4 WOMEN elected in Lucan, Liona O'Toole (Ind), Caroline Brady (FG) and Joanna Tuffy join Vicki Casserly and Paul Gogarty on Final Count (101 votes seperate Tuffy and Sinn Féin's Derren Ó'Brádaigh)
Cllr Vicki Casserly (FG) takes second seat in Lucan after Cllr Paul Gogarty tops poll last night
Mr Hugh Creegan, responding to Leixlip TD Catherine Murphy at the PAC meeting last Thursday in which he confirmed the NTA's intention to bring Dart to Kilcock as part of the Dart West project.
Dublin mum of two Rachel Connors took on the abseil challenge at Croke Park, to raise funds for Debra, the charity that aids people living with epidermolysis bullosa.
Liffey Valley based Rachel’s 12-year-old daughter, Casey lives with the rare skin disease as do some 300 others in this country.
Accompanied by her sister Samantha, Rachel conquered the 150ft plunge yesterday, 28th March.
“We were so nervous beforehand, we both felt sick, but we pushed ourselves out of our comfort zones and remembered why we were doing it,” said Samantha, from Clondalkin.
“It was a challenge for us to step off the edge but Casey faces challenges every day and she gets through it.”
The sisters’ abseil has so far raised more than €2,500 and their fundraising link remains open until 28th of April at: www.idonate.ie/fundraiser/Rachel-Samantha2
Twelve-year-old Casey daily battles the most severe form of EB and needs painful bandaging several times a week to cover blisters which erupt on her skin, 70% of which is covered in open wounds.
“Sometimes she goes through a down week and things can get very hard for her,” said Rachel, who is also mum to Jayden, 14.
“Then she’s back, and one day, hopefully, we can tell her there will be a cure but until then, we want her to do as much as she can to be like other children.”
•Video shows Rachel Connors (left) and her sister Samantha abseiling at Croke Park yesterday (28th March).
Not for the first time there is a spillage into the Silleachain stream on Mill Lane in Leixlip this afternoon (17th December). The Silleachain feeds into the Liffey at the end of Mill Lane.
-Vincent Sutton
The story of Theobald Wolfe Tone and Martha Witherington was shown on TG4 on Wednesday night (20th September).
Tone, the revolutionary, and Martha, the draper’s daughter eloped in the summer of 1785. he was 22 and she 16.
They were married by curate Edward Ryan on 21st of July as recorded in the Marriage Entries from the Registers of the Parishes St Andrew, St Anne, StAudoen, & St Bride 1632-1800.
The little know fact though is that the couple honeymooned in Maynooth.
Tone had her name changed to Matilda and together they travelled between America and France before the 1798 rebellion.
The rebellion led to Tone being buried in County Kildare and Matilda in New York.
While the marriage did not last long, Matilda made sure that her husband's name was remembered for generations to come when she and her son William, published ‘The Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone’ in Washington in May 1826.
Theobald Wolfe Tone and Matilda’s story was this week’s instalment of Scéalta Grá na hÉireann on TG4.
Spillage into The Silleachain stream on Mill Lane in Leixlip yesterday afternoon.
The stream feeds into the River Liffey at the end of the lane.
If you haven’t read it already in your Liffey Champion, the formal unveiling of a board commemorating James O’Neill will take place on the Black Avenue in Leixlip tomorrow at noon.
As you can see here... the ‘informal unveiling has already taken place. We first noticed it more than a week ago.
Cllr Joe Neville (FG), the Deputy Mayor of Kildare will carry out the formal unveiling with speakers including Des Geraghty, the retired CEO of SIPTU.
O’Neill, a Leixlip resident, succeeded James Connolly when he was shot for his part in the 1916 Rising.
John Colgan has written the information on the board and if you didn’t know about O’Neill before this, you have no excuse after tomorrow.
Of course, since the ‘informal unveiling’ some walkers on the Black Avenue have already briefed themselves.
Liffey traveller on its way to Dublin!
