Swords Local Volume 3 Issue 4

SWORDS Your Community News Volume 3 Issue4 - June 2018

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Cycle Against Suicide ends in Swords Castle

Councillor Darragh Butler, Dermot Higgins fresh from completing his cycle around the world, Mayor of Fingal Councillor Mary McCamley and Councillor Lorna Nolan

The 2018 Cycle Against Suicide commenced on Saturday, 28th April, and ended at Swords Castle 10 days later on bank holiday Monday 7th May. The cyclists travelled through 17 counties and 67 towns, stopping at 40 locations where mental health events took place in schools and communities. The participants cycled for 10 days, single days, half days or any combination the felt they could in this fully supported cycle where all participants cycled in a single impressive group.

This was the sixth annual running of this unique cycle. Many of the cyclists have returned year after year for an experience that has enhanced and even changed their lives.

And why? To let it be known that it’s OK not to feel OK, and it’s absolutely OK to ask for help; to rid our lives of the crippling silence, the prison of lonesomeness, the suffocating agony of the dark night; to cry out loud and clear that 800 deaths by suicide annually is 800 too many; to shine a light where darkness threatens; to let it be known that help is there; to simply talk; to work shoulder to shoulder to break the cycle of suicide on our incredibly beautiful island; to save, nurture and care for each of the bright and shining stars that we, each one of us, uniquely are.

The hundreds of cyclists stopped at many schools and communities at lunch time where they were fed. They then participated in an event which 4

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through words and actions shared the simple, succinct but powerful message of this cycle, “It’s OK not to feel OK; and it’s absolutely OK to ask for help”. In the evening when they stopped they were taken by total strangers into their homes, fed and given a bed for the night. Some talked and exchanged stories and even made new friends. In the morning the cyclists left on their bikes again like Longfellow’s “ships that pass in the night”.

This cavalcade of orange-clad cyclists meandered

through our countryside, a spectacle, a temporary inconvenience to other road users perhaps.

But It did not go unnoticed. The schools and communities visited, the homes in which they stayed, the motorists inconvenienced, the bemused bystanders passed, all heard the simple message and will now know that they were trying to break the cycle of suicide on this island, shoulder to shoulder.

Hundreds of cyclists arriving at Swords Castle

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Wonderful day at Leinster Pipe Band Championships 2018

Newcastle West PB

Peter & Rita Gaffney, from Lusk - there to support their granddaughter, Aine Gaffney, a Lusk local, who did the promotion for this event in Fingal County Council. This was her very first time playing in a competition.

By Maureen O’Toole Saturday 5th May 2018 was a glorious day and Swords Castle was a fabulous setting for the Leinster Pipe Band Championships. Swords Castle was an ideal location for the competition, based on its location in Fingal, with easy access from the motorway, established businesses outside the Castle walls for refreshments and retail units within walking distance. This was the first pipe band competition of the season, a season which runs from May to the middle of August, when the final competition is the World Pipe Band Championships, held every year in Glasgow.

This competition was also a first for the Leinster Branch of the Irish Pipe Band Association in conjunction with Fingal County Council.

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St Joseph’s band members

Competing were seven bands – Killeshin Pipe Band, from County Laois, Newcastle West & District, from County Limerick, Sergeant Walker Memorial Pipe Band, from Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Carlow Pipe Band, De La Salle Pipe Band, from County Waterford, New Ross and District Pipe Band, from County Wexford and St. Joseph’s Pipe Band, from Clondalkin, Dublin 22. Bands are graded based on criteria set by the Irish Pipe Band Association. There are six grades, grade 5 or 4B is the lowest, followed by 4A, 3B, 3A, 2 and 1, being the highest grade. The bands that competed in Swords are mainly grade 4B bands – the exception being St. Joseph’s Pipe Band, which is a grade 3A band.

Winners on the day – Grade 4B –1st place when to Carlow Pipe Band, 2nd place to Sergeant Walker Memorial Pipe Band and 3rd place went to Killeshin Pipe Band. As St. Joseph’s Pipe

Band was the only competitor in the Grade 3A competition, they took the prize.

Without Fingal County Council, this event could not have taken place and for that, we are very grateful. With help from Cllr Dave O’Connor, Paul Barnes, head of Events, the staff in the events section in Fingal County Council and the staff located in Swords Castle, with support from Paul Reid, Chief Executive of Fingal County Council, Mayor of Fingal County Council, Cllr Mary McCamley and Cllr Darragh Butler.

The bands were delighted with the Castle grounds and surrounds and the feedback was very positive. We plan to build on this year’s success and to grow this competition so that it becomes a ‘must attend’ competition for the bands in the coming years.

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New Ross and District PB

Sergeant Walker Memorial PB

Killeshan Pipe Band

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Carlow PB

De La Salle Scouts PB

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Feature

Linders 80 years of top quality service and value

Linders Motor Group (located locally at Turvey Avenue, Turvey Business Centre, Donabate) are celebrating 80 years of unbroken top quality service and value to the public this year. The company was started in Smithfield in 1938 by Patrick (Sonny) Linders, a young north Dublin man from Donabate/Portrane when he was just 19 years old.

This remarkable man started as an engineer who fixed cars and trucks at night at first and lectured in Bolton St at same time to make ends meet.

At that time the motor industry here was exclusively British and he had to hustle as a young Irishman, so he sold anything he could get his hands on.

Sonny soon became a popular well known and well respected businessman throughout Dublin and the company went from strength to strength. The family have traded on the reputation that he established ever since.

The Linders brand has made vast inroads into the motoring industry in Dublin especially in the last 50 years and in the 1960’s Linders became a Fiat main 8

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dealer. However the ethos of a family run business continued and in the 1970’s Sonny was joined by son Joe Linders a qualified accountant and together they took the business and developed it and grew it into other industries including construction & heating. In 1973 Linders became the first Toyota dealer in Ireland and stayed with them for 40 years until changing to Renault Dacia in 2013.

Sonny was joined by another son Patrick, a structural engineer in the late 80’s but sadly Sonny passed away in 2001 and is buried in Portrane cemetery.

However the family business continued to thrive and grandson Paul joined in 2003. In that year they moved from Smithfield to Chapelizod, and changed the name .In July 2013 the company opened Linders Renault & Dacia Finglas.

In October the same year they gave up the Toyota franchise and changed Chapelizod to Renault & Dacia. In July, 2016 they reconnected with Donabate North Dublin and opened Linders Renault & Dacia Swords Turvey just up the road from Sonny’s childhood home.

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Indeed there are many Lynders in Donabate Portrane to whom the family are related. Their name is spelled with an “I” due to a change in Ellis Island USA in 1917 on the arrival/emigration of Sonny’s father Joseph, The Lacer (due to his dapper dress sense) Lynders. Linders was deemed a more American spelling. He never recovered from the insult and moved home (with his wife and 5 year old son) in 1924.

Today the Linders Renault & Dacia group has grown into a €50m turnover business in 4 years selling over 3000 vehicles a year. That is a tribute to this hardworking family as a whole and especially to the memory of a 19 year old Sonny who dared to dream and created an unequalled family business model in the area.

Speaking of memories Paul Linders recalled his Grandad Sonny very fondly when we spoke to him.

He said, “Most of Dublin knew my Granddad as “Sonny Linders”. He was “Grandad” to me. My earliest memories of him are of walking with him down the market in Smithfield. It used to take ages because everyone knew him and he’d stop and talk with everyone we met. He loved the business and all the people in it. Until he died, he came to work everyday. Even today, one of my favourite things since joining the motor business is hearing stories about him and meeting Dubliners who bought their first car from him. I’m very proud of the fact that many of those families still come to us to buy and service their cars today.A portrait of my Grandad hangs in our offices keeping an eye on things even still. I know he’s proud of what we have become in Chapelizod, Finglas and Swords Turvey and the direction in which the business is going. He taught me to always try to improve, to look at things from the customers point of view and most importantly, never to take no for an answer, unless it came from him!”

Linders are proof that hard work and determination to succeed coupled with top quality and personal service are winning combinations and we wish them continued success in the future. Congratulations to Linders from all of us at ‘Local’ magazines and here’s to the next 80 years and beyond.

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Finance

Retirement - What you need to know no matter what age you are

By Dave Kavanagh Most people would agree that we tend to spend most money during leisure times, such as weekends and holidays. Retirement places people very much into mostly leisure times but with one major difference, if not properly planned for - a substantial drop in income. According to the central statistics office, the average wage in Ireland last year was €45,611 (€877 per week). The current state pension from age 66 (at present) is €243.30 per week. (For anyone born between 1/1/55 and 31/12/60 it will be from age 67 and for anyone born on or after 1/1/61 it will be from age 68). According to the Dept. of Social Protection, by 2050 it is predicted that there will be less than 2 people working for every 1 person in retirement, adding further strain on the state’s ability to pay pensions. When you combine this with the fact that life expectancy is increasing, it brings a greater sense of urgency for people to plan ahead in order to have an income in retirement that is sufficient.

The main point to be aware of, is that the earlier you start to plan, the easier it is to provide for the future.

If you think of it as approximately 40 years of working and 20 years of retirement, this means you have double the amount of time to save as you have to get paid in retirement.

That is, if you start at the beginning of your working life. Every year someone delays commencing a retirement plan or pension, means that they will have to pay more into it, to get the same equivalent income they require at retirement. The good news is, there are attractive benefits in the form of tax relief. You get tax relief at your marginal rate of tax on contributions to a pension, so for example, if you pay tax at 40% and you contribute €400 per month into a pension, the net cost to you is only €240 per month. That is the same as saving €240 per month and getting almost 67% growth straight away.

For self-employed people, it is often used as a way to reduce tax bills each year by doing a single contribution into their plan to get the tax relief.

The % of your net relevant earnings that you can contribute to a pension and get full tax relief, is based on your age. Up to age 30 you can pay 15%, 30-39 it’s 20%, 40-49 it’s 25%, 50-54 it’s 30%, 55-60 it’s 35% and over 60 it’s 40%.

If you are self employed or your employer does not provide a pension scheme for you (if there is no scheme in place, an employer must either provide you with a facility to contribute to a PRSA ((pension related savings account)) or allow you paid leave to arrange your own) then you can commence your own personal pension or PRSA. The amount you contribute will usually be decided by a combination of aiming for the income you would

like in retirement and your present affordability. This can change over time, for example someone currently saving for a deposit to buy a home may not have anything spare to put into a pension, but main fact remains, the earlier you start, the more you will have at retirement.

Dave Kavanagh QFA has been advising people financially for

over 25 years. 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. He has spoken at all of The Full 360 events with Alison Canavan around the country. As heard on RTE 2FM and TV3.

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St Catherines Choral Festival-great success!

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St Maurs Senior Choir

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On the 16th and 17th of May, St. Catherine’s National School in Rush hosted their annual Choral Festival. Choirs and music groups came from the surrounding communities as well as from Castleknock and Ardclough, Co. Kildare. Choral groups from St. Maurs Parish, St Catherine’s Junior and Senior Choirs and St Catherine’s Ukulele Orchestra performed. Choirs from St. Brandan’s in Loughshinny, Lusk National School and Rush National School were also represented.

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Alan Leech, National Chamber Choir of Ireland was a special guest, and hosted work-shops with the choirs on both evenings. The Choirs then sang together at the end of each evening and showcased the songs they had learned and practised with Alan.

We were delighted with the support received and were able to donate over €700 to Trocaire through Dermot Higgins. All who attended, agreed it was a great success!

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The Bleeding Pig Cultural Festival committee

have been working hard getting this year’s festival programme together for September.As usual,

there is a wide and varied programme of events with something to suit everybody.

This year’s festival begins on Friday 7 th

September with a series of workshops for adults

Silk Screen Printing with Yelena Kosikh, Felting with Helene Dooley and Quilting with Jackie Preston. The festival continues with Painting

and Photographic exhibition, 3 day Short Film

Sarah Oliver.

Einsteins Science workshop. , Trad and Chips and

Club promises to be a true cultural experience

The Gala Concert features The Dublin String

uilleann piper Eamonn Galldubh, The Celtic

Festival, workshops for children including Young The Open Mic and lots more.

Quartet, harpists and singers The O’Donnell

Sister, members of the Blanchardstown Brass

Band, The Skerries Sea Sharps , baritone David Scott, tenor Catalin Lazurca and singer/pianist

The “Connections” concert in Balcarrick Golf

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Drummers, The Sean Og Ceili Band and many others.Visit the website www.bleedingpig.ie

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WeBringg success at National Enterprise Awards

‘WeBringg’ from Fingal have been announced as the Dublin Regional Award Winners at the 2018 National Enterprise Awards, organised by the Local Enterprise Offices, at the Mansion House, Dublin yesterday evening (24 May).

Backed by Local Enterprise Office Fingal, Alan Hickey and Sean Murray set up the company in (2016) to deliver online sales orders innovatively,

turning the traditional 2-3 day delivery wait time into 90 minutes.

The announcement was made recently in the Mansion House by the Minister for Trade, Employment, Business, EU Digital Single Market and Data Protection, Pat Breen T.D. The Minister also presented awards to ‘Terra Liquid Minerals’ for the overall title (supported by LEO

Kildare).

Congratulating the local winners, Oisin Geoghegan, Head of Enterprise, Local Enterprise Office Fingal and Chair of the Local Enterprise Office Network said: “WeBringg are very deserving winners of this award, because of the impact that they have already made on their sector.

Minister Breen said: “The National Enterprise Awards are a fitting way to recognise the contribution of Ireland’s most innovative, strategic and adaptive businesses, and to put their success stories into the national spotlight as an example to others. I would like to congratulate all the micro-enterprises and small businesses that are being celebrated here tonight. This year’s winners, like all those in previous years, represent the backbone of Ireland’s enterprise success and contribute hugely to the economic vibrancy of their respective regions. All this year’s finalists and winners have been supported by my Department through the Local Enterprise Office network. I would like to pay tribute to the hard work and vision of the network, and would encourage those with business ideas to get in touch with their local office for expert guidance and advice.”

Dig on Drumanagh Promontory National Monument 2018 Drumanagh is a nationally important archaeological site and is of international significance in terms of Ireland’s relationship with the Roman world. The site is also a National Monument subject to statutory protection under the National Monuments Act, 1930 (as amended). Fingal’s Community Archaeologist Christine Baker is undertaking a community excavation at Drumanagh Martello Tower with a team of professional archaeologists and volunteers from the local community and beyond.

Since the site was acquired, the Council has undertaken works at the site to secure it and to provide for continued public access. The Drumanagh Conservation Study and Management Plan was recently adopted by Fingal County Council after widespread public consultation. ‘It is fanatastic to be undertaking the first scientific excavation at the site’.

‘We hope to tell the story around the Martello Tower and the effect of its construction in the early 19th century. We will be investigating the original road to the tower. What we uncover will inform the future management of the site. It is also hugely exciting for the local community who have such a love for the site’ said Christine.

Ian Doyle, Head of Conservation of the Heritage Council said ‘We are happy to support the Digging Drumanagh Project through our grant system and as Chair of the Drumanagh Archaeological Advisory Group it is heartening to see the objectives of the Drumanagh Plan being actioned’.

Digging Drumanagh has also been accepted at a European Year of Cultural Heritage event.. Follow us on https://www. facebook.com/fingalculturalheritage/notifications/

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Swords Tidy Towns Launches Tidiest Estate Competition

‘HAVE YOUR SAY’ IN NEW ARTS PLAN

Swords Tidy Town Committee has announced, in conjunction with Greyhound Household, Sword’s inaugural Tidy Estates Competition. Every estate in the town will be eligible to enter.

The competition will begin on June the 1st, 2018. The winner will be selected in early August.

Estates will be judged on the upkeep of communal areas (50%) and houses/gardens (50%). The winner will receive €500 cash for spending on common areas, a free skip and a winners plaque for the entrance to the estate.

Swords has been doing very well in the National Tidy Towns competition in recent years , culminating in a silver medal last year.

Chairman of STT, Ken Duffy, said: “ We are excited to launch our new estates’ competition.

After our best year ever , we believe this new initiative will allow us to scale even greater heights.

We hope people in as many estates as possible continue to show their civic pride and enter the competition.”

Greyhound’s Group Managing Director, John Brosnan, said : We are delighted to sponsor this competition. Despite the fact that Swords is one of the country’s fastest growing towns, the local Tidy Towns has made great strides in recent years. We believe the competition will help STT garner even more points in the national awards this year.” For further information or to enter your estate in the competition please contact Grace Dunne at dunnebg@eircom.net . Or telephone 087 627 2332.

CONSULTATION Fingal County Council has opened up a process of consultation for the new County Arts Plan, which will set out the ambition and goals of the Arts Office for the next eight years (2018 – 2025).

“We want to invite artists and all those living, working, studying or simply interested in the arts in Fingal to inform the development of this strategy. We want them to share their vision for arts in the county and consider the priorities for the Arts Office over the period of this new plan,” said County Arts Office Rory O’Byrne.The public can have their say and input into the new arts plan ia an online survey at https://consult.fingal.ie/en/ surveys.

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Home Cook Recipes

Brain Boost with Banana Bake “The sun is shining and BBQ smells are filling the air, that must mean one thing: it’s exam season!

Fueling the brain with the right food and drinks can help to improve concentration, maintain alertness and sustain energy levels through the long hours of studying and sitting exams. Poor food choices can lead to sluggish, jittery or tired feelings and make it more difficult to focus. Starting the day with a wholegrain breakfast, having regular meals and smart snacks such as fruit or vegetables and keeping hydrated with water throughout the day are just a few ways of keeping the body and brain energised. The recipe below is a nutritious but tasty and filling snack to satisfy sweet cravings while keeping away from the processed or sugary stuff.

Brain Boost with Banana Bake Makes 9 squares

Ingredients

• 2 large ripe bananas • 2 eggs • 300g ground almonds • 40g walnuts blitzed in a blender • 130g greek style/strained vanilla yogurt • 100g agave nectar/honey • 50g coconut oil • 50g dark chocolate, chopped into small pieces • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract • 1 teaspoon cinnamon

Method 1. Preheat oven to 180’c. Line an 8 inch baking pan with grease-proof (parchment) paper.

2. Mash the bananas in a bowl. Crack in the eggs and mix.

3. Next add the yogurt, vanilla extract and agave/honey and mix.

4. Finally melt the coconut oil and add to

this wet mix.

5. In a separate bowl, mix the remaining dry ingredients together which includes: ground almonds, walnuts, cinnamon and dark chocolate pieces.

6. Add the dry mix to the wet mix and stir well to mix the ingredients thoroughly.

7. Pour the mixture into the pre-lined baking pan.

8. Bake in the oven at 180’c for 40minutes.

Tip: Blitzing the ground almonds even more in a blender will make it more moist.

Or instead of ground almonds, you could also use 200g oats blitzed up in a blender to make an oat like flour.

Workplace, sports or school Nutrition talks/ workshops, please email: niamh@biabites.

net. See my ‘Fun food’ and ‘Recipes’ albums on ‘Biabites’ Facebook for other food ideas.

Niamh Arthurs, Public Health and Clinical Nutritionist”

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LEO FINGAL CLIENTS TO SUPPORT SALES OF €50M

Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Michael Creed TD and Minister for Trade, Business & Employment, EU Digital Single Market & Data Protection Pat Breen TD marked the fifth year of the Food Academy programme this week, which is expected to generate €50 million in sales annually for emerging Irish food producers within the next five years.

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Food Academy is a joint initiative between the network of Local Enterprise Offices within the local authorities, Bord Bia and SuperValu and was established to support early-stage Irish food businesses. Participating companies gain access to expertise in branding, market research, business development and distribution, to allow them to scale up and secure listings with SuperValu.

Local Enterprise Office Fingal have been involved with Food Academy since it’s inception and have seen 16 of their clients now part of the Food Academy programme and supplying SuperValu stores across the county. The 16 LEO Fingal companies to have participated ont the programme are Bake Appétit, Celtic Diamond, Chase Foods, Everest Granola Products, Forage & Cure, Fresh from the Pier, Hope Beer, Howth Cuisine, Kennedy’s Oven Ready,Morning Dew, My Apricot Kitchen, Priya Cuisin, The Be Sweet Company,The Lo-cal Kitchen,Ala&Zu and Sarah’s Rawbites.

Oisin Geoghegan, Head of Enterprise, Local Enterprise Office Fingal and Chair of the Local Enterprise Office Network, said; “The Food Academy Programme has been extremely popular for us in the last 5 years. The programme created an opportunity for local food entrepreneurs in Fingal to avail of specialised mentoring and guidance that previously hadn’t existed in the food business. It meant those who had a great food or beverage idea now could see a clear path from idea to shelf. Some of our clients including Hope Beer, Fresh from the Pier and Sarah’s Rawbites have all taken part in Food Academy and we are still working with them now on different areas of their business as they continue to grow.”

The next Food Academy programme with Local Enterprise Office Fingal begins on the 31st August 2018.

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Fashion

Super day of fashion at Ardgillan Castle

By Fashion Editor - Carina Cunningham We had a super day Saturday the 12th Of May in Ardgillan Castle. Manager Tom Reilly and the lovely staff were mesmerized by the Vintage Masquerade fashion Photo shoot. We had 25 Girl Models 8 guy models and 2 fire-dancers All helping raise funds for my stage production of Style Warriors Fashion and Entertainment Show onn Sat 6th Oct in Wrights Venue Swords.

This year the charity we are all supporting is NECRET. This is headed by Professor Bryan Hennessy who has teams in Beaumont Hospital and Our Lady Of Lourdes in Drogheda. They are making new drug trials and their research is crucial in making progress with this horrible illness of the 21st century.

We had an amazing day all the designs and outfits were designed by myself Carina Cunningham plus Kat Condon showed one of her beautiful creations. I created head pieces and had Victorian wigs made by the very talented Veronica Byrne from Monaghan assisted by Caroline Quigley , Virginija Vitkauskiene and Kiaran Kiril Olegovich. The make up team were led by special effects artist The Lovely Bianca ,Gillian Stapleton ,Momi Kay,Daisy Contoy,Alexandra Ni Mhartain and Irena Kerutkiene. The chief photographer was David Stanway assisted by Ben Sollis.

We really had an amazing time and raised €1000 for stage production costs. 13 photographers attended and they achieved such amazing images. We even had a tour of intrigued German Ladies getting into shots with our 18

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stunning models. The gents suits were supplied

by AB formal wear Swords and Dorian Black suit hire Balbriggan. The Castle will never be the same again so many talented and creative people all there to give their time helping NECRET. Please keep the fashion show date free as this is one show you don’t want to miss. There’s lots of music and entertainment planned for the night. We have The Fire Angels coming from Belfast and The Olivia Whelan school of Ballet performing on stage during the show.

This show is growing moment-on every year and is huge on Facebook. We do castings for models every year if your interested please e-mail me carinacunningham@gmail.com. Plus this show is for the guys tickets are 25e each or 5 for 100e see the Style Warrior Fashion And Entertainment Show FB Page for more information. I would just like to end this by saying a huge big thank you to all involved in our Ardgillan Photo shoot day. Super Models, hairstylists , make up artists, helpers and photographers and manager Tom Reilly and his super staff. Thank you one and All. And remember don’t miss this show it will be a good couples and girls night out. Many thanks Carina Cunningham.

Credits for photo shoot: Photographer Juliana Watson, julianaimages.ie 08570 49179…Models : Rioghnach McGuinness, Aisling Kilcawley and Sabrina Maria…Make up: Momi Kay, Daisy Conroy and Irena Kerutkiene..Hair : Virginja Vitauskiene..Designer: Carina Cunningham, Cherie Styling Studio.

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Fashion

Emily truly an inspiration in fashion design

By Fashion Editor - Carina Cunningham

This month, I would like to introduce you to Emily Nayhree Art. Emily Art Wear is the design brand of an artist and fashion designer named Emily Nayhree. Her interest started first with fine art and ceramics in GNIT Galway. She is a self taught artist but has also studied advertising, graphics, and web design. She is very passionate about local history and mythology and spent many years travelling around Ireland painting castles. Her art has been featured in some of Dublin’s best contemporary galleries. Her famous clients to date are Christie Moore, and Christie Burke (former Dublin Lord Mayor).

Emily attributes her love of art to growing up in a caravan in the Dublin mountains. In fact during the recession, Emily found herself without a place to live and had to move from derelict buildings in Dublin from time to time. This led her to her Contact us: communitylocals@gmail.com

passion for the Dublin underground art culture, mixed with music. She hopes to inspire others to aim high and never give up on your dreams.

Art, fashion, and music are also related and each passion makes your life rich at a very low cost.

Last year Emily Art Wear showed at Capital Times Square in New York’s fashion week. She is now selling to an American designer who sources clothing for the stars. I am so thrilled to say that she has agreed to feature in my upcoming Style Warrior Fashion and Entertainment Show.

Our photo shoot shows how amazingly she has changed the most basic clothing into something a lot more unique and special and I must say how rewarding this must be to wear a one of a kind design. She mix matches fake fur with art very cleverly and she also designs for the guys.

She can be found on Facebook if any reader is

interested, or simply come along to Style Warrior Fashion and Entertainment Show and be amazed by her fashion and all the other young extremely talented designers all on our footstep.

I think she is a leading example of a young girl driven to succeed as many of your young daughters and sons can be a little lost in the direction they would like to grow. Her passion for art and fashion is like a happy marriage of fabrics and paintings.

Hope you like her style and hopefully you are as impressed with her as I am.

That’s it for this month. Next month I am looking at children and fashion, that’s where it all starts. Bye for now,Carina, Credits: Photography by Lana Sea..Make up artists: Alexandra Ní Mhártain and Daria Janowska, Hair: Virginia Vitauskiene.

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Local Sports

St Colmcilles Gaelic Football Club St Colmcilles GFC provide Gaelic Football to men from ages 17 for our Junior team. New players always welcome contact Mark for further information (086 408 6120) We also have Gaelic for Mothers and Others, this is a great way to get fit while learning the skill of Gaelic Football. Our Nursery Academy runs each Saturday morning from 10-10.45 (3-5 year olds) and 11am-12noon (5 plus years) We have a number of rooms for private rent. Contact Marian for further information (087 681 9540). Follow us on facebook Naomh colmcille clg.

Upcoming Club events Friday June 29th-Summer Draw with DJ and Bar-B- Q from 8pm Saturday July 21st- ‘Liam Maxwell ‘ Annual Golf TournamentVenue-Roganstown/Swords Open. Followed by Bar-B- Q and DJ. Saturday August 25th-Family Fun Day from 2pm -5pm followed

by Table Quiz at 8pm in Aid of St Francis Hospice.

Saturday 10th November-Annual Awards Night- venue TBC Don’t forget, every Sunday at 7pm live in the bar our new game ‘Chase the Joker.’

Every Monday our weekly Lotto is held in the clubhouse bar.

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Local Sports

ST FINANS GFC gets new kit sponsor

St Finians GAA Club extends a huge thanks to Airside Shopping Centre who sponsored a new set of jerseys for the Under 9s, 10s & 11s girls teams.

Pictured below are Gary Redmond & Maria Comiskey from Airside

Shopping Centre with some players and coaches from the teams.

St Finians GAA Club asks it members, parents & supporters to support its sponsors.

Fingallians club notes Kelloggs Cul Camp: 9th July - 13th July, 10am-2pm. €50 members/€70 non members Dual Summer Camp: 23rd July - 27th July, 10am-2pm. €50 members/€70 non members Hurling School of Excellence: 31st July -3rd August, 10am2pm. €50 members/€70 non members Football School of Excellence: 7th August-

10th August, 10am-2pm. €50 members/€70 non members

Dual Summer Camp: 13th August- 17th August, 10am2pm. €50 members/€70 non members Athletic Section Update:

Thank you to Liam Markey for looking after the juvenile section, for all 4 rounds of the Dublin leagues. Well done to Sarah Murray in helping Ireland in the 4 x 100 relay, to 2nd place behind the UK at the International in Loughborough recently.

Faelscoil Bhrian Bóroimhe: Congratulations to

the Senior girls, on winning the Fingal Division 1 final v Scoil Neasain, recently.

Race Day: Bellewstown on 7th. July - funds raised will go towards various projects including upgrading dressing rooms. Book your ticket/table by contacting Teresa Collins at fingallians@gmail.com To date our race days have raised €31,200 towards the club.

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Crossword & Sudoku

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This is easy… we are offering you the chance to win €50. All you have to do is correctly fill in the crossword and discover the name of an area in Fingal spelt out in the coloured squares. Then send the completed crossword and your answer by email, with your name, address and telephone number to communitylocals@gmail.com before 5pm on June 18. The first correct entry to be drawn will win €50..Good luck Across

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1. Paintings on walls. (6) 5. Division of a diocese. (6) 10. The real material. (7) 11. Likely to perform unpredictably.

(7) 12. Skewer for meat and a disgusting habit. (4) 13. The first fruit. (5) 15. Case from which playing cards are dealt one at a time. (4) 17. A long period of time. (3) 19. Old man is a nut! (6) 21. Put to death. (6) 22. Protective glasses set in a flexible frame. (7) 23. Porter gives a short account of the news. (6) 25. Could be belly, pages or fever. (6) 28. Lightly strike the faucet. (3) 30. A fit of often silent anger or bad temper. (4) 31. Melon is another fruit. (5) 32. A confused murmur or flurry of activity. (4) 35. Make troops hard or harder. (7) 36. Tears up the inventor of partial sterilisation of a substance. (7) 37. Valuable stones. (6) 38. An assistant with power to act when a superior is absent. (6)

2. Radioactive element. (7)

3. A dull and persistent pain. (4) 4. Gather money together with difficulty. (6)

5. Spanish dish. (6)

6. Of meat only cooked a short time.

(4)

7. Bag for school books. (7)

8. Sarah Palin was Governor here. (6) 9. A smooth final surface of a

substance, such as concrete, applied to a floor. (6)

14. You run it on a computer. (7)

16. Severely inflamed and painful. (5) 18. Sires for salary increases. (5) 20. A small spot, a speck. (3) 21. Opener. (3)

23. Far away, secluded. (6)

24. Fresh fruit and vegetables grown for the market. (7)

26. Tousled is the noisiest. (7)

27. A male magician or sorcerer. (6) 28. A game involving love. (6) 29. Slangily exhausted. (6)

33. Fit a horse with an outer foot covering. (4)

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