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Skerries Cycling Festival 2021: How it turned out
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:
Continue readingSkerries Cycling Festival 2021: On Yer Bike!
Let’s celebrate cycling!
Skerries Cycling Festival 22nd August
A festival to celebrate the Freedom Machine!
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.
Continue readingSkerries Cycling Initiative (SCI) Newsletter August 2021
SCA Summer in Skerries Submission May 2021
Summer in Skerries Project – Submission from Skerries Community Association
Introduction
Skerries Community Association (skerriesca.com) welcomes the initiative from Fingal Count Council to restore part of the Harbour Road area to “promenade” status.
Continue readingSCI Submission Fingal Coastal Way May 2021
Introduction
Skerries Cycling Initiative is a committee of the Skerries Community Association and a member of Cyclist.ie, the national cycling advocacy network. We welcome the Greenway development as a means of improving active travel in the area and encouraging modal shift.
Continue readingMilverton Planning Application
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.
Continue readingBusConnects Local Information Session, 3rd September
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
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.
Notice of the SCA AGM to members
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: –
- To confirm the Minutes of the last Annual General Meeting
- To receive and adopt the Directors’ Report and Financial Statements for year ended 31 Dec. 2017
- To elect Directors to the Board
- To elect Members to Skerries Community Centre Board of Management
- To reappoint Dempsey Mullen as Auditors and to authorise the Directors to fix their remuneration
- 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.