Thank you to all those who attended the Skerries Community Association 2025 AGM. It was great hearing about each committee’s activities happening in Skerries and to take the opportunity to recognise our Jim Quigley award winner Miriam Carroll. She was nominated for her work as a founding member of the Forget Me Not Cafe, a monthly social and support gathering for people living with Dementia and their loved ones, well done Miriam !
Monthly Archives: October 2025
Celebration of local heroine May McGee
In August 2025, more than fifty years after making constitutional history, Skerries woman May McGee and her late husband Seamus were celebrated and honoured in their own community.
Skerries Tidy Towns commissioned the installation in Floraville of a Mosaic to celebrate the groundbreaking Supreme Court victory in December 1973, of Skerries woman Mary (May) McGee, which effectively legalised the sale and importation of contraceptives. The mosaic is by renowned Irish international artist Helen McLean. Skerries Tidy Towns thanked the Department of Rural and Community Development, Skerries Community Association and the Chamber of Commerce for their financial support. Many joined the organisers, May herself and her family and friends at Floraville on Saturday, August 30 for the official unveiling of the Mosaic and to finally celebrate this local heroine.
We salute you, May, and thank you for your courage in challenging authority and helping to create a kinder Ireland!
Many thanks to Skerries Tidy Towns for commissioning the beautiful plaque and for organising this wonderful occasion.
