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by Fountain Resource Group on Jul 5th, 2013 - 2518 Views

Our youth project is running a cookery programme for the Summer, and places are available for any kids from the local area. Please contact 01453 2936  to book your place! Here are some photos of the youths making tasty chicken fajitas and rice crispie buns earlier this week, as part of the Summer Cookery... 

by Fountain Resource Group on Jul 2nd, 2013 - 2075 Views

A group of our youngsters from the Fountain Youth Project headed down to the Spawell Golf Range (now known as the Carr Golf Centre) yesterday morning for a session on the driving range. Well done to Leon Morrissey who – with a swing like Rory McIlroy – won the competition for the longest... 

by Fountain Resource Group on Jul 2nd, 2013 - 2104 Views

The Fountain Youth Project had a fantastic day out yesterday at the Hellfire Club in the Dublin Mountains. Everybody had a wonderful time, experiencing a bit of history mixed with plenty of fresh air and nature too! Here are some pics from yesterdays trip, courtesy of the Fountain Youth Project’s... 

by Alan Finn on Jul 1st, 2013 - 4581 Views

Pictured above, from left to right, Micheal Murtagh (CAP board member), Elaine Mulvaney (CAP Co-ordinator), Jack Roche (CAP board chairman) and Damien Hughes (FRG/Solid Website Design). On Thursday the 27th of June the Community Addiction Programme (CAP) published their annual report, hosted a play... 

by Alan Finn on Jun 26th, 2013 - 3597 Views

This is an interview that took place around this time last year with the FRG’s Alan Finn asking the questions. We never got around to publishing it at the time, but after coming across it recently, we really felt the need to share it with you. So here it is, better late than never… John... 

by Alan Finn on May 31st, 2013 - 6987 Views

100 Years On. Tip-toe to the Bayno Where the kids go, to get their buns and Coco Come tip-toe to the Bayno with me Does the above song ring a bell? If it does then you know what I am talking about. When it first opened way back in the early part of the last century (1913) as a place for local children... 

by Alan Finn on May 24th, 2013 - 3364 Views

On Thursday the 23rd of May at 5.30 pm I along with two friends met a local Rap artist by the name of Paul Tall Order Ritchie at Greenfort Shopping Centre. The reason for our arrangement was Paul Tall along with some of his friends where doing a video shoot for a song he wrote titled (entitled ‘Here... 

by Alan Finn on Apr 18th, 2013 - 5613 Views

St Theresa’s Gardens, six double blocks of three story balconies, have been opened since the early part of the 1950’s and at that time it was considered to be very plush and very comfortable. When I say the word plush, I mean it had its own supply of hot and cold water, its own loo and it was... 

by Fountain Resource Group on Apr 2nd, 2013 - 2263 Views

We are very pleased to announce that we have started accepting applications for the next edition of our ‘Start Your Own Business’ course, which is a collaboration between the Fountain Resource Group and the Department of Social Protection. Classes will begin for this 4 week course on April... 

by Damien Hughes on Mar 22nd, 2013 - 4341 Views

Last nights ‘Prime Time’ program on RTE1 included a report about the Basin Street and O’Devaney Gardens regeneration situations. The report centered around the way in which both complexes have been partially de-populated in order to make way for major regeneration projects which have... 

by Fountain Resource Group on Mar 15th, 2013 - 1885 Views

As the kids computer teacher I would like to sincerely thank all the kids in the Fountain Resource Group Junior Youth Project for their pictures and their stories. I would also like to give a special  thanks to the research team, Elle (aged 8) and Leah (aged 8), who searched the internet to find the... 

by Alan Finn on Mar 5th, 2013 - 4462 Views

I = Interviewer (Alan Finn) R = Respondent (Fr Mc Verry) When you’re homeless you either sink or swim, when I was homeless I swam. By being homeless I got all the info on who helps who, cheap places to eat, places you can call home etc etc. I have often heard of Fr Peter Mc Verry but I have never... 

by Alan Finn on Mar 1st, 2013 - 2993 Views

While most of you’s were tucking into your pancakes on Pancake Tuesday the 12th of February, I went along to St Andrews Centre in Rialto for a public meeting on suicide. I was a little late so I sat at the back, but there was a full house so I was very pleased for the organisers. Not only was there... 

by Damien Hughes on Feb 25th, 2013 - 4730 Views

A new policy statement released by the Government sets out a plan to end long term homelessness in Ireland by 2016. The ‘Homelessness Policy Statement‘ was launched at the Custom House by the Minister for Housing and Planning, Jan O’Sullivan, last Thursday. These new guidelines aim... 

by Damien Hughes on Feb 21st, 2013 - 2842 Views

The legendary Smithfield Horse Fair will return to Dublin’s streets twice a year, according to new bye-laws which have been introduced. It will take place on the first Sunday of March and September each year, and the first fair under these new bye-laws will happen on March the 3rd. Here is the... 

by Alan Finn on Feb 21st, 2013 - 4417 Views

Do you have some free time on your hands? If so the F2 Centre at Fatima have free classes up and running since last year, and in particular the Tuesday evening art class which runs from 7 to 9pm. Once you arrive at reception you sign in, and you can either walk the stairs or take the lift up to the... 

by Fountain Resource Group on Feb 18th, 2013 - 1552 Views

We are currently finalising the new-look Fountain Resource Group website, so please bear with us as we make plenty of visual and technical tweaks. The website will be fully operational by the end of this week, and all of the previous content – including all articles from our Fountain News newsletter... 

by Fountain Resource Group on Jul 5th, 2012 - 1888 Views

This is a list of all articles that appeared in the 9th issue of the digital version of Fountain News. Published in July 2012, these articles were written by a mixture of FRG staff and other local residents too. Fountain News Digital: July 2012 (Issue 9) Local News: International Eucharistic Congress CE... 

by Fountain Resource Group on Jul 4th, 2012 - 1846 Views

Eighty years after the first International Eucharistic Congress in Dublin, the religious festival begins again, this time including our very own St James’s Church in the festivities. All over the country parishes are staging events designed to bring people from all countries together in common cause. A... 

by FRG.ie Admin on Jul 4th, 2012 - 2148 Views

CE is one of the key components of the delivery of the national rehabilitation strategies in the absence of an alternative day programme modal of rehabilitation so what stops people getting a CE scheme? I attended a meeting at Inchicore Community Hall today to find out what’s going on & what the...