Two Birds Coffee, who operate out of JC’s car park, have been granted retention by Fingal County Council and allowed to stay. The coffee trailer, which started out during Covid, applied for retention planning permission in April of this year and their permission came through earlier this month. Cllr Ian Carey said: “It’s great to…
A number of barriers to migrating fish are to be dismantled along the Ward river and a ‘fish bypass’ is to be installed at the Arches near Ushers Lake, the Fingal Biodiversity Forum has heard. A study of fish along the Ward found that a number of barriers have badly impacted the ability of salmon…
Last month Swords Tidy Towns and the Swords Woodland Association held an art competition for students in Swords. Here are a selection of entries that were displayed in County Hall.
An outflow pipe near the Seatown Road was found to be pouring oil into the Broadmeadow Estuary. Fingal County Council staff worked to stop the flow of oil from the pipe, using oil absorbant ‘booms’, and have started an investigation to locate the source. The Special Area of Conservation, where recently an Osprey bird was…
Crime statistics for the last three months see a significant fall in burglaries in the Swords area. Senior Gardaí have credited the establishment of the new Community Response Unit in Swords for the drop. The figures, made available to the Fingal Joint Policing Committee, show 15 burglaries in recent months with 32 recorded for the…
A huge primary healthcare facility, designed to service a population of 70,000, will begin construction later this year, according to the HSE The new facility will accomodate GPs, Primary Care Teams, Dentists, a Mental Health Day Hospital, Adolescence Mental Health Teams, and Chronic Diseas specialists, and will be located in Airside Business Park. The Office…
Margaret Harris, who organises the Irish Cancer Society Charity Walk, and Liam Connor, former Chairman of Fingallians GAA, were both presented with Mayor’s Awards last night. Both were nominated for their incredible voluntary work for the community in Swords and nationally. The nomination for Margaret Harris read: Margaret and a small group of local helpers…
Fingal County Council has become the first local authority in Ireland to partner with EnergyCloud to provide free hot water to homes using surplus renewable energy. The pilot project with Fingal County Council’s Housing Department is supported by SSE Airtricity and will see homes in Swords equipped to benefit from free hot water via EnergyCloud…
Scramblers being driven illegally driven in public parks, putting children and park users at serious risk, is on the increase in the Swords area. Reports of scrambler use on the Brackenstown side of the Ward River Valley have happened on successive days over the last week. This comes not long after the pitches of Swords…
The Dublin Airport Authority this week have informed public representatives that they are extending the use of the North Runway from 6pm to 8pm from June 1st. This will see a much higher volume of aircraft noise impacting communities in South Swords during the summer months, when many hope to use their gardens in the…