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MARK O’BRIEN THERE are fears that the decision not to extend or refurbish Tallaght garda station could “impede the gardaí’s ability to police locally”.

Cllr Charlie O’Connor (FF) made the comments after it was revealed that the Department of Justice did not have any plans to carry out remedial works at the station.

At last weeks’ meeting of the West Tallaght Local Policing Forum, Garda Chief Superintendent, Kevin Gralton called for a new Garda Station in Tallaght

and described the current facilities as “seriously overstretched and unfit for purpose”.

Cllr O’Connor echoed the calls to upgrade the station, saying: “The existing Garda station in Tallaght is over 30 years old.

“At present, gardai policing the Tallaght area are forced to operate between offices in the Station and meeting space in the nearby Plaza Hotel.

“The effective policing of crime and anti-social behaviour in our area is essential to ensuring that local residents feel safe and protected.”

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ANA DESCRIBED AS ‘WELL-KNOWN AND LIKED’

Tributes paid to tragic teen Ana MARK O’BRIEN

TRIBUTES have been paid to teenager Anastasia Kriegel as gardai renewed their appeal for information.

Fourteen-year-old Anastasia – known as Ana – was reported missing from her home in Leixlip last week.

She was last seen at St Catherine’s Park in Lucan at around 5.30pm on Monday evening.

Her body was discovered at a disused farmhouse on the Clonee Road, about 1km from where she was last seen.

Speaking at the scene last week, Superintendent John Gordon, who is leading the investigation,

described Ana as a “particularly striking girl” who was well-known and liked in the area.

Ana was a First Year student in Confey College. The school released a statement to parents.

Principal Mike O’Byrne said: “We are all deeply saddened by the death of our first year student Anastasia Kriegel. Our thoughts and sympathies are with Anastasia’s family and her friends.

“At this difficult time the school’s pastoral care systems are in place to help your child cope with this tragedy.

“Psychologists from the National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS)

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will be in the school and will be supporting and advising teachers in their efforts to assist our students at this time.”

Ana was also a student at local dance school, Dance LA.

In a statement on Facebook, Dance LA owners Lorna and Adele Dempsey said: “Dance LA is truly saddened at the loss of one of our students, Ana Kriegel.

“Ana was a talented young student who was with us for many years. Her passing is as tragic as it is shocking.

“Lorna and Adele wish to extend their deepest, heartfelt sympathies to Ana’s family, her friends, Dance LA students and the Leixlip community.”

Mayor of South Dublin Paul Gogarty announced that books of condolence had been opened for Ana in Lucan Library and County Hall, Tallaght.

The books will remain open until 10am on Friday morning.

Superintendent Gordon said gardai were following a number of lines of inquiry into Ana’s death and appealed to the public for their assistance.

He said: “We are appealing to anybody who was in St Catherine’s Park from 5pm onwards or thereabouts or on the Clonee Road on Monday 14 May to contact the garda incident room at Lucan garda station at 01 6667300.

“The garda confidential telephone line 1800 666111 or indeed if they contact any garda station to contact any information that they may have.”

WITH the contentious referendum on the Repeal or Retention of the 8th Amemdment of the Constitution due to take place tomorrow (Friday), the Referendum Commission has called on voters in Dublin to use their vote, irrespective of their views and beliefs on the subject.

This view is shared by Dublin Gazette Newspapers, which has maintained a strictly neutral stance on this referendum – the most controversial for many years.

We appeal to all eligible people to exercise their constitutional right and vote on a potentially lifechanging issue that has divided the nation.

These days, most of us take voting for granted, so let’s remember the hardship endured by our ancestors and get out and honour their great work and place your vote, whatever your beliefs.

Generations of Irish people have struggled to win the right to vote and it was not until 1884 that Irishmen were allowed to vote.

Prior to this, men could not vote unless they owned a house. Only the wealthy had a vote. However, this right was denied to their wives, mothers, sisters and daughters because they were women.

This all changed 100 years ago, when Hannah Sheehy-Skeffington fought tirelessly for the right of Irish women to vote.

Hannah and her friends were harassed by politicians and the police because of their efforts to ensure that women could have a voice in saying how the country should be run.

The polls open at 7am and close at 10pm tomorrow, May 25. No matter which way you intend to vote, help to honour the struggles of the past and also look to the future, using your precious vote to help shape the next chapter in our proud nation’s life.

Patrick Finnegan, Group Editor, Dublin Gazette

GoFundMe page to assist parents of Jastine Valdez A GOFUNDME campaign has been set in memory of student Jastine Valdez (24), to allow people to offer support and sympathy to the family of student Jastine, who was abducted and murdered earlier this week.

To make a donation to the memorial fund, see https://www. gofundme.com/jastine-valdez-memorial.

Call for end to homelessness LOCAL TD’s Gino Kenny and Eoin O’Broin handed over a petition calling for an end to homelessness to Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy last week.

The 701 signatures were raised by the Amnesty International group in Lucan Community College, who held their annual sponsored sleep out on Friday, May 11.

The Amnesty Sleepout was the group’s biggest yet.

It was attended by 34 students, five teachers and four local councillors and TD’S.

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FESTIVAL: ‘NEW ACTIVITIES ADDED ALL THE TIME’

Tallafest boasts a packed programme MARK O’BRIEN

THE sixth annual Tallafest was officially launched in Tallaght village last Saturday.

Members of Tallaght Community Council (TCC) were surrounded by supporters, sponsors, community groups and local public reps to give the festival a rousing launch reception.

There was hardly standing room in The Station for the morning launch event – with a real buzz taking root about this year’s festival.

A spokesperson for TCC said: “The 2018 programme is shaping up nicely, with new activities being added all the time now.

“Festival goers are urged to keep an eye on our Facebook page and social media for the developing festival programme.

The arts projects will include groups from a range of abilities, who will explore environmental issues and produce art

“And wannabe craft stall holders are urged to submit an expression of interest ASAP as the craft market is booking up very fast this year.”

Tallafest 2018 has embraced the focus of the current Tallaght Person of the Year, Sinead Tighe which is inclusion.

TCC has expanded the festival programme to reflect this year’s theme.

exhibitions to be displayed in the Nature Zone on the big day.

Tallafest will also now have a dedicated Active Seniors Hub and programme at the festival.

In partnership with the South Dublin Senior Citizens Club, the hub will be located in St Maelruain’s parish hall and will offer a vibrant drop in programme for the day.

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Wannabe craft stall holders are urged to submit an expression of interest ASAP

Activities will include line dancing, art classes, meditation and a bake-off competition.

Tallafest 2018 will also expand on the cultural inclusion of the festival, with Gaelpobal Tamhlachta showcasing the best of native culture and also performances from across the globe this year – from Brazilian Clowns, Peruvian Ballet and advice from Mother Tongue, a group of families who are raising their children bilingually.

The festival will provide mobiloo toilet facilities, continuing Sinead’s awareness campaign to have fully accessible facilities at all events as standard.

Visit www.tallafest.ie

FOOD ENTREPRENEUR PROGRAMME

Targeting fresh growth A NEW food entrepreneur programme aimed at attracting more new Irish food start-ups to the market has been launched.

The Food Starter Programme, which will be run by Local Enterprise Office, South Dublin in conjunction with Bord Bia, will give emerging food entrepreneurs in South Dublin and those who want to begin their food production journey, practical support to bring their idea to life.

The programme, which is run across two days, will focus on providing new and emerging food businesses with all the information they need in the early stages of food production.

This will include product research, identifying gaps and opportunities in the food market, branding and brand building, production costs and distribution.

Speaking at the launch, Minster for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Heather Humphreys, said: “The new Food Starter Programme is another example of giving Irish food entrepreneurs the opportunity to shine.

“Our food business industry is one of the finest in the world but we must continue to foster the next generation of food start-ups.

“We have an estimated 250 emerging new food entrepreneurs annually in Ireland and with the Food Starter Programme we hope to increase that number and give

these entrepreneurs the access to the right guidance and mentoring to help them get their products onto shelves.”

The programme is set out in an interactive workshop format which will include case study reviews of food producers, video stories, successful producers sharing their learnings, break out exercises and preparation for the next generation of food entrepreneur to navigate their journey successfully.

For more information contact your Local Enterprise Office through www. localenterprise.ie

Oisin Geoghegan, Minster Heather Humphreys and Eileen Bentley from Bord Bia at the launch

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SUGGESTIONS: COUNCIL REPORT CALLS FOR MORE FACILITIES TO BE BUILT FOR TEENAGERS

Unstructured fun a must for teenagers MARK O’BRIEN

A NEW council report has recommended that more facilities be built for teenagers.

The report, which surveyed over 450 teenagers, found that over 90% of respondents felt there were not enough unstructured activities available to them.

Some of the suggestions the teens put forward for unstructured activities included youth cafes and skate parks.

Cllr Liona O’Toole told Dublin Gazette that the results of the survey were not surprising.

“When you’re that age, it’s not fun to have organised, structured fun,” she said.

“It’s when it’s not structured and organised, that’s what they see as fun. It’s more of a release.

“A lot of teenagers, they’re in school all day, they’re probably in additional grinds after school.

“They’re in activities, sports, dance drama, you name it. So, they do need that escape.”

The report made four key recommendations; more outdoor and indoor hangout areas for teenagers, more outdoor unstructured physi-

cal activities and an app which informed teenagers of activities in their area.

She said she would like to see more facilities such as youth cafes in the Lucan area.

“I do know we have one here in Lucan in Griffeen,” she said.

“It’s a very small one and it absolutely cannot cater for the population there.

“I know the various groups are trying to get into it and access it and through no fault of anyone’s – other than they can’t accommodate everybody – they can’t make that possible.

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Skate parks were among the suggestions teens put forward for unstructured activities

“You need at least another cafe in the Lucan area.”

Concerns She added that she could understand concerns over anti-social behaviour at such facilities.

“I’m not saying providing this facility is going to completely resolve

and eliminate anti-social behaviour. That’s not going to happen.

“But it would certainly address the issues that people are faced with and it would reduce antisocial behaviour.”

It is thought that the council may look to incorporate some of the suggested activities into existing facilities.

“I’ve shown it to a few of the teenagers that I know and they’re quite excited to see these facilities,” said Cllr O’Toole.

“Since 2014, I have requested and asked for a survey to be a carried out and an examination of facilities and in fairness to the council, they’ve done a great job in putting it all together.”

Extra 33 months for possessing cannabis and a stolen car A POLISH man who was recently jailed for diesel theft and drugs offences will serve an extra 33 months for possessing cannabis and a stolen car at a Dublin growhouse.

Pawel Wisniewski (43) was jailed for four and a half years in consecutive sentences for stealing diesel and possessing cannabis and a firearm at another growhouse.

He was on bail for these 2017 offences when gardai caught him and others, who are currently before the courts, at an industrial estate unit with more drugs.

Gardaí seized 35 cannabis plants at various growth stages worth a potential €28,000 at this location.

Wisniewski, with an address at Belgard, Tallaght, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to possessing cannabis and a stolen Ford Mondeo at Collinstown Cross Industrial Estate, Cloghran, Dublin on October 12, 2017. He has 34 previous convictions.

Judge Martin Nolan imposed a 33-month sentence to run consecutive to the two-and-a-half year sentence handed down on the earlier cannabis and firearm offences.

Judge Nolan noted that Wisniewski was a “talented man in the mechanical and electrical field” and was “well capable of

making a living without resorting to a life of crime”.

He took into account Wisniewski’s cooperation and admissions, but said the “complicating factor” in the case was that he was on bail for other offences at the time.

Garda Ian Cotter told prosecution counsel that he and colleagues went to Collinstown Cross Industrial Estate with a search warrant on foot of confidential information.

Wisniewski made admissions at the scene and later told gardai that somebody else had dropped the stolen car over and asked him to do some work on it. Wisniewski accepted responsibility for the cultivation and said he had been trying to make cannabis oil.

Gda Cotter agreed with Mr McGillicuddy that his client’s guilty pleas were useful to the prosecution.

Mr McGillicuddy submitted to Judge Nolan that Wisniewski had served time in the Polish army and was building a life in Ireland when he became involved in a 2010 drugs matter.

Counsel said that “cast a shadow over his life and he hasn’t extricated himself from those issues”.

“Through his own actions, he trapped himself in a litany of criminal acts.”

GARDAI in Tallaght are investigating a serious public order incident that occurred on the M50 on Monday evening.

The incident occurred at approximately 6.20pm on the M50 between junction 10(Ballymount) and junction 9(Redcow) northbound.

A number of people became involved in an altercation on motorway.

One man was seriously injured and taken to Tallaght Hospital where his injuries are not believed to be life threatening. Another male was also injured but refused medical attention and left the scene in a Silver Sedona car.

Anyone with any information is asked to contact Tallaght Garda station on 01 6666000 or the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111.

Specialised therapists for schools THE first ever project to provide in-school and preschool therapy services will take place in the Community Healthcare Organisation (CHO) Region 7.

This region includes West Dublin, Kildare, and West Wicklow.

Welcoming the news, local TD Frances Fitzgerald (FG) said: “I have been pushing for some time now to have a more integrated approach to our community health services and our Education system.

“The provision of in-school Speech and Language services was a core commitment of my Party in the last election which we managed to have included in the Programme for Government.

“This week, after a lot of background work, my colleague Minister Richard Bruton announced the pilot project aimed at getting these services up and running in our educational settings.

“Having therapists come to schools to provide the necessary interventions such as Speech and Language Therapy or Occupational Therapy, seems a more practical solution. “

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PILOT SCHEME: BID TO TACKLE DANGEROUS DRIVING AT SCHOOLS

Cameras to put a stop to bad driving MARK O’BRIEN

Harriers are Rockin’ and a Rollin’ in Liverpool LUCAN Harriers members Shane O’Keeffe and Anita Hughes are pictured at the Liverpool Rock n Roll Half Marathon which took place recently.

Shane finished the Half Marathon 140th overall (out of 8,975 athletes) in a time of 1.29.24 followed

by Anita in 2.34.39.

SOUTH Dublin County Council is to launch a pilot scheme aimed at deterring aggressive drivers who may be endangering school children and school wardens.

The initiative will see school wardens in some areas wearing GoPro cameras to record incidents of dangerous driving near schools.

The initiative was suggested by Cllrs Vicki Casserly and Emer Higgins (FG) who tabled a motion at the recent full council meeting.

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Dublin Gazette she was delighted that the council were prepared to pilot the scheme.

She said: “It would be a typical issue for school wardens where people would drive through and not take precaution.

“They (the wardens) are provided with their pen and paper to take registrations, but ultimately the welfare of the children is paramount in that c ircumstance so you wouldn’t always have the time to do that.

“It was just an innovative suggestion I put forward that the mana ge rs a re w i l l i n g to

engage in that basically the school wardens will be piloted with some of them wearing a GoPro, which can actually capture what they need in terms of dangerous instances that occur and to help improve road safety going forward for all pedestrian users.”

In response to the motion, the council said: “The road safety officer will engage with local media and community groups between now and end of school term in June to highlight any dangers and when the new school term returns in September, the school

School wardens will be wearing GoPro cameras to record incidents of dangerous driving near schools

warden ‘LolliCop Camera’ project will be examined for a pilot in South Dublin.

“Ahead of this, the road safety officer will seek approval from the data protection commissioner drawing on the template proposal used

in Kildare and Mayo County Council’s which should serve to speed up a pilot scheme for South Dublin.”

The council have not yet indicated which areas in the county would be part of the pilot scheme.

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GALLERIES

Sharon Strachan and Orla O’Byrne

Aoife and Katie Ryan

Alannah and Lucy Colclough

Oliver Barrett and Cllr Leona O’Toole

Sarah Lawlor, Joan Doyle, Aliana Kopeina and Sharon Nicholson. Pictures: Simon Peare

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Joan Doyle

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M50

Call for alerts to tackle traffic THE installation of the variable speed limit regime must be accelerated to alleviate the deteriorating traffic situation on the M50.

That’s according to Fianna Fail’s John Lahart.

He said: “Variable message signs are proven to be the most effective way to alert motorists to traffic information for a range of situations and conditions.

“This kind of motorway signage has the potential to calm traffic at peak times, therefore it reduces the likelihood of an accident occurring.

“Last year alone there were over 1,700 accidents, or incidents on the route.”

He called on the Government to help“alleviate the pressure on this main route”.

TALLAGHT: REFURBISH DECISION COULD “IMPEDE ABILITY TO POLICE LOCALLY”

No plan for an upgrade of station MARK O’BRIEN

THE decision not to extend or refurbish Tallaght garda station could “impede the gardai’s ability to police locally” according to one local representative.

Cllr Charlie O’Connor (FF) made the comments after it was revealed that the Department of Justice did not have any plans to carry out remedial works at the station.

This was confirmed in correspondence from Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan to the Fianna Fail party last week.

At last weeks’ meeting

of the West Tallaght Local Policing Forum, Garda Chief Superintendent, Kevin Gralton called for a new Garda Station in Tallaght and described the current facilities as “seriously over stretched and unfit for purpose”.

Cllr O’Connor echoed the calls to upgrade the station.

He said: “The existing Garda station in Tallaght is over 30 years old. At present, gardai policing the Tallaght area are forced to operate between offices in the Station and meeting space in the nearby Plaza Hotel.

“The effective policing of crime and anti-social behaviour in our area is essential to ensuring that local residents feel safe and protected.”

He added that there were a number of ongoing issues with crime in the community that require a response.

“The station in our area is no longer adequate enough to manage all of the facets of community policing.

“It’s deeply disappointing that neither the Minister for Justice nor Garda authorities are willing to recognise the pressure on

Tallaght garda station is over 30 years old

those within the police force stationed in Tallaght.

“There is a vacant site beside the existing station which could be easily acquired to facilitate an extension, yet no resources have been allocated to progress with plans.”

In response to a parliamentary question on the issue, Minister Flanagan said there were no plans to extend the station.

He said: “The Garda Siochana Building and Refurbishment Programme 2016 – 2021, which is an ambi-

tious five-year building Programme reflecting the priorities of An Garda Siochana, will benefit some 30 locations throughout the State.

“I am informed by the Garda authorities that the Programme does not include the provision of a new Garda station in Tallaght, and I further understand from the Garda authorities that there are no plans to undertake a major refurbishment of this Garda station.

“However, I am informed

that the Programme does include the provision of a Property and Exhibit Store (PEMS) at Tallaght Garda Station and that the development of this property storage facility is ongoing in conjunction with the OPW. “Finally, I am informed that to assist with accommodation in the existing Garda station in Tallaght, the OPW has provided additional accommodation for Garda in close proximity to the station, at the Plaza Office Complex, Tallaght.

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REPORT: GREEN-FRIENDLY COMMUTING AT NEW PEAK

Public transport use has hit a record high THERE are a record number of people travelling to the city centre using public transport, new figures

by Dublin City Council and the National Transport Authority (NTA) have revealed.

The figures are included in the Canal Cordon Report, 2017, which was conducted over a number of days last November.

More than 107,000 people, many coming to the city from areas like Lucan, Clondalkin and Tallaght, using the Luas or bus – the largest number recorded since the Cordon Report began in 1980.

This means that more than half of all journeys into the city each morning are made on public transport.

The report also revealed

From walking to cycling, Dubs have hit record numbers in using public transport to reach and cross the city

that more than 12,000 people cycle into the city centre on their daily commute – the highest number on record.

People are also walking into the city daily, with 25,000 pedestrians crossing the ‘canal cordon’ during the field study.

On average, 70% of all trips into Dublin city were made by a sustainable

mode of transport, which includes cycling, walking, taxis and other forms of public transport.

This has grown year on year since 2010 – in the past 11 years, the share for sustainable modes have grown by 9%.

The number of people driving into the city in their own private car has dropped, from almost

65,000 people in 2016 to 61,694 in 2017.

Anne Graham, chief executive of the NTA, said: “These figures are very encouraging and are a tribute to all of the operators providing transport into the city who have managed, not just to retain passengers, but to actually grow their customer base.

“What we see here is a clear indication that people in Dublin are responding positively to the services that transport operators are providing every day.

“Public transport reduces the amount of greenhouse gases and other emissions that are being generated, so it is better for the environment and helps us to meet our national greenhouse gas reduction targets.”

Meet the‘Maniac’ you’ll be delighted to hear playing MUSIC fans from across the city have another top artist to note at the Rock The Yard at the Leixlip Festival, with Mark McCabe (right) helping the opening festival night on Friday, June 1, go off with a bang at the Court Yard Hotel.

Mark’s name is synonymous with Irish dance culture – even 16 years after Maniac 2000 shot to #1, it still taps into a powerful place in Irish nostalgia, having achieved cult status.

The success of Maniac 2000 garnered accolades, including two Meteor Music awards, and the title of second-biggest selling record in Ireland.

McCabe even sealed a record deal with Twisted Records in New York and remixed for some of the biggest artists in the world.

Despite gaining a repu-

tation as ‘The Maniac’, Mark has never shied away from the Irish music industry and has released numerous tracks under various names.

Mark was creator, then editor, of RTE’s new music Alternative station, 2xm; dance station, Pulse, and later the director of music and sound at RTE 2fm.

In 2015, as a fifteenth anniversary surprise, the single topped the charts again.

Shortly after, Mark was invited to perform at Electric Picnic to thousands of festival goers. Since then, he has been in high demand and has played to more than 20,000 fans collectively at festivals, clubs and college events with dates in Sydney, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Andora and Mallorca.

This year looks to be an even bigger one for Mark as he returns to his production roots. With a number of edits and remixes under his belt, and plenty of his own new material to come, McCabe has been inundated with remix offers including James Arthur’s ‘Safe Inside’, and Gabrielle Aplin’s ‘Miss You’, both set for imminent release.

To book your ticket, see https://www.courtyard.ie/ ticket-sales.html.

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HEALTH: “REINSTATE 6TH CLASS SCREENING PROGRAMME”

Govt blasted over eye-care services MARK O’BRIEN

TEENAGERS in Dublin MidWest are being denied access to public eye-care, even if they have a medical card.

T h e i n fo r m a t i o n w a s revealed following a recent survey that was carried out by the Association of Optometrists Ireland (AOI).

Local TD Gino Kenny said he was shocked by the survey results and said that he has written to Minister for Health Simon Harris asking him to urgently address the issue.

He said: “I was shocked to read the survey results for my own constituency and have brought it immediately to the attention of the Minister.

“This is a disgraceful fail-

Local TD Gino Kenny

ure to look after the sight of our young people.

“Approximately 10% of children up to the age of 12 require glasses or contact lenses, but by the age of 16

more than 20% will do so.

“It is extremely important to provide eye-care for children in the 12-16 age group as this is when many problems can occur. But as it currently stands there are no specific public schemes in place.”

The survey also identified that since the sixthclass screening programme ceased in Dublin Mid-West and other areas, no alternative has been offered.

“It is clear to see that the Government has abandoned providing vital public eyecare services for our young people,” said Deputy Kenny.

“It is yet again another attempt to privatise another area of our health service.

“The only way children in this age group in Dublin Mid-

West can access eye-care is if they do so privately.

“This is completely unacceptable as, yet again, the poorest in society will be the ones who suffer most.

“I am urging the Government to reinstate the sixthclass screening programme and to provide public eyecare to medical card holders in the 12-16 age group as soon as possible.”

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Government has abandoned providing vital public eye-care for young people

LIFFEY VALLEY APPOINTMENT

Robbie Kelly is new Tesco manager FINGLAS native Robbie Kelly has been appointed as store manager of the new Tesco Extra at Liffey Valley.

With over 30 years’ experience in retail, Robbie started his career as a training manager in Finglas in 1987 and went on to gain a wealth of experience in Tesco stores right across Ireland before becoming Store Manager of Tesco Wexford in 1992.

He has since managed over 11 Tesco stores including Tesco Clearwater which he proudly opened in his home town in 2002, Tesco Extra Balbriggan, Tesco Blanchardstown, Navan, and most recently Tesco Extra Maynooth.

Commenting on his new role, Robbie said, “Our new flagship store at Liffey Valley will offer customers a fantastic fresh and local food offering, great prices, quality and service with the community at the heart of the shopping experience.

“We’re delighted to be creating over 150 new jobs locally

and bringing benefits to local suppliers in the broader Liffey Valley area. I’m really looking forward to meeting new customers, offering real value and great deals to the local community.”

Tesco Extra Liffey Valley, located at Fonthill Road, Liffey Valley Shopping Centre will open its doors to customers for the first time at 8am on Monday, 28th May.

Robbie Kelly

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GALLERIES

Zohara Sharif, Leah Fitzpatrick and Conner Stewart

Ryan Doyle, Cian Somers and Brandon Heavey

Principal Pauline Duffy with student winners Cian Somers and

Principal Pauline Duffy with winners

Courtney Whelan McManus. Pictures: Simon Peare

Amy Emmett and Lucas Church

Developing skills for the benefit of local students C Student winners Lee Barrett and Nadine Church

OLLINSTOWN Park Community College recently received a €12,500 award from the Microsoft Community Empowerment Fund to support a Student Award Programme. The Programme will be used to focus students on five important attributes promoted by Collinstown Park Community College among

its students, attributes also sought by Microsoft when recruiting and hiring datacenter employees. The goal of the programme is to improve these five key attributes and develop skills that will benefit students for the rest of their lives and will transfer into the workplace.

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David Browne, Ciaran Long and Dermot Delany. Pictures: Arthur Carron

Hundreds H turn out for ‘Run for a Life’

Kieran Murray and daughters Chloe, Sophie and Grace

UNDREDS of people of all ages lapped up the summer sunshine when they came out to support an important cause which is close to many of their hearts, organ donation.

They took part in the Irish Kidney Association’s ‘Run for a Life’ family fun run which took place at Corkagh Park, Clondalkin, on Saturday, May 19.

The family fun run was open to people of all ages and levels Sharon Dunne and son of fitness who could choose to Jamie walk, jog or run in the event.

Colin White and Tony Gartland

Rebecca Perez

Dean Lawless and Sibeal Geraghty

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SOME LAST THOUGHTS FROM A FEW VOICES ON THE OPPOSING SIDES

Vote

YES MY NAME is Breda Carroll. I’m originally from Finglas East, and now live in Clonsilla. I am 62 years old.

Before I retired two years ago, I worked in St John of Gods in the Employment Services [department], where I assisted people with disabilities. I have two lovely daughters and four wonderful grandchildren.

I am voting “Yes”; I am voting yes for my auntie, Nell.

She went to England around the time of the Second World War. She became pregnant and had to have a backstreet abortion. She couldn’t have any children after it.

There was a lot of s e c re c y a n d s h a m e around that. It affected her whole life.

I was shocked to learn

that backstreet abortions are an everyday reality here in unsupervised use of the abortion pill. Irish women – many of them mothers – are ordering these pills from unknown dealers online and are taking them alone across the country.

A “No” vote will do nothing to stop the illegal and unsafe use of the abortion pill. A “Yes” vote will regulate the abortion that is already here, and provide essential care to women.

I am also voting “Yes” for my friend, Ellen*.

A few years after the Eighth Amendment was introduced in 1983, she asked me to travel with her to England.

Ellen was married and had four children.

She was struggling and couldn’t cope with anoth-

I WANT to share why I believe the Eighth Amendment must be removed from our Constitution.

I’d like to share a story of the reallife impact of the Amendment that puts it in words better than I could.

“I love my country and being Irish is an important part of my identity. I needed help in the form of an abortion after I was impregnated without my consent.

“When I went to the Marie Stopes Clinic in London, for the first time in my life, I felt that

er pregnancy.

It was such a sad and lonely time for her. We couldn’t even go to her doctor. We went to the Well Woman Centre and they gave us information.

On the plane over, we met another Irish girl.

She told us she was going for a weekend away in Liverpool. We told her we were doing the same.

The next time we saw her was at the abortion clinic.

No-one wants to have an abortion. It is a sad, difficult decision and we need to look after the women who need to make that choice.

How many women has this Amendment affected since 1983? It breaks my heart, thinking about it.

I am also voting “Yes” for care, compassion and change.

Great Britain had my back and cared about me more than my own country did.

“This wasn’t just a feeling though, was it? It was and still is the actual reality. By not respecting women enough to let them decide when and if they shall have children, society is saying that women are not to be trusted.

“Motherhood is a major undertaking, that involves a lot of self sacrifice and women, myself included, step up to that plate all

I’m voting yes because I feel people should have the right to make choices for themselves. I don’t think anyone should be in a position to make a choice for anybody else.

I’m voting “Yes” for the mothers and fathers of babies diagnosed with fatal foetal abnormalities.

I’m voting “Yes” so that doctors can give the best healthcare to their patients. Peter Boylan was my obstetrician in 1982 and delivered my daughter. I trust him, and all of the medical professionals who’ve come out in support of a “Yes” vote.

On May 25, I’m voting “Yes” for a more caring, compassionate Ireland. I hope you will join me.

Supplied via Together For Yes. *Ellen’s name has been changed.

the time.

“That decision comes from within ourselves; the State shouldn’t force or automatically expect women to sacrifice themselves. Motherhood is not a female obligation, it is a choice.”

Unless we vote “Yes”, nothing will change. Things like this will keep happening, until we decide together that enough is enough, and it’s time to end the harmful ban on abortion in Ireland.

Gerard Moore, Clonsilla

NO MATTER WHICH CAMP YOU ABORTION is a reality in every single county in Ireland, but it is unsafe and unregulated.

Repealing the 8th Amendment means ensuring women who are having abortions will have access to safe and regulated care and support from their doctors and families.

Figures from the Department of Health and Social Care in the UK show that 18,112 women in Ireland travelled to the UK for an abortion between 2012 and 2016.

The figure includes women who gave an Irish address when they attended a UK hospital or clinic, and 2,860 who decided not to provide an address.

They do not include women in each county who have taken an abortion pill, or who may have travelled to another jurisdiction.

They include [a county by county breakdown is listed, including Dublin (with 6,314 women), and Kildare (669)].

At a doorstep in the Together For Yes headquarters, original members of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment reiterated the need to vote “Yes” so to introduce a regulated and safe system which addresses the reality of abortion in Ireland.

They included Deputies Billy Kelleher, Jan O’Sullivan, Louise O’Reilly, Jonathan O’Brien, Brid Smith, and Senator Ned O’Sullivan.

Catherine Noone, committee chair,

said: “The game-changer is the abortion pill and the ease with which it can now be ordered online. Usage of [such] pills in this country tripled between 2010 and 2016.

“Furthermore, 63% of women who take an abortion pill are already mothers. Every day, at least three women are taking an abortion pill on their own in secrecy in their bedrooms and bathrooms with no medical support.

“The question in this referendum therefore is not about whether we want abortion in Ireland – because we know it is already here, in every single county.

“The question is, do we want to regulate it, make it safe, and provide care for those who need it, or do we want to continue standing over unsafe, unregulated access to abortion and continue putting women in deeply distressing situations during a time of crisis in their lives?”

Orla O’Connor, Together for Yes campaign co-director, said: “We cannot hide from the reality any longer that abortion exists in every single county in Ireland. Women travel. Women take the abortion pill.

“They do so in unsafe, unregulated conditions and without the care or support of their doctors.

“The question is do you want unregulated and illegal abortion to continue or do we regulate it and keep women safe?”

Together For Yes

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ON HOW THEY HOPE PEOPLE WILL VOTE, AND WHY

REFERENDUM

Vote

NO SUPPORT, GO OUT AND VOTE! MAY 25 will be one of the most crucial dates in the memory of Irish history.

The referendum of all referenda.

The question: Remove the equal right to life of mother and baby, replace it with a constitutional amendment granting exclusive power to the Oireachtas to legislate on abortion? The answer: No. The proposal: Abortion

for any reason at all up to 12 weeks, abortion on mental health grounds up to six months, abortion without gestational limits for babies with severe disabilities.

The reality: In Britain, one baby in every five is killed before they are born.

We say: Reject the removal of the right to life of unborn children. Reject

WHAT we are being asked to support in this referendum is abortion on demand, for any reason whatsoever, up to 12 weeks.

That milestone in pregnancy has a particular resonance for me, as I lost a baby to miscarriage 12 weeks into pregnancy.

My tiny little girl was born fully intact with her arms folded and legs crossed. Every finger on her hands and toes on her feet were clearly visible, and the inchoate features on her face had distinct similarities to both mine and my husband’s. It was most apparent that she was a little human being.

A few days earlier, I had seen her rubbing her eyes with her little fists on an ultrasound which I had as a result of some bleeding. At that scan, the doctor told me that everything was okay, but sadly three days later, I miscarried.

After our child’s post-mortem – which confirmed my intuition that she was a girl – we had a funeral service in the Rotunda Chapel.

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the wide-reaching bill proposed by the Government.

We will: Protect mother and baby. Protect our Constitution. Vote No. We may have concerns about the current law – but abortion on demand is a step too far.

Vote NO, send them back to the drawing board to come up with a more humane proposal.

FamilyAndLife.Org

COMMENTING on the claim by Minister for Health Simon Harris that the importation of illegal abortion pills is a reason to repeal the Eighth Amendment, lawyer and LoveBoth spokesperson Caroline Simons said: “Today [May 21] we were told by the Minister for Health and two obstetricians that women who have taken abortion pills are afraid to present themselves to maternity hospitals.

“Instead of acting to address this problem, Minister Simon Harris has used these doctors and the issue of abortion

pills generally to express a newfound concern about the health risks associated with them.

“However, if one looks at the website funded by the Department of Health to tackle public health problems, www. healthpromotion.ie, you will find every topic from obesity to smoking but no mention of abortion pills.

“Furthermore, this government welcomed Google’s restrictions on advertising for the referendum, but the Government has made no effort whatsoever to ask Google to ban websites or search advertising which allow

people to import illegal abortion pills.

“Even this week, Google is still running search advertising for illegal abortion pills.

“If the Minister was really concerned about abortion pills and the problem they represent he would have done something practical about it, such as promoting information about the dangers of abortion pills and resourcing the customs authorities to intercept them.

“The Minister must stop cynically using the issue of abortion pills, which are a problem in

This referendum is not about limited abortion, it’s about allowing abortion on demand, for any reason, up to at least 12 weeks The staff at the Rotunda Hospital treated my baby and I with incredible dignity and respect, clothing her in a little white knitted shawl, and providing us with a beautiful little white coffin.

Our baby, whom we named Sarah, was buried with other miscarried and stillborn babies in Glasnevin Cemetery.

Throughout this referendum campaign, I have heard so many politicians and campaigners for unrestricted abortion dismissing the humanity of unborn children in the earlier stages of pregnancy: unborn children just like my Sarah.

If the Eighth Amendment is removed, these unborn babies will be stripped of their last constitutional protection, and unrestricted abortion

up until 12 weeks will become law.

It cannot be said often enough: this referendum is not about limited abortion, it’s about allowing abortion on demand, for any reason, up to at least 12 weeks.

The Government’s proposal will also introduce British-style abortion up to approximately six months on unspecified mental health grounds.

We have seen from the British experience what happens when abortion on demand is made readily available: there were 200,000 abortions in the UK in 2016. That’s one abortion for every four live births; and it means that one in five pregnancies ends in abortion.

I can’t think about this government proposal

Britain and other countries where abortion is available, to argue for the repeal of the Eighth Amendment.

“It’s quite clear that repealing the Eighth Amendment and introducing abortion on demand will not mean that the problem of the importation and use of abortion pills will suddenly disappear.

“People deserve actual solutions to the problem of abortion pills, not the removal of all rights from the unborn child, which is what the Minister is proposing,” she said.

LoveBoth

without thinking about how advances in ultrasound technology have made it possible to know so much about the development of unborn babies.

We know that around 22 days after conception, a baby’s heart begins to beat.

We know that a baby’s organs and limbs form so rapidly that at eight weeks, every body part found in a fully grown person is present. At 11 weeks, fingerprints and fingernails appear. This tiny person is growing quickly, moving, kicking, and stretching.

And we know that if the Eight Amendment is repealed, thousands of these precious, and vulnerable, people will never be allowed to be born.

My Sarah was not a choice: she was a human being. Babies like her are human beings too, and they deserve to be protected.

That is why I am voting “No” to abortion on demand, and why I ask you to do the same.

Tara Sheridan, via ProLifeCampaign.ie

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LOVE YOUR DUBLIN: THE BREAKDOWN OF THE BEST HANG OUTS AND HISTORICAL GEMS

DUBLIN HAS A NUMBER OF ULTIMATE FRISBEE TEAMS

DUBLIN MADE EASY AN IN-DEPTH LOOK AT SOME OF THE CITY’S ALTERNATIVE SPORTS

T

HE weather is getting better, the evenings are getting longer, and everyone’s looking for a way to make the best of the summer months.

Traditional sports might not be everyone’s cup of tea - so why not look a little bit outside of the box (or court or pitch)?

We’ve compiled some of Dublin’s more ‘alternative’ sport activities, from ziplining through the Dublin mountains to ‘bubble football’, there’s something to tickle everyone’s interest across the city this Summer.

ZIP IT

PARK PETANQUE CLUB

LOCATION: Tibradden Wood, Dublin 16 HIGHLIGHT: An unusual activity in the foothills of the Dublin Mountains

LOCATION: Bushy Park, Dublin 6 HIGHLIGHT: Something a bit more alternative for a park-based sport

LOCATION: AstroPark Coolock & Tallaght HIGHLIGHT: Less risk of injury means that you can tackle to your hearts content

BUBBLE FOOTBALL

FOR the thrillseekers amongst us, there’s an exhilerating escape on offer in the Dublin Mountains.

Zip It is a series of platforms on trees at various heights connected by a range of activities. You can cross rope bridges, swinging logs, cargo nets and ziplines at heights from one to 20 metres off the ground!

There are five circuits ranging in difficulty.

Each circuit gets a little bit more difficult as you go along.

It’s billed as ideal for those new to the world of adventure who want a ‘bite-sized’ challenge, but also for those embarking on the next stage of their thrillseeking quest.

It can take up to four hours to clear three circuits, with more information available from zipit.ie.

PARK Petanque Club were established in 1994 in Bushy Park .

For the uninitiated, Petanque is a game akin to traditional boules; the goal is to toss or roll hollow steel balls as close as possible to a small wooden ball called a cochonnet (literally “piglet”) or jack, while standing inside a circle with both feet on the ground.

This Saturday at Bushy Park, the club will host the inter-club meet, but they have a host of events on throughout the year for those looking to get involved, or simply come along out of curiosity.

For more information on the club, and Petanque as a whole, you can take a look at parkpetanqueclub.com. Other petanque venues in Dublin include the southside’s Marlay Park, and Cabinteely Park.

EVERYONE likes a bit of a kickabout in the Summer months - a lazy pass of the ball, until things potentially turn a bit more competitive.

Enter Bubble Football, available at AstroPark’s two Dublin locations. Wearing ‘bubbles’, you can feel free to tackle and bash about to your hearts content injury free for the opportunity to take home the winning title.

Also called ‘body zorbing’ or ‘bumper balls’, it’s a great day out for kids, team building exercises and more. It’s a good way of getting out and active, but also getting those slightly less interested in traditional football involved as well.

More information on Bubble Football is available from astroparkevents.ie.

MAGAZINE

DUBLIN

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LET DUBLIN GAZETTE NEWSPAPERS TAKE YOU ON A TOUR OF THE NEWS AND EVENTS ACROSS THE CITY AND COUNTY

THE GIFT OF GAZ | THE TIMES ARE A CHANGING BUT NOT ALWAYS FOR THE BEST

‘We’ve probably all signed our lives away’ ME phone has been hopping all week. You’d think I was popular or something but it’s all been emails from stuff I’d long since forgotten I’d signed up for.

“It’s this GDPR,” says Paschal. “My head is wrecked with it.”

“It’s not your phone that’s hopping though, is it?” I says to him as he dropped the toastie over to me. He seems to have given up on the auld tapas, thank God. The nature of the world means that it has to change to some degree but there are some things that should just stay the same and a ham and cheese toastie with a scoop is one of them in my book.

Once I have those little familiar comforts then I can deal with wider social change. It’s like my own little trade off with the universe.

“Ah, I’ve had to send emails out, but,” he says.

“And come up with new privacy and data policies. To be honest Gaz, I didn’t even realise I had old privacy and data policies but sure there ye go.

“We’ve probably all signed our lives away at this stage without realising it,” I says to him.

“Big Brother and all that malarkey.”

“I never liked that show,” he says. “They were all just atten-

tion seekers that went into that gaff.”

“Been to a library lately, Paschal?”

“

It’s this GDPR. My head is wrecked with it.

I ask him.

“When would I have time to go to a bloody library?” he spits back at me.

“That’s why you’re not familiar with Orwell,” I says.

“Of course I am,” he roars back at me. “It’s in Templeogue. Sure, isn’t that where me sister lives? I’m up there all the time.”

For a second I thought he was messing but he had that big serious head on him.

He usually only adopts that expression when some culchie comes into the bar and starts banging on about how Dublin should be split in two for the Gah. “Not Orwell the place ye bleedin

tulip,” I says to him.

“Orwell the person. George Orwell.”

“Do I know him?” Paschal asks me, raising his eyebrow in that quizzical way that makes me think of yer man that used to manage Chelsea.

“Yeah,” I sighed, pushing me empty plate and glass towards him and nodding towards the tap.

“He was in here last week, agreeing with you that the Dubs shouldn’t be spilt because while all Gah teams are equal, some teams are more equal than others.”

“Ah yeah,” he says. “Think I remember him.”

Good Jaysus.

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ENTERTAINMENT CALL TO SUPPORT A LOCAL CAUSE

Volunteering to help others will really help yourself, too REBECCA RYAN

NATIONAL Volunteering Week took place last week, Dedicated to highlighting volunteering across Ireland, this year’s theme was, Volunteering Builds Better Communities.

One Dubliner who is helping build a better community is Sue O’Brolchain, a retired primary school teacher from Monkstown who volunteers for Children in Hospital Ireland (CHI).

CHI was founded in 1970 and has almost 400 volunteers giving more than 43,000 ‘play’ hours each year in 13 hospitals across Ireland.

CHI’s volunteers play with sick children in hospitals by organising weekly arts and crafts, games and fun activities. It also gives parents an opportunity to get a badly needed cup of tea, shower or whatever they may need.

Sue has been volun-

teering with CHI at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Dun Laoghaire one afternoon a week for the past two years.

In between the children’s treatment, Sue takes them for an hour, and does arts and crafts and games with them.

Sue told Dublin Gazette it is a welcome break for the children and they leave in great form. She said: “It gives the kids a bit of light relief. Some of the exercises they have to do are quite hard on them.

“They’re lovely kids, and I really enjoy being with them. I love volunteering, and the people in the hospital are lovely.”

Sue also volunteers for other local groups with her husband, and she had this advice for anyone thinking of volunteering.

She said: “It’s great for people to volunteer.

There are so many kinds of things that you can volunteer for, and I would

Dublin contemporary artist Barbara Knezevic and her 2016 work, The Last Thing On Earth

IMMA adds something special to its art collection MARK O’BRIEN

Monkstown woman Sue O’Brolchain, who volunteers with Children in Hospital Ireland (CHI) at the National Rehabilitation Hospital; above: CHI helps provide ‘play’ hours for sick children

encourage anyone to do it if they have a little bit of extra time.”

At the heart of CHI’S work is its play service.

Research has proven that play helps to reduce stress for children in a difficult environment and enables them to work through trauma, and aid recovery.

Not only does volunteering help the person

receiving the care, but it can also have a positive impact on the volunteer’s health and well-being too.

In the Volunteer Ireland Report 2017, results showed that volunteers felt a range of positive emotions such as feeling useful and valued, a personal sense of growth and development, and feelings of enjoyment, happiness,

and contentment.

They also felt connected to the community and felt more tolerant and open to people and their diversity.

CHI’s national fundraiser is coming up in June, inviting people or businesses to host a ‘Cuppa & Cookie’ morning on CHI’s behalf. To register for a starter pack, email info@ childreninhospital.ie.

HENNESSY Ireland and the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) have chosen a work by Dublin contemporary artist Barbara Knezevic to be purchased by The Hennessy Art Fund for IMMA Collection 2018.

She joins the company of artists such as Louis Le Brocquy, Alice Maher, Dorothy Cross and Patrick Scott, whose works are already part of the IMMA National Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art. Barbara’s sculptural arrangement, The Last Thing On Earth (2016), is framed by the proposition: “What if this is the last thing, the final material to be pulled out of the ground, the final piece of stuff that has not already been purposed by humans?”

The ‘thing’ referred to here is a multi-sided marble object at the centre of the work, around which a constellation of other objects, including a photographic backdrop, tripods and archaeological tools, mirrors, and an iPad are arranged.

Hennessy Ireland formed a unique partnership with IMMA in 2016 to help fund the purchase of important works by Irish and Ireland-based artists for the National Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art. Funding cuts during the recession resulted in the museum lacking resources to purchase works, meaning the practices of younger and mid-career artists from 2011 onwards were glaringly absent from the IMMA Collection story.

Looking back at the 12 works purchased over the past three years, IMMA senior curator, head of collections Christina Kennedy, said: “As 12 works that stand as a distinct grouping within the IMMA National Collection, the Hennessy Art Fund, to date, reflects something that is on the pulse of what is observed by artists today, often ahead of other indicators, and which is contributing to thinking about the human condition in a technological age.”

IMMA welcomed close to half a million visitors in 2017 and was recognised as the second most popular free visitor attraction in Ireland in 2016.

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The bin hanger is being distributed by IWMA members, who collect 75% of all household waste in the country.

It is also being emailed by the IWMA household waste collection companies to their customers and is available to down-

Showcasing some Help group to top new art talents support people ALMOST 300 of Ireland’s most pioneering students in film, media, design, visual arts and creative technologies will present their final year works at this year’s IADT graduate show at the college from June 1-6.

Fine Art graduate Patrick Tunney (above) is just one of the up and coming artists whose work will be on show, with the graduates showcasing the culmination of their years of study at the august institution.

As Ireland’s only institute of art, design and technology to focus specifically on the creative, cultural and technological industries, IADT has seen many of the 2018 class already securing employment, pre-graduation, with companies such as Workday, Opennet, Aladdin Education Software and software innovators, Sonalake.

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It’s hoped that the initiative will help homeowners become more familiar with what can and cannot be recycled, and that it will also help with reducing contamination across the various bins.

living with MS

MULTIPLE Sclerosis Ireland has announced that World MS Day 2018 will take place on Wednesday, May 30.

The MS Care Centre – the national respite and therapy centre for people living with MS, based in Dublin – will hold its annual World MS Day coffee morning from 10am. MS Ireland will also host MS Research Explored, a research information event in Trinity Biomedical Sciences Building, from 6-8pm.

More than 9,000 people in Ireland are living with MS with thousands more family members affected.

To support the day, you can text KISS to 50300 to donate €4, and nominate others to take part. For further information, see www.KissGoodbyeToMS.ie.

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GOINGOUTOUT

Heroes In Hiding An Album A Decade In The Making

PICKWEEK OF THE

MAY 25 (FRIDAY)

Demi Lovato @ 3Arena, €49.50 IN her decade-long music career, Demi Lovato has rarely, if ever, been a disappointment when it comes to live performances. Now, she’s set to uphold that reputation when she takes the stage at The 3Arena on Friday, May 25.

MAY 24 (THURSDAY) Game Of Thrones Live Concert Experience @ 3Arena, €59.50 Big Freedia @ The Workman’s Club, €16 Jerry Fish @ Mill Theatre, €20 CC Brez and The Love Tailors + Chief Keegan @ Whelan’s, €12

MAY 25 (FRIDAY) Demi Lovato @ 3Arena, €49.50 Sylvan Esso @ Tivoli Theatre, €29.50 Gaz Coombes @ The Academy, €26

MAY 26 (SATURDAY) Ham Sandwich @ Olympia Theatre, €22 A first ever Olympia headline show for Kells band and national treasures Ham Sandwich, who’ll explore their back catalogue of powerful pop-rock.

Primordial @ Tivoli Theatre, €36 Orwells ‘84 + Kelso @ Whelan’s Upstairs, free

MAY 27 (SUNDAY) Volbeat @ Olympia Theatre, €30.50 The Breeders @ Vicar Street, €35 Injury Reserve @ The Academy 2, €15 Blood Or Whiskey @ Toner’s, €10

MAY 28 (MONDAY) Broken Social Scene @ Tivoli Theatre, €28 Amanda Palmer @ National Concert Hall, €25 Charismatic indie pop act, author and former street performer Amanda Palmer brings her enthralling show for an ‘evening with’ style event at the iconic venue.

Why Don’t We @ Olympia Theatre, €29 Father John Misty @ Vicar Street, €36.50 Jon Dee + William Harries Graham @ Whelan’s, €18

MAY 29 (TUESDAY) The Ruby Sessions @ Doyle’s, €7 Ezra Furman @ Tivoli Theatre, €20 Father John Misty @ Vicar Street, €36.50 Delicate, soulful melodies from a man who’s relocated to Iceland just to capture every ounce of natural subtlety in his music. Just stunning.

Glen Hansard + Cathy Davey + Camille O’Sullivan @ Whelan’s, €25

MAY 30 (WEDNESDAY) Father John Misty @ Vicar Street, €36.50 Thirty Seconds To Mars @ 3Arena, €59.50

DUBLIN indie band Heroes In Hiding forged their reputation in the live arena.

Hav i n g e x i s te d i n various forms for over a d e c a d e, t h ey ’ve changed genres entirely - from ska to indie-folk - become confident on stage, and developed some creative concepts.

Those concepts include their extraordinary 360 degree concert, played for the first time in Newmarket’s Green Door Market last year.

It saw the band place their entire audience i n s i d e a b o xe d - o f f, 360-degree screen while they played outside, to beautifully orchestrated imagery.

Now, after a decade of playing about with their style and identity, they’re finally ready to launch debut album ‘Actor’, which fuses abundant folk, rock and electro influences.

“The disparate influences collide in the middle,” Liam McCabe explains of the album.

“We’ve tried to fight against it at times, but I think that’s the nice bit. It’s all the influences mashed together in this pile. We e ither push them aside, or just allow

it to happen.”

Heroes In Hidings tracks have never been o bv i o u s. T h ey te n d to avoid the musical tropes: no love songs, or tracks about drinking and friends.

Not long ago, a single, ‘Casanova’, talked about going home with women because of a fascination with seeing their bedrooms, rather than the activity that might take place there. Naturally, the band say it isn’t based in reality.

“That was 2014,” McCabe says of ‘Casanova’. “We’re trying to find slightly more interesting ways of telling stories. With that one, we had the main hooks in the chorus, as we’d decided it was going to be called Casanova. All the typical kind of Casanova love songs just seemed a bit boring.”

The new album is similarly leftfield, d e l v i n g i n to t h e world of internet fronts and false o n l i n e p e rsonalities.

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“It’s a running theme through ‘Actor’,” Cian Donohoe tells us.

“Authenticity and questioning not necessarily the big picture, how you live your life, but day to day things.

“The album touches on the actor being the person you put forward in any life scenario. Even now, I feel like I’m acting somewhat to you.

“But that’s life. Every track has a certain sense of that, be it

through a love story, or a critique of the internet.”

The album will return Heroes In Hiding to their unusual live concept for the Dublin launch show.

“We thought it would be really interesting to do a project with someone who wasn’t a band, essentially,” McCabe explains.

“It’s a collaboration with a company called Second Frame Films. We first worked with them to develop this long set, that turned out to be the (2014) ‘Curtains’ release.

“We built this big cube we made out of tracing paper and screens, a 7x7m cube.

“We shoved everyone into the cube and projected onto the outside, and played in the same room. It was kind of an

experiment to see if we weren’t there, would the experience be as good.

“I guess it came back to the Actor thing. The film was the actor in that case.

Obviously if you’re in a warehouse in the middle of Dublin 8, it feels a bit surreal. We wanted to flip the live show on its head a little bit.

“So many good bands are getting up on stage and doing the same thing.” McCabe says.

“It’s important to do something different.

“I think the success is already there for me. It’s finished. Whatever happens, happens. If we’re famous in six months time, or it dies, at least we did it.”

Heroes in Hiding launch their debut album ‘Actor’ at Tivoli Theatre on May 25, performing their stunning audiovisual set. The album is released on the s a m e day.

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ENTERTAINMENT TOP TWEETS I was just in the garden centre and I couldn’t remember the word ‘trowel’ so had to ask the man where the ‘earth spoons’ were. @TheSimonBarrett When you’re in a linguistic hole, Simon, keep digging ...

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IT’S NOT TOP OF THE CLASS, BUT LIFE OF THE PARTY IS ENTERTAINING ENOUGH

School daze, amuses SHANE DILLON

AT THIS stage, it’s pretty fair to say that the summer blockbusters have arrived, and they don’t get much more blockbustier than the new film based on a certain Star Wars rogue opening this weekend.

That film won’t exactly be flying Solo at the cinema – other big-budget blockbusters have also been battling away, with Deadpool 2 and Avengers: Infinity War laying waste to all before and around them – and that’s without the arrival of a certain group of Jurassic dinosaurs which are looming on the horizon, a couple of weeks away.

All this big-budget mayhem (and the lack of much space this week to do any of these big films justice) is enough to turn those looking for a breather towards a smaller film as a palate cleanser,

such as Life of The Party (Cert 15A, 105 Mins).

Marking star Melissa McCarthy’s third collaboration with director (and husband) Ben Falcone, this party treads some very familiar ground on its journey towards one woman’s reawakening and rekindled zest for life.

Moving briskly along from the film’s start, Deanna (McCarthy) is suddenly dumped by her husband for another woman, and decides to return to college to complete a long abandoned degree, much to her daughter Maddie’s (Molly Gordon) chagrin. (Of course, they’re going to the same college, because of all the gin joints in all the world...)

At this stage, it’s very much a high-concept, easily grasped premise, and one where there’s not much wriggle room for McCarthy to bring out a little of her occasional unpredictability.

Wearing that kind of fuddy-duddy ‘Mom Sweater’, you’re in no doubt that Deanna (McCarthy) will soon run into a culture clash at college

This kind of fish-out-of-water, kid-plus-parent college comedy used to be two a penny back in the day.

Still, although this film is firmly locked into ticking plenty of predictable boxes on its journey, with a triumphant destination never in doubt, it’s passable enough.

Mom reawakening; initially horrified kid seeing her in a new light; The Kids thinking mom rocks – check, check, check.

McCarthy has proven time and again that she can spin gold out of the weakest straw, as well as also picking some utter duds to showcase her talents.

This ain’t a classic McCa-

rthy role – far from it – but she brings just enough of her likable enough empathy and believability (with a dash of squirminducing physicality) to bear on Deanna, aided and abetted by some decent support work, with an eccentric sidekick almost stealing the show.

A film that’s very much about the journey, not the destination, many of the jokes are lowgrade stuff, although an amusingly kitsch 1980s-influenced sequence briefly lifts the bar with some well-landed gags, for those who remember the era (cough, cough).

Has it made the grade of a topquality comedy? Not quite, I’m afraid, but while not a comedy masterclass, it passes the time well enough.

For that, I’ll grade this schooldaze fare as a C+, which loosely coverts to ... 6/10

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GALLERIES OF THE WEEK

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Kyara Connolly, Ciara Ni Cheallaigh and Alannah Gilbert. Pictures: Brian McEvoy

James Patrice Butler

Mary Brody and Sandra Janic

Siofra Eggo, Rachel Irwin, Aisling Shiel, Jamie Yap, Catherine Lennon, Liberty McGovern, Isabelle Clarke and Alanna Gilbert

Junk Kouture finalists attend Cannes Festival C LASS was cannes-celled recently for young Junk Kouture finalists who attended the annual Cannes Film Festival in France. The Junk Kouture prize winners mingled with movie stars and the social elite on the French red carpet in their striking works of wearable and recycled art.

Alex Carmen and Camila Carvalho

Shauna O’Rourke and Isabelle Clarke

Ciara Gilleece

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TECH TIME Mark’s sorry – but will that be enough for Brussels?

SHANE DILLON

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ALL EYES in the tech world were firmly focused on Brussels this week, where the anonymous mandarins of our EU overlords were tasked with grilling Facebook head honcho Mark Zuckerberg (right).

He’s currently deployed on something of a global apology tour, with the company still very much in damage control over the ongoing, explosive Cambridge Analytica data mining scandal.

It’s largely fallen out of the news headlines, but that particular problem is still blazing away, like an underground coal fire that’s hard to extinguish.

Mark’s appearance before the MEPs drew a lot of heat from a range of sources with, at the time of writing, it seeming that his apology and Q&A before the MEPs doing little to sate criticisms of the data mining disaster.

Perhaps the biggest criticism of his appearance came from the incoherent nature of the grilling which, to be fair to Mark, wasn’t an optimum experience.

Rather than having a tightly-focused session instigated by experts truly in the know over the increasingly complex, serpentine world of big data, social media, consumer rights and data security, much of the grilling was akin to a town hall bun fight, with somewhat random questions lobbed in from people from all kinds of groups and leanings.

The format of such a free-for-all Q&A made for good optics – you can insert your own ‘Facebook boss squirms before

MEPs’-type headline here – but digging a little deeper, it wasn’t the ideal or, perhaps, best way to grill the Facebook boss.

As such, as the questions and focus veered all over the place, the answers did too, giving plenty of scope for some rather vague answers that made literal sense in the context of the moment, but will perhaps prove harder to implement.

Still, for those looking for an apology, they got one. Mark had a fairly large chuck of humble pie to deal with, and on optics alone he delivered, giving a fairly comprehensive mea culpa apology over a range of Facebook issues.

His direct apology referenced the increasingly problematic issues of socalled fake news, data misuse, and foreign interference in elections – something which is an ongoing issue regarding

Russia and America, and which resonates closer to home.

That aspect of his apology – externally-manipulated political tinkering – has an echo in Ireland, given the mild controversy late last week with Facebook, and other tech titans, stopping externally-funded/ created abortion ads hitting our social media ahead of the referendum.

While sorry is for many the hardest word, Mark rattled it out, admitting that Facebook failed not only to protect user data, but at a more intellectual level, has failed to think through its increasing heft in politics and cultural power.

Has his appearance, apology, and promise to devote more resources to making Facebook more data-compliant and transparent done enough to further dampen down the heat? Perhaps.

However, apart from the public and political pressure that’s now bearing down on Facebook, there’s potentially a bigger issue on the horizon for Facebook to also prepare for.

The growing unease over Facebook’s political, cultural and economic power and reach has started seeing MEPs, and others, muttering darkly about it being an uncompetitive monopoly to be tamed, and possibly even broken.

It’ll be interesting to see if the MEPs in Brussels can, or will, flex any collective political muscle based on what the Facebook boss said to them, or if a bigger, grand plan to try to tame all the social media giants will emerge as data and user issues continue to mount.

The worrying end of ‘net neutrality’ is drawing near AWAY from Brussels mulling over Facebook’s power, something that’s also worrying is almost upon us – the end of net neutrality, currently pencilled in for June 11.

As I’ve written about a number of times over the past year, the alarming end of net neutrality – in other words, a one-size-fits-all guaranteed equal access to the internet, where all data is presented and accessed equally without any commercial interests slowing down or thwarting access to content for people who haven’t paid extra – looms, following a frankly crazy ruling by the current US administration to roll back such protections.

President Trump’s administration insists that removing net neutrality is better for consumer choice – after all, consumers might like to have the choice to pay more to access streaming content or websites a little faster and easier than those who pay less – which is a move that many, but not all, internet service pro-

viders have also welcomed, for obvious reasons.

In stiff opposition, pretty much all of the world’s largest websites and main data providers – your Googles, your YouTubes, etc – have been vocally opposed to the roll-back, recognising that a de facto two-tier internet is not in consumers’ interest, and that such a commercially driven move fundamentally changes the core notion of the internet being a globally equal service at source.

It’s impossible to underscore enough how the US rolling back of such protections under the guise of improved consumer choice has the potential to affect the internet’s flow around the world – including for Irish consumers suddenly finding that UShosted sites and content have slowed down, for example.

At the time of writing, last-ditch efforts continue to thwart or derail the roll-back.

MACHINE OF THE WEEK

Mustang gets more appeal with overhaul The Ford Mustang is one of the world’s most iconic cars, so when the right hand drive versions were announced for Ireland it’s no surprise that there was always going to be a waiting list. The Mustang offers so much in terms of styling, but not always what MICHAEL MORONEY wanted in terms of driving experience as his report concludes.

THE Mustang is without question Ford’s most iconic car. It has featured in so many American movies that once available in Europe and in Ireland in right hand drive, the car was instantly going to appeal to a certain group of car lovers.

With the new generation Mustang Ford has preserved the styling that is so much part of the car’s appeal.

You can’t help but love the car’s shape and the way the Ford designers have sculpted those style lines to make the car look modern, fast and still retain its 1960’s heritage.

Even the new special edition Ford Mustang Bullitt, launched for the Geneva Motor Show earlier this year and celebrating the 50th anniversary the legendary Bullitt film gives further fuel to the Mustang brand appeal.

With credentials like that and an iconic history, my expectations were high for my Mustang test drive.

There are two power versions of the car on the Irish market, the more affordable 2.3 litre EcoBoost version and the more powerful 5.0 litre V8 engine, both of which are petrol fuelled.

For my entry level test car, the 2.3 litre turbo-petrol car came with a 317bhp

power rating that was sure to impress. With its keyless, pushbutton start, the engine was modest in terms of behaviour, while a more throaty growl could be extracted from it with more aggressive use of the right pedal.

The car was fitted with a six-speed manual gearbox, which for the Mustang purists is probably the way to spec the car for a Mustang experience.

For others like myself, whose desire would be for

town in a gear lower than you need to, in order to get full notice in the Mustang.

Car enthusiasts will all spot the Mustang shape and style and then they listen to hear their perception of an authentic Mustang engine roar.

That’s truly reserved for the 5.0 litre V8 version, which I driven for a very short run some time back.

Hit the pedal hard and you’ll feel the 434Nm of torque push the car forward with a pace of 5.8

Ford Mustang 2.3 Ecoboost Engine Engine power 0 – 100km/hr Economy Fuel Tank Capacity CO2 emissions Road Tax Band Main Service Euro NCAP Rating Warranty Entry Price the impressive Mustang look but without having to do too much hard work, and then the automatic version gives all of that look with an equal amount of road credibility.

You need to bring the Mustang out on the open road, or else drive around

2.3 litre 317 bhp 5.8 seconds 12.5km/litre (8.0/100km or 35mpg) 59 litres 179g/km E €750 20,000km/12 months 3 Star 2017 2 years €55,500 seconds in a 0 to 100km/ hr race. That’s impressive and in fairness relatively smooth in action.

The car has electronic power-assisted steering, which is accurate and solid but heavy to drive, especially at lower speeds, cruising around town.

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WHAT’S NEW IN TECHNOLOGY AND ON WHEELS

TECH & MOTORS BMW models in safety recall BMW Group has launched a safety recall relating to certain models of the previous generation of BMW 1 Series, 3 Series, X1 and Z4 built between March 2007 and September 2011 inclusive. BMW Ireland reports that it is working with a number of 10,602 vehicles affected in Ireland and with the Department of Transport to ascertain an accurate figure.

A technical action for the cars was released in November 2016 which was subsequently turned into recall in 2017. Following some TV exposure of the issue in the UK, this recall, as a precautionary safety related measure, has now subsequently been widened.

BMW Ireland will be contacting all affected custom-

Ford’s new generation Mustang has all the design imagery that’s needed for a modern sports car

ers by post advising them of how they can book their car in to have the work carried out. The company claims that it will commence contacting affected customers in the next three weeks.

Affected customers can contact their local BMW

I found the clutch to be equally heavy and the gearbox notchy and took effort to use. These experiences took away from the pleasure of driving such an iconic looking car.

You don’t expect a car like the Mustang to offer outstanding fuel econo-

my.

Mustang buyers don’t rate that feature in their shopping list but for the record, I found that the rated figure of 12.5km/ l i t re ( 8 . 0 / 1 0 0 k m o r 35mpg) was probably close to the real thing.

This means that you

should be getting over 700km from a full tank, but then Mustang temptation comes in the way of thrift.

This new generation Mustang comes with lots of new generation Ford technology, including the Ford Synch system

for mobile phone connections, new generation Sat Nav and a host of safety features.

The car has a relatively low Euro NCAP 3 star safety rating, but so do other similar cars in this category.

For those with a certain

motoring image to maintain, the new Ford Mustang will deliver just that.

It’s true sports car with a hard suspension, but I’m not sure if the driving comfort will match the perception of the car which has movie heritage that will last and last.

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LADIES FOOTBALL: THERE was celebrations across the city as the delayed annual Under-14 carnival played out with finals at Blanch IT, O’Toole Park and Tallaght Stadium.

Thomas Davis and Round Tower, Clondalkin were among the sides to shine reaching the finals in their respective divisions.

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LET DUBLIN GAZETTE NEWSPAPERS INFORM YOU OF THE HIGHLIGHTS AND SCORES OF YOUR FAVOURITE TEAMS RUGBY | RUDDOCK, DEASY AND MCEVOY ALL HONOURED

Lansdowne sweep up UBL awards  STEPHEN FINDLATER

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LANSDOWNE topped off an amazing season, following their recent Division 1A and Bateman Cup final victories, by taking home four awards.

Their hugely-influential head coach Mike Ruddock was crowned the Division 1A Coach of the Year having led his team to the title, winning 18 of 20 games.

Talismanic out-half Scott Deasy claimed the top points scorer gong for his outstanding club recordbreaking 219 points tally this season, while Lansdowne’s young centre Harry Brennan claimed the Leinster Player of the Year award.

Winger Daniel McEvoy, another of the headquarters club’s talented backs, also picked up the inaugural #UBLTry of the Year award

- as decided by an online vote. He finished off a terrific team effort against Young Munster on the Aviva Stadium’s main pitch.

McEvoy beat off stiff competition from fellow Ulster Bank League Try of the Month winners - Ben Kilkenny (Young Munster), Jack Maybury (Old Wesley), Bain Champion (Seapoint), Dan Kerr (Malone), Paul Devitt (Skerries), Marcus McAllister (Malahide) and Falemaka El Vave (Queen’s University).

Neil Cronin, who earned himself a Munster contract ahead of next season on the back of his performances with Garryowen this season, capped off an incredible year when he received the Division 1A Player of the Year award.

The Garryowen scrum half and captain, who skippered the Ireland Club International team this year, was also named the Munster Player

LANSDOWNE’S Scott Deasy, winner of Top Points Scorer, is presented with his award by Ulster Bank’s Carol McMahon, at the Ulster Bank League Awards. Picture: Sam Barnes/Sportsfile

of the Year.

IRFU President Philip Orr commented on the awards that: “The Ulster Bank League allows clubs to showcase their talent, their communities and the values rugby represents.

“These awards are a welcome recognition of the dedication and

commitment of not just the players but the volunteers in our clubs that represent the bedrock of our game.

“On behalf of the IRFU, I would like to congratulate the individual winners and their clubs and express our gratitude to Ulster Bank for their continuing support of our national club competition.”

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WELL done to the Dublin minors and our Ballyboden St Enda’s minors on their win over Laois in the minor championship. Hard luck to our senior hurlers on the Dublin Hurling team on their loss to Wexford.

Nearly 900 people descended on City West Hotel last Friday for Ballybodens St Enda’s excellent presentation of “The Broadway Challenge” which was this years signature club fundraising event.

Following much deliberation within the judging panel and factoring in the public voting on the night and online, the deserving winner were the Hairspray team lead by Ciara Healy who, in her final few words, reminded us all on why we we there and also remembered our dear departed club member Gerry Hogan.

Our annual golf classic is scheduled for this Friday in Edmondstown Golf Club. If you would like to take part, log onto www.bodengaa.ie for more details.

There was no winner of this week’s lotto , the lotto numbers are 7, 12, 18, 9. This week’s jackpot total is €2,500.

FAUGHS A BUSY week in adult hurling. On Wednesday, our senior hurlers played Kilmacud Crokes in Silver Park and, despite some very good individual performances, came away on the losing side. At the same time Junior As also played Kilmacud Crokes and emerged ten-point winners, Junior Bs played Crumlin and were unlucky to lose. Senior 7 Camogie beat Round Towers on Saturday last in their league.

Well done to all involved.

Well done to the combined St Judes and Faughs U-11 boys who won the Dublin Community Games final on Thursday. Well done to boys and management on a great achievement.

U-13 hurlers had a

brilliant overnight stay in Wexford, a great morning of competitive matches against Faythe harriers culminating in a trip to Wexford Park to watch the Dubs take on Wexford.

Speedy recovery to Robbie O’Connell who is currently injured, we need you back on the pitch and behind the bar.

Great performance by the U-12s who played in the Caman to Leinster 2018 Blitz in Abbotstown.

Played 3 matches…no scores conceded.

Some superb hurling by our girls. Great goals and points scored. Super day, great weather, great location.

Our ref Holly did a superb job thank you Holly.

ULTRA-RUNNING: HOMELESS CHARITIES SET TO BENEFIT

Mark Conlon’s latest Marathon mission Bawnogue man MARK CONLON is embarking on his most ambitious challenge yet, running a marathon a day for as long is physically possible as he continues to highlight the plight of the homeless  JAMES HENDICOTT

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SEASONED marathon runner Mark Conlon will start his biggest challenge yet on June 3 in Clontarf as he powers into a campaign to run a marathon every day for an indefinite period.

As is usual for the Bawnogue man, the aim is to raise awareness of growing homelessness issues in Dublin.

Conlon finished his 150th marathon in Donabate recently and has previously undertaken challenges that have seen him complete 20 marathons in 20 days and also complete a full circuit of Ireland in order to raise money for charities such as the Simon Community and Pieta House.

He works with luas security firm STT, and has become increasingly concerned with his experiences early in the morning and throughout the day with the homeless community.

“It’s horrible to see what people experience,” Conlon told the Dublin Gazette.

“I see people every morning leaving shop doorways, temporary accommodation or hostels, and then just moving around all day as they have nowhere to go. I hope I can raise some awareness of the problem.”

The indefinite aspect of the project links to this awareness raising. Conlon has taken leave from his company – who he thanks for their support in his plans – for the first 10 or so marathons.

But after they have put their weight behind him, he feels they will support his project for an extended period.

A possible figure of as many as 50 consecutive marathons is mentioned.

“I plan to run with anyone who will join me, homeless or otherwise, but particularly with homeless people” he says.

He thinks the challenge might

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Music this Sat by TBC. Live sport every weekend.

Set dancing classes every Monday from 8pm. Bingo Thursday night, starts at 8.45pm, open to everyone. Weight Watchers every Tuesday morning.

Please continue to support the club lotto. Tickets €2 each or three for €5, Jackpot €6,400 - not won.

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Mark Conlon competing in the Donadea 50km race in February this year

appeal to people who are often stuck just moving around all day and want to do something bigger with that time.

“

I want to capture their stories. It’s not about me talking about homelessness, it’s about homeless people having their own say.

”

“I want to capture their stories.

It’s not about me talking about homelessness, it’s about homeless people having their own say.

“I’ll slow down on any day that anyone wants to join me, for however long they want to join me. I

might run a bit faster on other days when I’m alone.

“But I really hope that I can persuade some of the homeless community to join me and that I can organise some way of filming and conveying those stories to the public. I hope to reach out to some student filmmakers who might be interested in collecting the stories and perhaps making a documentary later.

“I want to hear everyone’s ideas and stories to try and solve this problem,” he continues, before thanking his friend Ger Copeland, who runs East Coast Marathons, for his contribution on the practical side of things.

Copeland will post Conlon’s GPS maps and times from his daily runs on the Dublin Bay Running Club site, and has been key in helping Conlon develop his running so far, in particular through his series of affordable events, put on through East Coast Marathons.

“I really want something to change. I’m not sure what I want done yet, that will come from talking to the people affected,” Conlon says. “We need to stand together and make it clear to the government that we won’t let this happen anymore, and we want changes. I hope anyone at all interested does come along and join me anytime they can.”

If anyone’s capable of completing the planned distance of just under 300 kms a week, there’s little doubt Conlon has the pedigree to do so: his loop of Ireland averaged further on a day-to-day basis.

Consistently covering distances like this comes down to nutrition, avoiding injury, and physical preparation (of which Conlon has plenty). ** You can track down his iDonate. ie fundraising page by searching ‘Peter McVerry Trust’ and ‘Mark Conlon’ on Google, and get in touch through the fundraising or Dublin Bay Marathon Facebook page to join Mark, or make suggestions.

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LEAGUE OF IRELAND: BRADLEY HAILS BURKE’S BUSY WEEK

FAST NEWS Shels winning streak in WNL comes to end

Shamrock Rovers Graham Burke chases the ball as Sam Bone and Iam Bermingham tangle. Picture: George Kelly

Rovers finally hit form in Pat’s demolition job LOI PREMIER DIVISION Shamrock Rovers St Patrick’s Athletic  DAVE DONNELLY sport@dublingazette.com

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S H A M RO C K Rove r s returned to winning ways with a 3-0 demolition of St Patrick’s Athletic on Tuesday night.

It was the perfect preparation for the Hoops’ second Dublin derby in a week as they travel to Dalymount Park to face a Bohemians side they’ve already lost to twice this season.

Lee Grace and Sam Bone scored their first goals for Rovers either side of a Ronan Finn strike with the final kick of the first half.

Graham Burke – playing his third game in four days after his exertions for Ireland against Celtic – didn’t get on the scoresheet but was unplayable for much of his 65 minutes.

He was first to test Canadian goalkeeper Tyson Far-

ago – one of two Canadian goalkeepers to start, in a League of Ireland first – with a shot from distance.

And it was his beautiful floated delivery minutes later, after Dan Carr had done brilliantly to force Ian Bermingham to concede a corner, that Grace connected with an angled a header into the net.

Rovers lost Brandon Miele early on with an apparent hamstring strain, but they continued to dominate, albeit without creating many clear-cut chances.

A lovely one-touch move between Finn and Carr almost sent the striker through on goal but Finn’s final pass was slightly too heavy – but the pair would combine to devastating effect moments later.

Carr peeled away into space on the left, creating space for Finn to run into, and slid the ball in for the captain who slid in to poke the ball past Farago.

Pat’s should have halved the deficit within a minute of the restart but Kevin Toner somehow failed to get on the end of Conan Byrne’s deep cross with the goal wide open.

And a neeedless foul by Toner on Finn led to the third as Burke’s free kick was cleared only as far as Bone just inside the box, and he rifled home his maiden goal for the club.

Saints rallied late on and were millimetres from pulling one back when Conan Byrne’s volley beat Tomer Chencinski, but the outstanding Ethan Boyle headed off the line.

“We’ve been playing well, we just haven’t been scoring,” Hoops boss Stephen Bradley told the Dublin Gazette.

“We knew we weren’t a million miles off because we’ve been creating chances, so tonight is pleasing.”

Burke will play in Friday’s derby before meeting up with Ireland ahead of

Monday’s friendly in Paris, and Bradley revealed he had doubts about playing him.

“He’s just taken it all in his stride. He’s been excellent in how he’s handled it – he’s just gone and played.

“Whether it’s in Sligo or it’s over in Celtic or it’s banter out the back garden, he just wants to go and play.

“When I asked him how he felt, he said ‘I’m tired, but I want to play.’ When a player like that has an attitude like that you have to play him.”

Pats boss Liam Buckley added: “It’s a tough league.

You need to turn up in all your games and we certainly didn’t turn up this evening in the first half.”

SHELBOURNE’S five-game winning streak came to an end as they were turned over 3-1

by Wexford Youths at the AUL Complex on Saturday. The Reds never really got going and fell behind late in the half to a Rianna Jarrett strike before Claire O’Riordan and Katrina Parrock scored in the second half. Pearl Slattery had given Shels some hope of maintaining their position at the top of the table when she headed home late on but Parrock added the third in injury time as Youths Picture: Martin Doherty leapfrogged them in the table. Jarrett – who was watched by an impressed Ireland manager Colin Bell – hooked home in fine style ten minutes before the break. O’Riordan headed home from a corner on the hour mark but Shels rallied late on, Slattery nodding home Jamie Finn’s left-wing cross. Youths sealed the three points in injury time as substitute Parrock finished off an Aisling Frawley counter.

PAYNE-FUL LOSS FOR UCD PEAMOUNT United moved back top of the Women’s National League thanks to a 1-0 win over battling UCD Waves at Jackson Park on Sunday.

Heather Payne scored the only goal of the game just before the hour as James O’Callaghan’s side jumped above Shelbourne and Wexford Youths to the summit.

The visitors were without top scorer Amber Barrett with a leg injury that could see her miss Ireland’s World Cup qualifiers against Norway next month, and had to be patient during a first half short on chances.

Both sides had opportunities late on as UCD striker Carla Moran hit the post from close range before Peamount striker Eleanor Ryan-Doyle shot wide with only goalkeeper Erica Turner to beat.

Peas upped the intensity after the break and went close through long-range efforts from Karen Duggan and Lucy McCartan.

They got the reward their approach deserved when Payne was played through on goal and, after Turner first saved with her legs, the striker got up to slot into the unguarded net.

WNL CUP DRAW

Waves and Peas rematch

UCD Waves ERICA Turner and Peamount’s Niamh Farrelly at the Continental Tyres WNL Cup semi-final draw where the two clubs were drawn against each other.

Picture: Harry Murphy/Sportsfile

St Pat’s Conan Byrne. Picture: George Kelly

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SOCCER: RANGERS WIN TINGED WITH REGRET OVER TITLE PUSH Newtown Rangers get the party started following their win over Skerries Town.

GARDA/WESTMANSTOWN INTERMEDIATES had a superb win on Saturday evening at home to Ballymun Kickhams in Division 3 League tie atWestmanstown, coming from nine points down to win by 4-13 to 1-17.

Juniors lost their home league game against Round Towers of Lusk on Sunday morning. Minors won away to St Peregrines in their league fixture on Sunday morning by 4-14 to 0-5. Next outing for minors is on July 1 due to exams and we wish all our players every good luck in their upcoming tests.

Ladies had a record breaking score in their first Championship game of the season beating St Johns Ballinteer at home by 11-12 to 2-10.

Busy week in juvenile ranks with lots of playing activity. U-16 boys beat Skerries Harps at home by 2-11 to 1-10 which leaves them second in their league with one match left,U-12 hurlers lost out to Thomas Davis by two points, 3-5 to 2-10 and U-12 girls were away to Erin’s Isle and are home to St Patricks Palmerston next Saturday.

The club Annual Golf Classic takes place on Thursday, June 7 at Westmanstown Golf Club.

This is a very important fundraiser and all club members are asked to participate by either organising a team of four for €300 or sponsoring holes or tee boxes for €100.

LUCAN SARSFIELDS IT WAS the turn of the rescheduled Feile this week to show piece all that is good within the club, the girls played with great spirit and were unlucky to draw one and lose their first game to Skerries, eventual winners, by only a point.

In the last game TSS were too strong but the girls played with huge commitment. They play St Slyvesters in a winner takes all game for the league title on Friday night at home.

Thanks to James Scott who acted as co-ordinator and to all the volunteers and helpers.

Hard luck to the Senior Footballers who lost to OPER. A comprehensive win for our Inter Footballers on Friday night vs Erins Isle, they remain unbeaten in the league but the games are coming thick and fast now.

Junior A footballers had a very tough one point win on Sunday morning. Junior B footballers went down to a very strong Cuala outfit, onward and upwards as this team is at home, Adamstown on Thursday vs Naomh Barrog at 7.30pm.

Mixed week for the minor footballers who beat

Thomas Davis on Wednesday but lost to BSJ at the weekend.

A good result for the senior 3 camogie team during the week, beating Ballyboden. Senior 7S had a mixed week good win on Tuesday but went down to a strong St Pats team at the weekend.

Hard Luck to Chris Crummey and Johnny McCaffrey who were on duty with Dublin hurlers.

Well done to Colm Walsh and Evan Dowling who are with Dublin Minor hurlers who got their first win on the LMHC round robin.

Well done to Millie Reid and Lauren Dawson who represented Lucan as Dublin U-15 camogie won the Meath blitz. Well done to Ali Twomey who lined out for Leinster in the inter-provincial tournament in Naomh Mearnóg on Sunday The Healthy Club initiative will run a ladies night in the club on Friday, May 25. All money goes to a breast cancer charity. We are looking for raffle/spot prizes and obviously all the women to come along.

Tickets can be got from Ciara Dardis, Colette, Jo Mahon, Niamh Colfer or Jenny Costello.

Newtown finally get to celebrate 1A promotion LSL SUNDAY SENIOR 1A Newtown Rangers Skerries Town  DAVE DONNELLY sport@dublingazette.com

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N E W TOW N Ra n ge rs sealed promotion from LSL Sunday Senior 1A thanks to a 2-1 win over an impressive Skerries Town side at Farrell Park.

D av i d Co s t i ga n a n d Aaron O’Brien got the goals for the Tallaght club as they got more than just the point they needed to ensure a top three finish.

Glenn Madden’s side had hit a rough spell with only one win in seven going into the game from

a point where they looked likely to kick on and win the title.

Brian Snowe pulled a goal back just before the break to ensure a nervy finish for the home side, but Newtown were able to close the game out with all three points.

Costigan opened the scoring early on as he peeled away from his marker and powered home a header from captain Darren O’Grady’s free kick delivery.

O’Brien made it 2-0 from another set piece as he curled a ball into the danger area and it wound up in the net with the aid

of a ricochet.

Snowe halved Skerries’ deficit late in the first half as he slotted the ball home following good work from captain Ross Hopkins.

It brings to an end a season in which Newtown have achieved a lot on the field but is also tinged with some regret as they let a commanding position in the table slip late on.

“It was always about promotion but it’s just that we got ourselves into such a good position in the league when we went top,” Madden told the Dublin Gazette.

“We probably looked a bit too far ahead of ourselves with the fixtures we got, we thought we could win them. That would have pushed us away, but results didn’t go our way.

“There is a slight regret there. We’d a six-week period where we didn’t pick up many points. It threw it away a bit as we were looking to win it at that stage.”

Madden, whose brother Simon plays for St Patrick’s Athletic, is already preparing for life in the second tier of intermediate football.

Newtown were hit hard

by injuries in the run-in and he’s determined to add to the squad’s depth while hanging onto key players like Lee Murtagh and Lorcan Molloy.

“We got hit with a lot of injuries in that six-week period where we didn’t pick up points.

“We didn’t have cover in positions.

“If a player becomes available of the quality I know isn’t around Tallaght, of course I’ll take them, but I’ll always try to keep guys local.

“If lads know each other, it makes the bedding-in period much easier.”

Booth Road close in on double

Booth Road Celtic are on a roll

BOOTH Road Celtic made it through to the Noel Ryan Cup final for a second successive year with a 5-1 win over Kilnamanagh on Tuesday night.

The game was a one sided affair with Dan Whitehead opening the scoring with a cheeky finish early in the game. Philip Sheppard latched onto a Mikey Collins through ball them two goals up before former Liverpool trainee Collins provided another excellent pass for Ryan O’Callaghan to slot home.

Collins claimed his third assist when he set

up O’Callaghan to turn inside and curl a wonder strike into the top corner to make it 4-0.

Sheppard then claimed his second of the match to put the game beyond doubt to claim a 5-1 victory.

Next on their agenda is a date with Portmarnock AFC in the league on Saturday in the community centre.

Booth Road require four points from their final two games to be assured of the LSL Saturday Major 1A, overhauling Pegasus and Broadford Rovers.

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BOXING: CRUMLIN FIGHTER RETURNS AFTER SURGERY

BASKETBALL

Metcalfe nose back in joint for Celtic bout CELTIC CLASH 6  sport@dublingazette.com

AIDEN Metcalfe is back and is promising to be better than ever.

The Crumlin super featherweight has not fought in almost nine months since debuting last September and returns on Saturday, June 16 on the ‘Celtic Clash 6’ card at the Good Counsel GAA Club in Drimnagh.

It’s been a long time out but with good reason, and here we will see a much different Aiden Metcalfe than the one who debuted last year.

Back then, at the National Stadium, Metcalfe just about got past Poland’s Damian Lawniczak in a thrilling fight where he needed a strong finish to secure a one-point win.

However, the Dubliner, who was a top amateur, has revealed that there were some extenuating circumstances that night.

“I hurt my nose in training camp for that fight,” Metcalfe explained. “I could barely breathe in there, and the following morning I was in the hospital. That wasn’t me in there, I’m a good boxer but that was more of a wrestling match, a slug-fest.

“I was disappointed with my debut, people didn’t get to see how good I really am. I got surgery to fix the problem with my nose, fix my breathing. It was frustrating being out for so long but I needed to get it sorted once and for all so I can properly get started with my career.

“I was a good amateur, I was in the Irish Elite Senior championships, I should have won the intermediate title, I won underage titles, and loads of Leinster and Dublin titles. I didn’t show that in the ring that night and now I want to show people the real Aiden Metcalfe,” added the fighter who, at 23 years of age, still has time firmly on his side.

In the meantime, there has been success for the Metcalfe family with big-punching older brother Evan winning the Irish Elite Senior amateur bantamweight title in February.

BPerhaps it has been the lay-off, but Metcalfe is approaching fight date number two with a renewed vigour.

Having trained in Kimmage for his debut, he has returned to his home club and explained how “I’m back now training at Crumlin BC under Phil Sutcliffe. I’m training absolutely

Aiden Metcalfe, right, fires a right hook in his pro debut.

Picture: Ricardo Guglieminotti

NBA legend bound for Dublin masters

every day, pushing myself very hard. I’m going to give my boxing career a real go, not leave anything behind or have any regrets.”

Managed by Boxing Ireland Promotions, Metcalfe outlined how “we have a plan, Stephen [Sharpe, manager] and myself. I’m looking to have two or three fights and then it’s right in with all the other Irish fellas for a title, that BUI Celtic title, by the end of the year.

“It’s been frustrating being out and seeing all the other lads at the weight building up records and winning titles because I know I’d hammer them all.

“A fit, on form Aiden Metcalfe will beat anyone.”

Also featuring on the ‘Celtic Clash 6’ undercard alongside O’Connor will be Blanchardstown cruiserweight Chris Scuvie, Ballybrack lightweight Niall O’Connor, Smithfield welterweight Keane McMahon, Waterford welterweight Rohan Daté, Lucan welterweight John Joyce, Cavan light middleweight Owen Duffy, Sallynoggin super feather Stephen McAfee, and a BUI Celtic super bantamweight title fight between Jobstown’s Carl McDonald and Youghal’s Colin O’Donovan.

Tickets for the fight night are priced at €55 (ringside), €35 (unreserved) and are available from the boxers involved. Aiden Metcalfe can be contacted at 085 820 5030

OVER 40 teams from all over the world including the United States and Canada have descended on the capital for a weekend of top quality Masters Basketball.

The games will be played in the NBA, Colaiste Bride, St Michael’s Inchicore and the Oblate Hall where Sunday’s finals take place.

The big news this year is that the 6’ 8” former NBA legend Anthony Bonner, who played for the New York Knicks, Sacramento Kings and Orlando Magic will be making his debut.

Bonner played in the 1994 NBA Final for the Knicks in their 4-3 loss to Houston Rockets. Former Killester player Mario Elie was on the Rockets team. Bonner plays with the Checkmate Knights who include his Saint Louis Missouri college team mate Donald Sampley.

St Declan’s are the holders and they will once again have the former American SuperLeague player Nate Frank but there are a lot of tough opponents this year.

A former SuperLeague player Damian Morbley who hails from California makes his debut for Jerome Westbrooks BNAF All Star team.

One of the best team names in the tournament has to be LBA “Phatsos” from Toronto. They have a travelling party of 31 that includes 10 golfers.

Former Killester player Kevin McLoughlin has assembled a team of former DI college players from Portland Oregon.

There are also teams from Slovenia, Spain, Croatia, England, Belgium and Scotland as well as the top men’s and women’s teams in Ireland.

The women’s tournament could be one way traffic this year with the heavily stacked Wild Rovers going for five in a row.

Lynsey Lockhead’s Edinburgh are really the only ones who might stop the superstars of Wild Rovers.

The weekend is not just about basketball but includes a huge Masters party at Louis Fitzgerald Hotel Saturday night with Pieta House as the tournament charity.

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ROUND TOWER, CLONDALKIN WELL done to our U-14 lady footballers who reached their Féile final. They defeated Round Tower Lusk, St Jude’s, O’Tooles and Templeogue Synge Street en-route but were unfortunately beaten by Skerries Harps at the final stage.

At adult level, our senior footballers defeated Ballyboughal in the league but our Junior As were defeated by Na Fianna. Our Junior Bs defeated St Jude’s and Junior Cs beat Good Counsel.

An anniversary Mass to remember the late John Connors, who passed away 30 years ago, will be celebrated at the Sacred Heart Church, Upperchurch & Drombane, Co Tipperary, at 7pm this coming Saturday, May 26. Friends of John are invited to attend.

We are pleased to announce a new wheelchair accessible toilet and ramp are now installed within our clubhouse.

Round Tower lotto (May 14): jackpot €3,400. Numbers drawn: 1, 22, 27, 29, bonus ball 23. No overall winner and no bonus ball winner. Three €100 winners: Catherine Keegan, Breda Grant, Active Retirement Group. Thanks to all who support our weekly lotto.

ST PAT’S, PALMERSTOWN PLENTY of action on the playing fields this weekend. Our minor footballers had a brilliant win over a strong Cuala side on Sunday morning. Well done everyone.

Our U16 footballers also had a good win over Cuala, while the U-15s played St Catherine’s twice during the week, winning the hurling and drawing in football.

Well done to the U-9 boys who hurled so well in their match, Emma Clarke on her U-12 football girl of the game, Joel and Rory of the U-10s on their hurling man of the match awards, and to our U-14 camogie team against Kilmacud Crokes. A special mention to Jamie Leonard who did a great job refereeing his first match.

Hard luck to our senior footballers who lost out in the league to St Mary’s, and to our senior hurlers against Ballyboden.

Our best wishes to everyone making their communion this weekend and next.

Well done to Jack O’Leary who played for Dublin at the weekend.

Having lost to St Anne’s on Thursday, our senior camogie team had a good win over Lucan Sarsfields on Sunday morning.

Details on all fixtures will be published later in the week, and can be found on our

ST MARY’S GFC

website and Facebook page.

The Academy for our younger players is now training at the clubhouse on Monday evenings at 6pm. New members always welcome.

Gaelic4mothers continues on Thursday from 7-8 pm. All newcomers welcome. Contact Gill Pickett on 0872269059 for further details.

St Patricks GAA Cúl Camp starts on July 9.

Booking can be made online at https://www. kelloggsculcamps.gaa.ie Our lotto numbers this week were 3, 14, 26 and 29 in the first draw; and 18, 21, 22 and 26 in the second draw. There was no winner.

There was one Match 3 winner – Paul Stokes. The jackpot next week will be €10,000 plus a second jackpot of €1,800.

One ticket gets you entry into both draws. The draws take place on Sunday night in the Palmerstown House at 10pm.

Tickets are available from SuperValu, Palmerstown House, Manor Hair Studios, Mullingar House, and Chapelizod Post Office.

Many thanks to all our ticket sellers and everyone for supporting this important fundraiser.

HARD luck to our U-15 team on losing their championship final to Craobh Chiarain, great achievement lads to get to the final!

Juniors drew with St James Gaels, seniors beat St Patricks (P) and minor match was abandoned due to injury to a Geraldine Morans player, we wish him a speedy recovery.

Next weekend sees the juniors match against Geraldine Morans postponed to Sunday, May 27 in Cornelscourt at 10.30am.

The club would like to extend its deepest sympathies to the Kelly family, The Lugg, Saggart on the passing of Marie RIP. The excitement is building as Lip Sync Together takes place this Friday in Citywest Hotel. Tickets cost €25 each and are available from any of the contestants, Committee members from St Marys or Commercials and from Brendan Murray or Deirdre Maher.

St Marys made it to the final five of 98FM Best of Dublin. We are in the category of Best Sports Club in Dublin and are the only GAA club nominated.

Thanks for all the support we have gotten so far. The 98FM Best of Dublin winners will be announced at awards ceremony on Thursday, May 31 at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham.

LADIES FOOTBALL: DIVISION 3 FEILE FINAL

Davis battle all the way with Isles AIG FEILE DIVISION 3 Erin’s Isle 6-5 Thomas Davis 2-4  JAMES HENDICOTT sport@dublingazette.com

THOMAS DAVIS found the pace of Erin’s Isles’ Shannon Russell too hot to handle in the ladies football Feile Division 3 final at IT Blanchardstown on Sunday morni n g, w i t h t h e E r i n’s Isle half-forward hitting more than half the points in a 6-5 to 2-4 win for the Finglas side.

Nonetheless, it was a superb weekend for the Tallaght club.

Davis had come out on top in their group on Saturday with tight wins over Whitehall Colmcille, St Finian’s and St Maur’s.

But in the final their opponents hit the net almost straight from the off, with Kate Watson scrambling home a team move that created the space for her to push in from close range.

Thomas Davis found space to break clear through at the other end, but couldn’t find a finish, slotting just wide.

Erin’s Isle went for the jugular soon after. Russell found herself free

Thomas Davis on the attack against Erin’s Isle. Picture: GAApics.com

to hammer home and establish a nine point lead, and it was Russell again who added a third goal, her second, as she charged in from the byline and beat Faye O’Neill at her near post.

Erin’s Isle had hit 12, and Davis were yet to find the mark.

Davis were able to hit back before halftime, with Shauna Tighe s c ra m b l i n g t h e b a l l home from close range, before Jade Riordan beat several players to net,

FUNDRAISER Greyhound crew raise big funds for Special Olympics PAUL Ahearne from Special

Olympics Ireland is pictured being presented with a cheque for €13,500 by members of the Irish Greyhound Industry fundraising committee.

It follows the recent successful fundraising event at Shelbourne Park on behalf of the Special Olympics Ireland Games which are taking place in Dublin next month.

and then added a point for good measure. Oddly, with the half time scores at 3-4 to 2-1, the two sides had scored in two entirely separate blocks of attacking dominance.

Riordan hit the first point of the second half for Davis, but immediately saw but Isles replied straightaway with a fortuitous goal before Shaunagh Delany added a point to extend the Finglas club’s lead.

Davis were unable to cope with Russell, and

it was her break and finish - for a hat-trick - that put the game beyond doubt.

Once she got momentum, she was difficult to deny, and while Riordan was having a similar impact at the other end, Lauren Quane in the Erin’s Isle goal was often her match.

Russell and Watson combined again, for Watson to grab her second from a through ball late on, finishing things off. attacking display.

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LADIES FOOTBALL: CLONDALKIN CLUB CONTEST FEILE DIVISION 4 FINAL

HURLING

AIG DUBLIN FEILE DIVISION 4 FINAL

Sars and Crumlin share league spoils

Towers run toppled at final hurdle Skerries Harps Round Tower, Clondalkin  JAMES HENDICOTT sport@dublingazette.com

3-8 2-4

ROUND Tower, Clondalkin came unstuck at the final hurdle at the hands of Skerries Harps in the AIG Division 4 Feile final at Blanchardstown IT on Sunday morning, with the pacey north Dublin side efficient in possession and fluid going forward.

Goal hungry Round Towers were the only unbeaten side in the competition left going into the final having hit the net no less than 11 times on their way through their Saturday three group games.

But it was Harps who go off to the better start, controlling much of the early possession.

Ellie Carr opening the scoring with a goal, hitting past the despairing hand of Nora Aja in the Round Towers goal from close in with Sophie Rogers adding a fine point from distance shortly afterwards.

Kila Butler added a second goal shortly afterwards from a high ball by Hannah McGinnis, while Round Towers struggled to get meaningful possession up the other end.

The Skerries half-forward line stood out, meanwhile, finding plenty of space to quickly move forward.

The west Dublin club did edge back into the contest before half time, with

The Round Tower’s Feile team before the Division 4 final and, inset, in action in the final. Picture: GAAPics.com

a scrambled goal and a point at the other end narrowing the scores as they enjoyed a period of dominance, creating a series of 50-50 opportunities and putting Skerries under pressure.

It was a solo break from Lara Pollard – who finished right into the side netting – that got Round Towers back to within a goal, only for the impressive Butler to bring the score out to 2-5 to 2-1 before half time.

The second half opened with a scrappier period, a full six minutes passing before Alex Melia hit over from close in for Round Towers and notched the first point of the period.

Midway through the half, Skerries hit back with a vital goal from Ellen Gilmore, who finished calmly on the end of a swift move from Harps that split the Round Tower defensive line.

Butler could have added another

shortly afterwards if not for a sharp save from Aja in the Round Tower goal, followed swiftly by another stop with the foot as Skerries dominance began to overwhelm.

Karla Meehan pulled one back for Round Towers, but the clock was running down and the damage had been done. Skerries Harps – dominant largely thanks to their swift interplay and athleticism – ran out comfortable winners.

Boden held at bay by brilliant Ballinteer  sport@dublingazette.com

BALLINTEER St Johns B got the better of Ballyboden St Endas C 3-1 to 0-6 in the Division 10 AIG Dublin Feile Final 2018 in Tallaght Stadium on Sunday morning.

The Ballinteer side’s eye for goal shone as bright as their orange strip as they struck early after some good play from the forward line on the right wing led to a goalmouth scramble.

A long-range shot left Ballyboden’ s goalkeeper Kate Coffey powerless to prevent another goal for Ballinteer just moments later as the ball hit the post and ricocheted in.

However, Boden were not deterred by Ballinteer’s Sarah Fleming and Katie Dillon’s early goals, dusting themselves off and working their way into the game.

A period of relentless Boden pressure led to several goalmouth scrambles which forced Ballinteer’s goalkeeper Lisa Bergin and her defence into action, proving they had grit to back up their attacking flare.

A period of relentless pressure from the Ballyboden blues, especially down the right flank, led to several goalmouth scrambles which forced Ballinteer’s goalkeeper Lisa Bergin and her defence into action, proving they have grit to back up their attacking flare.

Ballyboden’ s efforts were eventually rewarded with a point garnered from a free following a mistake from Ballinteer’s busy defence, which was breached

Ballyboden St Enda’s Division 10 Feile side at Tallaght Stadium. Picture: GAAPics.com

once again moments later, suggesting a pre half-time come back could be on the cards.

Buoyed by their improved showing in the later stages of the first half, Ballyboden tried to take the game to Ballinteer in the second.

But the game soon swung back in Ballinteer’s favour with the orange ladies delivering the best

football in the second half.

Space was exploited by Ballinteer’s half forward Cora McCarthy who slotted home the oranges’ third goal to give them a six point lead coming into the final moments of the second half.

Boden put two more points on the board but could not close the gap further and Ballinteer had the win.

AFTER two opening AHL1 defeats, Lucan Sarsfields travelled to Crumlin in search of badly needed league points but came away with just one in the end after a dramatic 2-19 to 0-25 draw.

With 10 minutes to go Lucan would gladly have taken the draw as they were five behind and Crumlin looked set for victory.

However, following a strong comeback, Lucan led by two as the clocked ticked towards injury time, only for Crumlin to get the final scores to snatch a draw at the end.

Lucan had started brightly with an early goal from Ciaran Dowling.

Crumlin soon exerted dominance and took the lead inside 10 minutes with a series of points.

Lucan finished the half strongly and the sides were level at the break 1-9 to 0-12. C Crumlin regained control early in the second half and looked set for victory, but Lucan stayed patient and a goal from Paul Crummey and some good points from Dowling, Sean McClelland, Matt McCaffrey, and Kevin O’Reilly had Lucan ahead, only for Crumlin to come back to snatch a share of the points.

A draw was a fair result in an evenly contested game, though Lucan will rue some missed chances that could have secured the win.

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NEILSTOWN Boxing Club will be represented by three fighters at the firstever European Schoolboy and Schoolgirl Championships in Varna, Bulgaria this week.

13-year-olds Winnie Christina McDonagh and Joe Hutchinson, and 12-year-old Ryan Murphy, will fly the flag for Neilstown as part of a 22-strong Irish team at the prestigious tournament.

All three fighters have been rewarded for picking up national titles at the National Stadium last month.

McDonagh captured the girls’ three 61kg belt with a unanimous win over St Anne’s Laura Moran, while Murphy won at 59kg and Hutchinson at 62kg.

The west Dublin club – which was named best club at the All-Ireland Cadet Championships as all three boxers retained their titles – are the bestrepresented club in the Irish squad.

“They’re all boxing extremely well,” Neilstown Boxing Club head

coach Gerry Fleming told the Dublin Gazette as the squad prepared to fly out via a layover in Istanbul.

“They’re all comfortable in the weight and are looking forward to it now.

Hopefully they get a good draw and the rub of the green and fair play, which is most important.”

The Irish team will be up against it with their schedule as they landed in Varna early on Tuesday morning and were due to weigh in just four hours later.

“It’s not the ideal preparation. We should have been given a rest day – they should have gone over a day before to rest.

“It’s going to be hectic and it’s going to be very tough on anybody of the Irish team because they’re going to have been travelling right throughout the day and night.

“You’ve to f ly into Istanbul, then you’ve to fly to Varna. It’s going to be a tough task but they’ll give it their best shot.”

Fleming is hopeful that all three can medal, especially if they manage to avoid boxers from either the hosts or traditional

Neilstown boxers Joe Hutchinson, Ryan Murphy and Christina McDonagh at SuperValu in Rowlagh, their club sponsor

boxing powerhouses Russia and Ukraine.

“I definitely think the three of them are all fully capable of pulling a medal. We have to get a bit of fair play, please God. “You’ll have your prelim, your quarter-final, and if you win that and get into the top four you’re guaranteed a

bronze medal.

“I’d just hope we don’t draw a Russian or a Ukrainian. They’d be the main favourites to make a clean sweep.

“Anybody outside of them we’ll take, whether it be a Croatian or an Italian or a Swede or a Dane, bring them on.”

All three fighters have

been with the club since they were nine and their success has provided a boost to the local area, with the Supervalu in Rowlagh particularly supportive with sponsorship.

“It’s a fantastic level to get onto at that age, to go out there and wear the green vest and rep-

resent your country. You couldn’t buy it. It’s great for the area.

“It’s a working class area, a tough area to grow up in.

“Everybody in the area is so proud of them to have three going out there on the plane. It’s given the whole place a big lift.”