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Irish Independent
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Independent
Welsh choir perform at Wicklow secondary school
The Holyhead students performed beautifully and were a superb addition to the evening's programme. This twinning event allowed students from both schools to share stories and experiences as they celebrate 13 years of twinning with Greystones Municipal District. Cathaoirleach Tom Fortune signed the original twinning documents back in 2012. A Greystones cohort will travel to Holyhead for the annual festival there in July and a sporting twinning event is also being planned. And, of course, the Holyhead Santa will be making his return in November for the Christmas lights, together with the Holyhead Male Voice Choir. Commenting on the enduring relationship, Councillor Stephen Stokes said: 'Greystones Municipal District celebrates our Holyhead Twinning Partnership, with its continued success. Over 13 years of learning from each other, a new generation has now become involved, with many more activities to come in the future.'
Irish Independent
24-05-2025
- Sport
- Irish Independent
See photos as Wicklow Rugby Club hosts annual dinner dance
Special guests from Rathdrum, Greystones and Arklow rugby clubs were also in attendance, alongside current and past Wicklow RFC members, their families and friends. President Ann Morrissey welcomed everyone to the event and spoke about the club's many achievements over the past 12 months. Awards on the night were also presented to the senior men's and women's section and the recently formed under-20s. The senior player of the year was Ben Watson, while Brian Johnson won young player of the year. The seconds player of the year was Caolan Mooney. Luke Fox collected the award for most improved player. The under-20 player of the year was Eamonn Goddard, and the under-20 award for most improved player was won by Jack McCaul. In the women's section, the AIL player of the year was Caitlin Griffey. J1 player of the year was Faye O'Neill. Most improved player was Val Conyard. The young player of the year was Clara Dunne. The Mervyn Morrison Trophy for coach of the year was awarded to the under-18 coaches. The Peter Duffy Trophy for long-service to the club was won by brother and sister Robert Nolan and Lynn Armstrong. The Clarke Auctioneers Trophy for service over the past year was deservedly won by Rhona Younger. The night proved a resounding success, with all present dancing away into the early hours, with the band Fusion providing the music.
Irish Times
21-05-2025
- Lifestyle
- Irish Times
Three-bed terrace in Greystones with garden room and high-end kitchen for €475,000
The owners of the terraced home at 12 Charlesland Park in Greystones , Co Wicklow, bought it as a new build in 2005 and planned to live here forever, and that fact is clear from the attention to detail they paid to each of the updates carried out on this home. It is only due to a change in circumstances and the desire for a bigger garden that has led them to place their home, which is in walk-in condition, on the market with Sherry FitzGerald, seeking €475,000. To the front of the 95sqm (1,023sq ft) B3-rated midterrace home is a cobblelock driveway for one car. You enter the house into a front hall, which has space for storage, and flows into a hallway leading to the kitchen. Entrance Kitchen and dining area Kitchen Living area One of the upgrades carried out in 2020 was the fitting of a high-end bespoke kitchen by Wicklow-based cabinet-maker and designer Cillían Johnston. The owners trusted his vision entirely, and under his guidance fitted the cool-looking copper recirculation unit hanging above the hob. They had the hob fitted into the peninsula facing the dining and living area so they could engage with whoever was in the space while they cook. The white kitchen units are floor-to-ceiling, with storage continuing down the wall into the dining area, providing further shelving, deep drawers and cupboard space. The countertops are a marble-effect stone, which also forms the splashback. The kitchen was a huge investment in this home and optimises the space. READ MORE The space flows into the dining and living space, with the original hardwood floors and a rectangular electric fire recessed into the wall. Through French doors, the living space opens to the west-facing back garden, adding to that sense of flow throughout the ground floor. There is also a WC on this floor. Attic conversion bedroom Back garden with garden room In the garden there is a patio area for a table and chairs and a lawn and plant-flanked path leading to the A-rated garden room, which was added two years ago. As well as providing home office space, the Siberian larch - clad structure also has a side door to a shed. The owners had the structure made to fit the exact dimensions of the garden, so not an inch of space is wasted. Back inside, on the first floor the main bedroom sits to the front of the property with a second good-size single to the rear with built-in wardrobes, and the main bathroom. The property had been a two-bed until the owners got planning permission to add stairs and convert the attic into a third bedroom. Therefore, number 12 Charlesland Park has plenty to offers buyers looking to set down roots in this established estate. It is less than a 10-minute drive to Greystones village, where there are an array of shops, bakeries and cafes as well the beach and the Dart station – with 45-55-minute services to Dublin city centre. It is also just around the corner from the Charlesland Centre, which has a gym, a pharmacy, a hairdresser, Costa Coffee and Supervalu.
Irish Examiner
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Examiner
€345k West Cork musicians' retreat is so private 'it's perfect for the witness protection programme'
TEACHING piano to a then-teenage Simon Harris is just one of the many unexpected claims to fame of one of the owners of this Seehanes, Drimoleague, West Cork hideaway home. Have I the right key? Simon Harris in 2016 It's one that has been visited, stayed in, and enjoyed by some of Ireland's musical its owners are too respectful of their privacy to name them. If the walls of the hideaway artists retreat-like house could talk, they'd sing, chant, burst in to choruses and chords and give it a bit of old fashioned, raucous rock-and-roll welly. 'We don't do conventional,' says Ali, one of two serious musician owners of this West Cork charmer, replete now with instruments, rock-and-roll memorabilia and photographs, as well as hens, geese, and a braying donkey. The couple themselves, Stuart and Ali Crampton, are more Greystones than Bray, with multi-instrument playing Stuart having retired from music teaching after 23 years in Wicklow's Greystones, where, among his pupils, there was one 14-year-old Simon Harris, to whom he taught piano; he also wrote the music for a short play that the future Taoiseach and Fine Gael leader had written. Farm home and barn dances at Seehanes, Drimoleague Stuart has performed with a vast array of musicians, from the late Rick Danko, a founder of The Band, to Ronnie Wood, Cork's Cathal Dunne, Colm Wilkinson, and Mary Black's long-time guitar accompanist Pat Crowley: however, high-profile guests who've stayed here remain unnamed. 'We joke this is the perfect house for the witness protection programme, it's so private. There's a kilometre of lane up to it, which the council just redid at a considerable cost and we had to contribute to, but the result is utter privacy; you don't hear another sound here,' says Ali, who grew up working on film sets and rubbing shoulders with movie stars ( her dad had a film catering company). Purple reigns Having fallen for the West Cork lifestyle and now well-embedded in the local music scene, they are on the move to a similar type of traditional house, only nearer the sea. They are selling here at Seehanes, near Drimoleague, and sort of in an equidistant triangle of reach to Clonakilty, Skibbereen, and Bantry. Niamh Moloney, of Sherry FitzGerald O'Neill, is handling the sale (SFON also handled the sale to the Cramptons for US-based previous owners two years ago), and she guides the characterful, three-bedroomed, traditional-style home of over 1,000 sq ft at €345,000. It has good living space in the effectively one-room wide main build, with a rear kitchen, utility and bathroom behind, and above three bedrooms, plus boxroom/home office, with a bathroom off the rear one. Kitchen cabinet Only lightly modernised, with wall-to-wall rock and music images and craftily upcycled furniture finds and still with heaps of retained character and original 'feel,' it has had windows replaced, has oil central heating, and a large wood-burning stove in a wide inglenook fireplace and gets a D1 BER. It has an enclosed garden/music jamming room, several sheds and useful outbuildings, plus traditional, curved steel barn, and is on almost 2.5 acres with a paddock to the rear. Jammy VERDICT: 'A grand-daughter of a previous owner contacted the agents after the photos went online to say the house had always been a happy one and had never looked so good,' says Ali.
Irish Times
16-05-2025
- Business
- Irish Times
Reimagined Delgany end-of-terrace home for €795,000
Address : 21 Cherry Grove, Delgany Wood, Delgany, Co Wicklow Price : €795,000 Agent : DNG The village of Delgany , Co Wicklow , famed for its picturesque village setting and proximity to Dublin and the Wicklow Mountains, offering a combination of rural charm and convenience to the capital. It is just off the N11/M11, and the vicinity has a wealth of amenities such as walking trails, horse riding and hiking in the nearby mountains. It is also close to the popular seaside town of Greystones , where locals avail of the Dart service to Dublin city , and can take to the sea for daily swims. Just 2.3km from Greystones, and 900m from Delgany, is number 21 Cherry Grove at Delgany Wood, now selling through DNG , seeking €795,000. It has a B2 Ber. The current owners bought the house in 2015 for €370,044, according to the Property Price Register, though this figure does not include the VAT paid at the time as the house was new. READ MORE Back then the owners were downsizing from a larger property due to an empty nest and were in search of a smaller home to suit their needs. 'When these houses were being built, I said to the builder, if I could buy the end house, I'd take it,' says one of the owners. It was smaller than they had wished for at the time, but it was the corner site and provided uninterrupted views of the Drummin tree line – an expanse of Scots pine purported to date from about 7,000 years ago – that she fell for. Having purchased the house, the owners immediately set about changing the footprint to suit their needs. 'We needed plenty of space for guests and family downstairs – but all we needed was enough room for the pair of us upstairs,' she says. Engaging local architectural firm PD Lane Associates, they added an extension that essentially wrapped around the rear and side of the house, in a space that originally had a sittingroom and small kitchen. Now the ground floor is centred by a spacious livingroom, off which a new kitchen and diningroom and the original separate sittingroom lie. It's a lovely space, bathed in light thanks to its sunny aspect and expansive use of glazing. Owners engaged local firms to turn the property into what it is today, a two-bedroom 157sq m (1,690sq ft) house in walk-in condition. Kitchen Diningroom Livingroom Sittingroom Downstairs toilet Main bedroom The house has side and a rear gardens A sunroom was added in 2023 Sunroom Kerwood Kitchens were tasked with a new cooking space. In duck-egg blue, it's a larger kitchen than its original design and now has custom-built cabinetry and quartz countertops. New flooring was sourced from Matt Britton in Kilcoole and blinds throughout the end-terrace house were installed by Ambiance Interiors in Greystones. Two years ago, owners added a lovely sunroom to the rear, which adds a further 13sq m to the 157sq m house. It's a superb space to entertain in summer months, and the windows have UV filters to protect any furniture and flooring from sun damage. There were originally three bedrooms upstairs, which the owners reduced to two. With the main bedroom now occupying the entire front of the house, the property has two en suites and the second bedroom is in use as a second dressingroom. Outside, private side and rear gardens are bordered by a Red Robin hedge, allowing much privacy and views to Drummin tree line.
