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Month XX, 2012 Lucan • Palmerstown • Celbridge • Leixlip • Adamstown • Dodsboro • Liffey Valley • ballyowen
INSIDE: Students at St Joseph’s College promote Mental Health Week P6-7
opinion: Senator Averil Power speaks out on high price of childcare Page 8
Summer scene: Locals enjoying a good thing Martial Arts: McGregor set for UFC debut in Stockholm Page 32
Hurling:
Rushe adds to talent in Dublin side in NHL tie Page 31
ALSOINSIDE: GALLERIES................... 6-7 DUBLIN LIFE....................11 OUT&ABOUT...................17 CLASSIFIEDS.................26 SPORT............................27
To mark the launch of A Good
Thing, Vodafone RED, a mobile price plan offering “endless calls and texts”, international 3D street artist Julian Beever captured his interpretation of A Good Thing at Mayor’s Square in the IFSC. Pictured enjoying it are Ellie Schroter-Anderson from Celbridge and Cillian and James Noonan from Lucan with their mother Rebekah King.
An Post approves new office for Lucan Campaign and petition with 1,500 signatures achieve their objective
Paul hosford
A NEW post office for Lucan has been approved by An Post. The confirmation follows an 18-month campaign,
which saw over 1,500 people in the area sign a petition calling for the new facility. Key to the concerns of residents is the distance from areas like Lucan South
to the existing post offices in Lucan Village and Dodsboro, which in some cases can be over five kilometres. Local Fine Gael TD Derek Keating, who headed the petition campaign, said
that An Post had confirmed the new facility in a meeting last week and that “everybody will be a winner with a new post office facility in Lucan.” Full Story on Page 2