Terenure Environmental Improvement Plan: Consultative Seminar on 4th December

A consultative seminar to discuss the Terenure Environmental Improvement Plan will take place on Thursday, 4th December at 7.30pm in The Evergreen Hall, Terenure Road North.

A presentation will be made by Patrick McNabola, Anthony Reddy Associates (Architects), followed by a discussion.

Terenure Residents' Association welcomes the opportunity to contribute this plan which will serve to inform the next City Development Plan.

Dublin City Development Plan, 2016-22

Dublin City Council has begun preparing the new City Development Plan for 2016 – 2022. The priority issues include:
expansion, development and regeneration of the city, 
climate change, 
the city and regional economy, 
community infrastructure and social inclusion, 
transportation, 
amenities and green spaces, 
population and housing, and
retailing. 

To inform the development plan process, the Council has put together an Issues Paper, which highlights some of the 'big picture' priority issues for the city over the next six years. Dublin City Council is encouraging citizens, communities and organisations to read through these issues and make observations.

From 10th November 2014 to 14th Jan 2015, you can make an observation through the Development Plan website on any of the issues outlined above. Click here to go to the Submission Form and enter your comments.

After 14th January 2015, Dublin City Council will review all comments as it prepares the Draft City Development Plan. The Draft Plan will in turn will be available to view and comment on in late 2015.

Terenure Christmas Festival and Tree Lighting

Date: Sunday 7 December

Venue: Main car park, Terenure Road North

The Christmas Tree has arrived in Terenure and will be lit up at the Terenure Christmas Festival, which will include the Terenure Market (moved for 1 week only to the car park), starting at 11am.

The specially enlarged market will have over 40 stalls, live entertainment, Santa Claus, the Snow Queen, Cuddles the Polar Bear plus free goodie bags for children and free mulled wine for adults!

The lights will be switched on at 4pm by the Lord Mayor, Cllr Christy Burke, and our own hero, Patrick "Rala" O'Reilly, the long-serving bagman for the Irish rugby team.

The First World War and Terenure: Update

On the 15th September we published an item on our website about how the Committee was trying to find out more about Terenure's connection, if any, with World War 1 (WW1). 

Click on the links below to find out more about:

• Thomas Murray, a veteran of WW1 who lived in Rathfarnham
• Leo Valentine who fought and died at the Somme and whose letters home to his mother were found in a box in a house in Terenure  
• the Europeana 1914-1918 website which contains materials and resources from all over the world about WW1
• the WW1 roadshow hosted by the National Library of Ireland at Trinity College, Dublin in July 2014. 

Many thanks to Professor Eunan O'Halpin, Professor of Contemporary Irish History, Trinity College, Dublin, and to Katherine McSharry, National Library of Ireland, for their assistance.