FINGAL COUNTY COUNCIL – EMERGENCY WEATHER UPDATE 10pm Thursday 7th January – 500km of roads will be salted and gritted on Friday morning– All National primary and some secondary roads will be treated– Roads conditions still extremely hazardous– Water supplies criticalFingal County Council is strongly advising that while freezing and dangerous weather continues, motorists should avoid all unnecessary journeys as…
On Tuesday last, Fingal County Council submitted a proposal on public display for the installation of traffic calming measures to be introduced on the Dublin Road at the Junction with Ard Na Mara. These proposals emanated from a recent accident at this location which prompted Malahide Gardaí to ask the council to come up with some other form of speed…
St. Sylvester’s GAA club continue to amass a huge number of signatures in their petition to resist Fingal County Council’s proposed extension of the Bridgefield Car Park in Malahide Castle. All this, despite my motion in November calling on the council to withdraw from the process given the huge volume of resistance in our community. Having spoken with the Director…
Over the last decade, Fingal County Council’s administrative area has seen unprecedented growth and an explosion in population. The 2006 census suggested that our population was in excess of 240,000 with many suggesting that the nature of our census could mean that the figure could easily exceed 250,000. This 20% growth put enormous pressures on the council in terms of…
I am very pleased to announce that the 3rd Annual Goal Mile at Malahide Castle will take place on Christmas Day at 11am, 2009. Over the past two years we have raised over €12,000.00 for this worthy charity and this year we are hoping to beat our record, set last year at €7,500.00. For those of you who are unfamiliar…
EVENTS AT MALAHIDE CASTLE November 21st/22nd The following press release has just been received from Senan Turnbull, Director of Services of the Parks Department with regard to the disgraceful events that took place in the early hours of Sunday morning. Fingal County Council was approached 4 weeks ago by a group of artists requesting permission to hold a multi-disciplinary event…
Farrell calls for Council to withdraw from public display process for car park at Malahide Castle. At a council meeting today, November 5th Fine Gael Councillor Alan Farrell tabled an emergency motion to insist that the Council withdraw from the planning process for the proposed car park extension and introduction of metered parking at Bridgefield, near Malahide Village. The proposal…
WATER QUALITY INDICATORS IN PORTMARNOCK & MALAHIDE BEACHES Over the summer, a disappointing report lead to the absence of Blue Flag awards to several beaches across the county. Local beaches also suffered and the purpose of my question to the council (detailed below) was to illicit their views on how best to achieve a turn around in our fortunes as…
Fingal County Council has put on public display plans for the enlargement of the Bridgefield Car Park near Malahide Village. This display period was initiated by your local Councillors with a view to eliciting your views on this Council proposal. The plan would see the removal of one of the existing playing pitches, realignment of the existing entrance and the…
A disgraceful act of vandalism over the weekend has deprived Malahide sporting groups of their much needed all weather facility at Broomfield, Malahide. The Broomfield all weather pitch has been severely vandalised over the weekend causing an estimated €17,000 worth of damage to the electrical system controlling the flood lights. I am outraged by this disgraceful act and cannot believe…
