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People are urged not to make unnecessary journeys as Storm Ali brings severe and damaging 130km gusts. Hundreds of trees are down nationwide, dozens of flights have been cancelled and up to 140,000 homes and businesses are without power. A number of trees are (more…)
I am writing to seek some help and spread the awareness of drug called SPINRAZA and ask the Minister for Health, Simon Harris, to approve funding for my life-saving treatment and for Irish spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) patients. I want to briefly tell you about two things my life and a new medicine (more…)
There was a great turnout today as Balbriggan Garda Station opened its doors to the community. Visitors had a chance to take a peek behind policing in the district and meet the Garda officers that protect their community. Children had a chance to try out the finger printing and test the sirens (more…)
Fingal County Council have reported a water outage in Balrothery, Thursday 30th August 2018 due to burst water main – Water off until 5:00pm today (approximately). Fingal County Council apologise for any inconvenience caused by this disruption. Areas affected: Cloch Choirneal, Knights (more…)
Fingal County Council has lifted the Temporary Advisory Notice in relation to swimming which was erected at Front Strand Beach Balbriggan due to suspected impacts from animals/birds or contaminated surface water catchment runoff. Further testing took place on Tuesday August 21st, (more…)
Fingal County Council has issued a Temporary Advisory Notice in respect of swimming at Front Strand beach, Balbriggan for 72 hours due to suspected impacts from animals/birds or contaminated surface water catchment runoff. The Advisory Notice states that to reduce the risk (more…)
Today, families were treated to a Medieval Family Picnic on the Fair green at Balrothery heritage centre. Families stepped back in time as they walked through the entrance and medieval music played. Medieval themed field games were a big hit as they kept the children and adults (more…)
The following Weather Advisory has been issued by Met Eireann at 12:00 hours Friday, 17-Aug-2018 High intensity rainfall over a relatively short period of time for many areas on Saturday night associated with the remnants of Tropical Storm Ernesto. Totals up to 20mm could occur quite (more…)
Fingal County Council have reported a water outage in Balbriggan on Monday 13th August 2018 due to ESB outage affecting water supply pumps at Balrothery – Water off until 5:00pm (approximately). Fingal County Council apologise for any inconvenience caused by this disruption. Areas affected: (more…)
Fingal County Council have reported a water outage in North Fingal, Thursday 9th August 2018 due to low water levels in Hollywood Reservoir as a result of failure of pumps at Jordanstown – Water off until 5:00pm (approx.). The pumps have been restarted, however, it will take a few hours (more…)
Fingal County Council has made an order temporarily closing the northbound and southbound carriageway of the M1 Motorway between Junction 5 and Junction 7. This closure is to facilitate resurfacing roadworks. The road will be closed on the following dates and times: (more…)
Fingal County Council has lifted the Temporary ‘Do Not Swim’ Notice which was erected at Balbriggan Beach on Saturday July 28th due to an overflow at Quay Street Pumping Station, Balbriggan, which occurred as a result of the heavy rain that fell overnight the previous night and that day. (more…)