As part of International Women’s Week the Women’s KickFit groups came together in a game at Gannon Park Malahide Utd recently which saw teams from Malahide Utd V Howth Celtic competing in a Women’s KickFit Game on Sunday 5th March. There was plenty of skills on show on the day. The KF programme is to bring women together from 18+ who don’t play on a team and want the fun and craic in an non-competitive way and use the programme as a social event and maybe get involved in their local club.

The following is a run report from two of our visitors on a Saturday recently: “Long before we were ‘runners’ Claire and I had a lovely break in Malahide and often talked about returning. It is a beautiful location and the people are so friendly. Fast forward 6 years and we are both now parkrun addicts and love visiting events throughout the UK and further afield, so when we knew we would be flying to Dublin for the weekend our first thought was Malahide parkrun !This Saturday was also my 200th parkrun and whilst this may not be an ‘official’ parkrun milestone it is definitely a good enough reason to celebrate with a few pints of the black stuff. So the parkrun day arrived and we were very lucky with the weather. Rain and wind was forecast but it held off for the duration of the run. After arriving early (as is our way) we met Martha the run director and a few more of the volunteers before a small warm up and then we were off. We both loved the course and were both happy with our times. And the breakfast at Avoca cafe in the castle topped it off perfectly (don’t forget to show your barcode for a 10% discount).We would like to thank Martha and the team of volunteers, without whom the event would not take place. There were 251 participants today of which 29 were first timers at Malahide including 11 running their very first parkrun. We hope you all enjoyed your run and have now realised that your Saturday mornings will never be the same again. Congratulations - to the 14 runners who recorded course PBs including Alasdair BROWN who was the first runner home in a time of 17:12. First lady home was Niamh MARKHAM in a time of 17:41. Well done both fantastic running.There were plenty of milestone achievements to applaud including: Maciek MICHALOWSKI, Caitríona FINLAY, Dave WOODS, Ian BRENNAN (25 parkruns) & Michelle GRIMES (50 parkruns). Also worthy of mention Finnbarr O’BRIEN who has completed 400 parkruns. Until the next time we come back thank you Malahide parkrun.” David George (A3162129) Claire George (A1777261) - Cardiff parkrun

by Malahide Historical Society

We have heard stories that a local dialect could be heard spoken around Malahide as recently as the 1940s. Here is a most interesting extract of an article from Fingal County Council on the subject.
‘Fingal consists of most of the northernmost five: Balrothery East; Balrothery West; Nethercross; Castleknock Blanchardstown Coolock.Before describing this history, it is important to clarify that the linguistic situation in North Co. Dublin was complicated by the presence of a third language besides Irish and English: Fingallian. Fingallian was a poorly documented local descendant of Middle English, and appears to have originated in the very earliest English spoken by Anglo-Norman settlers in Co. Dublin; in this and other respects it was substantially identical to the Forth and Bargy dialect spoken in the south of Wexford. Despite pressure at first from Irish (from which, like the dialect of Forth and Bargy, it borrowed a number of words; see below), Fingallian survived as a curious, precarious linguistic island in North Co. Dublin until the mid-nineteenth century, when it eventually succumbed to local English. Unfortunately we have so little information on Fingallian that we do not know exactly how far its area of use extended or how this area then contracted. Its name and existing texts suggest it was spoken north of the city in the 1600s and 1700s; its influence is certainly detectable in the nineteenth century English of Oldtown, Co. Dublin, recounted in Patrick Archer’s Humours of Shanwalla (1906) here; remnants of it are perhaps also just noticeable in the twentieth century English of Swords, Lusk, Rush, Skerries, Naul et al. Irish loanwords in Fingallian are of particular interest to us; they must have been borrowed directly from the local Irish dialect then spoken in North Co. Dublin. (We have no direct information on whether or not Fingallian speakers also knew Irish; but given the extensive nature of borrowings from Irish - which mirror the pervasive English we find in the Irish of today - a situation where Fingallian was a minority language surrounded by and under pressure from Irish, and where the two languages were used indifferently by bilingual speakers, seems most likely.)’

Well done to everyone involved at the annual Master Mariner Competition, sponsored by the Irish Institute of Master Mariners.We are enormously proud of our young sea scouts who had an amazing weekend with the Irish Naval Service, National Maritime College of Ireland NMCI RNLI Crosshaven Lifeboat Station Irish Sailing Irish Coast Guard and all the external examiners.What an incredible opportunity to connect with Irelands professional maritime community and consider a career at sea. The next generation of Irelands Master Mariners is looking very bright indeed! An incredible weekend experience for the 22 competitors from across the Country competing in the annual Master Mariner Competition proudly sponsored by the Irish Institute of Master Mariners.The level of nautical skills shown by all competitors was outstanding. Everyone should be very very proud of what they have achieved:
Venture Scouts - Capt.Desmond Fortune ‘Founders Award’ - (1st)- Cormac Eason (267pts) - 9th Port Malahide Sea Scouts - (2nd) - Dan Clohessy (246pts) - 9th Port Malahide Sea Scouts
3rd - Adam Kavanagh (244pts) - 12th Ballykelly Scouts Rover Scouts

Capt.Cian Timmons Memorial Award - (1st) - Óran Ó hIrile (248pts) - 9th Port Malahide Sea Scouts - (2nd) - Evan Banable (235pts) - 9th Port Malahide Sea Scouts - 3rd - Darragh Ryan (213pts) - 1st Wexford New Ross Sea Scouts

Practical Skills - Eoghan Lavelle Cox’ns Award - Dan Clohessy - 9th Port Malahide Sea Scouts.
Congratulations to all those who took part and to their mentors.

Malahide Boules welcomes new participants!The recently established Malahide Boules group is keen to publicise the new boules playing surfaces (known as pistes) at Malahide Castle grounds and the organised playing sessions held there each Tuesday @11:00am and Saturday @ 3:00pm. The playing pistes are located next to the Playground area at Malahide Castle grounds and there is plenty of free parking nearby. We welcome anyone to join us, as there are no specific skills necessary to play the game, but rather just a willingness to try it out. If you would like to buy a set of basic boules (set of 3) these can be purchased for example at the Decathlon store, next to IKEA in Ballymun, or online (https://www.decathlon.ie ). If interested, you can contact us through our website //sites.google.com/view/malahide-boules/home or by email malahideboules@gmail.com,

A Happy Easter to all our members and friends at home and around the world.

At Junsa we have been busy preparing our students for tournaments at home and in Europe. Taekwondo Ireland have been running development training sessions and competitions for our young and up and coming athletes which Junsa has been attending. These development competitions are very important as this gives our younger students the opportunity to set some of their goals and improve there competition skills. We are also preparing our more advanced fighters for European events. We strive to meet everyone’s expectations and help fulfil our students goals.

The events have been coming thick and fast this year and by the middle of March it seems like most of the club had taken part in at least one Indoor competition or road race. Younger members of the club had a fantastic 5 days of Indoor Juvenile competition at the National Indoor Arena while our Junior, Seniors and Masters were at the same venue for the Leinster Indoor Championships. There was a huge medal haul for the club which is the icing on the cake after a hard winter of training.
The Lusk 4 mile gets bigger and better with each year and this time even the weather was on our side. 660 completed the 4 mile with over 200 also taking part in the Thomas Ashe Dash. Many thanks to all who volunteered at the event and to all the sponsors and local community for their support. The club had great participation in two Road races on Sunday 12th March with 60 of our athletes in action. The Windmill 10k (Men’s Dublin 10k Championship) in Garristown and the Bohermeen Half Marathon in Co Meath saw some brilliant running by our long distance men and women. We look forward to a summer of continued success and enjoyment.

by Aidan Arnold

This unusual picture was taken at Rogerstown Estuary, Newhaggard, Lusk, in the early 1900s, on the land running along the river from Blake’s Cross to what was Balleally Landfill and is now known as Rogerstown Park.The big man with the beard is Nathaniel Hone and the other gentleman is his Brother Herbert who owned about 600 acres there until it was taken over by the Land Commission in 1935 and divided up between local farmers. Nathaniel Hone “the Younger” (Dublin, 1831 – 1917) was a well known member of a wealthy landed family and the great grand-nephew of another famous artist, Nathaniel Hone (“the Elder”), who lived from 1718 to 1784. Nathaniel the younger married Magdalen Jameson of the family of distillers in 1872. He studied art in Paris and was primarily recognised for his landscape paintings. He lived on the family estate in Malahide where he created hundreds of watercolour drawings of the sea and sands. In 1892 he helped to set up the Malahide Golf Club. Following his death in 1917, his wife gave approximately 500 oil paintings and nearly 900 of his watercolours to the National Gallery of Ireland.

Love Lusk is an initiative of Lusk Community Network. The website www.lovelusk.ie shares information on services, clubs and organisations, it promotes Lusk as a place to live, work and play and it provides support to all within Lusk. As part of this, we have a page on the website dedicated to grants. The grants are listed in sections. At the top of the webpage which is called lovelusk.ie/home/community-grants/, a summary of all the current grants is provided and for a quick reminder, closing dates, if applicable. Grants with a specified closing date are listed in the second section. The information supplied on these grants is set out in a set format – the name of the grant and the grant provider is given, followed by the closing date. A brief description or aim of the grant is supplied. Finally, a link to the website where the application must be completed is provided, in distinctive black writing. Fingal County Council provide grants to different sectors at different times and have dedicated email addresses with whom to make contact with. This information is also contained in the second section. If you contact these specific email addresses, any information on grants will be sent directly to the email address provided as soon as the grants have been announced. We recommended that each club has two email addresses registered with Fingal County Council, so that any communication issued is not missed. The third section deals with funding that is ongoing. To make this easier to navigate, funding relating to businesses, clubs and organisations are in one sub-section whereas grants relating to houses are provided in the other sub-section. This ongoing section has details of LEADER funding, funding that is available for a hugh array of groups, including businesses. The fourth section deals with EU funding and any ongoing supports available. As you can see, this grants page provides a very wide range of information across all sectors. We hope you find this page beneficial, regardless of whether you represent a business, club or organisation within Lusk. Check out our website www.lovelusk.ie, our Facebook & Instagram pages - iLove

At this months Area Committee meeting Lusk was officially chosen as the first town in Fingal to be selected for the Town Centre First project. Town Centre First aims to create town centres that function as viable, vibrant and attractive locations for people to live, work and visit while also functioning as the service, social, cultural and recreational hub for the local community. Cllr O’Donoghue welcomed this development and stated, ‘there has been a lot of work in the last two years with the Luck Community Councils production of the ‘Lusk for Life – Vision 2030’ document and the 2030 committee which looks at improving the liveability for people in Lusk, the Town Centre First project will adapt and expand on the research already completed to drive change in the town. The Town Centre First Project will consist of three pillars which the project will focus on, (1.) Community, (2). Business & Economy and (3.) The Public Realm. The local community will work closely with officials from Fingal County Council and outside stakeholders to improve all three areas. O’Donoghue continued, ‘Irish towns are facing significant challenges that require a coordinated and comprehensive response. This is a beginning of a process that has the potential to provide much needed facilities and develop a truly integrated heart in the town for Lusk and I look forward to engaging with the community and other stakeholders in the coming months.’