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The following summarizes planning issues in Fairview in 2012 addressed by Fairview Residents Association:

1.         Site at 21, 27-29 and 31 Richmond Avenue. Reg Ref: 2575/03/x2:
Application considered WITHDRAWN. Statutory consents for planning permissions, including those previously granted, have now WITHERED AND NO LONGER APPLY to the site, nor the part-constructed structure standing on it. Dublin City Council has made [...]

Many of you are aware of the Fairview Park Restoration Committee (FPRC) and our ongoing concern regarding the safety and current condition of the playground and surrounding area.
A couple of months ago the FPRC suggested to Dublin City Council (DCC) that a community clean-up should be organised prior to the opening of the restored park. However, [...]

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Fairview Parish warmly invites you to our SOCIAL EVENING!

Time: 7pm
Date: Sat. 21 Nov. 2009
Place: Our Lady’s Hall, Fairview Church.

All members of the community welcome!
Fabulous refreshments provided!
Unmissable entertainment guaranteed!
Please contact Tosh Byrne if you think you’ve got the X-factor - all singers, dancers, musicians, poets, actors, any entertainers welcome! Prize for best entertainer…

Fairview Residents’ Association
Cumann Mhuintear Fionnradharc

The Residents’ Association’s AGM is where all Fairview’s residents get a chance to meet and discuss anything they think is important. New officers are elected, and we take a look back on the year.
Where: The CYMC/LC Hall, Philipsburgh Avenue
When: Monday, 30 November at 8.15 p.m.
Agenda / Clár:

Minutes of 2008 AGM & [...]

Fairview Residents’ Association
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Fairview Residents’ Association has joined the Northside Community Forum. Formed in 2003, the Forum is a community forum operating in Dublin North Central. Its principal objective is to encourage local community organisations, such as the FRA, to work together on a range of local issues identified by its members.
The Forum currently [...]

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“Let’s Walk & Talk” helps Dubliners learn about their local history while getting some fresh air and a bit of exercise. Organised by Dublin City Council, the initiative consists of local walking tours and other special events in various parts of the City.
Fairview Residents Association has asked to be included in this initiative, and the [...]

See also History of Clonturk 1 and History of Clonturk 2
In Georgian Times
At the time of the accession of George the First, Belvedere was the residence of Sir John Coghill’s eldest son, Marmaduke Coghill, who was, like his father, a civilian, and had succeeded him as judge of the prerogative court. At the same time [...]

See also History of Clonturk 1 and History of Clonturk 3
From the Stuart to the Hanoverian Succession
John Bathe, to whom William Bathe surrendered at the close of Elizabeth’s reign his inheritance, was the chancellor of the exchequer’s second surviving son by his first wife, and at the time of the surrender to him he was 33 [...]

Fairview Residents’ Association
Cumann Mhuintear Fionnradharc

“Let’s Walk & Talk” helps Dubliners learn about their local history while getting some fresh air and a bit of exercise. Organised by Dublin City Council, the initiative consists of local walking tours and other special events in various parts of the City.
Fairview Residents Association has asked to be included in this initiative, and the [...]

Fairview Residents’ Association
Cumann Mhuintear Fionnradharc
Fairview Residents’ Association would like to welcome residents of Richmond Road as far as Grace Park Road, including Grace Park Avenue and Convent Avenue, who are now part of area covered by the Fairview Residents Association.
Any resident of a house or apartment - whether you’re a renter or an owner - can join [...]

Fairview CYMC/LC has its very own music night in the main hall. The Sing Along takes place every Sunday night at 8.45pm and goes until 11.45 approx.
Admission is a mere €5, which includes a free raffle.
It’s a great night of music & singing and a night of craic is had by all.
If the pictures on [...]

Fairview & Marino are part of the Dublin Constituency for the European Parliament elections and part of the Clontarf electoral area for the elections to Dublin City Council. Elections for both bodies will be held on June 5 next.
NearFM, in conjunction with the Northside Community Forum, is organising a series of debates, in the run [...]

Fairview CYMC/LC are holding their Summer Barbeque on Friday next, May 15 at 9pm (’til late).
It’s the best deal in town: for a tenner (€10) you get a succulent steak (or chicken if steak is not for you) along with jacket potato & salad.
But that is only the start: there will be live music entertainment [...]

In Fairview CYMC/LC, the Pitch & Putt year starts on the 17th March each year with the section captain’s drive which is followed by a scramble and this year, 2009, after our game we had a good afternoon in the bar with music and finger food which was very well supported. Our captains, Rose Collins [...]

Fairview Residents’ Association

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Dulin City Council have received a planning application from Apex Estates regarding the former Pat O’Donnell site with an entrance at 18 & 20 Richmond Avenue. The site already has permission to build an apartment complex and the new application essentially seeks to add an additional 7 apartments in an extra [...]

Abraham “Bram” Stoker (8 November 1847 - 20 April 1912) was an Irish writer of novels and short stories, who is best known today for his 1897 horror novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known for being the personal assistant of the actor Henry Irving and the business manager of the Lyceum Theatre [...]

Situated in the heart of Fairview between the DART line and River Tolka, this 20 hectare park is noted for its seasonal bedding displays and also features playing fields, a children’s playground and tree-lined walks.
The park is laid out on land reclaimed from the sea adjoining the harbour. Originally a tidal mud flat which was [...]

 
Fairview Residents’ Association
Cumann Mhuintear Fionnradharc

Annual General Meeting
Cruinniú Chinnbhliana
The Residents’ Association’s AGM is where all Fairview’s residents get a chance to meet and discuss anything they think is important. New officers are also elected & we take a look back on the year.
Where: The CYMC/LC, Philipsburgh Avenue
When: Thursday 6 November 2008 at 8.00pm
Agenda / Clár:

Minutes of [...]

Fairview Residents’ Association
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On September 26, Abbey Building submitted a planning application to Dublin City Council to construct an 80 bedroom nursing home at 18 Fairview Avenue Lower & Fairview Terrace. The application states:
The development will consist of the clearing of the existing site including demolition of 2no. existing sheds and remains of original house and the construction [...]

 
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The proposed one-way system for Lomond Ave., Waverley Ave., Melrose Ave. & Inverness Road has been rejected by Dublin City Council. In a letter from DCC Roads & Traffic department to the Residents’ Association, they stated that:
I wish to inform you that the Traffic Advisory Group at its meeting of [...]

Westward of the North Strand, between Nottingham Street and Newcomen Bridge, and extending as far as Ballybough Road, was a locality of evil repute in former times, known as Mud Island, inhabited by a gang of smugglers, highwaymen, and desperadoes of every description, and ruled by a hereditary robber chief rejoicing in the title of [...]

Much of Fairview and some of Marino’s streets have been around for a long time now. The household returns and ancillary records for the censuses of Ireland of 1901 and 1911, which are in the custody of the National Archives of Ireland, represent an extremely valuable part of the Irish national heritage.
The 1911 Census, taken [...]

Fairview Residents’ Association
Cumann Mhuintear Fionnradharc

(16 September 2008)
The Manager of the City Council has decided to not go ahead with their plan to restrict parking from January 2009 for the following reasons:

No obvious solution to the problem of catering for persons attending church / funeral services
Problems of catering for local pubs, restaurants and other businesses
The [...]

 
FAIRVIEW & DISTRICT RESIDENTS’ ASSOCIATION

September 1995 
 
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Contents
 

Our concerns
Characteristics of the area
Objectives
The facts
What we’re happy with
Frustrations
Urgent requirements for Fairview
If that’s not enough…
Recommendations for Dublin - what Dublin should not do
Recommendations for Dublin - what Dublin should do

For further information, please contact:
Pádraig de Burca, 19 Bóthar Inbhear Nois, Fionnradharc, BÁC 3.
Our concerns
Over the last number [...]

Fairview Residents’ Association
Cumann Mhuintear Fionnradharc

1. NAME:
The Association shall be called Fairview Residents’ Association and shall be non-political and non-sectarian.
2. OBJECTIVES:
The objectives of the Association shall be to maintain and safeguard the interests of its members in respect of their holdings, improve conditions and general amenities within the community and to build up a community [...]

A study of an area in Dublin that has one of the highest concentrations of older people in the country, has found that there is a lack of key services and supports available to them.
More than 3,000 people over the age of 60 live in the Fairview/Marino area and a significant number of these are [...]

 
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Feel free to leave a comment if you have an opinion on this proposal.

News: September 2008
The proposed one-way system for Lomond Ave., Waverley Ave., Melrose Ave. & Inverness Road has been rejected by Dublin City Council. More info here.
From the FRA newsletter, June 2008
 
At our AGM, it was suggested [...]

Fairview and Marino
Passing beyond the old city boundary at Ballybough Bridge, one of the first objects of interest is the Catholic parish Church of Fairview, which is a little more than half a century old. The building which was its predecessor, previously a Dominican Convent, is on Fairview Strand, a little beyond Fairview Avenue. This [...]

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September 2008 news:

Update:
(16 September 2008) The Manager of the City Council has decided to not go ahead with their plan to restrict parking from January 2009. Click here for more information.
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The Sunday Tribune (September 7) has reported that Dublin city council has abandoned controversial plans to restrict parking within a [...]

Dublin City Council has proposed that the Marino area be rezoned from Z1 (residential) to Z2 (residential conservation).
Zoning Z1 - To protect, provide and improve residential amenities
Zoning Z2 - To protect and/or improve the amenities of residential conservation areas.
This will have the effect of providing Marino with “an enhanced level of protection to the unique [...]

Fairview Residents’ Association
Cumann Mhuintear Fionnradharc

June 2009 update:
Abbey have applied again for independent living units.
11 October 2008 update:
An Bord Pleanála has changed the status of the proposal from “Decision expected by October 14″ to ”Proposed decision date not available at this time“. We therefore do not know yet when the proposal will be approved in favour [...]

Fairview Residents’ Association
Cumann Mhuintear Fionnradharc

Fairview Residents’ Association aims to maintain and safeguard the interests of the people of the Fairview area in respect of their holdings, improve conditions and general amenities within the community and to build up a community spirit.
The Residents’ Association wants to develop the area in a way that maximises its [...]

Fairview (or Fionnradharc as Ghaeilge) is a district on the Northside of Dublin, Ireland, in the jurisdiction of Dublin City Council. It is part of Dublin 3.
Location and access
The district is bordered to the southwest by the River Tolka and East Wall, to the west by North Strand, to the north by Marino, on the [...]