SPORTS AND SOCIAL CLUB UPDATE

WE TAKE A LOOK AT RECENT AND UPCOMING EVENTS FOR MEMBERS OF THE DUBLIN FIRE BRIGADE SPORTS AND SOCIAL CLUB (DFBSSC)

Iwould like to start by thanking all the committee members who have decided to step aside this coming year. A special thanks goes to Declan Rice and Dan Fynes who, a er serving as Chairperson and Secretary of the club for the last ve and eight years respectively, and many more years before that on the committee as reps. is year, Dublin Fire Brigade celebrates 125 years of operating our emergency ambulance service. We hope to mark this signi cant milestone with events during the year.

New Committee

For the rst time in many years, we had more people looking to become reps on the committee than we had spots. is is a re ection on how the club has gone from strength to strength over the last number of years. Our club membership is now at nearly 800 members.

Communication

Over the last few years, we have been trying to improve how we get updates and news out to our members. We have had good success with our social media pages. Your station reps have been updating the station WhatsApp groups. If you’re not in one and want to be added, contact your station rep. Now with every re ghter being provided with their own personal work email, we will start to use this channel as well to spread our news and club updates.

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Prizes

We continue to have our monthly prize draws take place, with each winner receiving a €100 Press-up group voucher. e social media giveaways have been a great success. We have expanded our prize selections recently by adding FAI premium level tickets to Ireland’s home games this year, adding to GAA, 3 Arena concerts and much more. If you’re not on social media, but want a chance to win, have a family member join one of the pages on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram, and send us a message telling us who they are.

Events

A er the success of the cinema day last year in the Savoy, we organised another day during the Easter midterm break. is event will hopefully become a regular one on our calendar bi-annually. Other events to note for the diary that are provisionally booked in are:

Summer Social Nights: May 11, 18, 25 and June 1.

Summer Family Day: September 3 (B watch)

Winter Social Nights: October 12, 19, 26 and Nov 2.

Cinema day: First week in November (Date TBC)

Children’s Christmas Party: December 10 (D watch)

If any DFBSSC members have suggestions on other events to help improve our club, please contact your rep and they can be discussed at our committee meetings. Incoming Secretary, Ger Ryan

If you aren’t on your Station Sports and Social Club WhatsApp group and would like to be, please contact your station rep, or if you aren’t following us on social media, please feel free to do so also.

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Monthly Draw Winners

January:

J Rogers B1

R O’Doherty B1

P McGurrell D13

N Slevin A7

B Loughran DHQ

February:

M O’Reilly D3

T Tilley C6

C Morris AHQ

J Regan CHQ

K Young Skerries

March:

S O’Brien AHQ

A McNally A6

J Lee A8

C Roche C4

M Redmond A2