the Irish Under-18 hockey squad – in seventh.

Eimear Fitzpatrick, Eileen Scanlon and Muireann Neville showed great determination in every step to ensure 16 years in a row.

The Under-20 boys, also down in numbers, put in brave performances with Paul O’Donnell leading them home in the Under18/20 combined race, with Sam Knee-Robinson 21st, Mark Molloy 28th and Christian McKenna 31st, to finish in fourth place.

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league success

Kilmacud claim place in AHL4 with superb win

Club Noticeboard Ballyboden St enda’s

kilmacud Crokes’ junior As put in an epic

performance to win the AHL5 top four playoff – securing promotion to AHL4 – with a 1-10 to 0-8 win over Cuala.

Wet and gale force conditions ruffled but ultimately did not unsettle a resolute performance in Bray. They built a 0-6 to no score half-time lead and Mark O’Rorke’s goal facing into the wind proved the game breaker.

THE club community sends its con-

There was no winner of this week’s

dolences to the Conway family on

lotto; the numbers drawn were 16, 6, 19

the death of Bill Conway, former bar

and 12. Eugene Duffy from Idrone Park

manager in the club. Deanaimid com-

was this week’s match three winner.

Next week’s jackpot is €7,000. For

hbhron lena theaghlach. Ar dheis lamh De go raibh a anam uasal.

Congratulations to our minor B hurlers who won the championship

hurling: wexford champs end leinster dream

more information on Ballyboden St Enda’s lotto. log on to www.bodengaa. ie.

final against St Sylvester’s GAA club

Best of luck to our senior football-

with a scoreline of 3-6 to 1-11. Con-

ers and management who take on

gratulations to all the players and

Portlaoise GAA in the Leinster club

management on the win.

football final next Sunday in Tullam-

Our intermediate footballers also gained victory as they won the AFL

ore. The senior footballers need your support.

Division 3 final against St Mark’s with

For more information on next

a scoreline of 3-7 to 0-6. Well done to

week’s Leinster final, log on to www.

management and players.

bodengaa.ie.

Ballinteer st john’s THERE was no winner of the November

ballinteerstjohns.com or from the

26 lotto draw for €1,000. The jackpot

usual outlets.

will be €1,200 next week. Numbers drawn were 2, 10, 21 and 24.

Our Joker Wild draw continues this

Bingo every Monday in the clubhouse starts at 8pm and all welcome for a great night’s entertainment.

Thursday; it is open to lotto players

Well done to our minor hurlers on

present in the clubhouse on the night.

their championship semi-final victory

Tickets are available online at www.

over Fingallians on Sunday.

wanderers THERE was no lotto winner. Num-

interested in joining the ladies team

bers drawn were 11, 20 and 21; €25 to

for next year please contact Louise

Angela Mooney, Darragh Healy, Tony

O’Loughlin on 086 8333587 and, for the

Late surge just not enough for Cuala

Ryan, Sean Doherty. The jackpot next

men’s team, please contact Stephen

week is €1,700.

on 086 048 9379; all new members

leinster shc final

kilmacud crokes

Cuala’s David Treacy lines up a free in front of an expectant support from the Dalkey club. Picture: Colin Behan

Oulart-The-Ballagh 2-13 Cuala 0-13  sport@dublingazette.com

CUALA’S championship run was finally ended at the Leinster final stage as Wexford’s Oulart-The Ballagh held their challenge at bay at Dr Cullen Park last Sunday.

They built an imposing 12-point midway into the second half and while the Dalkey side dug deep to rally and half the deficit, they had left themselves far too much to do against a well-heeled and experienced Oulart.

It ended their run of six

final losses in Leinster and meant that the long wait for a Dublin champion on the province’s hurling scene, one which dates back to Crumlin in 1979, continues on.

Goals were crucial for the eventual winners with their second half goal a cruel body blow to the Dalkey men who trailed by 2-10 to 0-4 following Garreth Sinnott’s three-pointer in the 44th minute, with Sinnott kicking to an empty net after keeper Sean Brennan fumbled a long-range free from Eoin Moore.

Cuala battled to the finish, twice closing the gap

to five-points, with David Treacy in particular landing some superb scores in a personal tally of 0-10, however, the goal they required to put pressure on Oulart never came.

The Wexford champions led 1-7 to 0-2 at halftime having been aided by the strong wind.

They were buoyed by a goal in first half injurytime when Tomas Dunne goaled just before the break having been placed by an excellent David Redmond handpass.

Oulart had threatened a goal on several occasions in the opening half but Cuala managed to

exert sufficient pressure on the shooter to keep their goal intact.

Tommy Storey enjoyed an enterprising first half for Oulart as the centreforward capitalised on any slack marking to fire over three points.

Cuala’s only score from play in the half came in the second minute when Con O’Callaghan found the target off his left side.

Their other score came from the stick of freetaker David Treacy in the 14th minute but the difficult conditions saw the Dalkey side squander a number of other scoring opportunities.

Thank you to everyone involved

welcome.

with the white collar boxing event

Juvenile football and hurling con-

held on Saturday night. The event

tinues for boys and girls aged seven

was a great success and the club

to 12 with midweek training and

would like to thank everyone that

matches on Saturday morning.

was involved and supported the event.

With the season over, if you are

Nursery training for boys and girls aged four to seven on Saturdays at 11am in Ballyroan Boys’ School.

CONGRATULATIONS to the AHL5 hurl-

AFL1 league final shortly. The AHL5

ers and the AFL5 footballers who

team presented Gerry Park with a

both won their playoff finals on Sun-

signed jersey for his great efforts

day.

with the club and the team over the

It’s a historical moment as, for the first time ever, the club will compete in AHL1, AHL2 and AHL4 in hurling and AFL1, AFL2 and AFL4 in football next year. All games will take place on Saturday evenings.

Congratulations to the U-21 A and B hurlers who both had great wins on Saturday.

years. More info can be seen on the club Facebook or hurling website.

Good attendance at the football section AGM this week.

The camogie section AGM will take place on Monday, December 7 at 8pm in the Club. The hurling section AGM is on Sunday, December 13 at 8.30pm.

Please submit motions and officer/

Congratulations also to the minor

committee nominations to Kevin Col-

footballers who won the minor E

lins, hurling committee secretary by

championship against St Brigid’s.

Sunday, December 6.

The senior footballers also had a

Well done to all involved in the

great three point win over St Oliver

Crokes’ Talks strategy launch which

Plunkett’s and will now play in the

took place in the club this week.

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the sweeney: DSDAC’s Joe returns to national side leaving the octagon: Cathal Pendred ends his with spectacular cross-country run in Santry P30 competitive career P29

Local support spurs Macauley’s Boden  sport@dublingazette.com

MICHAEL Darragh Macauley says the mood around Ballyboden St Enda’s is something to behold in the build-up to the club’s AIB Leinster SFC final showdown with Portlaoise on Sunday.

“There is a huge bit of hype around Rathfarnham and Ballyboden at the moment, it’s brilliant,” he says. “ If you go up Firhouse Road there are flags as far as the eye can see, posters put up on every wall. You are not able to to drive down any street without seeing some Ballyboden colours or posters somewhere so everyone has

bought into it and there are more and more going to every game.”

It is providing a new buzz for him in a career that has already yielded three All-Ireland medals, four Leinsters and two Allstars as well as the 2013 Footballer of the Year title and he is loving the support for Boden, the club which helped make him who he is.

“Every player bar two has come up right through our academy.

Lads have been looking forward to playing with the seniors for a long time and are making the most of it.”

As Dublin champions for the first time since 2009 – and only their third time ever – expecta-

tions are sky high but Ballyboden’s experience that year, when they were ambushed by Westmeath champions Garrycastle in the Leinster semi-finals, has provided a valuable lesson.

“Sometimes people expect a Dublin team to walk through Leinster, like Kilmacud and Ballymun and St Vincents who have all done well for themselves in Leinster and the All-Ireland series.

“We got a rude awakening in 2009, it definitely stuck with us.

It’s not easy to win the Dublin championship so it’s important to take every advantage in Leinster when you can,” he says.

After failing to nail down a starting place with Dublin last summer Macauley is arguably hungrier than ever and admits that he was confident that Ballyboden could win a county title this season.

“It was definitely on my list of ‘things to do’ this year because I knew how good this Ballyboden team was,” he says.

“I’d been hearing for years about these young fellas winning at underage for Ballyboden, winning Feiles and coming up through minors.

“They’re finally hitting 19 to 21 now and breaking into our team and really pushing for places.”

Ballyboden St Enda’s Michael Darragh Macauley.

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