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23rd November 2010 • Volume 17, Issue 25 • Leader House, North Street, Swords, Co. Dublin. • ISDN 8139966 • Tel: 8•400•200
Councillor Claims Rush Residents Misled By Patrick Finnegan
Swords Senior Citizens collected an impressive €789 along with 105 boxes for the annual Shoe Box Appeal. The boxes are destined for Africa where they will help to make Christmas a little more cheerful. North Dublin Shoebox Co-ordinator, Charlene Pigott was full of praise for the Senior citizens, whose efforts will go a long way to ensuring that less fortunate people in Africa will have a better Christmas. Pictured outside Swords Senior Citizens headquarters, with some of the gift boxes are L-R, Charlene Pigott, Co-ordinator North County Dublin Shoe Box Appeal, Margaret Molloy, Bernie Perry, Patricia Stephenson, Robert Mooney, Garda Pamela Harte, Eileen Power and Teresa Woods.
Ninety Year Old Sheila Inspires Lusk Collection By Leslie Murphy
supporting the cause. The unit opened in Skerries lady, Sheila Fitzpatrick has been getting respite in Lusk Community Unit members of the community, managed to 2001 and has 50 beds, 40 of which are for for a number of years now. Sheila, who raise €2,000 for the Unit. She held car boot full time residents and 10 for respite. turns 90 this Wednesday, has two very sales and people have been very generous Geraldine McNally, Director Of Nursing at the unit, told the County Leader, “ caring daughters, Dora and Síle Sheila’s daughters are great to have who are on hand to help out at done this. The unit is a great place all times. Dora has been her to work and everyday it’s full of mother’s carer since she suffered visitors. I love my work here and a stroke when she was 75. really enjoy working with the However, Sheila really enjoys elderly who make every day a her time when she is at the Unit. joyous occasion,” concluded Síle told the County Leader, Geraldine. “We really appreciate the care The unit is in line with Government our mother is given when she policy on providing services for goes to the unit and the opportuolder people, which is to maintain nity for Dora to have a break. them in dignity and independence Dora has been fundraising for at home and to provide a high the ‘Calcutta Rescue’ project for quality of hospital and residential the last three years and mum care for older people when this is no suggested she fundraise for the Unit in Lusk, as it is a great Dora Fitzpatrick is pictured presenting a cheque for €2,000 to Geraldine longer a viable option. McNally, Director of Nursing at Lusk Community Unit. Pictured back row Last year, staff and clients of the asset to the community”. from left are Saline Daly, Geraldine McNally, Marion Kinsella and Dora Dora, with the help of many Fitzpatrick. Front row, Maureen Shortall, Sheila Fitzpatrick and Kitty Tyndall. unit celebrated the completion of an
A major row is brewing between Rush Community Council and a local councillor over Eirgrid’s underground cables in the town. Cllr Ciaran Byrne (Lab), maintains that the Community Council are disingenuous regarding the facts related to safety issues of the cables. He maintains that they have ignored overwhelming evidence from experts around the world, relating to the cables. “The most recent report was commissioned by the Department of the Environment that the buried Eirgrid high Cllr. Ciaran Byrne voltage direct current cable (HVDC) is safe.” He said, “What’s worse, the Community Council has tried to suppress different views to its own being communicated to the people of Rush. They have instructed the editor of the Rush and District Community News not to publish an article I send in, in response to an invitation to do so. It has also rejected the report commissioned by the Department of the Environment, whose independent judgement it had previously agreed to accept, because it doesn’t support the Community Council’s position,” says Byrne. He continued, “I have spent the past decade working closely with the Rush Community Council, but what has happened in the past year has been, frankly, appalling. Decent people in Rush have been mislead into believing this cable will damage their children’s health to the point where some are now planning to physically obstruct the development of a major part of Ireland’s electricity infrastructure. Such an obstruction of cable laying by Eirgrid is utterly unjustified. Members of the Community Council who have a vested financial interest in relation to this project should also declare it publicly,” he concluded. Meanwhile, the local Chamber Of Commerce wants Eirgrid to re-route the project. Members of the chamber say that concern for the businesses in Rush is rising because digging up the Main Street in such hard times is the last thing the already struggling shops and businesses need. Chairperson of Rush Chamber, Michael Coffey, said, ”The disruption that this project will involve is bound to have a detrimental effect on businesses in the town. The roadworks will be there for months, with machines parked outside shop fronts and endless traffic jams will ensue. The fear is that this will cause shoppers to travel elsewhere to avoid the chaos. The Chamber is not opposed to Eirgrid or the Interconnector project, however it does not want it to travel up their Main Street,” he concluded.
innovative project, when they launched their new exercise DVD “Le Cheile”(together). The DVD is a sit down exercise programme suitable for older persons particularly those with reduced mobility.
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