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Balbriggan Meals on Wheels Minibus fundraising draw Balbriggan Meals on Wheels was founded in 1975 in order to provide meals for people who were ill, recovering from illness, or for some reason were unable to care for themselves. Balbriggan Meals on Wheels currently provides in the region of 70 - 80 meals per day, with meals delivered to the most vulnerable people in our community; people who are referred to us by Public Health Nurses and Social Workers. It is an essential service and requires all the support it can get; both in monetary terms and by means of the time that our volunteers contribute to keeping the service running. A crucial part of our service is our Dinner Club, which currently runs three days per week at our Hampton Street base. Our Dinner Club not only provides a meal, but is also an important social outlet for in the region of 25 members. In order to strengthen our service and maintain and expand our Dinner Club, Balbriggan Meals on Wheels is currently fundraising and seeking sponsorship with the intention of getting our very own minibus. Our own minibus would allow us to better manage the transportation our clients to and from Dinner Club thus expanding this service whilst additionally being able to offer our clients more trips and days out, for example visits to local amenities, shopping trips, theatre and cinema trips etc.Thanks to the kindness of thirteen generous sponsors, Balbriggan Meals on Wheels is currently running a Monster Raffle, with a top prize of € 500 cash, donated by Progressive Credit Union. Our Volunteers will be selling tickets over the coming weeks throughout the area. Watch out for them in Supervalu and Millfield in Balbriggan and in Pavilion Shopping Centre in Swords.

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Fingal Co Co to carry out substantial investment in regional roads Fingal County Council plans to carry out a multi-million euro investment in regional roads across Fingal, which will include the provision of extensive cycling infrastructure as part of the upgrade works. An extensive examination of the regional road network was carried out across the County, and has prompted a two-phase approach to improving the network for all road users, including pedestrians and cyclists.Work is set to begin shortly on the first project under this programme on carriageway works and lining for cycle facilities from Blake’s Cross to Minister’s Road on the R132 in Lusk.A further upgrade from Hedgestown to the Applegreen Service Station, which will also improve

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the cycling network, has also been identified under phase one and will commence later this year. Other projects identified in phase one include investment in carriageway works and lining for cycle facilities on the R135 North Road, as well as the provision of structural upgrade drainage works on the R127 Blake’s Cross to Lusk Road and upgrading the carriageway and off-road cycle tracks on the Ballycoolin Road. In terms of phase two, further improvements of the R132 Swords to Balbriggan road, including upgrades of the Swords by-pass as well as the construction of a new junction at Blake’s Cross have also been identified.Mayor of Fingal Cllr Eoghan O’Brien said: “This is a substantial investment by Fingal County Council in the road network across the county, which will see significant improvements not only for motorists but for cyclists and pedestrians too. I am particularly pleased to see that the improvement works will include extensive upgrades of the cycle network.”

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include proposals formulated to achieve the best fit between the unique characteristics of the site and provision of active recreation and strong linkages to Bremore Castle and surrounding residential areas.Speaking about the Masterplan Interim Chief Executive AnnMarie Farrelly said “Bremore Castle and Regional Park form a vital element of the Our Balbriggan Rejuvenation Plan. Fingal County Council is committed to harnessing the potential of this unique site to develop a premier regional park both as a tourist destination and a vibrant recreation area for the

people of Balbriggan”. Public engagement is key and the project team hosted a consultation workshop so that the local community could share their ideas and views on the park design and development. The workshop took place in the Bracken Court Hotel on Tuesday the 30th of July from 6.30pm to 8pm.If you were unable to attend you can still share your ideas or comments with us by emailing Fingal. DevelopmentPlan@fingal.ie using the subject: RE – Bremore Regional Park Masterplan.

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St. Mary’s Baton Twirlers celebrate 40 years

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Enjoying the 40th Anniversary function for St Mary’s Baton Twirlers.

There was great celebrations in the Bracken Court Hotel Balbriggan at the end of June when founding members, past and present Twirlers got together for a celebratory dinner to remember 40 fantastic years since the clubs formation. There were speeches and presentations to the founders Michael Connolly and Marian Connolly and to members Susan Mullen and Dinah Black who have been there since the club started. And to the current coaches Johanna Buckley, Sharon Pyne Farrell, Amanda Delahan Bergin, Tara Connolly, Michael Connolly, Susan Mullen and Dinah Black. Everyone danced the night away until the wee hours. And then on the 3rd July, 40 members of the club jetted their way to the European Championships Ljutomer in Slovenia to join the rest of team Ireland athleretes from other countries which included France, Catalonia, Contact us: communitylocals@gmail.com

Romania, Croatia and of course Slovenia. St. Mary’s had one of the most successful championships yet, ably assisting Team Ireland place 3rd overall.Juvenile Group:1st place - St. Mary’s Juvenile group - Mary Poppins. Podium position Junior Group:3rd place: St. Mary’s Junior Group- Hocus Pocus.Podium position Juvenile pair: 5th place - Hannah Farrell and Ava Buckley. Podium position Junior team:6th place - Junior team 1 Survival. Podium position Junior Women freestyle:15th place- Rebecca Purcell - semi finals position. Juvenile women freestyles:17th place - Ava Buckley.18th place - Emma Walder.19th place - Skye Keane.20th place - Rebecca Doran.22nd place - Hannah Farrell.23rd place - Teagyn Keane.24th place - Eva Bergin.All other Junior

Women freestyle results:19th place - Amy Prosser Amy Lambert.20th place Erin Delaney. 23rd place- Annabelle Moore.25th place- Jessica Delaney. All other Juvenile pair results: 7th place - Rebecca Doran and Eva Bergin.9th place Teagyn Keane and Skye Keane.Junior pairs:8th place - Erin Delaney and Amy Prosser.9th place - Jessica Delaney and Rebecca Purcell.11th place - Annabelle Moore and Amy Lambert. Juvenile teams:7th place - Juvenile team 2 St. Mary - Evil.9th place - Juvenile team 1 Mary’s - Aladdin.Congratulations to everyone.We return training on 4th September 2019 at 6pm in St. Patrick’s GAA Sports hal, Stamullen. New members welcome. Please contact our Facebook page Stmarys Baton Twirlers or our Instagram page St. Mary’s Baton Twirlers for further details.

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Planning for Back to School and staggering the cost

We may be slap bang in the middle of the summer but parents know, it’s time to start planning for Back to school! Between uniforms, bags, shoes, coats and all the other expenses, if you start buying now, you can stagger the cost (and stress!) First off uniforms. Despite the governments repeated promises to do away with crested uniforms, they are still a requirement at many schools and are very costly. A jumper can be €30-40, a jacket €60 etc. We found a way to do this cheaper! Buy uniform items like jumpers, cardigans, tracksuits from Dunnes Stores, Tesco, Lidl, M&S and have the crest sewn or embroidered on. Bestwear in Drogheda provides this service, or you could ask the school for the crest and sew it on yourself. Shoes can be expensive, especially for teenagers. Kildare Village is good for bargains brands. Lifestyle Sports has a range of low-cost trainers. We picked up some Nike black trainers for PE for only €35 there. Skechers has a shoe for boys

which doubles as a trainer and shoe and saves parents from buying 2 pairs of shoes. Korky’s have a shoe for girls that is almost identical to the ‘branded’ shoe some schools insist on and its half the price so that’s worth a look. For books, check out offers, like Easons 10% off. They also have a drop off/pick up s service. Drop in your school list, come back after a few hours to have it bagged and ready to go! Schoolbooks.ie is great for Gaelscoil books, they have a dedicated section on their site for these. Ipads are becoming more and more popular for schools now – our own teens both have them – and at €500 a pop, parents need to make sure that they have a schoolbag to protect the ipad. Totto brand in Bag City Ilac SC has a compartment to protect technology. These bags are very sturdy, we bought one for our son last year and it’s in such good condition, we do not need to buy him a bag this year. For smaller kids, Smiggle, in Pavilions, has ‘Bag bundles’ which are good value. They are colourful,

scented and brilliant for kids; making BTS shopping fun!Make sure to label everything your child wears and brings to school. Stuckonyou.eu has a range of labels for books, shoes, uniforms, lumchboxes to make sure if your child does leave something behind, it can be returned to them. Labelling clothes and school items is much cheaper than replacing them. Regatta has good sales and offers on kids wear like raincoats, water bottles and fleeces. Flying Tiger has funky yet practical stationery and is very well priced.The Works is excellent for art supplies – you can save a lot by buying there, it’s very good for college students. If you are struggling with back to school costs, see if you can apply for the BSCFA at welfare.ie – this is helpful to parents. Also, keep an eye out for offers and competitions (there are lots of school related competitions on mams.ie for lunchboxes, schoolbags etc). Enjoy the rest of the holidays!

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Why are Women so undervalued?

By Dave Kavanagh

There is a tendency to place values on all kinds of things, from property to cars, from jewellery to smart phones. When it comes to protecting against the loss of these things, it’s then a straightforward calculation. However, when it comes to valuing people and protecting against potential loss, there seems to be a large imbalance in how men and women are valued. In a series of recent interactive group talks, I set a task for the participants (who, as it happened, were about 75% women). I gave them a typical family scenario of a couple, John & Mary, with 2 children aged 2 and 4, with John in full time employment and Mary being a stay at home mum, not in paid employment. There were various other details but the task was to agree how much personal life cover they should both have (outside of their mortgage protection). Out of 9 different groups, all but one decided on Mary needing far less cover than John (on average, about 50% less). I then explained how to calculate the financial loss that would be suffered in the event of either of their deaths. Even though John had the only income, if Mary passed away, John would have to either give up work to care for the two young children or else pay for all of the minding that would be required, as well as possibly other tasks that Mary may have looked after. In short,

in this example (with children that young) the same level of life cover would be appropriate for both of them, as the financial loss that would be suffered in the event of either fatality would be very similar. Once a detailed explanation of how we arrived at these calculations was given, everybody completely agreed that this was the case but it certainly illustrated how in general, there was an under valuing of Mary’s role and therefore an under valuing of the financial loss that would be suffered. This is also evident both in the levels of cover that we see that people have and also in the claim statistics that are published by the life companies each year. The number of life claims for women is far less that those of men (even allowing for the naturally higher proportion of males dying younger) and the amounts of the claims is also much lower for women on average. The same is the case for serious illness claims, far less and far lower for females. With many campaigns and much publicity around the imbalance of wages and opportunities between genders, it is worth considering how we value ourselves and how we also value the potential loss of ourselves. Take a few minutes and look at your own situation to see if you’ve done anything similar.

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How a Guide Dog changed Breege O Neill’s life

Breege with Qeb her new guide dog

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This is the story of guide dog owner Breege O’Neill Guide and how a Guide Dog charged her life. Dog Owner Breege and her husband Tom, also a Guide Dog Owner, are a well-known and a much-respected couple in the Balbriggan area of Co. Dublin. Here Breege relates in her own words how owning a Guide dog has impacted on her life. “I got my first Guide Dog in the early 90’s after dealing with low vision for most of my life.By this time, I was married to Tom who is blind and also had a Guide Dog. We had 2 children and I was ready to go back to work but would not have been able to do so without Gypsy, who was my first Guide Dog. The difference having a Guide Dog made to my life was immediate. I had greater independence and freedom. Having Gypsy gave me the confidence to return to work.Gypsy was a black lab and retired to a good friend Margaret Whitney who gave her a great retirement. My second dog was Abby who, when she retired, went to another friend Vivi Gorman where she also had a great retirement.Between my third dog, who was called Unice, and now I had a 2-and-a-half-year break; I was diagnosed with cancer and was on treatment and I knew I would not be able to use Unice who by this time was 11 and was due for retirement. She went to a great family who were very good friends of mine. Gillian, Donal and their lovely little boy Bryan looked after Unice until she passed away in October 2018. She had a great retirement with the Fitzpatrick family. Strangely, she passed away on the day that I first met Qeb, who is my current dog.Qeb is a lovely black Lab Retriever, he is a lively 2-year-old who is a great worker and is not fazed by anything andloves a good challenge.I really missed my independence for the 2 and a half years while I was sickand am delighted to be back in harness again; it is a great confidenceboost.I am looking forward to a long working life with Qeb.Understanding how a Guide Dog can transform the life of a person who has impaired vision, Tom and I co-founded the Balbriggan\ North County Dublin Branch of Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind which actively fundraises.” On Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th of September Irish Guide dogs for the blind Balbriggan\North County Dublin branch will be taking up their annual church gate collection all over North County Dublin.The collection will be taken up outside of the following churches on public ground: Balbriggan, St Georges Balbriggan, Skerries, Balscadden, Skerries C.O.I., Rush, Lusk, Garristown, Ballamadun, Oldtown, Rolestown, Naul, Damastown and Ballyboughal. Now that school is out for the summer, we would love to get your help in understanding your child’s own experience at school.Has your child been excluded from school or given shorter hours? Parents plus is a practical and positive course, delivered by a professional team led by Parents Plus professional trainer Úna O’Brien.For parents of children aged 5-12 years living with the challenging behaviour of ADHD. Using ideas and footage from the Parents Plus programme.It offers parents of children with ADHD the opportunity to meet and support each other in enhancing their relationship with their child:Preventing and dealing with the behavioural difficulties which so often accompany ADHD. This is a 6 Week Course starting 18th September 2019 each Wednesday until 23rd October 2019.Date And Time:Wed 18 Sep 2019, 7pm – 9pm. Where:Carmichael Centre, North Brunswick Street, Registration through Eventbrite using this link Please Contact Tricia in ADHD Ireland for further information on any of the three messages: Contact us: communitylocals@gmail.com

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Method to make sauce: 1.Mix the beans, shallots, chilli pepper flakes and rice wine vinegar together. Mash the beans well. Set aside. 2. Sauté the garlic and ginger in a small amount of oil on a pan until soft and flavours infuse. Add the mixture from the previous step. 3.Bring the mixture to the boil then simmer for 10-15minutes. To thicken the sauce, stir in the cornflour mixture. Simmer until thickened.

To cook the rice: Bring 1.5 cups of water to boil before adding a cup of rice and let it simmer before all the water has dissolved. Then it is ready to serve.

To cook the rest of the ingredients: 1.Add 1 tablespoon rapeseed oil into a nonstick pan (preferably). Gently cook stripped beef just to brown it then remove from pan. 2.Add vegetables to pan and lightly cook before adding black bean sauce and beef then cook till sauce begins to bubble and meat is cooked thoroughly. 3.Serve with cooked rice. For nutrition and healthy eating talks or workshops in preschools, primary or secondary schools, workplaces or community groups please email:niamh@biabites. netSee my ‘Fun food’ and ‘Recipes’ albums on ‘Biabites’Facebook for other food ideas. Niamh Arthurs, Public Health and Clinical Nutritionist www.biabites.net Contact us: communitylocals@gmail.com

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Five Common Puppy Toilet Training Mistakes Toilet training can be a minefield for first time puppy parents. Accidents will happen, which means patience is key. But if your furry friend is struggling to learn, then you could be making some very common mistakes in your training technique.To help you prepare for puppy parenthood, we’ve pulled together the five most common mistakes that could hinder your puppy’s progress. 1 - Expecting your puppy to tell you-Puppies do not ‘ask’ to go out, at least not for the first few months. If you keep an eye on your puppy, you’ll be able to spot the telltale signs that your puppy is about to go. If your puppy is going every 20 minutes, then you need to be taking them to their toilet area every 20 minutes.To set up the potty area, our Gastone Puppy Pad Holder is perfect for holding puppy pads in place. Place the puppy pad holder in an easily accessible place for your pup and, once they’ve got the hang of it, gradually move the holder closer to the back door. 2 - Leaving the door open-This is something that many pet owners get into the habit of doing, especially in the summer.Try not to let your pup get too reliant on the door being open, this way they’ll learn to tell you when they need to go outside. 3 - Not cleaning up effectively-Dogs have an incredible sense of smell. You may not be able to smell urine after cleaning up, but Fido sure can! If a puppy can smell urine then it’s likely that they will go back to this spot the next time they need to go, as they associate it as being the toilet area. 4 - The crate is too big-Crates provide dogs with a special place that they can call their own and many owners introduce crate training during the puppy years. Typically, a dog won’t wee in its bed. 5 - Using negative reinforcements-Try not to punish your puppy for their accidents, but rather praise them when they get it right. If you catch your puppy in the middle of an accident make a noise to startle them and take them to their potty pad to finish. Make sure you reward them afterwards for going in the right location

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2. Strongly wanting to do something. (5) 3. A rock that contains minerals like gold, iron or lead. (3) 4. A complete idiot. (8) 5. Produced a natural or agricultural product. (7) 6. Places to get lost in. (5) 7. Precious stone which comes in various shades of red. (4) 8. Hooded snake. (5) 9. Probable. (6) 10. The fifth category of taste - sweet, sour, salt, bitter ... (5) 11. The process of moving people from a place of danger to safety. (10) 12. A scale for measuring wind speed. (8) 17. Pour light on something. (10) 21. Lewd area for an American state. (8) 22. The sword returned to the Lady of the Lake. (9) 24. Prepare material for publication. (4) 26. Hard wheat used in making pasta. (5) 28. A legal hub is so ludicrous as to be amusing. (9) 29. Move faster. (10) 32. Bad voles had their sins forgiven. (8) 35. Relating to the countryside. (5) 38. Bald crooks place barricades. (10) 39. Mythological man-eating giant. (4) 40. Lacking energy or enthusiasm. (8) 43. A brief summary. (8) 47. Suffering from mal de mer. (7) 49. A thick cable for mooring or towing a ship. (6) 51. The country now called Myanmar. (5) 53. It’s not over til the fat lady sings! (5) 55. Welsh vegetables! (5) 57. Declare invalid, a marriage perhaps. (5) 58. Chemical element vital for brass. (4) 61. Impair the quality or appearance of; spoil. (3)

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1. The speed of something in a given direction. (8) 6. Remarkable, unexplainable, and bringing welcome consequences. (10) 13. Uncertain, indefinite, unclear. (5) 14. Sometimes a name for the Devil. (9) 15. The dishonest jack in a pack of cards. (5) 16. Relating to the heart. (7) 18. The darker stage of twilight. (4) 19. The lower house of the Oireachtas. (4) 20. A signed document acknowledging a debt. (3) 22. The long fish. (3) 23. Long-handled spoon used for serving soup. (5) 25. A circular movement of water causing a small whirlpool. (4) 27. The highest adult male singing voice. (4) 30. Money received for work or through investments. (6) 31. A gloss or sheen on a surface resulting from age or polishing. (6) 33. A new member of the armed forces. (7) 34. Synthetic material used in parachutes. (5) 35. Acting without consideration of the possible consequences. (4) 36. Soothe, make someone tranquil and quiet. (4) 37. Volatile liquid once popular as an anaesthetic. (5) 40. Bolster the crustacean. (7) 41. A lumberjack. (6) 42. Belgrade is the capital of this country. (6) 44. Garment traditionally worn by women from South Asia. (4) 45. This is one! (4) 46. Attempt a short piece of writing on a particular subject. (5) 48. A feeling of reverential respect mixed with fear or wonder. (3) 50. Abbreviated Canadian dog. (3) 52. Maritime call to hail another ship. (4) 54. Able island for Napoleon. (4) 56. Common culinary herb. (7) 59. Moves from site to site on the Internet. (5) 60. Widespread outbreaks of disease. (9) 61. The largest city and capital of Belarus. (5) 62. Female leaders of families or tribes. (10) 63. Trek less for the small falcons. (8)

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