No 30 and 32 North St Swords are being redeveloped with a new apartment block attached to the rear by Fingal County Council. The buildings, which have been vacant for a number of years, were originally built a century ago as an orphanage for protestant boys, known locally as the Bird’s Nest. It was later…
In a major boost for nature restoration in Swords, Fingal County Council have unveiled plans to fully fund its Biodiversity Strategy meaning two major nature projects in the Ward River Valley and the Broadmeadow Estuary will go ahead. Now a plan will be put in place to protect salmon spawning grounds on the Ward River…
Better designed footpaths and new cycle lanes will be coming to two more schools in Swords as part of new round of funding for a national scheme announced this week. Holy Family JNS and St Colmcilles Girls NS will both be getting funding for upgrades around access to their school. The scheme is currently being…
Some 50 to 60 people braved sub-zero temperatures to attend a protest against Fingal County Council’s handling of illegal flights off the new North Runway, on Monday afternoon. Calling on the council to ‘do their job’ by enforcing the planning permission that is in place on Dublin Airport, protesters highlighted the ongoing illegal use of…
The temporary traffic lights on the Brackenstown Rd between Swords Manor and Knocksedan are likely to be in place until May 2023, engineers have confirmed. Speaking on a motion brought by Cllr Ian Carey to the Area Committee, Fingal Council engineers confirmed that the foundations Brackenstown Road at that point are based on clay this…
A €50m third level institution is being planned for Swords, following a government announcement last week. The proposed ‘College of the Future’ will cater for 1,000 students and is one of a number of new third level colleges being rolled out by Education and Training Boards as part of a national strategy. The government have…
Paul Murphy, from Swords, told listeners of Morning Ireland this week how his 12-week-old son Liam needed life-saving treatment in Sweden after contracting the virus around Halloween. In an incredibly brave interview, Mr Murphy outlined how the virus had saturated the lungs of the infant and that despite treatment in Crumlin he needed to be…
A new four-person community garda unit to tackle the anti-social behaviour has been launched in Swords as a temporary measure. Superintendent Ronan Barry told the Fingal Joint Policing Committee that the new unit has been working to deal with issues relating to attacks on young people and issues in the Ward River Valley. These issues…
Plans for a new high technology and manufacturing area north of Swords are going before Fingal County Council for approval. The new area, called Lissenhall East, will contain office blocks and commercial buildings up to 6-storeys as well as a hotel, a lake, open space and the woodland around the ruins of Meudon House will…
A burst watermain led to huge swathes of Swords and Fingal being without water for days earlier this week. Schools, businesses, and childcare facilities had to close for a number of days because of the outage which was difficult to resolve. Many areas suffered two days without water with a number on higher ground left…