Strengthening Communities and Making Spaces

The Inchicore/Kilmainham/Islandbridge area has experienced significant change in recent years.  These changes include major new and proposed residential and commercial developments bringing new residents to the community, new business and opportunities for new social and community facilities.

The Audit of Community facilities assesses the existing and likely future community facilities in the Inchicore/Kilmainham/Islandbridge area to identify and ensure that the needs of the growing community are catered for.

• Audit of Facilities 
  

Community Development Grants

The important work of community groups is supported by a grant scheme.
Grants are available for a broad range of activities and amounts given depends on level of activity, number of people involved.etc…

Summer Projects

We support and encourage areas in the organizing of summer projects during the months of July and August. The projects cater for children between 4 and 14 years of age and are organised and supervised by parents and volunteers from the respective areas. 
Training and financial assistance is provided in partnership with Dublin City Council and the Catholic Youth Centre.

Plant sales  

We encourage communities to improve their neighbourhood appearance and to make it brighter by organizing local plant sales.

Anyone interested in organizing
a plant sale in their areas should
contact Willie Morrough T. 222 5112 

Graffiti Programme

There is a Community Graffiti Reduction Programme currently in operation in the Kilmainham, Inchicore and Bluebell area that will allow residents and businesses have Graffiti removed or painted over free of charge. 

An RADHARC Photographic Project

Interested in photography? Join the group and meet every month in the BERA Hall, Connolly Avenue, Inchicore. Photography skills are learned through practical activities and hands-on assistance from members of the Photographic Society of Ireland.

The purpose of the project is develop the creative skills of members by documenting all aspects of local life in the Kilmainham/Inchicore area and creating a photographic archive of images of people and places as a record for the community.

Environmental Clean Up

Halloween Events

Christmas Tree Light Up

CIE SCULPTURE PROJECT

A unique sculpture, commemorating the development of the Railway Works at Inchicore and the CIE Estate, was unveiled by Lord Mayor Cllr. Paddy Bourke on 14th December 2007.

Dublin City Council, through the Kilmainham Area Office and the Parks & Landscaping Department, has been working with the CIE Works Residents Association and Iarnrod Eireann to develop the sculpture project.

The Inchicore Works was founded in 1845 and the Works Estate, purpose built for workers and their families, was occupied for the first time in 1847.

Over time a great engineering site and a unique community evolved here, a community in which the spirit, crafts, trades, loyalties and ingenuity of its workforce were constantly drawn upon in the dramatic Irish political and cultural life. This is reflected in the shared pride of residents who, today, actively seek to preserve and enhance the distinct architectural and social heritage of the area.

The sculpture was created in the Leitrim Sculpture Centre while local resident and employee of Iarnrod Eireann, Mr. Conor Murphy, cast the bronze plaque and tools on-site in the Inchicore Works.