Dublin County North Event Thread - NO CHAT

Kickstart

Fishing Boats of Fingal pictorial exhibition will take place in Rush Community Centre on both Sat and Sun of this weekend from 12-30 to 16-30 each day. The exhibition will show pictures of the fishermen and their boats in day gone by,,,,come along and see if you know any of them,,, Refreshments will be served for a nominal fee,,, tea, coffee,cakes and biscuits,,, a raffle will be held each day for a homemade baked cake which will be donated by a few of our local lady bakers,,,, All proceeds will go to Rush Chamber of Commerce for town enhancement scheme,,,,

cathy01

Friends of Autism and ADHD is opening on Monday next in Skerries CO.Dublin
All funding goes towards funding an advocaey worker who works free of charge for people with disabilities.
Any additional funding goes towards supporting events for the North Fingal Autisma nd Aspergers Support group(www.fingalautism.com) and the North Fingal ADD/ADHD Parent and Adult support Group (www.adhd.ie).
They also support the local communtiy by making doantions to various events and community groups throughout the year.
Thanks,cathy:)

cathy01

GEO SHOW is a Dublin based comedian, joint founder and co-host of TAP ME UP Comedy Club. Join GEO!on the love revolution... sometime off the wall, and not always 100% P.C. Always entertaining and a loveable rouge to boot. They are helping me out and coming to Balbriggan to do a show for my friends Hens night.I have asked the millrace to host it, and they are.:D

The event is free and its a chance for people to see Geo Show for free. Normally there is a charge, hes doing a one man show at the fringe festival??

anyway details are

Time :July 31 · 9:00pm - 10:30pm



Location :The Mill Race, Balbriggan, County Dublin



More Info, event is Hosted by Geo Show and featuring Lucy Montague Moffett, Mark Cahill plus more. Free Admission
The show contains ADULT HUMOR :eek:

for more information on GEO SHOW go to
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/geoshow

pinkypinky

I haven't seen anyone post about the festival in Malahide this weekend. I think it's been quite badly advertised. It's a revival of the festival they used to have years ago. It's a pity it's on the same weekend as the Dun Laoghaire festival so I hope people support it.

http://www.malahidehasit.com/

hoser expat

Skerries Badminton Mixed Club
Summer Club at the Skerries Community Centre
EVERY WEDNESDAY EVENING DURING AUGUST 8.00PM – 10.00PM
Open to all Adults (Over 16)
€5 ON THE NIGHT

Newcomers and all skill levels welcome, and the regular Monday/Wednesday Badminton Season starts in September.

cowzerp

Rumble in Rush 4 is taking place this saturday evening, doors open at 6.30 and 1st fight is at 7.30, this will sell out as the last 3 have so get your tickets asap! you can get my contact details off the website if your interested, A great night of MMA is expected with 13 fights on the card..

The Hill Billy

The annual Birdwatch Ireland outing to Shenick Island takes place on Saturday morning at 8am. Meeting at the 'bird sign' (near The Brook I think). Wear your wellies and leave cats and dogs at home.

(See if you can spot the 'Billy Clan'. )

Clevedon

Family Fun Day
Family Day announced for Sunday the 22nd of August 2-6pm. Lots of fun things planned including 5a-side for 13 to 15 year olds, cross-bar challenge, penalty shootouts, bouncy castle, face painting, book stall


Mini Soccer camp
Skerries Town Football Club will be running a Mini Soccer Camp Friday 20th -Sunday 22nd of August.

The camp will run from 10am - 1pm each day for boys and girls 5-13yrs at Clubhouse, Park Lane.

Application form available via the club website www.skerriestown.ie

LeoB

Next Tuesday Finnola May senior architect Fingal C.C is giving a talk on

Transforming St. Maurs Church

• @ 7pm
• In the Library
• Contact the Library for further details

Should be interesting

sNarah

Just a quick (and belated) heads up in case you missed it - this week is National Heritage Week and there are loads of fun and free activities around Fingal for the next couple of days:

http://www.heritageweek.ie/index.php/whats-on/download-events-by-county-2/
(Click Fingal)

Can't make it to any myself, being stupidly busy (aaagh!) but do let us know if you attended any of the events, happy news is good news!

eddiem74

"Whats on" in Rush Library

Tuesday 24th August. Talk on the conversion of St. Maurs Church into Rush Library by Senior Architect Fionnuala May as part of Heritage Week. http://heritageweek.ie/

Wednesday 25th August at 10.00am. Animal Magic Road Show: Learn about wild animals with Animal Magic. All welcome.

CommInfo

An International Idea adapted to Local Settings

"A stranger is a friend you haven't met yet."

Balbriggan Library and Fingal LEADER Partnership have teamed up to look at setting up a ‘Living Library’ project which will take place in November. The idea of a Living Library projected originally came from a Danish Youth organisation “Stop the Violence”. They ran a small scale project in conjunction with a local festival who housed the event and it was soon realised the potential was huge. It has since been ran in a much larger scale at places such as the Szignet festival in Budapest, The Rock in Rio event in Lisbon, the Northbridge Festival in Copenhagen and more. Energy and interest has grown rapidly as people realise the benefits of breaking down barriers to information and social interaction in such a simple format.

Living Library is an opportunity for intercultural learning and personal development aimed at people who usually have little access to or time for non-formal educational programmes. The project works with ‘Live Books’ who are volunteers from the community representing a stereotype. This could include a gay person, a lone parent, a migrant, a blonde or anyone who another person may have a misguided opinion on based upon one particular characteristic. People can then hire out their live books for a certain period of time which means they can sit and chat and ask questions which they never would have had the chance to before. Questions such as ‘What was it like for you to come out?’ or ‘When did you become blind?’ Do you know what colour looks like?’ can give a great insight into the lives of the volunteer. The idea is the renter will get information relating to the stereotype but also realised other qualities and skills the ‘live book’ has that shapes them as an individual.

The event will run in Balbriggan Library with all renters and live books in the same room to keep the atmosphere informal and safe as well as social and enjoyable. At the moment Fingal LEADER Partnership and Balbriggan Library are recruiting for volunteers who would like to be a ‘Live Book’ for the day. We have a list of suggested books but if you don’t fall into these categories and have a suggestion please do not hesitate to contact us as we would be delighted with new ideas. The list of volunteers being sought are; a person with a disability, a gay person, a member of the travelling community, a lone parent, a refugee, an asylum seeker, an older person, a person who has or had issues with mental health problems, a teenager and a blonde. The event will run in November for one Saturday morning. We will provide some training about what to expect and ensure that all volunteers have support for the event. If you would like to be part of this exciting event or would like more information, please contact Helen at 01 8020484 or Assumpta at 01 8704401.

CommInfo

Men’s Group for Baldoyle Open Day

Baldoyle Forum (Main Street) on September 4th from 11am to 2pm.

A men’s group is being established in the Baldoyle Area. All are welcome at an Open Day to find out more about the project.

There will be a wide variety of activities on the day as well as the chance to sit and meet others in the area.

To find out more please contact Tom on 01 8395338 or Julie or Monica on 01 8326115

CommInfo

Fingal LEADER Partnership, in conjunction with FAS, will be delivering a fulltime 26 week training course in the BEaT Centre, Balbriggan. The course will commence on Monday 4th October 2010, and will finish on Friday 1st April 2010. The aim of this course is to provide students, primarily in the 18 -35 year age group, the skills required for employment in administrative, customer service or retail sectors, or to progress onto further and higher levels of training or education.

Modules include: Computer Applications, Information Technology, Communications, Manual Handling, Personal Effectiveness, Understanding Interculturalism, Principles of Hygiene Safety, & Security for Retail Sales; Local & Global Development Awareness and Work Experience.

To apply, applicants must be registered with FAS, and to request to register for this course (Code CA 53 T). Applicants are required to have good literacy, numeracy and communication, skills, and to have completed an introductory level in ICT.

For further information contact Mary Geraghty Project Co-ordinator for FAS Local Training Initiatives, BEaT Centre, Balbriggan, _ 01 8020484 mgeraghty@fingalleaderpartnership.ie or Bernie Browne, Assistant Project Co-ordinator for FAS Local Training Initiatives, BEaT Centre, Balbriggan, 01 8020484 bbrowne@fingalleaderpartnership.ie

killalanerr

the killalane roadraces are on in the skerries area over the week end some roads closed,also its a good day out if you have any interest in motorsport http://www.loughshinnymotorcycleclub.com/index.php?section=1&page=club_events.php&id=55

LeoB

Re-Route Eirgrid

Protest rally this Sunday @1pm at Millbank Rush, beside church.
Quite a large crowd expected so come out and support a local community.

The committee would welcome support from all areas of Fingal and futher afield in their quest to have the proposed works re-routed

LeoB

Blood Brothers
A tragic-comedy play featuring some of the finest acting talent in Ireland.
by
Willy Russell
Millbank Theatre
Rush.

Opening night next Wednesday in Aid of Ball wall project at St. Maurs G.A.A grounds.

Tickets limited so if you want a good night out pm for ticket orders and info. Tickets €15 each

For tickets

• Will 086-8272544
• Declan 087-9159009
• Peter 087-9081641

Clevedon

Friday October 1st
Blue Bar, Skerries
Tickets €10
Headline act Rory O'Hanlon who is just bck from the Edinburgh Festival with his show 'United by Liverpool'

cathy01

Meeting for Parents of Children with ADHD/ADD/ASD takes place on Oct 5, balbriggan library.Its open also to adults with ADHD/ADD/ASD .
For more infro ring Sarah McNally on 01-8020484.

cathy01

The North Fingal Autism & Asperger support group



The North Fingal ADD/ ADHD Parent and Adult Support Group

We are delighted to welcome Ms. Lorraine Gallagher, Information
& Training Officer from AHEAD to Balbriggan Library to give a
presentation on how to access and participation in further and
higher education for students with disabilities. Information on DARE
will be available and also advice on grants .

This event is open to leaving cert students their family, teachers and
adults interested in learning more about returning to education and
is free of charge.


TUESDAY 12 October 2010

Balbriggan Library 7-8.30

LeoB

A new camera club will be launched on 7th of October In the new Library in Rush. There are about 7 names down to join at the moment and hopefully more will come along.

So put this in your Diary

• Thursday 7th October
• 7p.m.
• Rush Library

Bring a camera if you have one, if you dont have a camera come along anyway. There are loads of plans for the year and it is hoped we can meet at least once a month and have a few outings. Great opportunity to meet new people and enjoy the the lovely building that is Rush Library

afterhours

LeoB wrote: »

A new camera club will be launched on 7th of October In the new Library in Rush. There are about 7 names down to join at the moment and hopefully more will come along.

So put this in your Diary

• Thursday 7th October
• 7p.m.
• Rush Library

Bring a camera if you have one, if you dont have a camera come along anyway. There are loads of plans for the year and it is hoped we can meet at least once a month and have a few outings. Great opportunity to meet new people and enjoy the the lovely building that is Rush Library

hey there! is this far from the train station? I don't drive...so i'm hoping so.

Martron

its a fair ol walk.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Station+Rd%2FR128&daddr=Chapel+Green&hl=en&geocode=FeqqMAMdSkSi_w%3BFcCtMAMdPuGi_w&mra=ltm&dirflg=w&sll=53.522375,-6.099987&sspn=0.006582,0.019205&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=14

LeoB

afterhours wrote: »

hey there! is this far from the train station? I don't drive...so i'm hoping so.

About 20 minutes walk. Bus usually links with train and stops outside the Library. Depending on where your coming from a bus might be easier option.

Beasty

Just received the following notice:

Residents living in Skerries will be given the opportunity to become ‘energy-smart’ by attending a free Home Energy Saving Information Evening next Thursday, 7th October in the Little Theatre at 7:30pm. The information evening is being organised by Codema with the support of Sustainable Skerries. Codema is a not-for-profit sustainable energy agency which acts as energy adviser to the four local authorities in Dublin.

Residents will be given an insight into the current energy standards of Dublin homes and they will also receive expert, independent advice on saving energy around the home. Homeowners who are interested in improving their homes’ energy performance will also learn about the benefits of joining an Energy Smart Community and getting work carried out as a cluster.

The Energy Smart Community is a scheme which allows homeowners to join together to improve the energy-efficiency of their homes at a lower price than going it alone. It works on the simple principle that by bringing homeowners together in a cluster, they can save on the cost and hassle of carrying out energy-efficiency improvements through a group tender process.

The information evening is free to attend and while an RSVP is not required, homeowners may register their interest in going along by texting /phoning the Energy Smart Community line on 01 707 9818 / 085 845 2246 or by emailing info@energysmartcommunity.com. They can also log on to www.energysmartcommunity.com for further information.

LeoB

LeoB wrote: »

A new camera club will be launched on 7th of October In the new Library in Rush. There are about 7 names down to join at the moment and hopefully more will come along.

So put this in your Diary

• Thursday 7th October
• 7p.m.
• Rush Library

Bring a camera if you have one, if you dont have a camera come along anyway. There are loads of plans for the year and it is hoped we can meet at least once a month and have a few outings. Great opportunity to meet new people and enjoy the the lovely building that is Rush Library

Just a little update.

This was a great success. We had 28 people on our first evening and our first field trip is this Sunday @ 9am to Rogerstown Estuary.

It is more like a self help group than a club , in fact we decided not to have club in the title, Rush Library Camera Group. Its all about helping each other with some hints, tips and advice to improve our photography.

Thanks to Geraldine, Nora and staff for be so welcoming and encouraging

Eoineo

Cardy Rock Residents Association, with the help of Fingal County Council have 1,000's (yes thousands) of spring bulbs to plant in the estate tomorrow morning.

If you're interested in helping out they meet on the back field, northern pedestrian entrance at 10am tomorrow morning.

This is all part of changes happening to the estate thanks to winning €10,000 worth of an Urban Community Woodland from Specsavers at Bloom 2010.

wow sierra

Ciorcal Comhrá

A conversational group as Gaeilge meets every Monday night in the Central Bar in Balbriggan from 8 pm until 9. All are welcome who would like an opportunity to speak in a relaxed atmosphere. A music session follows at 9 30. For more details contact Mícheál at 086/8437611.

Bíonn Ciorcal Comhrá eile ar siúl ar an Aoine ó a 9 a chlog go dtí a 10.15, sa Central freisin. Fáilte roimh cách. Bí linn agus bain taitneamh as an teanga in éineacht linn. Tuilleadh eolais ó Pháraicín – 087/6600994 nó ó Bhernie – 087/2061594.

sNarah

Only saw this today, probably would have gone if I'd know earlier + feeling very flu-ish so bed seems nicer!


Fingal’s Annual Writers’ Festival 1st – 26th October 2010

• Blogging for Fun and for Work
• Wednesday 20th October / 7.00pm
• Balbriggan Library

Blogging is an important medium in today’s tech savvy world, and has revolutionised writing and journalism. This event aims to give a voice to those recognised for helping to establish this medium in an Irish context. Participants include: award-winning bloggers, Suzy Byrne and Annie Rhiannon; journalist and blogger, Sinead Gleeson; analyst, commentator, editor and blogger, Eoin Purcell; and Darren Byrne, who runs the group blog, culch.ie.

http://www.fingalarts.ie/writing3.0/?p=81

Eoineo

Saturday 30th October

FREE TREASURE HUNT (in association with the Balbriggan Historical Society)
& FANCY DRESS PARTY

Time: 12pm Sat 30th October
Start Point: Balbriggan Town Square (outside the library)
Age Group: 8 - 12 Years
RSVP Text: 086 804 98 21

All children must be accompanied by an adult and/or guardian.
NUMBERS ARE LIMITED. Please RSVP to guarantee your place


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6pm Sunday 31st October

Taking place outside of the Town Hall (Library)

Event Opens with

Samba Drummers
Drama Group Performance (Witches Spells)
Thriller Dance
Local Band
Disturbia Dancers
Local Band
Break-dancing Performance
Fire-Show & Fire Jugglers

Organised by the Balbriggan Community Policing Forum & Foroige

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The entire event is sponsored by Balbriggan & District Chamber of Commerce & Balbriggan Town Council