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Ballymun is an area on Dublin's Northside close to Dublin Airport, Ireland. Today it is undergoing a multibillion-euro renewal, with a renovated village centre, surrounded by estates of houses and apartments, with several sub-districts such as Sillogue and Poppintree. Ballymun is also a parish in the Fingal South West deanery of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Dublin.AmenitiesToday Ballymun has a wide range of amenities, from green spaces and the public Silloge Golf Course to a very run-down shopping centre, a range of other shops and pubs and two hotels. The area has also seen investment in a public sector office development, with many branches of the city government (including a Motor Tax and Driver Licence office - these have been shut down from 2015) and the Health Service and a very modern public leisure centre. There is a church in the old village centre, and a number of schools with churches in each sub district, including a Gaelscoil (Irish-speaking) primary school. Trinity Comprehensive is the only secondary school formerly known as the Ballymun Comprehensive.TransportBallymun is served by a number of Dublin Bus routes to the city centre including the numbers 4 and 13 with the 220 travelling between Ballymun and Blanchardstown and the number 17a between Finglas and Coolock via Ballymun.