writes Brian Byrne

3 weeks ago | kilcullenbridge.blogspot.com | writes Brian Byrne |Brian Byrne

A Retail Window Merchandising Grant is now available to shop-owners from Kildare County Council, writes Brian Byrne. The grant is worth a maximum of €1,000 over a year. The fundaing is designed to allow retailers and businesses to enhance their window displays with a view to creating a more attractive streetscape for shoppers. It can be used for general internal displays including lighting and shelving, and can relate to expenditure during holiday season displays.

3 weeks ago | kilcullenbridge.blogspot.com | writes Brian Byrne |Brian Byrne

On Wednesday, June 18th, to celebrate Pride Week, there will be a special screening of Irish film Dating Amber in Kilcullen Bridge Cinema, writes Teresa Nurse. This will be followed by a Q&A with writer-director David Freyne. Now living in London, David hails from Newbridge and is a past pupil of CPC Kilcullen. This movie will be a delight for local film fans who can enjoy the scenes shot around the Curragh camp and the plains of Kildare on the big screen.

4 weeks ago | kilcullenbridge.blogspot.com | writes Brian Byrne |Brian Byrne

Ballyshannon Action is going full steam ahead with fundraising to cover the legal costs for their upcoming judicial review of the An Bord Pleanala's decision to overturn Kildare County Council's denial of planning permission for Kilsaran's quarry development at Racefield, writes Brian Byrne. The group got their leave for the High Court review earlier this month, though as yet no date has been set.

1 month ago | kilcullenbridge.blogspot.com | writes Brian Byrne |Brian Byrne

Irish neutrality is not enshrined in the constitution but has been a policy of Ireland's governments since the formation of the state in 1922, writes Brian Byrne. The current and future status of this policy will be discussed this evening in Kilcullen Town Hall. Does the policy, which has been defined in different ways over more than a century, fit in with the reality of today's geopolitics?

1 month ago | kilcullenbridge.blogspot.com | Brian Byrne |writes Brian Byrne

A desire to get a slice of a multi-billion-euro EU military spending fund is behind the Irish Government's attempt to make it easier for Irish troops to be deployed in overseas conflicts, by eliminating the UN mandate requirement in the so-called Triple Lock, writes Brian Byrne. That was an underlying proposition in last evening's presentation by the Neutrality Roadshow in Kilcullen Town Hall.