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Gallery: Images Of Newly Refurbished St. Catherine’s Church
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...
St. Catherine’s Church To Hold It’s First Service On Sunday
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...
Local Man Wins Photo Competition For Calender
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...
Our Pre-School Kids Go See Santa @ Jervis Centre
Our Pre–School kids made the rather convenient trip (say nothing) to Jervis Street this year to see Santa Claus, and to demand that he cough up the goods this December 25th!
It will be one of two appearances that Saint Nic will make to our playschool kids.
The second will be next week on the Wee Tots...
Our Youths Get To Grips With Football Zorbing
Over the last two weeks many of the young people in our Fountain Youth Project have enjoyed a session of Football Zorbing!
This crazy game has been popular amongst our youths, and has benefited them in many ways, including fitness, decision making, teamwork and more.
Here are some photos that we took...
FRG DJs! – Fountain Youth Hold Their First Disco
The Fountain Youth Project held it’s first disco at the weekend, with three of the youth club members djing on the night!
Jason Fitzpatrick, Gerard Fox and Craig Hanlon took part in our recent Djing And Music Production tuition, held at our Fountain Youth Project premises on Basin Street in Dublin...
Candlelight Christmas Carol Service @ St Catherines (Dec 22)
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...
Elbow To Play 2014 Gig In Kilmainham (Tickets from Thursday)
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...
Local History Series – A Brief Ancient History Of Kilmainham
In 606 a.d, Saint Magnend was abbot of a monastery here, giving rise to the name Kill Magnend or ‘church of Magnend. This was later corrupted into its current name of Kilmainham. Saint Magnend’s feast day was celebrated on the 18th of December each year and Kilmainham became an important place of...
Christmas Shopping @ The Liberty Market, Meath Street
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...
Gallery: Remember, Remember, The Snow In December?
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...
