A fantastic 2 week’s camps finished recently for the St Sylvesters July football Summer Camp sessions. Huge thanks go to Eamonn Leahy of Leahy O’Riordan Chartered Accountants for his year after year support of our camps. Each player gets a special 2022 camp tshirt to finish a fantastic week of fun!

Malahide Lions Club has started this project where old broken sewing machines will be refurbished and sent to East Africa where recipients can start a small business, do repairs and earn a living.There are hundreds of these old machines just lying around in local homes. So please donate the and give East Africans a chance for a new life!

Neala girls sea scouts had a great time sailing on the keelboats recently, having a swim break with the hot weather at the time at the end of last month. Well done to our NTA girls, Laura and Niamh for organising the trip and helming. Also a big thanks to Colum also for assisting in helming . The girls had a great day on the water..

Junsa Taekwondo has been busy this summer. We recently took part in the very first Lusk community summer festival, which was a great success. With a lot of planning and hard work in the run up to the festival our students showed of their skills with a great performance.On the day of the event we shared the mats with fellow martial artists from Lusk Judo run by Judo legend Master Jack Dennis. A huge honour for me personally. Junsa also took part in a Dublin inter club competition.

Lusk Athletic Club juvenile athletes are enjoying their summer break after a long but very rewarding season where they competed in all disciplines from Under 9 up to Under 19 with great success and won a hatful of medals. Even though it is a little quieter at the Hub for the summer months, Lusk AC adult athletes continue to train and excel in races from 100 metres right up to the Marathon and beyond. Our Track & Field athletes compete fortnightly in the Dublin Graded Track & Field meetings and our throwers Colm O’Donoghue and Stephen Fee won team gold at the National championships in July at the Morton Stadium, Santry.Club runners took part in The Docklands 5K, Dunshaughlin 10k, The National 10 Mile championships and a large group of athletes from the club ran in the Fingal 10K in Swords on the 17th of July with almost 30 club members volunteering as race marshals. Many thanks as always to our coaches, officials and volunteers who give their time freely to help make all these events happen.Training continues on Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 7 PM from the Hub on Rathmore Road and in Ardgillan on Sunday mornings for hill repeats. All newcomers are very welcome to come along and try a session.

Lusk has officially launched its Junior Parkrun at the Lusk Sports Hub. The first event, which took place on Sunday, May 22nd, saw 16 children completing in the 2km course event. The fifth week, June 19th saw this increase to 34 children.The Lusk Junior Parkrun is held every Sunday morning at Lusk Sports Hub at 9.30am, Rathmore Road. Organised by local volunteers it is open to all children from ages 4-14 years, each run is free to enter. The run can cater to children of all abilities and is safe and easy to take part in. Lusk Junior Parkrun is now inviting all youngers from ages 4 to 14 years to participate in future Sunday events. To enter, each child needs to be registered in advance of the run and must bring along a personal, printed barcode received by email after registering directly on the website www.parkrun.ie/register. Parents are free to join their child in running, however, only children will be recorded. Parents and children are also invited for a post junior parkrun coffee/drink in association with the Skinny Batch café in Lusk. Speaker, Resident and Director of Lusk Junior Park Run Siobhan Connor said,“We are delighted to bring Junior Parkrun to Lusk. Our goal is to assist children to get fit outdoors and meet new friends! 66 children have joined at least 1 event, with many now returning weekly. It’s a great place for families to enjoy together. If you would be interested in volunteering while your child/children take part, please come speak to the Run Director at any event or contact us through these links .For more information, please contact (Event Director). Email lusksportshubjuniors@parkrun.com , Facebook: facebook.com/lusksportshubjuniorparkrun and the Website: parkrun.ie/lusksportshub-juniors/.

The Lusk Summer Festival took place recently and was a day-long event filled with cultural experiences, a large variety of home-made craft vendors, food vendors, music, entertainment and kid-friendly activities ranging from Grasshoppers International Early Years Arts activities, fairground games, local sport club demonstrations and so much more.

The main stage hosted music acts such as Eva Campbell off The Voice UK. Buckshot Lariat, Jordan Dennis and Revolution Remains, along with the wonderful Black Raven Pipe band, the local gospel choir and DJ Joe who kept the day ticking along nicely.There were classic cars on display and free yoga sessions for all to enjoy..There was a multicultural area for local groups to show aspects of their cultural backgrounds to the rest of the community. Also to ensure that everyone was able to enjoy the day, the festival organisers together with the recently formed Autism Friendly Towns Working Group and with the support of AsIAm organised a Sensory Friendly Area at the event. This area, with reduced stimulation, was available to autistic individuals and their families to enjoy some quiet time together.

At the July meeting of Fingal County Council Cllr Rob O’Donoghue warmly greeted the announcement of plans to install a cycle track linking Blakes Cross to the Junction of Ministers Road. The proposal will contain protected cycle tracks on both directions of the R132 using the current hard shoulder for protected cycle lanes. There will be delineated cycle lanes with bollards, line markings and concrete islands for safety.O’Donoghue commented ‘This project will improve cycle connectivity to the Corduff School, public transport and residential estates in Lusk. As part of the project Kilhedge Lane will be resurfaced to improve connectivity between the Centra junction in Dun Emer and the R132.’ In the coming months there will be a public consultation to address any local concerns, a tender put out to procure a contractor and further consultation with stakeholders (schools, residents) prior to construction taking place, hopefully in Q1 of 2023.He continued ‘this project is part of phased plans to make the r132 safer for road users and improve connectivity links between towns for recreation and commuting in the North County’

The Lusk Mens walk and talk group meet at the Hub car park at 7:00pm every Monday for their weekly walk. This is open to all men and it’s an opportunity just get out of the house, have a nice walk, clear the head and have a chat if you wish. You can do it as a once off or every week, no joining necessary, just turn up. This group is organised by Ciaran Russell, so if you want to introduce yourself to him and before long you will find you have made new friends. So why not let any friends or neighbours know about it as new members are alaways welcome

The National Juvenile Track and Field Championships took place in Tullamore in July. It is the highlight of the Athletics Calendar, and this year LSA had two athletes competing. Éabha O’Farrell competed in U16 girls’ 3kg Hammer and Anna Gavigan competed in U19 Girls’ Discus. Both had qualified for this event by winning their respective competitions in the Dublin Championships in May and June.This was Anna’s final competition as a “Juvenile” and she signed off in style by winning the Discus Championships with a throw of 45.95m and setting a new U19 Championship record!This was Anna’s third major Championship win this summer. At the start of June, Anna won theSenior Girls’ Discus in the All-Ireland Schools Championship representing Loreto Secondary School Balbriggan. Three weeks later she had her best success to date winning the 150thNational Senior Track and Field Championships.Anna is a great example of the Long Term Athlete Development policy. She has been training and competing with LSA since 2014 but it was only in 2018 that she began to win medals in the Dublin Championships and qualify for national finals. Later that year she started to train with coach Gerry Ronan, and has gone from strength to strength since then.Our younger Juveniles may well be inspired by being coached by a National Champion – Anna is part of the coaching team with Fiona’s group at our Thursday evening training session, and she also coached at our recent summer camp.Meanwhile, Éabha is another up and coming LSA Juvenile Athlete, also coached by Gerry Ronan. Éabha set a new LSA club record for 3kg hammer when she threw 36.80m to finish 5th in the National Juvenile Championships. LSA Juvenile training will recommence in September – watch out for details on Social Media.We always welcome new volunteers to help out with our growing club.For memberships queries or to get involved please do so on our gmail account on lambaysportsathletics@gmail.com. Keep up to date on all the events by following LSA via our social media pages! Or facebook.com/lambaysportsacademy or even Instagram instagram.com/lsadonabateportrane/ Twitter twitter.com/LSARunning. For additional information on the above please visit our website lambaysportsathletics.ie/