Dublin County North Event Thread - NO CHAT

Team of 4 persons, €5 per person, Proceeds in aid of the RNLI Lifeboat in Skerries. Quiz being held in O'Dwyers GAA Club in Balbriggan on Thursday 22nd September 2011 at 8pm. Up to 40 teams expected. ALL PROCEEDS ON THE NIGHT GO TO THE SKERRIES RNLI LIFEBOAT. Prizes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd teams donated by Tesco Balbriggan.

As the services of the Skerries RNLI Lifeboat was invaluable during the recent tragedy, your support would be greatly appreciated.

This event is part of Balbriggan Community Safety Awareness Week and is organised by Balbriggan Community Policing Forum. Any queries in relation to it please contact Louise Butler on 086-7716811 or check out www.cpforum.ie

Hope to see you there!

On Friday the 23rd of September from 9am-1pm, Balbriggan Farmers Market will incorporate stalls for 15 different safety organisations to showcase their services. These organisations will include Internet Safety, Farm Safety, amongst many others. I mention these two in particular as people often have questions but are unsure where to look for answers. The Internet Safety HQ which distributes information about keeping your children safe online (amongst other topics) will have a stall and will have a member of staff available to answer questions.

Also present on this day will students from a local secondary school choir accompanied by the Garda Band. Local schools in Balbriggan have been invited to look at the stands and engage with the different services that will be present on the day. Light refreshments and goodie bags will be available.

There will be a FREE Tea Party and everyone is welcome to this.

As the emphasis will be on safety, free personal alarms will be distributed to elderly persons. If you know someone who is elderly, who lives in the Balbriggan area, please encourage them to come to this event. The tea party will be a wonderful opportunity for them to meet other elderly persons, and it may well be one of a very small number of outings that person may have this year. If you are aware of any elderly persons who are unable to attend, please contact the Community Gardaí in Balbriggan Garda Station on 01-8020510 and leave your contact details and you will be contacted asap.

This event is part of Balbriggan Community Safety Awareness Week and is organised by Balbriggan Community Policing Forum. Any queries in relation to it please contact Louise Butler on 086-7716811 or check out www.cpforum.ie

On Sunday the 25th of September 2011, in the Church Carpark on Dublin Street, from 1-5pm, there will be a number of demonstrations taking place with the emphasis on Safety.

The Road Safety Authority (RSA) will have its shuttle bus and the Audi A4 Roll Over Simulator (test your skill behind the wheel in a driving simulator, check your brake response time, try a mock driving theory test, amongst other things). Also with the Roll Over Simulator, which is height restricted, you sit in (driver, front seat passenger, with up to 3 rear seat passengers), get strapped in with seat belts, and then feel what it is like to be in a car that rolls! The idea here is to get an idea of what it would be like to be in a car accident while NOT wearing your seat belt. This always proves to be a massive crowd draw at road safety events around the country.

Also on the same day at the same time, the Irish Coast Guard will present a demonstration on what they do, and will have many of their personnel and equipment present - water safety trailer, rescue jeep, cliff rescue team, lifejacket clinics and flare demonstrations, patrol boat and crew, the coast guard helicopter will perform a fly-over.

And the Dublin Civil Defence will be there too. They will have their fire appliances, incident command unit, hagglund all terrain tracked vehicle, water rescue tender, and their 4x4 Ford Ranger jeep.

And the piece de resistance!!! From 3-4pm the Dublin Fire Brigade will be doing a car crash rescue re-enactment. Experience the re-enactment of a rescue of car crash victims from an accident scene. This is usually a huge talking point and is massively impressive for those fortunate to see it - there will be casualties and usually this rescue will entail the cutting off of the top of a car - exactly like so many road traffic collisions where someone complains of a back or neck injury!

This event is part of Balbriggan Community Safety Awareness Week and is organised by Balbriggan Community Policing Forum. Any queries in relation to it please contact Louise Butler on 086-7716811 or check out www.cpforum.ie

Hope to see as many people as possible there. A massive amount of organising has gone onto this long weekend of activities in an effort to make people think about different aspects of safety.

Rush Community Council are continuing their great work and have organised a great family fun run and walk




All Christmas Costumes and Santa hats welcome.
Please complete this form and return to Rush Community Centre or Iguazu Beauty Therapy with €10.00 entry fee. Entry fee can be paid by cash or cheque made out to Rush Chamber of Commerce. Thank you.


There are 4 catagories

• 10k Run
• 10k walk
• 5k 5un
• 5k walk

So something for all the family and who knows you might your mug shot on here........

For further information please contact info@rushcoco.ie

Friends of Autism and ADHD are delighted to be able to invite the
community from the Fingal area to a showing of the film the Black
Balloon.DECEMBER 8 ,6.30 BALBRIGGAN TOWN HALL

Thomas is turning 16. His dad's in the army and they've just moved to
a town in New South Wales; his mom is pregnant; his older brother,
Charlie, who's autistic, has his own adolescent sexual issues. Thomas
finds Charlie an embarrassment in public, so when Thomas is attracted
to Jackie, a girl in his swim class, Charlie presents any number of
obstacles when she drops by their house, when the three of them go for
a walk, and during a family birthday dinner. Can Thomas find a way to
enter the world of teen romance and still be his brother's keeper, or
is Charlie's disability going to prove more than Thomas can handle?
THIS FILM IS CERT 15.

The event will be followed at 8 o'clock by an awards ceremony where
local schools will be awarded funding. Also on the night Friends of
Autism and ADHD will be launching the Fingal AED Program in
conjunction with Lenster first aid, in memory of the late Derek
Earley.

Members of the community will gain the opportunity to speak with Adam
and get more information on or sign up for training the use of the
defibulater .
Refreshments will be served.Please confirm your attendance by
contacting Bernie Hagen on 018020484 or adhdfingal@gmail.com

5th ANNUAL GOAL CHRISTMAS MILE5TH Annual GOAL Christmas Mile, Malahide Castle, Christmas Day 11am - 12pm.

For the fifth year running I am arranging a charitable walk in aid of the charity ‘GOAL’ in Malahide Demesne.

The GOAL Mile is a fun way for local people to start off their Christmas Day whilst also helping a worthy charity. Participants are asked to walk, jog or run a one mile circuit which will be marked out in the Demesne.

These events are held by GOAL throughout the country and I can vouch that they are both enjoyable and very worthwhile. Both serious runners and those looking for an enjoyable Christmas morning stroll can partake in the event; last years the Malahide Mile attracted over 200 participants and since 2007 you have helped raise in excess of €15,000.

The event will take place between 11am and Noon on the morning of December 25th and will begin at the rear car park of the Malahide Castle, off the Back Road.

Donations can be made on the day, by requesting a sponsorship card or at http://www.goal.ie/

I very much look forward to seeing you on the day. May I also take this opportunity to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a peaceful & prosperous New Year.

The Dublin Marathon committee have announced a new race as part of their race series leading up to the Dublin Marathon in October. Up until this year there have been 5 mile, 10 mile and Half Marathon races in Phoenix Park.

In 2012 this is now supplemented with a 10k race in Swords on 22nd July.

Email was sent to previous participants this morning, quoting the following:

new event is added this year with a 10K in Swords on Sunday July 22nd. All other events will be held in the Phoenix Park starting at the usual time of 10am. The 5 Mile will now be held on June 30th, with the new 10K next on July 22nd, the 10 Mile is next on August 25th and the series will finish on September 15th with the Half Marathon

Skerries is hosting the final stage of the An Post Ras for the seventh time on Sunday 27 May. The Blackhills and lanes around Ardgillan make for great spectator points, but for the real atmosphere come down into the village where we hope to have upwards of 3,000 people on Strand Street again.

Its not just about the bikes, there will be something for all the family as Strand Street comes alive at 12.30pm when the Street Party begins. Clowns will entertain the crowds with balloon modelling and magic tricks galore. There will be bouncing castles, face painting, street games and funfair stalls and a wide selection of street party food to tempt your taste buds. There will also be a play area for toddlers. The Skerries Craft Market will display an array of goods, all made by local craftspeople. These are just some of the activities planned to delight the crowds before the main attraction commences at around 3pm when the cyclists begin to speed into town.


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Hopefully we will see a few of you there
Cheers
midonogh

Mods I could not find the events thread, you might move this post to there if that is appropriate - thanks

This week end will see 7 lads from NCD play in All Ireland U/21 Football final for Dublin v Roscommon in Tullamore.

Danny Byrne, Luke Fletcher and Ciaran Reddin St. Maurs
Jack Smith and Harry Dawson Skerries
Gary Seeaver Ballyboughal. There is also Gary Sweeney from St Sylvesters

Its a far cry from the days when no players from out this far were even considered so good luck to them all.

The pitch it Tullamore is about a 1 1/2 drive and hopefully a big crowd from N.C.D will make the trip

I may have missed another lad from St Sylvesters so please let me know

Fingallians GAA Club ground has been chosen for the open training session for Dublin’s senior footballers and hurlers on Friday, May 11 from 7-9pm.

Itinerary: Dublin GAA Open Training and Media Event.
Fingallians GAA Club Friday 11th May 2012
7.30pm – 8pm: Players and Management meet and greet with the Media.
Fan pictures with the Sam Maguire with Dublin backdrop

8pm – 8.30pm: Fun training session with the Dublin Senior Footballers and Hurlers
6 Stations: 3 hurling & 3 Football

8.30pm – 9pm: Crossbar Challenge - hurling and football to be judged by players