Malahide GAZET TE FREE
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YOUR COMMUNITY • YOUR PAPER
INSIDE: Inaugural Craft Means Business conference P10
July 14, 2011
FIGURE IT OUT: Council paid out
€4m in public liability claims Page 2
Little Ruggers: School raises €550 for charity PUPILS at Little Ruggers’ Montessori
Football: St Sylvester’s pair assist minors to Leinster title Page 32
Soccer: Martin Russell on UCD’s unique approach Page 29
ALSOINSIDE: GALLERIES ................8-10 MOTORS ........................18 BUSINESS .................... 21 TRAVEL......................... 22 ENTERTAINMENT ........ 24 CLASSIFIEDS ............... 26
School, Malahide, raised €550 for St Michael’s House, one of Ireland’s largest providers of community-based services for children and adults with an intellectual disability. Presenting the cheque to St Michael’s House were staff members Hayley Taaffe, Pauline Walsh, Kevin Muldoon, Karen Smith and Caron Steenkamp, and pupils Sean Power, Amerlie Sampson, Aoibhe Murphy, Conor Lawlor, Simar Preet, Freya McFerran, Siun McFerran, Sophia Moloney, Katie McGahan, and Joy Lennon Fay.
St Ita’s Hospital to cease admissions Development is ‘causing extreme worry’ in the area
Q MIMI MURRAY
ST ITA’S Hospital in Portrane is to cease accepting admissions at the end of August, that’s according to Fianna Fail’s Leader in the Seanad, Senator Darragh O’Brien. Senator O’Brien described
the development as extremely worrying for the community of Dublin North where there were approximately 800 admissions to the hospital last year. “The information provided to me is that there are only around 100 beds across three alternative centres that
can take admissions after August 31. “This is about 100 beds for the whole of north Dublin. Surely there is not a belief within the HSE or the Mental Health Commission that this is sufficient?” he said. Full Story on Page 5