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Skerries Cycling Festival 2021: How it turned out

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Skerries Cycling Festival 2021: How it turned out

By Michael McKenna

Skerries Cycling Initiative’s first cycling festival took place on 22 August. It was a lot of fun and definitely something to build on it, going forward. We started off the day – a lovely one weatherwise – with a 5km and a 25 km cycles from Skerries Mills carpark. People of all ages and abilities, just as we hoped for, took part. This was to be a day for celebrating cycling as a healthy normal way of getting around, whether by you chose a simple one speed bicycle or something sleeker.  

Undoubtedly the most eye catching and eyewatering entrant was Robin of Donabate’s  Alpha-7 Velomobile, seen below as he chats with Brendan Grimes and Dermot Higgins.

 To quote Robin:

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Skerries Cycling Festival 2021: On Yer Bike!

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Let’s celebrate cycling!
Skerries Cycling Festival 22nd August

A festival to celebrate the Freedom Machine! 

Fingal County Council logo

The good news: There will be a one-day Skerries Cycling Festival, even though the four-weekend Skerries Summer Festival had to be cancelled for 2021.
Skerries Cycling Initiative (SCI), part of Skerries Community Association, with support from Fingal County Council and Skerries Mills, is holding its first ever cycling festival and invites you invites you to come along.

The Skerries Cycling Festival will be all about encouraging people to integrate more active travel into their daily lives so that they can enjoy the fun and other benefits of cycling. 

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Milverton Planning Application

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A planning application [ Ref. F20A/0218] has been lodged with Fingal County Council for Phase 1 of a  development on a site at Milverton (on right side of road after exiting Skerries under railway bridge).  Phase 1 relates to 7 hectares (17 acres approx.) of the overall 11 Hectare site.  [Phase 2, covering the remaining 4 Hectares (10 acres approx.) is to be the subject of a separate planning application.]

Deadline for submissions is 29th June.

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BusConnects Local Information Session, 3rd September

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BusConnects Local Information Session
Monday 3rd September, 3:00pm–7:00pm
Skerries Community Centre

Concerns have been expressed in this part of Fingal that the proposed new arrangements for bus services will bring no improvements and could mean a worsening in service levels.

Proposal for Skerries is to cancel both 33 and 33x, with only a 33a (renumbered 285) to Swords.

The Skerries Community Association would urge residents to attend the Information sessions and perhaps more importantly to make their views known to BusConnects by emailing consultations@busconnects.ie or completing their online survey.

You may want to also find time to attend the SCA AGM at 8:00pm in the Skerries Community Centre.

2018 Annual Report

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The “AGM Invitation 2018 & Skerries Community Association Report September 2017 to 2018” flier will soon be delivered to households in Skerries in advance of the 2018 AGM in the Little Theatre, Skerries Community Centre, at 8 PM on Monday, 3rd September 2018. If you won’t receive it because you have a ‘No Junk Mail’ sign (we could quibble over whether or not it’s junk mail, but our deliverers won’t) or if you just want to be early, you can view it here.

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Notice of the SCA AGM to members

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NOTICE is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of The Skerries Community Association CLG (SCA) will be held in the Little Theatre, Dublin Road, Skerries on Monday the 3rd of September 2018 at 8 pm to transact the Ordinary Business of the Company, that is to say: –

  1. To confirm the Minutes of the last Annual General Meeting
  2. To receive and adopt the Directors’ Report and Financial Statements for year ended 31 Dec. 2017
  3. To elect Directors to the Board
  4. To elect Members to Skerries Community Centre Board of Management
  5. To reappoint Dempsey Mullen as Auditors and to authorise the Directors to fix their remuneration
  6. To transact any other business proper to an Annual General Meeting of the Company.

Dated this the 13th of August 2018, by order of the Board, Michael McKenna, Secretary.

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Take part in Street Feast 2018 on 10th June 2018

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“Helping to make a great town even better” is the the byline of the Skerries Community Association, but you can help make your own street, club, or community group even better by organising or taking part in a Street Feast on Sunday, 10th June 2018.

Street Feast is a neighbourhood street party that will be hosted by neighbours all over Ireland at the same time, and it’s taking place across the country on Sunday 10th June 2018. Over 1,300 Street Feast events were held nationwide in 2017, with over 120,000 people taking part. (See here to sample the flavour of the day.)

This 10th of June at around 12 noon, communities across Ireland will sit down for a feast to celebrate community. They can be anywhere really – out on the street, in a local park or in your front garden.

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Age Friendly Community Transport Consultation

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Under the World Health Organisations (WHO) Age Friendly Cities & Counties Programme, Skerries received its Age Friendly Town status in 2014. As part of this process, older people were asked to have their say in matters of concern to them. In Skerries, one of the issues preventing people from staying involved and connected in their community was transport.

Skerries Age Friendly Town

As part of the Skerries Age Friendly Town Initiative, the Age Friendly Skerries committee, with the support of Flexibus/LocalLink, is proposing to look at ways to support older people to stay connected in their local community, in particular to look at the transport needs of older people and how we might address these needs locally.

To build this picture we need your help. We would like to invite you to take part in an Age Friendly Community Transport Consultation/Workshop to be held in Skerries Rugby Club on Wednesday, 25th April, from 10.00am until 2.00pm.

Please RSVP to agefriendlytransport@skerriesca.com or ring Clare on 086 876 7633 or Mary 086 3977118 before 19th April 2018 to secure a place as numbers are limited.

Welcome New Residents! – 28th April 2018

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Join us at Skerries Educate Together NS at 2–4 PM on Saturday, 28th April 2018.

The Skerries Community Association invites you to drop by to meet representatives of your local community organisations, learn more about clubs and groups in Skerries and to find out how to get involved in shaping our growing Skerries Community.

Children welcome!

Refreshments will be served.

Bring trowels and gloves for apple tree planting!

We hope to see you there!

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