The Joe Duffy nursery will return on May 8th at 10am, with the 2015 group on the all weather and the 2016 + 2017 group on the main pitch. You can purchase your nursery membership now. The Joe Duffy sponsored Nursery & Academy is on every Saturday at Fingallians GAA Pitch. The nursery (children born 2016 and 2015) starts at 10am on the main pitch with the academy (children born 2014) starting at 10:30am on the astropitch. Please note we have protocols in place and registration must be completed before arrival on Saturday. Restrictions apply and please update your covid health questionnaire before each session. If you are interested in getting involved in coaching, admin or if you have any queries contact GPO Brian Jordan 0873372495.

Swords Tidy Town members have been keeping themselves very busy during this current lockdown. We set up a WhatsApp group so our members could communicate with each other and plan which areas they would be working to keep within the lockdown guidelines. They have gone out in all kinds of weather, to litter pick, to plant and weed, to remove graffiti, nothing was going to stop our enthusiastic group from taking pride in their town. We have asked our members when out to take pictures and forward them to us for posting on our Facebook page which has become very popular with the residence of Swords.Community spirit is alive and thriving, we are getting membership enquiries from all over the town every week, it’s a testament to all the hard work over many years put in by our group. Unfortunately, due to Covid we have been unable to fund raise as we once did. No Quiz Nights, no Bucket Collections on St Patrick’s Day and Halloween, no Supermarket Bag Packing etc, as a result our funds have been somewhat depleted.If anyone was of a mind to make a donation to us, we would very much appreciate it of course. Contact Ken Duffy 0866008313. We would like to thank Fingal County Council for all their help and support through these very difficult times, its not easy we know, we look forward to better days ahead. For those who have made donations to Swords Tidy Towns we thank you, you know who you are. Finally, a big thank you to our supporters who talk with us and congratulate us on our work when we are out and about, your encouragement means a lot to the volunteers. The National Tidy Towns Competition was not held last year, it is back for 2021 and our competition committee are hard at work putting together this year’s submission. It is no easy task compiling and stitching together all the different treads of information for each category, it’s like weaving a delicate tapestry bringing it together. We have succeeded in winning a Silver Medal with our last three entries, we hope and aspire to go one step further this year, to achieve a Gold Medal, wish us luck.

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St Colmcilles GFC is based near the village of Applewood in Balheary, Swords, we host a number of teams of various ages.We hope to be back on the pitch training as soon as restrictions allow.We have taken every measure to ensure that all our coaches and mentors have all updated coaching courses along with being Garda vetted and First Aid training. We aim to be compliant in all aspects related to Covid -19.Training for our under 8’s and 9’s is every Saturday at 11am and Wednesday at 7pm and for the CUBS (under 6’s) Saturday at10am. All of our training is outdoors.The Men’s Junior team train each Tuesday and Thursday at 7.15, contact Mick (0861067145) if you are looking to get involved.Gaelic for Mother’s and Others - open to all women aged over 25, even if you’ve never played, this is a great opportunity to get to know ladies from the area and have a bit of fun along the way. Our Super Club Lotto, the club lotto has started back in the past couple of weeks and is a great success. We can only offer this online at the moment, and you can play through the Clubforce App. Once restrictions are lifted we hope to be resuming the weekly club lottery through envelope entry. Also club membership is available through the App.We hope to see you all very soon when the Club house is fully opened and restrictions allow!

Swords Tidy Towns volunteers care for the town of Swords. They generate enthusiasm and co-operation in order to enhance the natural and built environment. We plan to use the clear targets set by the Tidy Towns competition to give strong focus on these tasks we undertake on your behalf.Community: build strong communication with businesses, residents association, local council and schools to promote our work and to seek their help for the benefit of the community as a whole Diversity: actively seek new volunteers across a broad section of the community, and promote Swords as a town of diversity and inclusiveness .Environmental: be a champion of biodiversity and environmental issues

Fingal County Council are please to announce that enabling works are due to start in coming days on the new all-weather sports pitch at Ward River Valley Regional Park in Swords. The new third generation synthetic all-weather pitch will be a full sized GAA & Soccer pitch, similar to the facility at Bremore Regional Park in Balbriggan. The new floodlight facility will be accompanied by car, coach and bicycle parking to service the needs of the pitch users and to improve access to the park.The first phase of works will see contractors carrying out limited removal of some screen tree planting (as indicated on the accompanying plan) to facilitate works and create space for the pitch. Following consultation with the public, care was taken with the layout of the pitch to ensure that the landmark mature tree on site could be retained. Approximately 330m2 of screen planting will be removed and the works will be completed by the end of February. To replace these trees, 1580m2 of new native woodland and 179m of hedgerow will be planted adjacent to the new facility. In addition, further planting associated with the proposed car park will take place as part of the overall project. The pitch construction works are scheduled to start later this year and will become a valuable sporting amenity for the people of Swords and wider area.