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Month XX, 2012 Swords • Balbriggan • Applewood • boroimhe • Airside • Rivervalley
INSIDE: The Wright Venue says goodbye to 2012 and hello to 2013 with New Year’s Eve party P6-7
EU Presidency: Minister Varadkar on a huge opportunity for Ireland Page 8
Challenge: At a launch for new fitness campaign Football:
Darren Daly gets chance to impress Dubs Page 31
Review:
GazetteSport looks back on an epic 2012 Page 28-29
ALSOINSIDE: GALLERIES.......................6 DUBLIN LIFE....................11 OUT&ABOUT...................17 CLASSIFIEDS.................26 SPORT............................27
2011 All-Ireland winners and Dub-
lin Senior Footballers Bryan Cullen (Fingallians) and Paul Flynn with students Georgie Poynton and Jennifer Brown from Colaiste na hInse, Meath VEC at the launch of Aviva Health’s Schools’ Fitness Challenge 2013 – a national challenge for first and second year pupils to improve their health and fitness. Register your school for the challenge by January 18 on www. avivahealth.ie/fitnesschallenge
Swords comes 17th in cleanest towns list Anti litter survey shows Ireland doing as well as European cities
Natalie Burke
Swords has taken a slot among the top 20 cleanest towns in Ireland. Of the 42 towns and cities monitored across the country
in the recent Irish Business Against Litter Campaign (IBAL), the north Dublin town came 17th for cleanliness levels over the course of 2012. The campaign showed
that 80% of towns and cities in the country were as clean – if not cleaner – than their European counterparts last year. IBAL chairman Dr Tom Cavanagh commented:
“We might have viewed ourselves traditionally as a less than tidy nation, but the results tell a different story.” Full Story on Page 5