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by Gillian Kelly on Nov 22nd, 2016 - 2632 Views

The Park Singers will sing their hearts out next month in Christ Church Cathedral with their beautiful rendition of carols by candlelight. Get into the spirit of Christmas by listening to this fantastic choir and enjoying their amazing voices. The Park Singers are a four-part female choir from Dublin,... 

by Jacqueline Spain on Nov 15th, 2016 - 1747 Views

Anything Goes At St Patricks! The “Anything Goes” Art Exhibition is back at St Patrick’s University Hospital and will go on display from the 1st of November to 27th January 2017 in the Art Space at SPUH. “This is one of the most important initiatives that we run at St Patrick’s and we are... 

by Jacqueline Spain on Nov 11th, 2016 - 1571 Views

Laurencetide At Christ Church Cathedral This year Dublin and Glendalough is celebrating its 800th anniversary. As part of this celebration Christ Church Cathedral will host a week of celebrations called Laurencetide, using the feast of St. Laurence buy xanax romania O’Toole, Abbot of Glendalough and... 

by Jacqueline Spain on Nov 8th, 2016 - 1564 Views

Diageo is a great place to work. Diageo has been listed as the 19th Best Multinational Workplace to work for, making this their sixth year of getting to the top 20 best workplaces to be working for. Every year a study is performed to identify the top 25 best multinational companies by Great Place to... 

by Jacqueline Spain on Nov 7th, 2016 - 2062 Views

NCAD Wins At The RDS Visual Art Awards On Tuesday of last week The RDS Visual Art Awards were held at the Royal Dublin Society, who invited 170 students to exhibit their visual art works, of these students 13 were shortlisted. Six NCAD students were shortlisted for the awards. ‘The Weight of Water’... 

by Alan Finn on Nov 1st, 2016 - 1736 Views

A fundraising bingo night will take place this Thursday, 3rd November at 8 pm in the F2 centre in Fatima. This fundraiser has been organised by the Fatima Groups United in aid of The Rialto football club. Books will cost €10.00 and there will be spot prizes up for grabs. Also the fundraisers are... 

by Gary Nolan on Oct 27th, 2016 - 2481 Views

Nicholas of Myra To Be Homeless Shelter People living near the derelict St Nicholas of Myra building on Carmans Hall are planning a protest following the announcement that the former community centre is to be turned into an emergency homeless hostel with room for 65 beds and related facilities. This... 

by FRG.ie Admin on Oct 26th, 2016 - 1913 Views

FOUNTAIN NEWS NEEDS YOU! The Fountain Resource Group is now looking for journalist for its online Newspaper. The journalist positions are part of our Community Employment Scheme.  A participant on the scheme would submit articles for €20 above any long term welfare payment they are on.  They could... 

by Alan Finn on Oct 19th, 2016 - 2371 Views

Two Hollywood A Lister’s actors Mel Gibson & Sean Penn are due to begin filming The Professor and the Madman here in Rialto, Dublin 8. This movie is being directed by Farhad Safinia and it has taken up to four writers to complete the script including Simon Winchester, who originally wrote... 

by Jacqueline Spain on Oct 14th, 2016 - 1612 Views

What If Your Child Was One In Four?   This week the Tanaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality, Ms. Frances Fitzgerald, T.D. was at the launch of the One in Four’s Annual Report 2015. One in Four is a charity that was established in 2002 by Colm O’Gorman to help fight sexual abuse one in four... 

by Jacqueline Spain on Oct 12th, 2016 - 1908 Views

Three companies from The Digital Hub won awards at Monday night’s 18th Dot IE Net Visionary Awards 2016 that was held at the RDS Concert Hall. The awards were sponsored by the .IE Domain Registry. Eight Digital Hub companies in total were shortlisted on the 4th of August for the awards. On Monday... 

by Jacqueline Spain on Sep 30th, 2016 - 1654 Views

Walk In My Shoes Radio Attempts New Guinness World Record Walk In My Shoes Radio is back and will be broadcasting from St. Patrick’s Hospital from the 10th to the 14th of October during World Mental Health Awareness Week. This year they will also attempt to set a Guinness World Record for the World’s... 

by Jacqueline Spain on Sep 26th, 2016 - 1465 Views

Don’t Stump It – Bin It! Do you know that cigarettes butts and chewing gum are the main items of littering on the streets of Ireland? The 2015 National Litter Pollution Report, released today, reveals that “cigarette related litter, continues to constitute the highest percentage (59.76%) of... 

by Gary Nolan on Sep 19th, 2016 - 2601 Views

Watch the video below! Footage from The Fountain Youth, Basin Street, Busy Bees and Marrowbone Lane Youth Projects with thanks to John Shaw Wendy McGrath Tanya O Neill Annemarie O’ Dwyer Patrica Richards Margaret Sands Nuri Tardio Emer Whelan Clare Geraghty Annemarie Buckley Darren Dempsey Alan Finn Brendan... 

by Gillian Kelly on Sep 19th, 2016 - 1806 Views

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.  It is about remembering children and their families who are suffering from this terrible disease.  Gold is the internationally recognised colour of paediatric/childhood cancer. The Childhood Cancer Foundation... 

by Jacqueline Spain on Sep 15th, 2016 - 6812 Views

Binary Hub – The New Home To Dublin Students For sometime now Dublin has been a city where students find it hard to find suitable accommodation. Take in consideration the amount of students attending colleges, universities and institutions in Ireland (in 2015 210,000 students were enrolled)  and... 

by Jacqueline Spain on Sep 9th, 2016 - 1878 Views

It Was Armageddon For St.Teresa’s Gardens Yesterday was a sad and desperate day for residents of St. Teresa’s Gardens, Dublin 8, when demolition trucks moved in and removed the last remaining block of flats, block 7. Even though it was Armageddon for St. Teresa’s, it is also a time for new beginnings... 

by FRG.ie Admin on Sep 2nd, 2016 - 1883 Views

NCAD Now Hiring New Staff The National College of Art and Design has advertised 27 new positions at the college; academic, administration and technical positions have become available. The closing dates for all jobs are Friday the 9th of September 2016 and for the position of Head of School of Design... 

by Alan Finn on Aug 31st, 2016 - 1545 Views

On Friday 26th August 2016,The Basin Street Flat Complex football pitch played host to the Annual Fountain Resource Group Fun Day. A big party got underway on Basin Street, providing three bouncy slides, DJ, sausages, candy floss and a barbeque cooking serving delicious hamburgers with all the trimmings! The... 

by Jacqueline Spain on Aug 29th, 2016 - 4330 Views

Have you heard of The Dublin Cookie Company? Elaine Cohalan and Jenny Synnott are the owners of a new business here in the Liberties. It is called The Dublin Cookie Company and is situated in Thomas Street; in walking distance from Guinness Storehouse, Teeling Whiskey Distillery and soon to open, Pearse...