Ballivor

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The abandoned national school in Ballivor, Co Meath. The Narconon Trust, which is linked to the Church of Scientology, is looking to develop the building into a drug rehabilitation centre. Photograph: Seamus Farrelly
Campaigners ‘sick to the stomach’ at GAA club facilitating Scientology centre

A Meath GAA club has been criticised for voting to accept a proposal - worth up to €20,000 - to share its carpark with builders on a controversial new(...)

Protesters in Ballivor, Co Meath, opposing a new Scientology-linked drug treatment centre in the village. Photograph: Eamonn Farrell/RollingNews.ie
Addicts in Scientology-linked centre to be treated with saunas and vitamins

A Scientology-linked drug treatment facility opening in Co Meath intends to treat addicts with sauna sessions and vitamins, according to planning docu(...)

The abandoned national school in Ballivor, Co Meath. The Narconon Trust, which is linked to the Church of Scientology, is looking to develop the building into a drug rehabilitation centre. Photograph: Seamus Farrelly
Scientology rehab centre has no basis in science, says department

The Narconon drug treatment programme, which is to be offered by a Scientology-linked rehabilitation centre in Co Meath, does not meet HSE criteria fo(...)

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar: “Only people who should provide addiction services are those who are appropriately qualified and licensed to do so.” Photograph: Cyril Byrne
Taoiseach: Only qualified people should supply addiction services

Only appropriately qualified and licensed people should provide addiction services, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said. He was responding to concerns ab(...)

Rumours have circulated that an abandoned national school in Ballivor has been taken over by a controversial drug rehabilitation group linked to the Church of Scientology. Image: GoogleMaps
Scientology linked to plans for centre in Co Meath town

For the last several months rumours have circulated in the small Co Meath town of Ballivor suggesting that its abandoned national school had been take(...)

Gardaí have asked any witnesses to the crash to contact them. Photograph: Frank Miller
Teenager dies after car crashes into fence in Co Meath

A teenager has died after the car he was travelling in crashed into a fence in Co Meath on Friday evening. The single-vehicle crash occurred at Port (...)

Maureen McGearty, at home in Ballivor, Co Meath, remembers when electricity came to her home. She is pictured with the original oil lamps which were used in the house. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Power to the People: How Ireland went electric

Back in the 1950s, John Fitzpatrick, who is now 82, went to work in Moneygall, Co Offaly as an engineering officer for the Rural Electrification Sche(...)

Raspberry Wood Nursing Home, Ballivor, Co. Meath
CBRE guiding €1m for partially-complete nursing home in Ballivor, Co Meath

Agent CBRE is guiding €1 million for a partially-complete nursing home with planning permission to expand in the village of Ballivor, Co Meath. Raspb(...)