The purpose of this website is to provide a communication link between  the residents of Skerries. The SCA is the umbrella organisation for many of the town's hard working groups,including the Board of Management of Skerries Community Centre, Skerries Tidy Towns Committee,  Skerries Town Twinning Association, Skerries Cycling Initiative, Skerrries Soundwaves Festival, Skerries RAS endstage Committee, Crann Padraig, Sustainable Skerries and Little Theatre Funding Committee.

The Irish Kidney Association is hosting the 6th European Transplant &
Dialysis Games FROM August 8th- 15th 2010.

It is the first time for these games to come to Ireland. 400+ people from 24
counties will join us in the week long celebration of life through sport.

All of the participants will either be transplant recipients or be receiving
regular dialysis treatment.

DCU will house all the guests. The accommodation is set up in apartments and
the teams will be staying together.

*We are looking to provide WELCOME PACKS for each of the apartments; these
would include tea/Coffee/sugar etc.*

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LABOUR MARKET
ACTIVATION PROGRAMME

These courses will be available in Balbriggan in September 2010.

The Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills, Mary Coughlan T.D.
announced, on 1 June 2010, that some 6,589 training places will be made
available to the unemployed under the Labour Market Activation Fund, 2010. *750
places* were allocated to County Dublin VEC.

*Who can apply?*
The course is open to people who are unemployed and in receipt of *Unemployment
Benefit/Allowance.*

Applicants who are *under 35* must be at least *3 months unemployed *before
the programme commences.

Fingal County Council Transportation Dept has agreed to proceed with the "Ballast Pit" pedestrian and cycling path in the short term.  The following is the text given to the local press recently:

"The provision of a proper pedestrian and cyclist path across the Ballast Pit to link the Townsparks Distributor Road to the railway station at Skerries has been an objective of Fingal County Council for some time.  This was recently approved by Fingal County Council as part of the Skerries Traffic Management Scheme Phase 3.  Site excavations are being carried out on site to determine the existing ground conditions in order to complete the design process.

Sustainable Skerries held a meeting on Saturday morning 26th June in the Café at the Skerries Mills (thanks to Ray for accomodating us) to give an update on the current status of the allotments in Skerries and to allow those interested to complete an application form for one of the allotments. More than 70 people attended. We were also fortunate to have Tom Hussey, Parks Superintendant from Fingal Co Co in attendance. Many thanks to Tom for taking time out of his weekend to attend the meeting.