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26th January 2016 • Volume 23, Issue 02 • Leader House, North Street, Swords, Co. Dublin. EirCode: K67 P5W4. • Tel: 01 8•400•200 • info@northcountyleader.ie • www.northcountyleader.ie

Great News For Swords Castle The news that the County Council has been allocated funding under the EU Urban Development Fund Designated Centres Grant Scheme, has been given a warm welcome by all. The funding of €1.47 million will go towards the development of Swords Castle and the Civic and Cultural Quarter in Swords. By Patrick Finnegan

Reid said, “This is a great boost for the relevant staff concerned who put a lot of work into our submission. It will also prove to be a huge boost for Swords and our overall Cultural Plan for the town. We will continue to keep all updated as these plans progress.” Swords based councillors, Joe Newman (NP) and Darragh O’Brien (FF) have been staunch supporters of the development of Swords Castle and its importance to the economic development of Swords. Newman told the County Leader, “This is great news for Swords and the Council will match the €1.47 million. When I was campaigning for the local elections, the state of Swords Castle was a major issue, as well as that of Swords Main Street. Upon being elected, I had a meeting with the Chief Executive where I made known to him the concerns of residents regarding the castle and

The Council, in making its application, proposed three key elements of the Swords Castle development. The first element includes works to upgrade Swords Castle as an all year round venue capable of hosting planned events which will be more accessible as both a heritage tourist attraction and public amenity. The second part involves the derelict buildings on North Street which partially block access around the Castle, which will be redeveloped to provide public facilities including interpretation of the cultural significance of the Castle area, tourism information and a pedestrianised heritage route along the East wall of the Castle. The third element involves a public realm strategy, which will be developed and Joe Newman is pictured outside Swords Castle, as he greeted the allocation of implemented in front Cllr funding for the Castle and the proposed Civic and Cultural Centre of the Swords Castle at junction of Main Street and North Street. the deterioration of main street. I was happy The projects will be completed within the with his positive commitment, where he three year programme of the scheme with a assured me that he was actively going to do combined cost estimate of €3 million. something about main street and the castle,” Chief Executive of Fingal County Council, Paul he said.

Maya Broderick (10), a fourth class student at St Patrick's Senior National School in Skerries, is pictured in the grounds of the Department of Education and Skills after receiving a special trophy from Education Minister, Jan O'Sullivan, and GOAL CEO, Barry Andrews, for a letter she wrote to the Minister on the Syrian refugee crisis. Maya is pictured taking a selfie of herself and Minister O'Sullivan. See story on page 4

“I attended quite a few consultation meetings about the castle and the Cultural Quarter and I put my views for Swords and the Cultural Quarter forward and I am hoping we can get a theatre/civic space into that area, which is a vision I have for Swords. I’m really delighted to see the allocation of these funds and I look forward to the removal of some of the derelict buildings to open up a view of the castle,” he said. Cllr Darragh Butler (FF) said, “This is more great news for Swords and most welcome. Last year was a great year for Swords, with Swords Castle re-opening to the public, the Swords Summer Festival, Oktoberfest, the Purple Flag award and the excellent score that Swords achieved in the Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL) awards. This additional funding will go a long way to continuing the improvements to Swords Castle and to assist in the development of the proposed Civic and Cultural Centre on the car park space at the junction of North Street and Seatown Road. I am particularly hopeful that the first block of derelict buildings (including the old Barber’s shop) will be knocked early this year and I look forward to 2016 being another great year for Swords,” concluded Butler. The projects are about to go to tender and they will be completed within the three year programme of the scheme, with a combined cost estimated at €3 million. The ERDF submissions have been awarded grant funding of €1.47 million, with the balance funded by the local authority. It is hoped that works will commence this summer.

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Welcome For New Jobs At Airport Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport Paschal Donohoe TD, confirmed Dublin Airport had its busiest ever year in 2015, as a record 25 million passengers travelled through the airport during the past 12 months. Passenger numbers increased by 15 per cent last year with an additional 3.3 million people using Dublin Airport during 2015. The expansion was fuelled by 22 new routes and extra capacity on almost 40 existing services. To cope with growing passenger numbers, DAA is midway through hiring about 350 new staff in areas such as security, customer service, and asset management. The growth in passenger numbers is expected to continue into 2016,

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choice on existing services similarly helped to boost trade and foreign direct investment, all of which are assisting our economic recovery. DAA Chief Executive Kevin Toland noted: ‘Dublin Airport had a fantastic year of passenger growth in 2015, which is good news for the Irish economy, for tourism, and for job creation, both at the airport and in the wider economy. DAA is hiring 350 addi-

tional staff as a direct result of this growth in passengers at Dublin Airport. We recruited about 170 new people last year and a further new 180 staff will be hired during 2016.These additional staff are mainly in customer-facing areas, as we work to ensure that Dublin Airport continues to offer an excellent and efficient product to our passengers and airline customers as traffic increases.”

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Bryan Cullen Back Working With Dubs The Dublin County Board has announced the appointment of Skerries man, Bryan Cullen as High Performance Manager for Dublin GAA. Cullen was captain when Dublin won their first All-Ireland for sixteen years in 2011, beating Kerry by a point. He has spent the past four years with Leinster rugby as strength and conditioning coach. According to a statement on the Dublin GAA website, Cullen will be entrusted with developing a long term player pathway from juvenile to senior level for the county’s players, as well as taking a lead role in the strength and conditioning of all Dublin’s inter-county teams. The Skerries man, who recently completed a PhD in Dublin City University will take up his new role in the coming weeks. Pictured at Donabate/Portrane Educate Together National School, with a cheque for xxx5,723 which was collected for the Merryn Lacy Trust are teachers, pupils and parents of the three national school in Donabate. Back row: Chris Ovenden (parent), Maeve Corish (Principal Donabate/Portrane ETNS), Brian Horan (Principal St Patrick's Boys School), Veronica Duggan (parent), Gail Henshall (parent and fundraising organiser), Ciara Greene (Principal Scoil Phadraic Cailíní), Catherine McGee (teacher Scoil Phadraic Cailíní). Front row: Chloe Byrne (Scoil Phadraic Cailíní), Louis Corcoran (St Patrick's Boys NS), Dylan Martin (St Patrick's Boys NS), Tara O'Leary (DPETNS), Tadhg Crean (DPETNS), Charlotte Henshall (DPETNS), Sadie Duggan (DPETNS) AND Robile Zaltauskaite (Scoil Phadraic Cailíní)

Extraordinary Community Spirit In Donabate In an outstanding display of community spirit and generosity, the people of Donabate and Portrane have come together to raise funds for little Merryn Lacy, a local girl who suffers from Stage 4 Neuroblastoma, a rare childhood cancer. The three primary schools in the area all came together to raise funds for Merryn, in an effort to secure vital treatment for her condition. In total, €5,723 was raised through a variety of fundraising initiatives involving the three local schools, Donabate / Portrane Educate Together NS, Scoil Phádraic Cailíní and St Patrick’s Boys NS. Teachers and pupils of the three schools joined parents of the organising committee at Donabate/Portrane ETNS last Friday, with the cheque. Gail Henshall, whose idea the fundraising campaign was, told the County Leader about the extraordinary community spirit and generosity of the people of Donabate and Portrane and the co-operation and enthusiasm of the local schools. “Merryn and her family are neighbours of mine and for a while, I have been looking to do

something to create awareness and to raise funds for Merryn. Another parent, Veronica Duggan and I decided to do something before Christmas. We met with Maeve Corish, principal of Donabate/Portrane Educate Together NS and she gave us permission to hold a movie evening for Merryn in the school, with support from all the teachers. The children donated items and were allowed to wear pyjamas to make it a really fun day. We held a raffle and went around a number of businesses in Swords, where we had phenomenal support there,” said Gail. “The children sold raffle tickets at SuperValu in the village and raised a lot of money through this. Maeve then contacted the principals of the other primary schools, Brian Horan from St Patrick’s Boys School and Ciara Greene from Scoil Phadraic Cailíní and they agreed to put a letter in the schoolbags of their pupils to let the parents know that they would be selling the raffle tickets, as well as the story of Merryn. This generated a lot of support within the community. It all just snowballed after this. At this point, the Girls School hadn’t allocated their charity, so they decided to donate the proceeds from their jumble sale to Merryn. In addition, some of the fathers from the school got in on the act and organised a Christmas swim, which attracted about 90 people, which alone raised €1,700. It is hoped to hold many more fundraisers for Merryn in the coming months.

Naul Pupils Show The Way On Friday last, 22nd January, the pupils of Naul National School took part in their first ever W.O.W day (Walk to school once a week). The school is currently working towards receiving their fourth Green Flag from Green Schools. It also included pupils who chose to cycle to school. Last November, the Green Committee, along with Sandra Pokrant from An Taisce and teacher Miss Moore, set off to do a walkability audit. This was done Pictured at the WOW Walk to School Once a Week initiative at Naul National School on in order to establish the Friday last are, teacher Amanda Moore, with pupils Kyle Minnet, Hannah Curtis, Sean safest route children can Michael Kennedy, Ronan Murphy, Ben Rogers, Jack Collins, Callum Finnegan, Peter Durnan and Sandra Pokrant (An Taisce) take as they walk to school. point. The road from Ballyboughal children to walk/cycle or car pool A Park n’ Stride location at Killian’s was deemed to be unsafe for chilto school on a regular basis and to pub in Naul was deemed to be dren to walk, so they were encourreduce the number of cars on our most suitable one and the children aged to car pool. roads, with the associated benefits walked with their parents from this This initiative hopes to encourage for all.

Fingal Folk Club Returns The Fingal Folk Club returns to St Patrick’s Hall, Ballyboughal on Friday, 29th January from 8pm to 10pm, with performances scheduled for the last and first Friday of each month so check the schedule for full details. The club is starting out on its

sixth year and has proved to be a great venue for performing musicians singers and storytellers around the North County, nationally and internationally. There will be several new initiatives this year, with celebrations planned for the centenary

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on the Syrian refugee crisis. Maya was a prize-winner in GOAL’s ‘Write the Future’ competition, a development education initiative that invited students nationwide to write to a person of their choice about the ongoing crisis. More than 1,000 students aged between 8 and 18 penned letters to sports-stars, musicians, politicians and other influencers. An excerpt from Maya’s letter to the Minister included the following, “Imagine it was your child that had to flee Syria because of the war? Imagine you had to stay and fight and your child had to go? And imagine if something happened to them and you were thousands of miles away? Imagine all of that! I don’t think you can. Well that’s what millions of Syrians are experiencing every day and you could be the one to help them when they reach our country.”

Pictured outside St Patrick's Senior National School, Skerries is 10 year old Maya Broderick with a copy of the letter she sent to Minister for Education, Jan O'Sullivan and the trophy she won as a result of the letter

The County Leader spoke to Maya at her school in Skerries and she explained how she came to write the award winning letter. She said, “I saw some lessons on GOAL’s website about the Syrian refugee crisis. I wrote a letter to Minister for Education, Jan O’Sullivan and I never expected a reply, but when my teacher told me I had won,

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I just couldn’t believe it. I was so excited and a few days later my teacher told me that the Minister wanted to meet me. I met her at the Department of Education, with my teacher and principal. I also met Barry Andrews, CEO of GOAL, who was very nice,” said Maya. “I was brought into the Minister’s office along with my sister who accom-

panied me,” said Maya, who managed to charm the Minister with her lovely personality and honesty. She asked Minister O’Sullivan if there were no people from different countries, it would be a little bit boring because we’d be all Irish and we would know nothing about the culture and traditions of different countries.” Maya certainly left an impression on both Barry Andrews, who found her personality most engaging, as well as Minister O’Sullivan, when Maya decided to take a selfie with her. Maya’s teacher, Amy Fahy said, “Everyone here in the school is immensely proud of Maya. She took on board everything when we did a few lessons about the Syrian refugee crisis,” she said. Kind hearted Maya, who is an accomplished artist and singer with a wonderful personality, hopes to have a cake sale in the school to raise money when the first Syrians arrive, so they will know they are welcome.

Local Primary Schools Encouraged To Enter Awards The Minister for Development, Trade Promotion and North South Cooperation, Seán Sherlock, is calling on all North County primary school pupils from 3rd to 6th class to take part in the 2016 Our World Irish Aid Awards and imagine what our world might look like in 2030. The Awards seek to help children in Ireland understand global development issues and Ireland’s role in fighting poverty worldwide. Pupils learn about the lives of children in developing countries and the work of Irish Aid, the Government’s programme for overseas development. Pupils then create projects to highlight the challenges facing poor communities in developing countries, and the progress being achieved by Ireland and other countries in the global effort to fight poverty. North County Dublin was well represented at the 2015 Awards, with Balbriggan ETNS, Milverton N.S. Skerries, Gaelscoil Bhrian Bóroimhe Swords all making it to the regional finals. The theme of the 2016 Awards, ‘One World, One Future’, asks pupils to imagine how their world might look in 2030, and enables them to learn about the new United Nations Global Goals for Sustainable Development, which seek to address the root causes of poverty worldwide. “This year, pupils will learn about the United Nations Sustainable Development goals which were agreed upon in September 2015. The Goals are aimed at eradicating poverty, addressing environmental degradation and climate change, and building a more peaceful, fair and sustainable world. I encourage all North Dublin schools to get involved in this great programme,” said the Minister. Registration for the 2016 Awards programme is now open and the deadline for entries is Friday, 11th March.

Stern Warning For North County Students The horrific aftermath of the six people, who were hospitalised following the consumption of the 2CB Drug at a house party in Cork, should act as a warning to young people here in the North County. The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) is urging young people to stay away from the ‘designer drug’ 2CB after six people were hospitalised and one unfortunately died following its consumption at a house party in Cork. “We need to recognise that drug use happens and young people experiment.,” Kevin Donoghue, USI President, said, “We need to ensure that young people are being educated on the risks in a way that is relative to them. That is how we keep them safe - by arming them with information. The ‘just say no’ campaign simply doesn’t work. Young people don’t connect with it.” “We are urging students to stay away from the 2CB drug because it can have serious side effects, both psychologically and physically, such as paranoia, hallucinations, kidney problems and gastrointestinal effects.” The HSE issued a statement saying the full details in relation to the 2CB drug are not yet

available but it is thought to be one of the new psychoactive substances similar to those products previously sold in ‘Headshops’, like an ecstasy substitute. The Union of

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Students in Ireland is urging students to be ‘vigilant’ when they’re at parties or nightclubs for dangerous substances. “Young people are advised that there is no

quality control on these drugs.” The HSE said in their statement “There are problems with purity and contaminants, and there is no way of checking that what is purchased or consumed is the intended substance.

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Swords Girls Sing At Concert Hall Piccolo Lasso choir is the junior section of The Lassus Scholars, catering for boys and girls aged eight to fifteen. On Wednesday, 27th January, the choir will perform at a great evening of at the National Concert Hall 8.00pm. This famous choir has four young Swords girls in it performing at such a prestigious event. The girls, three sisters and a best-friend are Lucy Hatton O’Keeffe, Katie Foley, Megan Foley and Rachael Foley Lucy and Katie were former pupils of The Old Borough School Swords, now pupils of Mount Temple, while Megan and Rachael are current Old Borough pupils. Not only will Mozart be remembered in a performance of his muchloved Requiem, the founder/director of Dublin Choral Foundation, Dr Ite O’Donovan will celebrate her 60th birthday and the choir company, Dublin Choral Foundation, will enter its 20th Anniversary year. Dr O’Donovan said, “My girls from Swords are terrific - never put-off attending by distance or traffic jams. From day one, they said the felt that they ‘belonged’ in the choir How wonderful for me to have such enthusiastic and committed singers and families,” she said.

intended to H o u s e , visit Ardgillan Skerries Mills Castle and avail and Swords of its very Castle. “I was popular aftervery pleased to noon tea, and I see Ardgillan was so sorry to manager, Tom concern and regret for learn that she Paul Reid, R e i l l y ’ s what had happened. did not reach Chief Executive generous offer Reid said, “Fingal her planned Fingal County to the County Council extends destination,” Council Mitchards of a a warm welcome to all he said. He offered the complimentary tour international visitors to Mitchard family a tour including afternoon its area and its many of a number of the tea”, continued Reid. “I heritage properties and County Council’s decided to extend an open invitation to the Mitchard family to experience all that Fingal County Council’s Heritage Properties have to offer on their next Dublin trip, to in some way address a mix-up which saw them missing out on a wonderful afternoon in Ardgillan Castle and I’m delighted to say that Ms Mitchard Best-selling American author, Jacquelyn Mitchard replied immediately other amenities. I’m heritage properties assuring me that our delighted that including Ardgillan offer will be taken up Jacquelyn Mitchard and Castle, Malahide later this year,” he her family had Castle, Newbridge concluded.

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Pictured are Piccolo Lasso choir member, Lucy Hatton-O'Keeffe, Katie Foley, Megan Foley and Rachel Foley, all from Swords

Celebrations As Jenny Turns 90 Swords Senior Citizens Club had a great reason to celebrate last week when one of their members Jenny Tierney, celebrated her 90th birthday. Jenny was joined in the club by her sister Maura, who is 92. The club was packed to the rafters when they brought out a beautiful cake and presented it to Jenny. All the members sang happy birthday to her and there was much excitement, with everyone jostling to get a picture of the sprightly woman of

Jenny Tierney and her sister Maura (92) celebrating Jenny's 90th Birthday at the Swords Senior Citizens Club

the moment. There was a great atmosphere and joviality and there was plenty of cake to go around everyone. The club wishes Jenny a huge happy birthday and hopes she had a wonderful day. The club would also like to wish member

Patsy Clarke a happy birthday. Patsy also turned 90 on 30th December. The club was closed for the Christmas period so were unable to have a party for Patsy however they did send him out a lovely cake to mark the occasion.

International bestselling American author, Jacquelyn Mitchard visited Dublin with her family just before Christmas. Included in her itinerary was a booking for afternoon tea in Ardgillan Castle. This was to be the last stop on their Irish holiday before heading directly to the airport for their flight home to the US within a number of hours. All was going well as the Mitchard family climbed into the taxi in Dublin Airport and headed, as they thought, to Ardgillan Castle, between Balbriggan and Skerries. However the Mitchards found themselves some 35kms away from where they planned to be, stranded in the City, well away from their destination. Ms Mitchard said that they had been “hugely looking forward” to the event on the final day of their trip to Dublin, but were left “very let down” when they got out of the taxi at Dublin Castle and realised they had been taken to the wrong place. Paul Reid, Chief Executive Fingal County Council, on learning of the family’s misfortune quickly contacted Ms Mitchard to express his

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matters relating to their wellbeing in the North County. The network promotes awareness of issues relevant to ethnic communities among the general public and strives to strengthen integration within the community. FEN’s AGM will take place on 27th of January at 6.30pm. at the Emmaus Centre, Lissenhall, Swords. Thywill Bankole, Chairman of FEN, a resident of Balbriggan told the County Leader, “As part of our effort towards an exciting AGM, we are privileged to invite County Major, Cllr. David O’Connor and other Fingal county officers. We are happy to relate that there has been much progress made by the government towards integration.”

Singers Needed In Swords The well known local singing group, The Lambay Singers have recently moved to Swords and are eagerly looking for new members. They are very keen to

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models for the market when they are getting their money from the manufacturers themselves, who are also allowed to choose and provide the vehicles used specifically for the purpose of testing.” “There’s serious systemic failure at stake, and I hope the inquiry committee will shed proper light on all its dimensions and issue robust recommendations. Hundreds of thousands of lives are lost prematurely to air pollution in Europe. There is a lot that we can improve on this front if we muster the political will,” she said. The points made by Nessa are right on the money. The lack of integrity and unethical behaviour continues across all sections of society, not just in big business, but down to how each citizen behaves. Business is run by individual people. The double standard which is accepted as the norm, must be confronted and

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By Cathal Boland attitudes changed to reset humanities moral compass. Citizenship confers responsibilities as well as privileges. Europe needs political leaders who are prepared to lead, not just react. They must not only ensure that the laws rules and regulations are fit for purpose. They must also put in place control and enforcement procedures while instigating and leading national and European wide debates on the values which we should all subscribe to and be assessed by.

Local Enterprise Office Seeks Applications For Funding Fingal Local Enterprise Office (Fingal LEO) has announced a new call for applications for funding from new and growing small businesses. Since it was established 20 months ago, Fingal LEO has approved more than €1.1m in funding for 60 businesses, which is expected to result in the creation of well over 250 jobs in the region. Some 75 per cent of the businesses supported were startups with the remaining 25 per cent being businesses that are already established and seeking to expand. All of the funding is provided to businesses that are creating employment and qualify by demonstrating that they have export potential. Chief Executive of Fingal County Council, Paul Reid, highlighted a key role of the local authority in economic development when he

said: “Through the Local Enterprise Office, Fingal County Council is helping to ensure that those running or starting up small businesses are given the support structure that they need to grow and develop. Small business is the lifeblood of our local economy. I want our entrepreneurs and small business owner/ managers to have every opportunity so that they can grow their businesses in an encouraging, rewarding and business-friendly environment.” Announcing the new call for grant applications, Head of Local Enterprise, Oisin Geoghegan, stressed the importance of ensuring that startups have an opportunity to access seed capital funding: “The funding provided by the Local Enterprise Office is helping our local economy in a real and tangible way.

Historical Talk In Rush Loughshinny And Rush Historical Society are proud to present a talk by Sean O’Gorman entitled: “In memory of Nurse Elizabeth O’Farrell (1883 - 1959) - The Story of the 1916 Surrender”. This interesting talk will take place at The Strand Bar in Rush on Thursday 28th January at 8.15 pm sharp. All are welcome to attend.

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Figures issued by Focus Ireland show that 41 newly-homeless families were referred to its family services in Dublin in December compared to 60 in November. The Focus Ireland figures were released as the end-of year figures for homelessness in Dublin have been issued by the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive. The charity said the fact the monthly total of newly-homeless families has dropped by 19 families shows the positive impact the work of its services – and other NGO’s with the support of the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive - is having on the frontline. The total number of families in emergency homeless accommodation in Dublin fell by 24 in December, however, Focus Ireland said that

while this news is positive, the fact that there were still 683 families and over 1,400 children homeless in Dublin over Christmas – twice as many as in Christmas 2014 - shows the sheer level of the crisis. Focus Ireland Director of Advocacy, Mike Allen said: “It’s important to highlight that while positive steps have been taken to ease the homeless crisis, the Government has been too slow in taking up the solutions we have been proposing. The ultimate responsibility for this lies with Government as they have not done enough to deliver social housing to help more people escape from the nightmare of homelessness and to ensure others never even become homeless in the first place.”

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Old Borough Table Quiz The Parent Teacher Association of the Old Borough National School in Swords has organised a Table Quiz to take place on Thursday, 4th February at 8pm in The Old Borough (Wetherspoons) Pub on Main Street, Swords. The aim of the quiz is to cost in full a new initiative, “Root to Shoots” Garden Project, where they will create a sleeper bed vegetable and flower experience for all classes, during school hours. The event is open to all.

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Tractor Run Cheque Handover The ninth Annual Tractor Run in aid of St Francis Hospice took place earlier this month, which took the drivers across the North County. As normal, the event was organised by Barney Greene and, despite appalling weather conditions, almost 80 tractors took part in the event, which raised a whopping €7,275 for the hospice. On Sunday, 10th January last, Barney presented the sizeable cheque to Gene Murphy of St Francis Hospice, who was very grateful to Barney and the committee for their

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Pictured is Barney Greene (with cap) presenting a cheque for €7,275 to Gene Murphy (right) of St Francis Hospice at Man O War pub recently

generosity every year. At the presentation ceremony, which took place at Man O’ War pub, a proud Barney told the County Leader, “I would like to thank all the tractor drivers and all who donated money to

the hospice. Also great thanks is due to the volunteers and ticket sellers, as well as the Gardai who provided a patrol car and motorcycle for the event,” he said. He also thanked John Moore for the use

of his yard for parking the tractors, as well as the Man O’ War pub and their staff and management for providing tea and sandwiches, as well as thanking auctioneer, Jimmy Downey for doing such a great job.

Healthy Eating Strategy In Draft Development Plan Cllr Duncan Smith (Lab) has managed o have a healthy eating strategy motion passed and included in the draft County Development Plan. Swords councillor, Smith said, “Following a motion I placed to the County Development Plan meeting, the Council has adopted my motion to promote a Healthy Eating Strategy for young persons in the county. This motion is designed, so the Council work with local growers of fruit and vegetables in North County Dublin, along with

to contribute to and learn from, a new healthy eating strategy for Fingal” The new insertion into the draft County Development Plan our local fishermen, to promote a as a new objective reads, healthy eating diet to help “Develop a strategy for young combat youth obesity, while also persons’ healthy eating in concert with local helping the local growers in North economy.” County Dublin highHe continued, “We all lighting cost effective have a role to play in and convenient healthy promoting a healthy eating recipes and lifestyle, from individual habits for young people households, to national in order to connect Government and within young people with the that, our local Council Cllr. Smith local growing industry has an important role to play. I know I can improve my and to promote healthy and own eating habits and I too hope active living.”

A meeting was held in Skerries to launch a new Community First Responder (CFR) in the town. The meeting, which was held in Keane’s Bus Bar on Wednesday, 20th January last, was attended by a large gathering of locals. It was spearheaded by Dr Phil Darcy, who spoke to the County Leader about how this project came about. He said, “I’m a doctor who works in the Emergency Department at St Vincent’s Hospital and I do a lot of free hospital emergency medicine. We became aware of an organisation called CFR Ireland, which had their first meeting in 2005. It is made up of various groups across the country who respond to medical emergencies in their community.” “We felt that Skerries was the ideal town to have such a group set up, so I contacted members of the

Pictured at the Community First Responder Ireland Information evening at Keane's Bus Bar, Skerries are Dr Phil Darcy, Des Kelly (National Ambulance Service) and John Fitzgerald (CFR Ireland)

National Ambulance Service and Community First Response Ireland and they agreed to come to Skerries to this initial public meeting to see if there is interest in establishing a CFR in the town. Hopefully, we will be in a position to set up a group here in Skerries. “We are looking for volunteers over 18 years of age and no experience of emergency medicine or first aid is required, as full training will be provided. People can

do as little or as much as they want. They become First Responders in the local community and there will also be roles in administration, sponsorship and other areas. There will be a rota set up and if you are on call, you will have an iPhone which will be directly linked to the ambulance service. When someone rings 999, or when someone has a heart attack, the ambulance service will automatically send an alert

to that phone and you will be given directions to where the incident has taken place,” he said. Des Kelly of the National Ambulance Service said, “It’s heartening to see such a great turnout here in Skerries and it’s vital to saving lives. We welcome any group who wants to set up a scheme and we support them in all aspects of training and providing all the help they need,” he concluded.

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THE WEDDING DRESS The focal point of the wedding for the majority of women (aside from the ceremony of course!) will be the dress. Because the temperatures are typically not too hot and not too cold over here (well, usually!), there are a lot of options for the wedding dress. It is best to choose a more versatile dress that can suit you in both warm and cold weather, just in case! (If you opt for a light dress, for example be sure to pair with a wrap). Perhaps you’d like an elegant splash of colour to your gown. There are certainly quite a few unique and stylish options and colours to choose from. The shops in the North County have many stunning dresses available to you, so the main problem you’ll have is trying to make your mind up!

WEDDING FAIRS Wedding Fairs are also a great idea for couples planning their wedding, whether newly engaged or finalising details. Plenty of hotels and venues around the North County host superb wedding exhibitions and fairs throughout the year. There is something for everyone at a

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was so great, that they needed to hold something, so they decided to do a football match” said Bridie. Two of her boys are members of the Balscadden Football Club. Along with a friend who had also lost his father to cancer, they decided to set up a memorial match between Balscadden and Balbriggan. The Peter Kelly and Joe Carr Memorial Match. “It was held on the 5th of June 2015. They split the amount that was raised with Peter’s family, so my lads donated €825 to the Gary Kelly centre in memory of Joe. They did it because I had gone down there after Joe had been diagnosed. The Gary Kelly Cancer Support Centre is in Drogheda and it’s like the Arc Centre. You’ve a walk in service, then you could have counselling by appointment, or tai chi, yoga, or relaxation. They provide an amazing service. I think they saw how much I benefitted from it and how much other people could, so that was why they chose there to donate to” said Bridie.

Darren Carr and Robert Carr presenting a cheque for €825 to the Gary Kelly Centre, Drogheda. Raised by their charity football match held in memory of their dad Joe.

Her other son Killian, who lives in London, also decided to do something in memory of his dad. “ I suppose after the football match happened he was thinking, what can I do. So he decided to run the Dublin marathon. He had never done it before and it was his first marathon. He set a time for himself that he wanted to run it in four hours and he did. He did it in 3 hours and 58 minutes. So he was delighted. He raised €1210 which also went to the Gary Kelly centre.” It’s not just her sons, Bridie herself plans to do the annual woman’s walk with The Arc centre next year. She also told us

how when Joe passed away they asked friends and family to donate money to the Irish Cancer Society, rather than buying flowers or wreaths. It is something to really be proud of. To see the pain caused by loss turned into something so heartwarming and selfless. “With all the boys have done, Joe would have been so proud of them. Joe was 58 when he passed away in August 2014. But by June 2015 they had organised the match because they needed to knuckle down and focus on something. Their father was a big sports man, and that was part of the reasoning behind them doing something

Declan Brady from Swords Historical Society and a member of Fingallians GAA Club hosted a talk about Swords, Fingallians and the 1916 Rising at Fingallians clubhouse on Friday, 8th January last. The talk, which was very well attended included a number of very interesting photographs from the time. Pictured prior to the presentation are Liam Ó'Culbáird, Declan Brady, County Mayor Cllr David O'Connor and Cllr Darragh Butler

New Act To Keep Burglars Off Our Streets Fine Gael TD for Dublin Fingal, Alan Farrell, has said that the new Burglary Act will help keep repeat burglars off the streets in the North County and improve the safety of our community. “The Minister for Justice and Equality, Frances Fitzgerald, announced that the Criminal Justice (Burglary of Dwellings) Act 2015 has come into operation. This is an important new act and means that bail can now be denied to repeat offenders. Speaking to the County Leader Alan Farrell said; “The problem of repeat burglaries is an issue for many people in Dublin Fingal. Statistics provided by the Garda Síochána show that 75 per cent of burglaries are committed by 25 per cent of burglars. This important Act allows for bail to be denied, and consecutive sentences to be given, to repeat burglars. It’s my hope that the act will reduce crime rates in the North

in sport to commemorate him. He loved horse racing and he would sit in the chair and watch it, and I would say ‘Joe you would watch two flies running up the wall’, and he would say, ‘You know, what? I would!’, it was a running joke for us, so now the boys have carried his passion on. He would have been so proud of them. I certainly am.” Robert and Darren plan on making the football match an annual event and it will be taking place again this year, sometime in June, and will again be called the Peter Kelly and Joe Carr Memorial Match. A wonderful legacy for a tragic loss.

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County and will be a key weapon in the battle against crime.” He went on to say; “Home is the place where we should all feel most safe and secure. This is why Minister Fitzgerald is targeting prolific burglars. This Act will help to keep repeat burglars off the streets and to improve the safety of our communities.” This comes as a great relief to North County residents as we ended last year with the knowledge that rural crime is on the rise. This led to implementation of Operation Thor, which will also benefit from this new act. “The new Burglary Act also provides an important additional layer of support to Gardaí in implementing Operation Thor. These new provisions for tougher sentences and stricter bail for repeat offenders will now be available when persons charged as part of Operation Thor come before the courts.” Templemore has been reopened and a reported €46 million has been allocated for Garda vehicles He concluded by saying; “Our plan will deliver more and better new jobs and will allow us to continue targeted investment in areas like crime prevention.”

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through public advertising – 61 per cent supported campaigns on drug abuse, 60 per cent healthy eating, 60 per cent safe driving and 58 per cent social welfare fraud. Mr. Griffin added that the research provides useful insight into how the public perceives and responds to Government public information advertising. “Overall people do perceive public sector advertising as effective at driving changes in their behaviour, particularly when it relates to core social issues such as public safety and health. “Respondents identified traditional mediums such as television, radio and print to be the most trustworthy sources for receiving public Local newspapers and radio across the Research. Mr. Griffin said that the findings information, although they also expressed a country are of key importance for effective mirrored earlier research by IPSOS MRBI in strong preference for public sector advertising campaigns, a 2011, which in addireceiving information tion, had highlighted leading advertising agency has said. online,” he said. The agency asserts that local media is of key the particularly high Women were found to impact of local papers importance for public sector advertising be slightly more campaigns, with 65 per cent of receptive to public people changing behaviour due to “The strength of local media is a particular feature of sector advertising public sector advertising the Republic of Ireland marketplace and, than men, but overall Mediavest Director, Dave Griffin was there weren’t signifidespite the years of recession and growth of online speaking after the launch of a new cant gender differcommunications, local media remains of key importance survey on the impact of public sector ences. The only signifadvertising. for influencing public opinion and attitudes.” icant variance was a 9 The survey found that 65 per cent of per cent higher preferpeople (67 per cent of women and 63 ence for radio as the per cent of men) said that they have changed and regional radio preferred medium their behaviour due to public sector adver- stations for adveramongst women. tising goods, services tising campaigns. Mediavest is Ireland’s In terms of which specific behaviours had or information with leading media agency changed – 50 per cent said they had stopped specific local releoffering expertise in using their mobile phone in the car, 49 per vance. strategic media plancent had stopped speeding, 38 per cent have “From our current ning, digital adverstarted to eat more healthily and 20 per cent experience with local tising, econometric had stopped smoking. The research was papers, and looking modelling, research carried out independently, on a standardised at the recent JNLR and sponsorship. national population sample, by Ignite figures, the strong Pictured is Dave Griffin, Director of Mediavest (One of Ireland’s leading advertising agencies)

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Appetite For Irish Property Set To Continue Estate agents, Sherry FitzGerald, will once again bring its Irish Property Show to London on Saturday, 20th February 2016. At the event, which will be held in Millennium Gloucester Hotel from 11am-3pm, they will be displaying a sample of properties from all across Ireland and giving UK purchasers an opportunity to meet property professionals from several of their offices across the country in one day, and in one location. Mary Dillon, head of Sherry FitzGerald Countrywide said, “The performance of the

Irish economy was remarkable in 2015 and the phenomenal recovery in both the economy and in the residential market have supported the ongoing appetite from overseas investors for Irish property,” she said. “Over the difficult years of the global recession we continued to promote Irish property in Ireland and abroad and in 2016 we will continue to do this with our London Property Show - an event that will showcase the very best of Irish property from all over the country. “Our property showcase will promote property to buyers from all over the UK and especially London to a purchaser market that includes investors who see the opportunity and value in the Irish property market There is a major attraction for UK purchasers in the strength of Sterling relative to the Euro,” she concluded.

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Recent published deaths from the North County O'BYRNE (née Moran) (Donabate, Dublin / Terenure, Dublin) - January 20th 2016, peacefully at St. Vincent's Hospital, Eileen, dearly loved wife of the late Pierce and dear mother of Sheila, Nuala, Geraldine, Barbara and Gearóid, late of Donabate and Terenure, very deeply regretted by her loving son, daughters, brother Sean, sisters Patricia and Dympna, sons-in-law Jim, Leo, Patrick and Larry, daughter-in-law Anita, sister-inlaw Olein, brothers-in-law Donal and Andrew, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, relatives and friends. Rest In Peace MCLOUGHLIN Paddy (Mucksie) (Howth, Dublin / Baldoyle, Dublin) 18th January 2016 peacefully in Beaumont Hospital. Paddy loving brother of Gerry and May, the late John and Peter; Sadly missed by his brother and sister, nieces, nephews, relatives and friends. Rest in Peace CARTY (née Hand), Margaret (Malahide, Dublin) Jan. 18, 2016 (peacefully), at Beaumont Hospital; sadly missed by her loving husband James, sons Paul and David, daughter Jackie, grandchildren, brothers, relatives and friends. Rest In Peace.

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DOW (née Byrne), Alice (Swords, Co. Dublin) Jan. 17, 2016 (peacefully), at Fingal House Nursing Home, beloved wife of the late Bobbie and mother of the late Robert; sadly missed by her loving daughters Alice and Linda, son Phillip, brothers Willie and Frank, grandchildren, greatgrandchildren, relatives and her many friends. Rest In Peace

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KENNEDY (nee O'Meara) Rose (Malahide, Dublin / Raheny, Dublin) - 17. Jan. 2016, (peacefully) after a long illness borne with great dignity in the loving care of the staff at Lusk Community Unit, Rose, beloved wife of Eamonn and mother of Liam, Eamonn, Joseph and the late John; sadly missed by her devoted husband, sons, daughterin-law, loving grandchildren Rebecca, Nicole, Karl, Eoin, Connor, Michaela, Anna and Sarah, sisters, brother, brothers-in-law, nieces, nephews, relatives and friends. Rest in Peace

Miracle Prayer Sacred Heart of Jesus, in the past I have asked you for many favours. This time I ask for a very special one (mention it). Take it dear Heart of Jesus and place it within your own broken heart, where your Father sees it. Then in His merciful eyes it will become your favour and not mine. Say this prayer for 3 days, promise publication and favour will be granted. Never known to fail.

O’DWYER (Hussey) Nora (Lusk and formerly of Ballinteer) – January 18, 2016, peacefully, at Beaumont Hospital after a short illness. Sadly missed by her husband Chris and son Jack, sisters Madeline, Ann and Ursula, brother Peter, nieces, nephews, relatives and friends. Rest in Peace RUANE (née Stenson), Bridie (late of Swords and formerly of Sycamore Road and Swinford, Co Mayo) - Jan. 17th, 2016 (peacefully) in the loving care of her family and staff of Tara Winthrop Private Clinic, beloved wife of the late Tom; sadly missed by her loving children Ann, Garry, Bernadette, Rita, Joan, Tommy and Mary, sons-inlaw, daughters-in-law, grandchildren, greatgrandson, sister Mary, sisters-in-law, nephews, nieces, relatives and friends. Rest In Peace MOLES, (Skerries Co. Dublin), 15th January 2016, (peacefully) at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Drogheda, surrounded by his loving family, Michael (Mick), father of the late Bernard (Moey) sadly missed by his loving wife Betty, daughter Maria, son-in-law Steakey, sisters Ann and Mary, grandchildren, David, Kelly, Leeanne, Paul, Edel and Stephen, great grandchildren, Taighlor and Leah, nieces, nephews, relatives and friends. Rest in peace. CLUSKEY The death has occured of Margaret (Peggy) Cluskey (nee Clarke), (Court Lough and formerly Darcystown, Balbriggan, Dublin) wife of the late Patrick Cluskey, peacefully at her home. Sadly missed by her loving sons Anthony and Peter, daughters Ann, Josephine and Mary, sister Jodie, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, sonsin-law, daughters-in-law, nieces, nephews, extended family, neighbours and friends. Rest in peace.

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