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Ballyboughal Community Council

 

Last night the Ballyboughal Community Council met and to my surprise…. there was actually a great attendance.

I went along. Never been there…. but I went along.

Of course Michael Kennedy TD, Clare Daly and even Trevor Sargeant turned up.

So what came up in conversation that may make you sit up straight in your chair….?

The Cnoc [...]

A Gardening Class ...?

 

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Over the last weeks I’ve been researching chatting with some friends about gardening and the usual how to bits of outdoor advice.

From those conversations came the suggestion that I should do a crash course of some format in ‘gardening‘.

I did teach horticulture and courses before. But this class request or what one should get [...]

the garden groups first adventure

 

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http://blog.doneganlandscaping.com/2010/01/15/the-garden-groups-first-adventure/

war memorial gardens

It is official. The first ever outing for the Garden group has been organised is set up and ready to go.

The trip is to The National War Memorial Gardens [Dublin] and it will cost you absolutely [...]

The Real GAA All Stars... Ballyboughal Rangers

 

In a tough battled Leinster semi final versus St. Mochtas of Louth, Ballyboughal finally ended the greatest run ever in the history of the club and the village.

As an opening line… it was a tough battle, on many levels – but let us not forget – on so many greater levels what these men, these [...]

Niall Mellon Table Quiz Dec 3rd Malahide

 

Read how I got on in South Africa – read post 1
then read post number 2 on the garden of hope team

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And so just back from South Africa… I had managed to fall short of the €5,000 required to make the trip. The very kind people of the Trust had given me a [...]

niall mellon township building blitz 2009

 

950 Volunteers – 1 Week – 200 New Houses

I had disappeared for the last week or so…. and it seems in Ballyboughal terms I missed quite a bit… congratulations footballers!!
This is what I was doing….

Wallacedene, Cape Town, South Africa.

My third year to travel with The Garden of Hope Team, this year was always going to [...]

The day before the big match....

 

On the verge of rewriting history…. I went down to meet the men behind the men who will return triumphant to this small village in North Dublin.

Take a look at just what exactly winning this cup really means….

**don’t forget: if you can’t get to the match – there is a solution via live text commentary to your computer courtesy [...]

the trad session…

 

ever been to ballyboughal on a friday night…

ever wanted to hear a real trad irish music session….

got a song… got a guitar… got a set of spoons and maybe you want to get involved… simply turn up any Friday from about 8.30pm onwards and say hello to the first person you meet….

I might [...]

rugby…? in ballyboughal….?!!

 

You would think with the recent success of the Junior GAA team that rugby would be the furthest thing from anyones mind [in Ballyboughal at least...] at this moment in time….

But over the weekend at The Pavillions Shopping Centre in Swords, Swords Rugby Club continued their Fingal-wide recruitment drive with a two-day [...]

demands 21 demands

 

been a while since I saw these guys play live…. I thought there were more songs of theirs on youtube….. ? But I only found 2….

It’s only 2 seasons ago that the boys took the entire country by storm [and for those of you who have never heard them], ladys and gentlemen may I [re] [...]