There has been plenty of action during the summer months with our club athletes taking part in numerous road races as well as track and field competitions. A few club members have also taken the opportunity to visit parkruns in other countries while away on holidays.
Training plans are available for all distances and many have commenced the long road towards the Dublin City Marathon in October. Our next race is the 7k Man O War round on Thursday 15th August at 7pm. Official return to training is on Tuesday 3rd September and new members are most welcome.
While the young students of JUNSA Taekwondo are on their summer break, our more advanced students are still upping their game for an upcoming tournament in Ireland.
The Korean ambassadors cup will take place in Dublin after the summer.
Junsa Taekwondo will be recruiting for the start of September classes.
June and July were very busy month for the ladies in Lusk ICA.
Summer Festival
For the Lusk summer festival held and in Orlynn Park in June we set up stall showing off samples of arts and crafts. Rob O Donoghue Labour councillor for Fingal visited Caroline O’Malley and Maureen Aupy at the stand.
Pitch&Putt
Congratulations to Mary Shorthall and Teresa Kilmurray from Lusk ICA are through to the ICA All Ireland P&P in Seapoint 14th September, good luck in the final ladies.
Farewell party
A Big Thanks to the fabulous refreshments at Fr George’s farewell celebration on 2nd July. It was a really lovely Parish occasion and great for ICA to be involved.
Flavours of Fingal
With stiff competition Lusk ICA were awarded lots of prizes, at the horticultural tent in the Flavours of Fingal. Teresa Kilmurray got first prize for her soda bread and scones also an award for her embroidery. Teresa Killoran and Alma Farrell for their paintings, Mary Hagan for her apple tart and Caroline O Malley for her picture frame.
Annual ICA Party
The ladies enjoyed a wonderful day out at ICA Annual Summer Garden Party on 6th July in An Grianan in Termonfeckin, Co. Louth.
Congratulations to Teresa Kilmurray who was our proud winner of the best dressed lady! We also wish to remember the family of Josie Doyle who was an active member of Lusk ICA, may she rest in peace.
Lusk Community First Responders have been extremely busy since we went live on 12 June last. In the first 24 hours, we responded to 4 calls in the community. Our members have been delighted to be able to put their last few months of training to use and provided assistance to patients while they are waiting for an ambulance to arrive. Remember – you don’t need to call us, we will be immediately dispatched by the National Ambulance Service when a call is made for certain types of incidents.
We were also thrilled to attend the Lusk Summer Festival. We were overwhelmed by the level of support, enthusiasm and encouragement received from the public. We spent the day chatting to people about what we do, hearing stories of people’s experiences with other first responder schemes, and demonstrating how to provide CPR, with queues of people young and old waiting to have their go. It was brilliant to see so many people of all ages giving it a go, and while we hope that no one will ever need to use that skill, if it is ever needed someday, they might remember what they learned on a sunny windy summers day in Lusk! Many thanks to the Summer Committee Festival for making space for us at such a wonderful event.
Lusk CFR is actively seeking more volunteers, and no prior medical experience or training is necessary as continuous training will be offered to all recruits.
If you still want to help but are not in a position to volunteer, you can donate securely towards our running costs by visiting our website www.luskcfr.ie or contact us directly at info@luskcfr.ie. You can also donate via our QR code. All our members are volunteers and the costs go directly towards purchasing and maintaining equipment.
Hope you all are enjoying the summer and we look forward to seeing many of you back in the Parish Hall soon. Over the summer while it is quieter than the winter - the Senior Citizens and a number of activities continue.
We have a number of Summer Camps in August and some planned maintenance of the Parish Hall.
Recently, Leithinis CCÉ had a ‘Saturday Summer Session’ for the ‘Slow Session’ group from 5-7pm. They may hold a number of these over the next while & will use the Parish Hall if the weather is bad & if the weather is good they may be seen on St Patrick’s Terrace Green or outside the hall, where they can still use the facilities & their black chairs etc.
There are still a small number of slots available for use in the Parish Hall - please contact the Parish Office with enquiries on 01 8434574.
In June the Peninsula Pacers went on a jaunt of the North Inner City ending up in Stoneybatter for the start of the Festival & ending in Smithfield with a meal in Oscars!
The weather was great and we had a short stop and few words at each historic place as we passed by. The places of note included the Garden of Remembrance, the Black Church, the Blessington Basin, Grangegorman former hospital now college!
We sauntered down Stoneybatter & had a short cultural stop in the Cobble Stone before heading past the Old Dublin Vegetable Market and back to Connolly Train Station after about 8/10 kms of a jaunt!
Our next walk is our Annual Peninsula Walk to coincide with the Bleeding Pig Festival Pizza’Trad event at the Brook Pub on Saturday 14th September. We usually start from the Parish Hall about mid morning & walk to Donabate Beach & around the Cliff Walk stop for a coffee at Wayne’s and on to the Brook for ceol & craic!
The October walk is on Saturday 12th and we hope to do some part of the Coastal Walk Bray to Greystones.
In November Walk is on Saturday 23rd we may do the Balbriggan to Bettystown Coastal walk if tide is out!
We try to use public transport - generally trains as much as possible. The walks are generally flat and a reasonable level of fitness is required and can be about 8-12km.
Contact Carolyn on 087 9284307 or Breda on 086 8693243 for more information.
Gerry & The Plonkers, the Donabate Portrane Men’s Shed group has been busy. In late June, they played at the Donabate Sea Scouts’ fundraiser and last month they opened the proceedings at Fingal Vintage Picnic in Swords Castle. Maybe it will be Electric Picnic in 2025!
But Donabate Portrane Men’s Shed is much more than music. Last month, several of our regular croquet players participated in the croquet day organised by Active Age for All. Many thanks to AAfA, and especially Carolyn Smith for such an enjoyable afternoon. In addition to our weekly croquet sessions on Tuesday morning at Newbridge House, we have our weekly exercise classes and our Thursday morning get-togethers in the Sea Scouts’ den.
We also have occasional outings to places of interest, our next one being to the Croke Park Museum and Skyline Tour sometime in September. Depending on the weather, we will probably have a get-together on Portrane Green for Piper’s fish and chips sometime in August.
If you, or someone you know, would like to join us, please call Jim, our PRO, on 086-3694316.
Your local guild of the Irish Countrywoman’s Association meets on the 2nd and 4th Thursday in the Portacabin in DPCC. We meet at 8.00 and usually are finished with tea and coffee by 10.00. If you are interested in coming along, please just come on 12th September, we would love to see you.
This year we concentrated on making knee quilts for the Hospice. When some of us went to Raheny to deliver them and they wanted to keep them and sell them at their Christmas Fair. Many of us thought that we would try to do something to reduce the stack of fabric that just seems to hang around anyone handy! For those interested, we used the quilt as you go method.
Buaileann Ciorcal Comhrá le chéile gach Sathairn ag 2 iarnóin i gCafé Cates, i nDomhnach Bheathach. Is grúpa neamhfoirmiúil muid, agus tá fáilte roimh gach duine teacht. Thosaigh muid ag teacht le chéile tímpeall 2011, mar mhaidin caife, nuair a ghlac ár mbaile páirt i seó teilfíse de chuid TG4 darbh ainm, “G-Team”.
Tionscnamh ab ea é de chuid Duirmuid Ó Suilleabháin as na Scéirí, nach maireann, a chuir a lán oibre isteach maidineacha caife a spreagadh thar fuaid Tuaisceart an Contae. Gach Sathairn bíonn ó thrí go seachtar daoine ag cainnt is a comhrá is caife agus cáca milis á ithe againn.
Le déanaí, ghlac muid páirt i Seó Contae “Flavours of Fingal” i pPáirc Newbridge. Deireadh seachtaine bliantiúil den scoth is ea ea “Flavours”, atá reachtaithe ag Comhairle Contae Fhine Gall, atá saor in aisce do theaghlaigh sult a bhaint as an gceol beó, taispeántais chócaireachta, taispeántais thalmhaíochta; trialacha capall; trialacha mhadraí, is thar cionn 150 bhothannaí bia is ceirde.
Réitigh muid Pop-up Gaeltacht in san Scioból Dearg, i bhFeirm Newbridge, le ceol álainn ó ghrúpa Chomaltas Leithinis, faoi stiúr an sár-fidléir áitiúil Erin McGahan, is Óg-dhrámaíocht den scoth léirithe ag grúpa Úna Bhreathnach, “Conas mar a fuair Cú Chulainn a Ainm”. Bhí neart cluichí Scrabble as Gaeilge is picnic traidisiúnta idir láimh againn freisin.
Tá fáile roimh gach duine buaileadh linn i gCates Sathairn ar bith ag a dó a chloig le cainnt is cleachtadh na teanga.
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Our Ciorcal Comhrá meets every Saturday at 2pm in Cate’s Café, Donabate. We are an informal group, meeting together since about 2011, over coffee and cake to chat and practice our Irish. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Recently, we took part in the Flavours of Fingal County Show, in Newbridge Park, and organised a Pop-Up Gaeltacht which included wonderful trad music played by Comhaltas Leithinis and some brilliant youth drama, “How Cú Chulainn got his name”. We also enjoyed a few rounds of Irish language scrabble, and a traditional picnic.
Everyone is welcome to join us in Cate’s on Saturday afternoons at 2pm.
Foroige Coastal North Dublin's Summer so far has included Healthy Habits week - Young people learned healthy ways to manage stress, anxiety/ issues in their daily lives in a healthy way. activities included smoothie making, yoga and meditation. Some young people visited the salt caves.
Life skills week - Swimming lessons for 5 young people. This week gave young people an opportunity to do some cooking/baking and creative skills including tie dye arts and crafts.
Fishing week - Young people had the opportunity to learn a new skill they wouldn't have the opportunity to experience otherwise. We brought a number of young people each day fishing and they absolutely adored the experience.
Sports week - (multi sports day) Using local clubs from across the dublin area young people were able to engage in a number of different sports and activities. This allowed for them to meet new people and build relationships. The young people also took part in cricket throughout the week, a sport many of them hadn't tried before, once again exposing them to activities they had not experienced before.
Water safety week - (open water) Young people learned necessary lifesaving skills. They took part in this activity for 5 days on skerries beach where they had the opportunity to get into the water and not only have fun but learn lifesaving skills.
We are halfway through our summer programmes engaging over 100 young people in positive activities across Skerries, Rush and Lusk.
