BFree are pleased to invite you to their lauch on Saturday 14th January from 2pm to 4pm in the BFree pop-up store, Duke Street, Dublin 2 (you can’t miss it!) where dietician Paula Mee will be on hand to informally meet you and answer queries and questions about the Coeliac diet and gluten-free foods.

BFree breads are a new 100% Irish and natural range of Gluten and Wheat Free breads launched in December 2011 by BFree Foods. The BFree Brown and White Seeded loaf are available in the main fresh bread aisles of Dunnes Stores nationwide. The BFree pop-up store is open until the end of January and the public are welcome to call in and try the breads for free and find out more from the team.

The Lord Mayor of Dublin, Andrew Montague, announced details of this year’s Dublin Chinese New Year Festival on Thursday, 12th January, 2012 at 11am at Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, Dublin 2. Today the program began at Meeting House Square and I was there to take a few photographs.

This year’s festival runs from 20th January to 3rd February and celebrates the Year of the Dragon.
Dublin, now twinned with Beijing, will celebrate in style and highlights include the Asia Market Chinese New Year’s Carnival on 22nd January and Chinese Opera in the Open sponsored by Kildare Village Chic Outlet Shopping on 21st January. Both events take place in the newly covered Temple Bar Meeting House Square. Other events include the Chinese Film Festival with Etihad Airways, a children’s programme at Dublin City Public Libraries, a photo exhibition on Peking Opera, lectures and much more.
The Lord Mayor said “The Dublin Chinese New Year Festival for 2012, the Year of the Dragon, has an action-packed programme of events and I am looking forward to celebrating Sino-Irish relations with the Chinese Community and Dubliners alike. The positive contribution by our Chinese Community to the vibrancy of Dublin life is sometimes overlooked so I take this opportunity to thank the Dublin Chinese New Year Festival Committee for their hard work in organising this wonderful Festival.”

At Greystones Groomers we provide the highest quality dog grooming service carried out by professional dog groomers with practical experience within the show ring and sporting dog field trials. Trained by one of Ireland’s top dog groomers; attention to detail combined with a love and understanding of dogs insures that your pet has the most relaxed and pampered day possible as we do our magic and banish ‘those dog ruff days’!
We also offer a dog & puppy day care service for those hard working mums and dads.

The town of Greystones is located on the east coast of Ireland just south of Bray Head. Originally a small fishing village, Greystones has grown significantly over the last decade but fortunately it has not lost its friendly and welcoming village atmosphere.

With frequent rail connections to Dublin and Wexford and excellent motorway access to the N11, Greystones is the ideal holiday base. Superb restaurants, unique specialist shops, beaches, pubs, golf courses and driving range are all close to the town centre. Rugby, soccer, hurling, Gaelic football, swimming, leisure centre activities, sailing, fishing, rowing, tennis, basketball and baseball are well catered for.

The Charlesland Sport and Recreation Park is Ireland’s premier sports facility with its magnificent running track, skateboard park and sporting fields.

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The oldest inhabited barracks in Europe (and once one of largest), it was originally known simply as the Barracks and later the Royal Barracks, and a mainstay of British forces on the island for several hundred years.

Except for the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, the barracks is the earliest public building in Dublin, and was built from 1701 by the then Surveyor General under Queen Anne, Thomas de Burgh. Burgh was also the architect of the famous library building at Trinity College, Dublin.

Built on a site originally intended for a mansion of the Duke of Ormonde, the complex has several large squares, each open on the south side. The largest square(Clarke’s Square) has arcaded colonnades on the east and west sides, and the main buildings are faced with granite.

Through the 19th century, up to 1,500 troops of various Regiments of Foot (and up to two troops of horse) were stationed at the barracks. However, by the 1880s conditions of accommodation were dangerously inadequate, and strongly criticised following an investigation by Commissioners of the War Office as levels of disease increased. This included outbreaks of fever which claimed the lives of a number of men, from amongst which were members of the 8th King’s Royal Irish Hussars – predecessor to the current regiment: The Queen’s Royal Hussars.

During the 1916 Easter Rising, the 10th Battalion of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers and other forces were deployed from the Royal Barracks to fight the insurgent Irish Citizen Army and Irish Volunteers who occupied strongly held positions close by on Usher’s Island (under Sean Heuston), the Four Courts (under Ned Daly), and the GPO (under Pádraig Pearse).