Category Archives: News
Spring/Summer 2018 Newsletter
Harolds XPress Christmas Edition 2017 is out now
Happy Christmas from everyone in the Harolds Cross Village Community Council.
Enjoy the Christmas Edition of the Harolds XPress here.
Garda advice on Burglaries in Harold’s Cross – Rathmines
Craft Restaurant Review in Sunday Business Post
Harold’s Cross Five Point Pledge for General Election Candidates
When General Election candidates call to your home in the coming weeks, ask them have they signed up to the 
. This is a vow to help our village achieve five major goals during the term of the next government. The “big wins” were drawn up by the Harold’s Cross Village Community Council as part of the wider Harold’s Cross Vision 2025 plan – after a well-attended public meeting last summer.
. This is a vow to help our village achieve five major goals during the term of the next government. The “big wins” were drawn up by the Harold’s Cross Village Community Council as part of the wider Harold’s Cross Vision 2025 plan – after a well-attended public meeting last summer.All General Election 2016 candidates in our constituency are being asked to make the pledge ahead of polling day. Ask the next election hopeful to knock on you door if they have signed up to helping Harold’s Cross become the greenest, healthiest, smartest urban village in Dublin by 2025.
VILLAGE BRACED FOR ‘BIG DIG’ TO HOUSE NEW RESIDENTS
Harold’s Cross is facing into a “big dig” over the coming months as developers start work on three major sites.
Construction on houses, apartments and social accommodation for around 1,000 new residents threaten the village with traffic and noise disruption within weeks.
On the largest project, developers New Generation are asking city chiefs for a green light to start work on a 180-apartment complex at Mount Argus.
The proposed eight-block development facing onto Kimmage Road Lower was approved by An Bord Pleanala in April 2011.
Plans include a massive dig four metres beneath the level of the adjoining River Poddle for an underground car park.
The excavation will need significant earth works and its removal in heavy lorries.
A new access is also needed from Kimmage Road Lower, including a bridge over the river, to get equipment onto the site.
A tree survey is also to be carried out.
Exploratory work has already begun at the field next to Mount Argus church by the developers, who are also behind redevelopment plans at the St Clare’s Convent site.
Separately, homeless organisation Focus Ireland has confirmed works will start before the end of the year on a 28-apartment sheltered housing complex in the village.
The three-storey development will be sited at the front of Our Lady’s Hospice on Harold’s Cross Road.
It will include 18 one-bedroom apartments, nine two-bed flats and one three-bedroom unit.
Focus Ireland said the development will be used to house “the elderly or people with a disability” who are registered as homeless with Dublin City Council.
A “commencement notice” to start approved works was issued to planning chiefs in October.
In another major development, construction is due to begin on 36 new houses and 27 apartments at the junction of Harold’s Cross Road and Mount Tallant Avenue.
The 3.4 acre site was formerly used by the CapCo roofing company and has lain derelict for a number of years.
LONG LOST FRIENDS SEEKING MARIE MOLLOY
School pals celebrating a 40th reunion are searching Harold’s Cross for one of their classmates.
They believe Marie Molloy – nee O’Brien – has been living in the village since returning from Co Donegal.
Ms Molloy is a former pupil at St Louis High School in neighbouring Rathmines, where she grew up.
Ex-class mates are appealing for anyone in Harold’s Cross who knows her whereabouts to get in contact with them.
They are organising a 40th anniversary reunion of their class for this weekend.
If you can help locate Ms Molloy drop us a line at xpress@haroldscross.org
