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WALKING FESTIVAL
The Footfalls Wicklow Walking Festival will be based in the Brockagh Resource Centre, Laragh from Friday 26th to Mon 29th of October with many of the walks taking us through Wicklow Mountains National Park. All walks are led by experienced walking leaders who will enhance your day with information on local history flora and fauna. The weekend offers a selection of walking choices which you can mix, match, or just choose one. Should you have any questions contact us at 0404 45152 or 087 2698659E-mail: info@walkinghikingireland.com, www. walkinghikingireland.com.
PALS WORKSHOPS
Go for Life, working with Wicklow Sports Partnership are holding a series of workshops for older people who are interested in organising and physical activities with members of their groups/clubs/organisations. Participants do not need to have any background or formal experience in leading physical activities.
These workshops take place all over the country throughout the year and thousands of older people have participated to date and gone on to lead a wide range of physical activities in their own groups and communities. The Workshop venue is the Brockagh Resource Centre, Laragh, from 10am to 3pm with a daily lunch included. Workshop dates are on October 10th, 17, 24, 31 and also on of November 7th, 14, 21 and 28. Please confirm your attendance by Wednesday 3rd October by contacting Ciara at Go for Life on 01 8057733 or email gfl@ageandopportunity.ie.
PHOTO COMPETITION WINNERS
Congradulations, to everyone who had their wonderful photos displayed, at Brockagh Resource Centre, Laragh for the 2018 Wicklow Uplands Council Photo Competition.
The following winners were announced by Wicklow Uplands Council with over €500 in prizes, Under 14yrs: Lana Woodward-10yrs old. Rural Landscape Category: 1st Prize in this category and also the overall winner is Paula Podnar for her image called Family Portrait. 2nd Prize Mary Traynor-Stone Wall, Lugglass. Towns and Villages Category: 1st Prize Kevin Barrett-Avoca, 2nd Prize Chris Bolton-Viaduct Rathdrum. Activities Category: 1st Prize Brendan Cullen-Enduro World Championships, 2nd Prize Sonia Lebarbe-Shearing of Sheep.
HAPPY DAYS
Happy Days is back on Oct the 3rd and will continue on Wednesday mornings 10.30 -12pm at the Brockagh Centre, Laragh. Parents, babies and toddlers get together, have lots of fun weeks with art & crafts and make new friends. It is also a great way to meet and socialize with parents, especially if you are new to the area. Contact us at 0404-45600 at the centre for more information.
EVENING YOGA
Viva’s yoga classes are for beginners to intermediate on Tuesdays at 7pm in the Brockagh Centre. Improve your fitness strength and flexibility in a relaxing way. Wear comfortable clothes on the night and bring a blanket. Mats are available on the night. You can contact Viva on 086 3409629 for more information.
WALKING GROUP
On Monday mornings weekly at 10am join the Laragh walking group at the Brockagh Resource Centre for a walk around Glendalough area for approximately one hour. A great way to meet new people while getting fitter at a moderate pace. Call Lucy at 086 310 7511 if you have any questions. 6.30 p.m. Vigil Mass and on Sunday at 8 a.m., 10.30 a.m. (Family Mass), midday, and 6 p.m. Confessions are heard on Saturdays after the 10 a.m. Mass, between 12.30 p.m. and 1 p.m., and after the 6.30 p.m. Mass. Mass is now broadcast online and can be viewed by logging onto the parish website: stannesparishshankill.com and then clicking onto video link.
Mass Time Change: Until the end of this month there will be no celebration of the Monday to Friday 7.30 p.m. Evening Mass.
Bethany Bereavement Group: Operates Drop-In Centre in St Anne’s Resource Centre on the first Friday of each month at 10.30 a.m. The Bethany Bereavement Support Group is a voluntary ministry. The volunteers are trained to listen and to help the bereaved and grieving.
St Anne’s Parish Pastoral Council: If you have any ideas or suggestions, please let us know. These can be left into the suggestions box in the church or handed into the parish office.
New Altar Servers: This in an invitation to children who received their First Holy Communion to become Altar Servers and is open all children from third to sixth class. Training will take place in St Anne’s Church during October. Please choose Tuesday or Sunday training – Tuesdays October 2, 9 and 16, from 2.40 p.m. to 3.20 p.m.; Sundays October 7, 14 and 21, from 9.30 a.m. to 10.10 a.m. New servers must attend the three training sessions. The commissioning of the new Altar Servers will place during the Sunday, October 21, 10.30 a.m. Mass.
Christmas Fair – Appeal for sponsors: The Parish Christmas Fair will take place on Sunday, December 2, The organising committee would greatly appreciate if any individual or company in our Parish/community are in a position to sponsor any part of the Christmas Fair such as the cost of raffle tickets or prizes. If you can assist us in any way, please contact Martin Walsh or Pat Maguire through the Resource Centre.
New Youth Group: We are working hard in the parish to set up a new youth group for those aged 13 to 18.We met with 26 young people over the summer and they told us they would like to meet fortnightly in St Anne’s Resource Centre, so we have chosen the first and third Saturdays after Evening Mass. They are very interested in learning more about their Catholic Faith. They would like a mixture of games, talks, music, prayer time, movies and socials. A group of youth leaders will prepare and deliver each meeting. In order to launch the group, we need to have everything in place to ensure their safety. We are now seeking teams of adult supervisors and we ask for people to commit to one Saturday evening per month. We would require at least four adult supervisors each time the youth group meet. The role of the adult supervisor will be to open/close the centre, kitchen supervision and to make sure the youth (not the adults) leave the centre clean and prepared for Sunday School. Also, they will have to make sure each young person has someone to collect them. Training will be given to this group before the first youth meeting takes place. There will be an information session in the parish on Wednesday, October 10, at 8 p.m. and the youth group supervisors will be expected to attend this session. If you are interested in volunteering, please call into the parish office to complete the Garda Vetting application. You will need to bring photographic ID and also a utility bill with your address.
Parent and Toddler Group: Meets on Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to midday in St Anne’s Resource Centre. Cost: Donation – for further information contact Iarla at 086 351322.
September Film Night: Takes place on Saturday night at 8 p.m. in St Anne’s Resource Centre when the film being screened is the classic Ealing Studios comedy ‘Kind Hearts and Coronets’, directed by Robert Hamer and starring Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson, and Vincent Price. All welcome – admission free.
Meeting for parents of Confirmation Class: Takes place tonight (Wednesday) at 8 p.m. in St Anne’s Resource Centre.
Blessing of the Animals: In honour of St Francis of Assisi and his devotion to all creatures great and small, St Anne’s Parish invite all pets (and their families) this Sunday to be blessed at 3 p.m. in the grounds of St Anne’s Church. The welcome team invite owners for a cup of tea or coffee which will be served outside St Anne’s Resource Centre.
Child Safeguarding: The Dublin Diocese require all those involved in parish life as Ministers and volunteers to take part in a 2-hour session on child safeguarding. A representative from the Dublin Diocese will be in St Anne’s Resource Centre on Wednesday, October 10, at 8 p.m. and we ask anyone who is involved in the parish as a minister/volunteer to come along to this session.
BOOK SALE
The October First Saturday Book Sale, which supports the Shankill Old Folks Association, will take place on Saturday, October 6, between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. in the Shankill Old Folks Centre, Lower Road, Shankill, so make a point of calling into it during that Saturday morning and avail of the opportunity to pick up some excellent reading material for the autumn.
Donations of books, which must be in a good and clean condition, other than school/text books, will be accepted on the day. Photographs and memorial cards found in donated books can be collected at the book sale. Supporting the First Saturday Book Sale supports the Shankill Community.
SHANKILL LIBRARY
Opening hours for Shankill Library are 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m., and on alternate Fridays and Saturdays – The library will be open this Friday but closed on Saturday. To renew or inquire about a book call 01 2827801 or email shankillib@dlrcoco.ie. The parents and Toddler Group meets on Monday mornings (except bank holiday Mondays), from 10.30 a.m. to 11.20 a.m. Historical Society
The next events of interest for members of the Rathmichael Historical Society, the local history society for Shankill, Ballybrack, and the surrounding area are tonight’s (Wednesday) 6 p.m. lecture by Diarmuid Ó Gráda on ‘Georgian Dublin: the forces that shaped a city’ to the Old Dublin Society in Dublin City Library and Archive, 138-144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2; tomorrow (Thursday) 8 p.m. special on-off lecture to the Bray Cualann Historical Society on ‘Michael Collins and the guerrilla warfare during the War of Independence’ in the Royal Hotel, Bray, by visiting American historian Joseph EA Connell Jr.’ – all welcome, admission €5; the Thursday, October 4, 8 p.m. lecture by John Murphy on ‘General Seán MacEoin, The Blacksmith from Ballinalee’ to the Mount Merrion Historical Society in the community centre, North Avenue, Mount Merrion, Co. Dublin. All welcome – admission €4/Students €2; and the Saturday, October 6, ‘DLR Living History Family Day’ from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the dlr Lexicon, Moran Park, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, incorporating a Living History element on the mail boat RMS Leinster. All welcome – free.
Members and supporters are asked to note that the Final Mail Boat Leinster Centenary Event programme organised by the Mail Boat Leinster Centenary Committee can be down be downloaded from leinster2018. com.
Also now out is the programme of events for the Dublin Festival of History 2018, organised by Dublin City Council and managed by Dublin City Libraries, which started last Monday and runs till Sunday, October 7 – details from dublinfestivalofhistory.ie.
Members are also reminded that the Old Bray Society has published a special issue of the Bray Historical Record – ‘First World War Special Issue’ which recalls those from the county who took part in this conflict. Over the counter copies available from the Town Hall Bookshop, 23 Florence Road, Bray.
Lectures of the Rathmichael Historical Society will resume at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, October 3, in Rathmichael National School, Stonebridge Road, Shankill, Co. Dublin.
ICA GUILD
The guild meets on the second Monday of the month at 3.30 p.m. in St Anne’s Resource Centre. Craft Morning takes place in St Anne’s Resource Centre on Tuesday mornings from 10.30 a.m. and 12.30 p.m. Culture outings are held at different times throughout the year. New members always welcome – contact Patricia O’Connor at 282 0733.
GAA CLUB NOTES
The juvenile academy is back in action at 10 a.m. every Saturday in Stonebridge Road. Please come along and give the Academy a try. The cost is only €2 per child each week and there is no annual subscription. All equipment is provided free and qualified coaches are always in attendance – it’s all about having fun with your friends.
We held our fifth birthday celebrations with a giant party and load’s of fun events last Saturday. The party kicked off at 10 a.m. in Stonebridge Road. And all are welcome.
Last Saturday week our under-11 boys’ footballers had an ‘away ‘game against Cuala in Shanganagh Park and in Stonebridge Road we welcomed teams from Crumlin and Ballyfermot De La Salle while last Sunday week morning there was an under-nine camogie blitz.
The men’s adult football team lost to St Joseph’s Old Boys in the cup.
Congratulations to the Dublin Ladies on winning back to back all-Ireland Football titles. There was great support from Shankill GAA with 38 people traveling to Croke Park.
In the ‘Chase the Ace’ draw in Brady’s there was no jackpot winner but the €50 prize went to Kaylagh Messitt. Last week’s jackpot was €1,100. Tickets are €2 each or three for €5.
We are currently looking for new players for our Adult Ladies and Adult Men’s football teams please contact GPO Steve Davis 087 6414123 or email stevedavis203@gmail.com.
SHANKILL SOCIAL CLUB
Are you aged over 50 and interested in joining a local community social group? Shankill Social Club is looking for new members and new ideas. Planned activities include a guest speaker on the Fair Deal Nursing Home Scheme on October 15 ; a guest speaker with Gardening tips for the Spring and the autumn on November 19, and visit to Dail Eireann – date to be confirmed.
Meetings of the Shankill Social Club take place in St Anne’s Resource Centre on the third Wednesday of the month – next meeting takes place on Wednesday, September 17.
All welcome – further information from Jackie Hall at 086 8671166 or Paula Morgan at 086 3467480.