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BARN (Ballyfermot Anti Racism Network) will be hosting a music event on the 21st of March at 7:00 pm to celebrate Anti Racism Day. The event will air live on YouTube located here where there will be a number of different acts such as…

Disabilty Action Collective is the voice of disabled people with all types of impairments living in the Ballyfermot, Chapelizod, Inchicore, Palmerstown and Clondalkin areas. The group is open to disabled people, their families…

New research suggests a significant proportion of Trinity College Dublin’s staff and student population that formerly relied on public transport will now choose to walk or cycle to campus when it fully re-opens after lockdown . Among the…

As part of Dublin City Sports and Wellbeing Partnership there will be a new 8 week programme entitled “Change for Life” that aims to help participants get through the next few weeks. There will be a selection of sessions so participants…

There will be an online #IamRemarkable workshop in celebration for International Women’s day 2021 taking place on March 8th and 9th from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm. The workshop, entitled #ChooseToChallenge is where participants can choose to…

The Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu would like to announce that she has chosen Marie Stears as the winner of the Lord Mayor’s Award for the month of February. Marie is a nursery nurse in Crumlin Children’s Hospital, and has worked in the…

There will be a series of online talks taking place over four consecutive Tuesday's in March from the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption in Ballyfermot. Grainne Toher will be giving two talks. The first on March 2nd entitled Wellbeing,…

In today’s address, I wish to reflect on the relationship between culture and empire and how their interaction, in the case of an assumed British cultural hegemony at the time, generated versions of the Irish ‘Other’ that accommodated and…

Four leading advocacy organisations representing children with special educational needs and their families, AsIAm, Down Syndrome Ireland, Family Carers Ireland and Inclusion Ireland, have criticised the Government for making significant…

A UCD student whose pioneering cancer research was inspired by her work with critically ill children has been honoured with a major award. Originally from Portugal but now living in Booterstown, Romina Silva had been involved with her…