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A Ceremony to mark the Anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising will take place outside the GPO, O’Connell Street, Dublin on Easter Sunday 21 April 2019 commencing at 12 noon. The Ceremony will be led by the President Michael D. Higgins, An Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, T.D. and the Minister (more…)
The official launch of the Balbriggan Heritage Trail took place in the beautiful Bremore Castle on Tuesday night. Eight information boards have been strategically placed around the town and the Balbriggan coastline detailing; Water on Balbriggan Mills, Hamilton’s and the Founding of Balbriggan, (more…)
There was a great turnout once again for the Operation Transformation Ad Break Challenge in Balbriggan this evening. As this was the final ad break challenge and the participants certainly gave it there all. The final episode of Operation Transformation will be aired on 27th February (more…)
Patricia Langon has launched a new website called Reimagine Rockabill. Rockabill is a group of two islands, “The Rock” and “The Bill”, lying in the western Irish Sea about 6 kilometres east-north-east of Skerries. The larger island is home to the Rockabill Lighthouse which is owned by the (more…)
Back in October 2017 and February 2018 we brought you the new that €4 million had been allocated in the 2018-2020 capital programme to Bremore Castle. SLR Consulting were awarded the contract to undertake a commercial plan for Bremore Castle that will create a (more…)
The epic story of Ireland Lighthouses and the people who worked to keep Ireland’s coastline safe has been well documented in a new series Great Lighthouses of Ireland. Managed by Irish Lights these lighthouses tell the story of how the lighthouses first came to be The programme looks (more…)
This evening Balbriggan & District Historical Society launched a photo exhibition in the Bracken Court Hotel. In 2016 Balbriggan & District Historical Society acquired two albums of photographs which were taken and exhibited in the year 1893. They show scenes of Balbriggan and its people at (more…)
Fingal County Council has welcomed the decision of Vision Independent Productions and RTE to base its successful Operation Transformation programme in Balbriggan for its 2019 season. In a new departure for the popular programme, it will work alongside Fingal County Council (more…)
The arrival of cotton mills in Ireland in the late 1770’s brought the promise of relief from widespread poverty and unemployment in the country. Along with existing industrialists, a number of “Improving Landlords” also embraced the new textile enterprise. Baron George (more…)
Do you know what may lie beneath the green of your estate? Could there be the remains of the past where the kids have a kick-about? Well yes, and a 2018 Heritage week event organised by Fingal County Council aims to find out just what lies beneath. ‘There are over 30 greenspaces within (more…)
We have been asked to publish this photo to see if anyone can help with identifying any of the people in this photo The photo is posted in Balbriggan cricket club and it is presumed that the photo is a confirmation photo from 1946. If you know any of the people please comment on the (more…)
Bloomsday celebrates the 16th June 1904, which is the day depicted in James Joyce’s world famous novel, Ulysses.
Did you know that Balbriggan’s world famous stockings, made by Smyco, and called “Balbriggans”, feature in the novel? The fearsome character, the Citizen, is described as (more…)