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Head-ing for trouble
A FINGAL doctor has warned people using so-called 'legal highs' are 'dicing with death' after a new service delivering the products to homes in Swords began trading. In the week the Government announced an impending ban on a number of items on sale in 'head' shops, leaflets were dropped through letterboxes advertising a 'home delivery service'.
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Nikki in Eurovision bid
A SWORDS girl will be swapping backswings for backing vocals as she bids to help bring the Eurovision Song Contest title back to Ireland.
Family celebrates special Oscar win
ONE home in Balbriggan had a little more stake in this year's Oscars ceremony than anyone else in the town as they waited with bated breath to see if their cousin would be crowned in Oscar glory.
Easons to take over airport units
THE Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) has confirmed that Easons is to take over the airport's book stores after the collapse of Hughes & Hughes, saving 120 jobs at Dublin and Cork.
New facility for residents at shop site
THE council has outlined its plans to turn what once was Martin's Shop in Rush into a community facility but while work has already started on the project but the local authority cannot yet name a completion date.
Double whammy
STILL smarting from last Friday's controversial defeat by Bohemians, Sporting Fingal have suffered another blow – with the news that Lorcan Fitzgerald will miss at least the next six games.
Behind bars for staging tiger raid
A FORMER security worker who staged a tiger kidnapping which involved his house mates being bound with cable ties and threatened at gunpoint has been given an eight-year sentence with two suspended.
Former SRT worker gives up on dream
IF there was any doubt that the closure of SR Technics at Dublin Airport would mean a loss of important skills in the aviation industry then the case of one Swords man confirms it.
Enough land is zoned for housing in county
COUNTY management have told councillors that there is more than enough land zoned in the county already to satisfy Fingal's housing needs over the next six years.
Unfair to single out Aldi and Lidl
A PERCEIVED discrimination against the discount stores like Aldi and Lidl is to be removed from the latest draft of the County Development Plan as councillors went against the recommendations of county planners. Cllr Anne Devitt (FG) said that dealing with 'discount stores' as a separate category in terms of planning regulations for retail outlets, 'discriminated' against two particular operators, namely Aldi and Lidl.
Ahoy there Boston!
THE volunteer crew from Skerries RNLI Lifeboat Station are Boston bound. An official invitation to participate in the city's St Patrick's Day Parade was received by the volunteer crew at the end of last summer. Senior helm and trip organiser, Eoin McCarthy said: 'After much discussion, the crew decided it was an invitation not to be refused and so they started saving.
High-flying Dubs punish Mayo's lack of firepower
Dubs now genuine contenders for league decider PEERING down at their rivals from the peaks of the top division is an unusual occurrence for modern-day Dublin football teams, but that's the splendid view they currently enjoy following their productive trip to Castlebar yesterday.
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