January
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•THE Swords-based Money Advice and Budgeting Service (MABS) reported a dramatic upsurge in numbers during 2008. Many of the new clients were experiencing real difficulties in making their monthly mortgage repayments. •NEW Year's mayhem erupted on the streets of Swords with local gardaí responding to 19 public order incidents in just 48 hours.
Garda resources were stretched to the limit with seven outbreaks occurring on New Year's Eve and another seven reported on New Year's Day.
'There was a lot of public order and, over the period, it was definitely busier than usual,' a garda source said. •A MAJOR multi-million euro entertainment complex, The Wright Venue, was given planning approval by Fingal County Council to build the scheme at Airside. •A LUSK-BASED principal hit out at the Department of Education over its failure to provide a permanent new home for the school, claiming they had been waiting 13 years for the new school.
Eddie Kirk from Hedgestown National School said he was fed up with the struggle to find new and more suitable accommodation.
The school was forced into temporary accommodation after an asbestos-filled ceiling caved in over pupils heads. •PLANS to develop a hostel for 'at risk' homeless children in the grounds of St Ita's in Portrane were condemned by local residents. The DPCC said the HSE should be able to find a location for these children at an alternative site in the city centre. •A MAJOR rescue involving members of Skerries Coastguard was initiated after a teenager was reported missing along the Fingal coastline. Some 25 personnel were involved in the search for the 16-yearold boy who had a potentially lifethreatening condition. He was subsequently found at Balscadden quarry in Howth and airlifted to safety.
