Huge congratulations to our U16 Girls Basketball team who came out on top as the best team in Ireland when they were crowned All Ireland Champions, U16 Division A after a thrilling final against St Mary’s, Mallow in the National Basketball Arena, Tallaght yesterday.
The girls were amazing throughout the game and held a strong St Mary’s team to a 41-33 win.
Special word of thanks to their Head Coach, Christian McDonnell who has worked so hard for the girls. Christian is a former MCS Student who also won some All-Ireland medals in school!
We could not be prouder of the girls for their achievement!
To read a full write-up of the match from Basketball Ireland and a gallery of photos taken by our Malahide CS’s roving photographer, Dan Clohessy (6th Year) visit www.ireland.basketball.com.
The Malahide Lions Club held its annual Christmas appeal over the weekend of 13th and 14th December last. The appeal was strongly supported by the people of Malahide and raised the impressive sum of just over €10,000. This was immediately used to provide food vouchers for local families and individuals in need. The large amount raised will enable the Malahide Lions Club to continue their support for families and individuals in need into the leaner New Year period.
Malahide Lions Club are incredibly grateful for the continuing generosity of the community in donating to our annual Christmas appeal. It may have been a cold weekend but the warmth and generosity of the people of Malahide kept the Lions going during the appeal.
Many thanks also to the members of the CORus choir who braved the conditions and joined the Lions at the Diamond on Saturday to sing seasonal favourites which brought a very festive feel to the village and provided such great entertainment for the crowd.
Malahide Musical & Dramatic Society are proud to present Urinetown The Musical! This will run from Tuesday 18th February to Saturday 22nd February 2025, nightly @ 7.30pm.
Urinetown is a wickedly funny, fast-paced, and surprisingly intelligent comedic romp. In the not-so-distant future, a terrible water shortage and 20-year drought has led to a government ban on private toilets and a proliferation of paid public toilets, owned and operated by a single megalomaniac company: the Urine Good Company. If the poor don’t obey the strict laws prohibiting free urination, they’ll be sent to the dreaded and mysterious “Urinetown.” After too long under the heel of the malevolent Caldwell B. Cladwell, the poor stage a revolt, led by a brave young hero, fighting tooth and nail for the freedom to pee “wherever you like, whenever you like, for as long as you like, and with whomever you like.”
Tickets available here - malahidemusical.com/tickets
Fingal County Council in partnership with An Garda Síochána, the NTA, Dublin City Council, Northside Partnership, Dublin Fire Brigade, the HSE and other community stakeholders, hosted a magical inclusive Christmas event for community groups in Malahide Demesne on Wednesday 11th December.
The event was a huge success, with over 1,700 children from different areas attending.
All the children got to attend the Wonderlights experience, followed by a meet and greet with Santa, goodies, and a stroll through the Stakeholder Village, which included interaction with all the community stakeholders, a fire tender, Garda motorbike, Garda horses and special Elf DJ!
Malahide Lions Club had an excellent response from local primary schools to its international peace poster competition for 2024 with the presentation of prizes taking place recently. The theme of this year’s competition was Peace without Limits. One hundred and ten entries were received. The posters were very colourful and the entrants clearly engaged with the theme of Peace without Limits. It was a tough decision for the judges to choose a winner considering the quality of the entries.
The overall winner of the competition was a pupil from Ms. Farrelly’s class in Pope John Paul’s Primary School. The poster depicted peace written in sign language which greatly impressed the judges. The winning poster will now go forward to the Lions International peace poster competition. All the winners received their prizes from Malahide Lions Club President Stephen MacDonagh.
It was clear that all these young people have strong ideas about what peace means to them. Malahide Lions Club is very proud that we have been able to provide them with the opportunity to share their vision of peace.
Malahide Historical Society has recently unearthed wonderful images of ‘Hogan’s Top Shop’ Hogan’s grocers, wine and spirits merchants stood for many years on Main Street at what is now Malahide Credit Union premises. Locals called it Hogan’s Top-Shop to distinguish it from Hogan’s Bottom-Shop, their other premises on New Street (now Fowler’s pub).
Two of these three fascinating images have just recently come to light showing deliveries in the early 1900s. The truck is a Guinness lorry outside the premises circa 1910. (photo courtesy of Richard McAllister)
The third image, also from about 1910, shows a cart with the name ‘Bewley & Draper, Ink Makers’. This was a business owned by a branch of the famous Bewley coffee family which imported chemical and ink supplies as well as, unusually, mineral waters. It is likely the cart was being used to deliver not ink but mineral waters to Hogan’s as indicated by the crates on the footpath under the awning into which a worker appears to be peering.
Thanks to Malahide Historical Society.
Work on the 6km off-road walking and cycling greenway route at the Broadmeadow Estuary will be built jointly by Fingal County Council and the National Transport Authority (NTA) and facilitated by Irish Rail. A spectacular 280 metres long bridge crossing the Broadmeadow Estuary on the Malahide Railway Viaduct is set to become an iconic feature along the Fingal coastline.
The Greenway will travel from Malahide Castle to Newbridge House through varied and scenic landscapes including demesne and parklands, estuarine landscapes, rural farmlands and village environments with the coastline a constant companion on the journey. It will become a destination greenway for local residents, tourists and day trippers while also playing a role in the developing network of sustainable transport routes in Fingal.
With the Baldoyle to Portmarnock Greenway complete, the Broadmeadow Greenway along with the proposed Fingal Coastal Way and Sutton to Malahide Pedestrian and Cycle Scheme, a high quality, safe cycling route along Fingal’s coastline will be provided from Sutton to Balbriggan.
The construction of the Broadmeadow Way Greenway, adjacent to a live railway and within an estuary that is designated as a Special Protection Area (SPA) and a Special Area of Conservation (SAC) presents a unique set of technical and environmental challenges which must be managed carefully. Due to environmental sensitivity, works in the estuary can only take place from May to September each year.
Enabling works will begin shortly to accommodate the construction of the bridge across the weir. The contract for the construction of this bridge has been awarded to Jons Civil Engineering and work is due to begin in May.
Malahide has taken another top award at the annual Super Valu Tidy Towns awards and when they visited, the judges were heavily impressed with the overall presentation of the village and the local Tidy Towns committee’s vision for the village in years to come.
Speaking about the village in their report, the judges commented: “Malahide has long been a lovely place to live and to visit with a handsome stretch of coastline and the wonderful Malahide Castle at its doorstep. The village centre is packed with an eclectic selection of independent boutiques, coffee houses and restaurants. Like most other villages and towns in Ireland, the suburbs are expanding with the construction of housing developments and this provides not only opportunities but challenges in terms of ensuring the village retains its heritage, it’s green spaces and it’s unique character.”
The judging panel was also very complimentary of the Malahide Tidy Towns committee adding, “You have a great committee and support of many volunteers in the community including newly arrived residents and visitors to our shores. This is an excellent sign of inclusivity and a whole village working together.
Your support from local businesses and agencies is excellent. The forming of sub-committees to carry our specific tasks is a good and efficient way of delegating projects and this is clearly working as evidenced by the excellent results seen on adjudication day.”
There were almost 70 competitors taking part at Malahide Yacht Club’s Annual Dinghy Regatta on Sunday 13th October.
The competitors were warmly welcomed by Commodore Margaret Fay and hot drinks and scones were provided to keep all warm in the autumn chill whilst they waited for the off. The forecast for Sunday had predicted little to no wind in the early morning but to build to a reasonable breeze between 12am and 1pm.
Just before 2pm the first race of the main fleet got underway in about 8 knots of breeze, followed by a second just before 3pm. The Optimist Regatta fleet remarkably managed to get four races completed.
The big showing of talented Optimist sailors from Sutton Dinghy Club was rewarded by bringing home five of the six prizes in the main and regatta Optimist fleets. They were however denied first place in the main fleet by local sailor, Charlie Noone. Siun Barry from Sutton scooped wins in all four races in the regatta fleet – undoubted another sailor to watch for the future.
In the Toppers, Amy Shelly from the National was equally dominant, winning both races. Malahide members Paidi A’Coistlealbha and Alex Butcher did very well with second and fifth places. While a seasoned Optimist sailor, it was only Alex’s second day and first competition in a Topper.
Howth’s Harry Dunne narrowly edged out Malahide’s Sasha Bezpalyi and Glenda Gallagher, who had each won a race, to take first place in the ILCA 6 Class. Sasha finished second and Glenda third. Malahide’s Siun Ni Choistealbha took to an ILCA 6 for the first time at the event and narrowly missed out on third place having matched Glenda in points.
In the ILCA 7 Class Malahide’s Tim Noone equalled his son Charlie’s success in Optimists by also taking first place. Malahide’s James Anglim and Andrejs Samoilovs came second and third respectively.
The event also facilitated the Kona Nationals. Royal St. George’s Robbie Walker took home the silverware for a second year while Malahide’s Cormac O’Brien and Joe Galeckas were second and third respectively.
Story courtesy of Afloat.ie & Malahide Yacht Club
Malahide Locals are reminded to save the date for the opening day of this year’s Christmas Market that takes place on Saturday 30th November from 10.30am - 2.30pm at St Andrew’s Parish Centre, Church Road, Malahide.
This year’s stalls will include Cakes&Deli, Toys, Bric-A-Brac, Santas Grotto, various gift stalls and book stalls.
Don’t’ forget to take in some refreshment at the Market Café and enjoy the entertainment provided by the Christmas Choir!