A  Primetime investigation by R.T.E television on the selling of alcohol to underage minors in the Swords area found that almost all the off licence who deliver drink to homes are selling the drink to children. In a blitz on the home delivery service offered by Swords drink sellers the Primetime team cough out the off licence delivery staff. The programme makers ordered alcohol from several houses in the Swords area and when the order arrived the door was opened by a teenager. No identification was asked for by the delivery staff and the drink was handed over and the payment made.

A man was found dead in a car in the Rivervalley Estate in Swords on Friday night last. It happened on Rivervalley Close in the estate, There was a rumour the man died from a drugs overdose in the car. The man was asleep in the car all night with another man.

A boy was knocked down by a car after getting of a Dublin Bus at Swords Manor area on Sunday evening. The boy had just got of the 41 bus and was crossing the road when the accident happened. The condition of the boy is unknown at the moment.

Up to twenty Russians were involved in a street brawl outside the Russian club which is attached to The Star pub on Saturday night / Sunday morning. The club which is located on Chapel Lane Swords now only opens on a Saturday night. Fighting is very common outside the club with regular street brawls taking place between young men. The kicking and punching lasted for twenty minutes. No Garda were at the scene during the disturbance

The town of Swords is to get one thousand new houses/flats. The development will take place at ''Fosterstown'' which is between Pennock Hill and The Forrest Road close to Boroimhe. The project has been given planning permission and was passed by the councillors in Fingal.

The jobs will be created when a new pub, restaurant and shops are built beside the Fingal Community Collage. The planning permission has been granted and work will begin this year. 100 jobs will also be created during the building phase. Some old building along North street will be knocked down, namely, the old bookies shop. The 2 houses to the left of the school will be turned into a pub and restaurant with apartments to the rear set out in a courtyard. The builder is Gerry Gannon

A party will be held in The Wright Venue Swords for leaving cert students on Thursday 24 June. Entitled the ''LC Fest [leaving cert festival] the will be a raft of entertainment laid on on all 4 floors of the venue. Artists appearing will include- R+B Mr.Hudson, Kanye West, Muzzy G, on the autoban, Fugative And The Vic, Babyshambles and many more. A battle of the bands contest will also feature, a u.v. disco, face painting, fair ground activities. Remember to bring you're id. to show you are over 18 years old. The leaving cert fest. starts at 8pm and is over at 3am. See Wrights Venue for directions to the party

Two new restaurants are to open at the pavilions shopping centre soon creating up to ninety new jobs. Kentucky fried chicken and Nando's are to open in the next few weeks. Nando's will open in July with it's 90 seater restaurant and will employ 35 full time staff. The Kentucky fried chicken restaurant will open it's doors in August and will be located beside Pennies close to the Main Street area.

The new prison at Thornton Hall in Killsallaghan has been given the go ahead with work starting on the new road this summer, read more at Thornton Hall Site

An attempt was made to rob the Ladbrokes bookies at Rivervalley in Swords on Saturday 29 May. The man entered the shop wearing a white boiler suit and balaclava. The staff refused to give the would be thief any money and he fled on foot.

Two new motorway service stations are to start recruting 100 people for the 24 hour service station on the M1 motorway near Lusk. The jobs are for the restaurant, Burger King and the Costa Coffee Shop. The developers are Applegreen and can be contacted at www.applegreen.ie

After a string of burglaries in Swords over the last year a man has been charged and handed down a four year prison sentence. The man from St. Cronans in Swords appeared in the circuit court and pleaded guilty of two charges of handling stolen property. He had 29 previous convictions for burglary around Swords and Co.Louth. The culprit was caught by Garda who carried out a search of his car after he was pulled over.

Aldi, which is a discount grocery shop chain is looking to locate in Swords. The premises they are interested in is Des Darcy's car showroom on North Street. Talks are in the initial stages at present and as far as I know there has been no application lodged with Fingal County Council planning section. Aldi are a multi national company based in Germany and have hundreds of stores around the world. They operate a no frills approach to selling.

Residents of Foxwood Estate on the Drynam Road which is near The Pavilion Shopping Centre are to take a vote whether to introduce pay and display for the estate. The residents have been complained about the parking of staff and shoppers of the Pavilions shopping centre using Foxwood as a car park for over a year. The residents met with Fingal County Council to discuss the issue. A letter was posted to all households in the estate to ascertain if they were in favour of pay and display or not. No decision has yet been made by the council.

The authority is to lay off it's search and security workers and re-hire they at a cheaper rate of twelve fifty an hour,,,, read more

Residents in Rivermeade which is a few miles from Swords are living in fear because of the lare number of residents dying of cancer. The total number of houses in Rivermeade is 150 and the number of cancer related deaths now stands at 64. Rivermeade is a County Council housing estate in St. Margaret's which was built during the early 1970s

The Department o health and Fingal County Council have now gotten involved to try and shed some light on the large number of residents who have died of the disease.

 

To date the local authorities have tested the air quality, the soil, the open sewage and have installed radon detectors in the homes of the residents. A question and answer form has also being delivered to all the houses in the estate. So far there have been no answers to the problem

The town of Swords is to get 450 jobs in the coming months. The jobs will be located in the Swords Business Campus on the Balheary Road. Recruitment will begin soon for the lucky applicants to work in the new call centre. The company involved is an American call centre, Stream Global Services and they will take over the premises formally used by Client Logic who closed down a couple of years ago. It is hoped that these new jobs will be in place by the end of. August and September at the latest. Stream are investing €2.5 million to set up in Swords. This will be an I.D.A backed project. 21 May 2010

If you're looking for work in Stream click link to go to website http://careers.stream.com The jobs are for technical and customer support for a popular gaming product . These jobs are being created at the expense of the people employed by Stream in Derry as they are to loose their jobs while the company relocates their business to Swords.

T.G.I Friday will shortly open in Airside Retail Park, work will start soon next to The Wright Venue. T.G.I Friday is a resturant / bar. The name TGI stands for Thank Goodness It's Friday and the company have over 1,000 restaurants worldwide searving mostly bar type grub. This will be a welcome addition to the Airside Retail Park and the new premices should be open in May 2010.

Store Locations: Stephen's Green, Dublin 2, .
Newtownpark Avenue, Blackrock, South Co. Dublin,
Blanchardstown S.C., Dublin 15,
Dundrum Shopping Centre, Dublin 14, .
Belfast, Victoria Square, Belfast, .

Swords got it's first casino last month [Feb] which is located on the Main Street above Centra and the off licence in the middle of the town. The casino opens each night and stays open until the morning. It's mostly card games with Texas Hold Em being the most popular.. Tournament games start off first and later the cash games. Once you get knocked out of the tournament game you can't buy yourself back in to the game, you must wait until the cash games start. The operator of any casino gets paid per pot, so for every hand that gets dealt the casino gets €5. Light refreshments are served all night.