As the new Clongriffin DART Station at Grange Road was officially opened by Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey TD on Monday 19th April 2010 I decided to visit the area and take a few photographs. Clongriffin is a new locality, still under construction May 2010, within the Northside suburb of Donaghmede, Dublin, Ireland, and accessed from Grange Road and by a tree-lined avenue at Fr. Collins Park on the Hole-in-the-Wall Road. The name Clongriffin is a concatenation of "Clon", the anglicisation of cluain, the Irish word for meadow, and "griffin". an element in the name of the next district to the west, Balgriffin. Architect David Wright, a former employee of Conroy Crowe Kelly Architects & Urban Designers, claims to have given Clongriffin its name while working on the project. Clongriffin is currently serviced by a small supermarket (a Centra, which also contains a sub-post office), a pharmacy, an off-license, barbers, Chinese restaurant and crèche. Most of these are at the beginning of the main street, while the planned retail facilities at the central plaza, including a Superquinn supermarket, have not materialized. There are a significant number of empty shop units in Clongriffin although four of these units are reserved for a butchers, a fruit and vegetable shop, a bookmaker and a larger Centra. A central shopping facility is planned to the north of Clongriffin's central plaza (above the Park and Ride facility), but is currently entirely unoccupied. Superquinn are contracted to act as anchor tenant for the shopping centre but the original opening date of late 2008 (which was to coincide with a previous opening date for the DART station) has passed and no revised date has been set.