St Columba’s Church and Round Tower received notice this week that they are one of 95 heritage projects that will receive funds under the Community Monuments Fund. Some €120,000 will go towards phase two conservation works at the heritage site and will include repointing eroded masonry the removal of unstable floor remnants. Welcoming the funding,…
Major ground works will start next week as part of the preparation for Metrolink. Trenches are being dug at the Estuary Roundabout of the R132 on Wednesday and Thursday (05/04 and 06/04). Traffic will be reduced to one lane in the area. Theses trenches being dug along the route of the Metrolink so that engineers…
Two active travel schemes in Swords start their public consultation phase this week. A new road design at Newtown Bridge, designed to make it safer for children to walk and cycle to Swords Celtic, is the first scheme. The second is a redesign of the Seatown Industrial Road to make it safer to cycle from…
Some 62 acres, zoned for residential, are now up for sale with a potential price tag of €46.5m. The area, which is located between the Rathbeale Rd and Swords Manor, has been earmarked for development for over a decade with no homes delivered. The lands were part of a Local Area Plan, known as the…
Local libraries will soon have the ability to provide a virtual tour of the new Swords Cultural Quarter. Ten Virtual Reality headsets are currently being procured by the Fingal Library service which will allow members of the public to get an understanding of what the new library, theatre and arts space will look like. The…
Residents from St Margarets, Coolquay, Oldtown and Swords, gathered in the Coolquay Lodge this week to discuss the continued breach of planning permission by Dublin Airport. The group heard how legal action is being taken to challenge the continued use of flight paths which have no planning permission. They encouraged people to submit their experiences…
Do you have a patch of ground that could take a tree? If so you are in luck because Fingal County Council will be giving out free tree whips next week for National Tree Week. National Tree Week 2023 will take place from 19th to 26th March and Fingal County Council has a number of…
Swords councillors agreed unanimously this week to advocate for a new bus route to extend from Swords to Blachardstown. Following a motion from Cllr Ian Carey, the area committee of the council will this week write to the NTA to open discussions of a bus route connecting Blanchardstown and Swords. The two major population centres…
The annual Swords St Patrick’s Day parade will start at 11am next Friday. Bands, sporting clubs, and youth groups will all be gathering at Colaiste Choilm from 9am before parading through Main St before finishing near the Carnegie Court Hotel. Cllr Ian Carey said: “The Swords St Patrick’s Day parade is always a huge highlight…
For Seachtain na Gaeilge, Fingal County Hall will be hosting three incredible Irish musicians in the Atrium this Wednesday. Bernadette Nic Gabhann on fiddle, Éilís Murphy on concertina and Megan NicFhionnghaile fiddler and singer, will be playing at the County Hall on Swords Main St from 7-9pm on March 8th.