Posts by Damien Hughes

by Damien Hughes on Jan 9th, 2014 - 3908 Views

All of us here at the FRG Newswire have had a nice break over the Christmas holidays, and with new vigor, we are now ready to start reporting on local issues and events again. We would like to wish all our readers a happy and prosperous New Year! We hope 2014 is full of happy times, excitement, productivity... 

by Damien Hughes on Dec 21st, 2013 - 16721 Views

Preface: Just To be Clear, My Own Position On A Cork Street Park Due to the articles I’ve written about the potential Cork Street Park, I’ve received some interesting ideas, via email and Facebook, for the use of the space that’s available, and I plan on presenting some of them here... 

by Damien Hughes on Dec 19th, 2013 - 2095 Views

There is not too much planning activity this week in Dublin 8. An application has been made to turn a street-front office on Usher’s Quay into a residential unit. There are quite a few empty offices on that part of the Quays, so it is no surprise to see landlords changing their usage, particularly... 

by Damien Hughes on Dec 18th, 2013 - 5785 Views

You may wonder why we added the Dublin City Council (DCC) Public Notice yesterday? Well, after going through them for months, this is the first time that I have seen a public notice being publicised through the weekly planning updates section of the DCC website. So it is an unusual occurrence to see... 

by Damien Hughes on Dec 17th, 2013 - 6624 Views

Here are a series of photos I took earlier today, of the interior of the newly refurbished St. Catherine’s Church on Meath Street. Whilst penning previous articles about the re-opening of the local church, I found it hard to locate images of the new interior online, so I decided to take some pics... 

by Damien Hughes on Dec 16th, 2013 - 4256 Views

Kilmainham Superquinn held a Christmas Evening at their Heuston South Quarter store last Friday, the 13th of December, and Alan Finn and I popped along to see what all the commotion was about! Ultimate Chocolate Biscuit Cake!Two Love/Hate stars – Stephen O’Brien and Aaron Heffernan –... 

by Damien Hughes on Dec 16th, 2013 - 4254 Views

Below is the Top 10 Trending Music Videos on YouTube during 2013, calculated based on visitors to the video-sharing website by Irish residents. This chart comes out each year, and it features the most popular music videos that have been shared on external websites, and have been viewed by a significant... 

by Damien Hughes on Dec 16th, 2013 - 2554 Views

Below is the Top 10 Trending Videos on YouTube during 2013, for the Irish audience. The video sharing website releases this chart each year, and it includes videos which have been shared on external websites, and have been viewed by a significant number of people on those external websites aswell as... 

by Damien Hughes on Dec 14th, 2013 - 2409 Views

The reopening of St. Catherines Church has been getting a lot of mainstream media attention over the past few days, with the doors open for locals, and the media, to view the incredible restoration work that has taken place. The layers of paint that had built up over the decades were completely damaged... 

by Damien Hughes on Dec 14th, 2013 - 2282 Views

A local man’s photo was chosen to be included on the 2014 Trident Holiday Homes calender. David Soanes, from right here in Dublin 8, is a photographer who has had exhibitions of his cityscapes in the likes of the Pearse Library on Pearse Street, the Central Library in Tallaght and the Ilac Centre... 

by Damien Hughes on Dec 13th, 2013 - 2400 Views

This Christmas Treoir are publishing their 12 Tips For Shared Parenting at Christmas, one tip per day, with the fifth one coming out tomorrow. The first four tips are really practical, useful and clear. Well done to Treoir for providing this excellent guidance to those who are attempting to co-parent... 

by Damien Hughes on Dec 12th, 2013 - 2574 Views

If you are into arts and crafts or homemade food, then there is an exciting event happening just down the road from us, from Friday December the 20th. Sweeney’s Bar on Dame Street are holding a 3 day Pop-Up Christmassy Market, and they have assembled some of the finest handmade arts, crafts and... 

by Damien Hughes on Dec 11th, 2013 - 2695 Views

Bull or Bear, a company that is based in The Digital Hub, has won the 2013 DIGITAL START-UP Eircom Golden Spider Award. Furthermore, one of it’s two current apps – it’s Bull or Bear League – was nominated within two other categories, USER EXPERIENCE and SPORTS. Based in the Digital... 

by Damien Hughes on Dec 10th, 2013 - 2507 Views

There is to be a candlelight service on the Sunday before Christmas at St. Catherines Church, which is located on Thomas Street here in Dublin 8. The service will be held at 7pm on Sunday the 22nd of December at the church, which is at the Bridgefoot Street Junction on Thomas Street. And there will... 

by Damien Hughes on Dec 10th, 2013 - 2075 Views

There is a very special event taking place next week at the Computer Clubhouse, which is run by The South West Inner City Network (SWICN), an umbrella organisation for groups such as ourselves in this part of the city. The SWICN Computer Clubhouse is to hold it’s annual showcase, which presents... 

by Damien Hughes on Dec 10th, 2013 - 3132 Views

The UK rock group, Elbow, have announced that next year they will play at the Royal Hospital in Kilmainham, right here in Dublin 8. The gig is pencilled in for Wednesday June the 25th 2014, and tickets go on sale from Tickmaster.ie from this Thursday at 9am. They are priced at €49.50. The band are... 

by Damien Hughes on Dec 10th, 2013 - 1915 Views

Along with creating a relevant Newswire for the local Dublin 8 area, we want this website to become a repository of local information, so we are really glad to let you know that we have re-published three more issues of our Fountain News Digital newsletter over the past few days. Timeline of FRG Local... 

by Damien Hughes on Dec 7th, 2013 - 9639 Views

Myself and Alan Finn took a trip down to the Liberty Market on Meath Street to see what kind of fare one of our local markets has on offer for local shoppers this Christmas. We were met by the general manager, Michael FitzGerald, and a pretty packed market! We were there from about 11am for an hour... 

by Damien Hughes on Dec 7th, 2013 - 2792 Views

We are in the process of going through the old articles from the old Fountain News digital newsletter, and the plan is to add every single one of them to the Newswire on this site. We are about a third of the way through that, and in the process, revisiting some interesting local articles. One of the... 

by Damien Hughes on Dec 6th, 2013 - 2504 Views

St. James’s Hospital have applied to implement large signs at both the James’s Street and Rialto entrances/exits. This is the first tangible visual sign locally of the impending new National Children’s Hospital, which is planned to be built on the St. James’s Hospital campus....