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St Catherines Choral Festival-great success! By Emma Mitchell

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. A past pupil of St. Catherine’s- Emmanuel Mbikaku played some music on the piano for us. Emmanuel is a self taught pianist who has an extraordinary 4

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gift! 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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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 6

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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. Contact us: communitylocals@gmail.com

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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. Contact us: communitylocals@gmail.com

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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

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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.

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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.”

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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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2018 Cleaner Communities Awards launched Attending the launch, Mayor of Fingal, Cllr

Mary McCamley said: “The Cleaner Community Awards are a fantastic opportunity to not only

recognise the huge efforts made by community groups but to encourage the continued efforts

of residents and community groups to keep the county clean, safe and litter free.”

Fingal County Council Chief Executive Paul

Reid said: “I’m delighted to see the contribution

made by community groups to the environmental welfare of Fingal being acknowledged. Our

Operations Department works closely with these groups to ensure the towns and villages across Fingal are kept clean and tidy so their work is hugely valued.”

Fingal County Council is now inviting entries

for this year’s Awards. Closing date for receipt of applications is 4.30pm on Friday, 29 June, 2018.

Mayor of Fingal Mary McCamley, launches the Cleaner Communities Awards.

Fingal County Council has launched the 2018

For full details of the competition, please contact

The Awards reward residential and business

the Waste Management Section, Environment

Cleaner Communities Awards, a countywide

areas for their efforts in maintaining a litter-free,

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community or place of business.

competition which aims to make our county a

well presented and environmentally friendly

Lets keep our Community tidy! This year is the 60th Anniversary of the National Tidy Towns Competition. Lusk has entered the competition for the last 39 years. The competition has expanded and is an important part of our culture. It is also a showcase of the voluntary work which many engage in. During the years Lusk has seen many changes and a bigger population. The support of the community is vital to our endeavours. Please keep Lusk tidy as we enter Lusk in the competition for 2018. Thank you, P. Kelly Lusk Tidy Town Assoc.

Division, Fingal County Council by email on

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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 12 LUSK LOCAL-JUNE 2018

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. Contact us: communitylocals@gmail.com

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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. LUSK LOCAL-JUNE 2018

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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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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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227 extra SNAs for Dublin for September Some 227 extra SNAs will be allocated to Dublin schools in September, Fine Gael Senator James Reilly has said. This will bring the total number of SNAs to 4,201locally, with 2,555 in primary schools, 864 in secondary schools and 782 in Special schools. Senator Reilly said: “The aim of this Government is to ensure that children with special educational needs can be supported to fully participate in schools and fulfil their potential. I welcome the very recent opening of a special needs facility at Colaiste Choilm in Swords, where 12 students will be catered for in an ASD unit, in Balbriggan and I am supporting the plan by Skerries Educate together to open 4x 6 special needs classes in Skerries and St Michaels House Skerries to finally get a site for a purpose build school which will cater for 80 pupils. I understand a site acquisition is nearing completion.” He added “Special Needs Assistants play a key role in ensuring this and I would like to firstly take this opportunity to pay credit to the fantastic work that they do in schools across Dublin. Today’s announcement will ensure every child who needs SNA support in Dublin will receive it.In July 2017, my Fine Gael colleague, Minister for Education and Skills Richard Bruton, gave a commitment that funding for SNA posts would be dealt with as part of the normal Estimates process, meaning that schools would be informed of their allocation for the beginning of the next school year before the end of May 2018. Today’s announcement honours that commitment and will make a real difference to schools and SNAs in planning for the year ahead. It is also expected that a further allocation will be announced during the first term of the new school year This decision is being made now to ensure that each child that is assessed as needing SNA support receives access to such support for the commencement of the new school year..”

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Local Sports

Round Towers celebrate Feile victory and Carla Rowe visit

Senior Ladies Team with Carla Rowe, centre of picture.

Round Towers GFC are celebrating their first ever victory in Feile as their U14 Hurlers carried off the Division 6 title. They are the first team in Round Towers Lusk to win the FĂŠile, which is a fantastic achievement and congratulations to all the squad and their wonderful management and coaches whose dedication and commitment has paid off. Thanks also to our Feile sponsors Liam Fitzgerald Solicitor, Paul Barker & Christine McGrath. The club were also delighted to welcome Dublin All Ireland winner Carla Rowe to attend and train our players. Carla held a special training session with our Senior Ladies Team where she shared her knowledge and gave the girls some great advice. Our Annual Golf Classic takes place on Friday 8th June 2018 in Beaverstown Golf Club. Please contact John Bohan for the Timesheet on 0868533635. We are also organising a Clothes Recycling Drive on 2nd, 3rd & 4th June 2018 between 10.30am and 5.00pm in Round Towers Lusk. Please donate clean, unwanted re-usable clothes, bedlinen, towels. Contact us: communitylocals@gmail.com

History making Feile squad.

Some of the girls being put through their paces by Carla Rowe.

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Taekwondo just keeps getting better Team photo at the mini competition in Baldoyle

Junsa Taekwondo recently took part in two National competitions. The first was held in Baldoyle and strictly for beginners or for students to gain experience. It was a fantastic day for Junsaâ€™s beginners, where all our students took home some silverware and showed some of their fantastic skills.

Team mates , Charlie and Frankie ready for action

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Dhruvi takes home gold medal at her very first Taekwondo competition

Millie takes home silver medal

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Junsa’s second national outing took place in the National Sports campas Blancherstown. This competition was for the more experienced students where teams from all over Ireland and the UK competed for top honors.

Janek and his sparring partner from Ayrfield Taekwondo club.

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