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The past two months of summer haven’t given us too much to write home about weather-wise, however there has still been lots going on in Fingal thanks to the wonderful local organisations who continue in their tireless work to make our communities such vibrant areas to live in!

The month of August will see lots of events taking place in the county and hopefully the weather will play ball! Nevertheless, pack a bag with all the essential gear to combat whatever the weather throws at us and get out to enjoy your local area. Whether its attending events or visiting the many wonderful sights in Fingal, there is plenty to do before the end of summer.

We in Fingal are so lucky to have so much to do on our doorstep; throughout the towns and villages in the county local people are spoiled for choice when it comes to spending their free time in their respective areas. We don’t have very far to travel to find something to make great memories from. We have some of the most beautiful beaches in the country; the sheer number of public parks, castle grounds and gardens accessible all year round is unrivalled; the community centres, state of the art libraries, music venues, cafés, restaurants, bars, the list goes on and on. There is so much to do in such a short distance.

So, no matter what you are planning for the last few weeks of the summer, be sure to reserve some time to take in all the wonderful amenities on your doorstep, we don’t have to hop on a plane every time we want experience something new. Don’t let the weather prevent you from enjoying our wonderful county!

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Jam-Packed summer for Foroige members

Foroige Coastal North Dublin’s Summer so far has included Healthy Habits week - Young people learned healthy ways to manage stress, anxiety/ issues in their daily lives in a healthy way. activities included smoothie making, yoga and meditation. Some young people visited the salt caves.

Life skills week - Swimming lessons for 5 young people. This week gave young people an opportunity to do some cooking/baking and creative skills including tie dye arts and crafts.

Fishing week - Young people had the opportunity to learn a new skill they wouldn’t have the opportunity to experience otherwise. We brought a number of young people each day fishing and they absolutely adored the experience.

Sports week - (multi sports day) Using local clubs from across the dublin

area young people were able to engage in a number of different sports and activities. This allowed for them to meet new people and build relationships. The young people also took part in cricket throughout the week, a sport many of them hadn’t tried before, once again exposing them to activities they had not experienced before.

Water safety week - (open water) Young people learned necessary lifesaving skills. They took part in this activity for 5 days on skerries beach where they had the opportunity to get into the water and not only have fun but learn lifesaving skills.

We are halfway through our summer programmes engaging over 100 young people in positive activities across Skerries, Rush and Lusk.

Lusk Pride of Place Committee are Commended

And what a year it has been!

We moved into our brand new building in february and it has been a wonderful first few months

We have come a long way since the school started back in 2003, using local scout dens and golf clubs to have our classes. We moved to Raheny Lane in 2007 and had many great times in this building. We look forward to the future of RaLET now in our state of the art new school. We have two autism classes, a hall for P.E. and events, more yard space, a brand new library, three floors with amazing views and bigger classrooms.

We are currently enrolling for September. Check out our website for more information www.ralet.ie or call the office on 01-8430525.

Earlier this summer Lusk was chosen as the town to represent Fingal in the Pride of Place Awards. The Pride of Place is an all-island competition that recognises improvements made by local communities to create civic pride in their area. The competition focus is about people coming together to shape, change and enjoy all that is good about their town.

Lusk will be competing against 25 other towns from other Local Authority Areas in the category of towns between 5,000 – 10,000 people in their population with the judging taking place on the 3rd of September this year. The committee set up comprises many of the community groups in the town including the Community Council, LAG, Men & Womens Shed and Tidy Towns/Cleanup Group.

Councillor Rob O’Donoghue commented on the ongoing work that, ‘I have attended the committee and it is working diligently to put Lusk’s best foot forward for when the judges arrive in September. The community groups have coalesced successfully and are planning a number of initiatives to put Lusk in the best light possible. Everyone involved are volunteers and they deserve a great deal of thanks for giving their time and energy to what I hope will be a winning entry.’

In other Council news, the period for observations on the application for the Lusk Sports Hub, to An Bord Pleanala ended in early July. The application will now be evaluated by the Bord in the coming months. O’Donoghue stated, ‘I made a submission myself endorsing the application and it my fervent hope that the application is swiftly granted by the Bord so we can start looking at the tendering and building phases of this game changing facility for Lusk.’

Lusk ICA ladies enjoying their summer activities

June and July were very busy month for the ladies in Lusk ICA.

Summer Festival

For the Lusk summer festival held and in Orlynn Park in June we set up stall showing off samples of arts and crafts. Rob O Donoghue Labour councillor for Fingal visited Caroline O’Malley and Maureen Aupy at the stand. Pitch&Putt

Congratulations to Mary Shorthall and Teresa Kilmurray from Lusk ICA are through to the ICA All Ireland P&P in Seapoint 14th

September, good luck in the final ladies. Farewell party

A Big Thanks to the fabulous refreshments at Fr George’s farewell celebration on 2nd July. It was a really lovely Parish occasion and great for ICA to be involved.

Flavours of Fingal

With stiff competition Lusk ICA were awarded lots of prizes, at the horticultural tent in the Flavours of Fingal. Teresa Kilmurray got first prize for her soda bread and scones also an award for her embroidery. Teresa Killoran and Alma

Farrell for their paintings, Mary Hagan for her apple tart and Caroline O Malley for her picture frame.

Annual ICA Party

The ladies enjoyed a wonderful day out at ICA Annual Summer Garden Party on 6th July in An Grianan in Termonfeckin, Co. Louth.

Congratulations to Teresa Kilmurray who was our proud winner of the best dressed lady! We also wish to remember the family of Josie Doyle who was an active member of Lusk ICA, may she rest in peace.

Planning Cover For Different Life Stages

By Dave Kavanagh

There are very different cover requirements in terms of what stage of life you are at. This is primarily based on the financial loss that may occur in certain eventualities. For those in their 20’s or 30’s, they may have recently purchased their first home, maybe started a family, and are settling into a career. This is the stage with potentially, the biggest financial loss, as their mortgage may still be quite substantial, children are young (so will remain dependant for longer) and savings may not be built up yet (or were used to buy their home.) Planning is so important at this stage, to make sure their is sufficient life cover, serious illness cover and income protection. The good news is that the younger you are and the earlier you plan, the cheaper these types of protection are. The next stage, possible 40’s or 50’s, as children are older or grown up, mortgage balance is lower, and some savings have been built up. At this stage, it is a good time to “future proof” cover, while it is still relatively affordable and also, possible to be accepted for cover. It may be that health issues have occurred, needing you to avail of conversion options that are already in place with existing cover (if you don’t know if your cover has such an option, now is the time to check!) The financial loss may not be as potentially high as the earlier stage so lower

amounts of cover are more appropriate. At the stage when people are coming close to, or have reached retirement, it will very much depend on their own, specific circumstances, as some may be mortgage-free and have good pension and savings in place. Others may still have a mortgage to clear and may not have made the same provisions for pension and savings. Either way, the specific, potential financial loss needs to be examined to make sure sufficient planning is in place. This could range from simply making sure things like funeral costs would be covered, up to planning that inheritance tax is cleared from any estate you may leave behind, by commencing a section 72 plan. Whichever stage you’re at, make the time to plan.

Dave Kavanagh QFA has been advising people financially for over 25 years. For quotes or information (with no cost or obligation) he can be contacted by emailing info@ financialcompanion.ie or use the contact form on www.financialcompanion.ie or @Davekav_advice on Twitter and Instagram. Combined with his previous role of gym/nutrition adviser, he regularly gives talks and workshops at seminars and events for groups, companies and government departments on financial wellbeing, positivity and motivation. As heard on RTE 2FM , LMFM and TV3.

What a Day at Lusk Summer Fest!

Lusk Summer Festival in June was a fantastic day for the whole community and Lusk Action Group would like to thank Fingal County Council, Progressive Credit Union, our amazing organising committee and all the people who helped to make it happen, once again.

Lusk was nominated by Fingal County Council for the Pride of Place awards, which will take place in the 3rd September, and we hope everyone

will do their bit in helping to have Lusk looking its best. You can join the Tidy Towns and Lusk Community Cleaning Group in their efforts, or just clean up outside your own patch. Every little effort helps. It is quite an honour to be nominated and we will be using the day to showcase the best of Lusk and its wonderful community.

Enjoy the rest of the Summer! All in Lusk Action Group

Enjoying the last of summer while getting ready for Back to school

It’s that crazy time of year when we’re trying our best to entertain the kids through summer break while getting prepared for back to school!

Some wonderful events are happening at Theatre Of Light in Dublin, including the Lego Bricktionary and Dream Today Tomorrow exhibitions. Perfect for getting the kids imaginations going!

Funtasia Theme Park in Drogheda has lots to do, from bowling to skyclimb to water activities perfect for all ages and especially good when the weather is not great as its all indoors.

As Mammies scramble to sort uniforms, bags, shoes and all the other Back to school essentials, one of our top tips is to LABEL EVERYTHING!! If you’ve ever seen the lost and found box in a school, you’ll know how important it is to label everything your child brings to school. My daughter once lost her shoes, yes shoes! so now we label absolutely everything. MyNametags is our go to for labels and stickers. You can personalise MyNametags them with your child’s name and your contact number so if something goes missing, you’re more likely to get it back once it’s labelled! We have some sets of labels/stickers

to give away, head over to mams.ie or our FB page to enter!

With uniforms being so expensive, look out for offers. Tesco sometimes run 25% off uniforms for Clubcard users. ALDI has a full uniform for under €5. Penney’s are excellent value for coats, bags and shoes. Dunnes have great quality jumpers and cardigans that you can add the school crest to yourself –which is a great way to save money. For teens who don’t converse in the mornings, earbuds are essential, and Gadget Geek in Ilac Shopping Centre has an excellent range at competitive prices. Hoco in Ilac SC has really good value iPad covers, to help keep your child’s school technology safe if (and inevitably when) it is accidentally dropped! Regatta has superb raincoats with reflective strips to keep kids visible on dark mornings and gloomy evenings as autumn approaches.

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Great Community Response to Lusk CFR Events

Lusk Community First Responders have been extremely busy since we went live on 12 June last. In the first 24 hours, we responded to 4 calls in the community. Our members have been delighted to be able to put their last few months of training to use and provided assistance to patients while they are waiting for an ambulance to arrive. Remember – you don’t need to call us, we will be immediately dispatched by the National Ambulance Service when a call is made for certain types of incidents.

We were also thrilled to attend the Lusk Summer Festival. We were overwhelmed by the level of support, enthusiasm and encouragement received from the public. We spent the day chatting to people about what we do, hearing stories of people’s experiences with other first responder schemes, and demonstrating how to provide CPR, with queues of people young and old waiting to have their go. It was brilliant to see so many people of all

ages giving it a go, and while we hope that no one will ever need to use that skill, if it is ever needed someday, they might remember what they learned on a sunny windy summers day in Lusk! Many thanks to the Summer Committee Festival for making space for us at such a wonderful event.

Lusk CFR is actively seeking more volunteers, and no prior medical experience or training is necessary as continuous training will be offered to all recruits.

If you still want to help but are not in a position to volunteer, you can donate securely towards our running costs by visiting our website www. luskcfr.ie or contact us directly at info@luskcfr.ie. You can also donate via our QR code. All our members are volunteers and the costs go directly towards purchasing and maintaining equipment.

St Catherines mark Africa Day with wonderful performance

As part of the Afro-Irish Festival and Africa Day celebrations, children from 6th class and 2nd class from St. Catherine’s NS performed in The Lark, Balbriggan. They performed some African drumming, African chanting and danced to Waka Waka This is Africa. The school band also performed Massive Attacks’s Teardrop!

On Friday 24th of May, St. Catherine’s NS

hosted an extremely successful Multi-Cultural Day, organised by the school’s PA! This is only a sneak preview of some of the Country’s tables, the foods and the activities of the day!

A 3rd annual football friendly took place between St Caherines and St Brendan’s Loughshinny. The games were very competitive

and played in the right spirit with St Brendan’s just about having the edge

Absolutely superb performance by the St Catherines boys and girls

.A lot of friendships exist between children on opposing teams made for a great banter filled occasion. Roll on next year!

Africa Day at St Catherines NS

Lusk AC members enjoy success at home and abroad

There has been plenty of action during the summer months with our club athletes taking part in numerous road races as well as track and field competitions. A few club members have also taken the opportunity to visit parkruns in other countries while away on holidays.

Training plans are available for all distances and many have commenced the long road towards the Dublin City Marathon in October. Our next race is the 7k Man O War round on Thursday 15th August at 7pm. Official return to training is on Tuesday 3rd September and new members are most welcome.

News & Events

Stephen, Conor, Ellie & Colm were all medalists at the National Championships in Santry.

A few of our coaches enjoying well deserved ice creams

Some of the Lusk athletes at the Docklands 5k

A successful Friday night at the St Cocas 5k in Kilcock

Fiona & Gary Reinhardt at the Little Sugar Creek Greenway parkrun in Charlotte, USA

Robyn & Emma have been regulars at this year’s Dublin Graded meetings

Junsa Taekwondo Club News

Cool Summer but the training is heating up!

While the young students of JUNSA Taekwondo are on their summer break, our more advanced students are still upping their game for an upcoming tournament in Ireland.

The Korean ambassadors cup will take place in Dublin after the summer.

Junsa Taekwondo will be recruiting for the start of September classes.

What an honor to meet our friend Nikos in Dublin in 2019. Nikos ( centre) an Olympic coach from Greece.

Our intermediate class pre summer break

Advanced class summer training - Conor in action against our guest fighter Eoghan from Panthers Taekwondo

Eoghan from Panthers taekwondo in Ashbourne, extra training with Junsa

Brothers in Arms . Darragh and Connor.

Robbie (L) sparring training with Connor

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