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Skerries schools crisis
CHEEKY CHERUBS: Spirited young spectators enjoy the Skerries St Patrick’s Day parade and celebrations 20 COLOUR PHOTOS INSIDE
N September 2008 some 80 school Skerries children may face the Iprospect of having no place at a
Skerries school. Skerries Community Association
(SCA) says it has been working to resolve this issue: a survey has been undertaken to determine the number of children under the age of five in the area; a site near Kellys Bay has been found; the intention to build on the site has been publicly confirmed by the Department of Education - and a patron, the area's Vocational Education Committee (VEC) to run the school has been found.
However, there has been no commitment by the Department of Education to actually forge ahead and put further plans into motion. Instead Minister Hanafin has just issued an order preventing any VEC from becoming patron of a primary school until further notice, thereby further delaying the already fraught process of delivering a new school.
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A crisis is looming which could see scores of children without a place in Skerries classrooms unless action is taken now
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SKERRIES SKATER BOY
Our man Kyran bags TV ice dance trophyKYRAN Bracken, from retiring from international Skerries, has just been rugby in ‘04. Kyran was crowned Dancing on Ice born in Skerries in 1971. Champion 2007. After His father was a dentist and months of training and his mother played hockey performing live on ITV, for Ireland. When Kyran Kyran bea t o ff s t i ff was four his family moved competition from actress to England. Although they Clare Buckman and Blue lived in Liverpool they band member Duncan retained strong links with James to gain the title. Skerries and came back
every year. Then one week after gaining the title he skated A few years ago Kyran and against last years champion his brother renovated and and won that too. So Kyran opened the Lifeguard was crowned Champion of Restaurant (now closed) by Champions! The Pierhouse and Kyran
also owns a house here. It is Kyran is better known for quite a leap from rugby to his rugby skill. He played ice-skating and Skerries scrum-half for Saracens, residents, who followed his Bristol and Waterloo R.F.C. progress on ITV all along, He won a total of 51 are proud of his victory. England caps and captained the team on three occasions Well done Kyran!
FROM PAGE 1 in and around Skerries are only too aware of the issues
J a n e L a n d y , S C A surrounding the shortage of spokesperson, this week told l o c a l s c h o o l p l a c e s . Skerries News “VECs are Classrooms are already p r o f e s s i o n a l b o d i e s overcrowded. They will be controlled by the State and asking themselves whether c o m p r i s i n g e l e c t e d t h e y r e a l l y w a n t t h e representatives on their child/teacher ratio to get any committees. This means they worse and for Skerries children are directly accountable to have to leave town for (unlike any other patron) to schooling.the electorate. Meanwhile, the SCA is
“They have extensive asking local voters in Skerries experience of running large to make this an election issue schools (including one in and to demand answers from Skerries) and dealing with the all candidates to the following Dept of Education. They are question: 'How will you and also 'faith neutral' to use a new your party deliver this primary t e r m - g o o d n e w s i n s c h o o l t o S k e r r i e s b y multicultural Ireland. September 2008?” and, “Why
“These credentials surely has the site not yet been make them ideal patrons for purchased” and “will you ask new primary schools. With Minister Hanafin to withdraw only 15 months to go before he r o rde r on p rac t i ca l the crisis hits Skerries, the site grounds?”has still not been acquired and the Minister is effectively For more info, regular b l o c k i n g t h e p a t r o n ' s updates and for election application. How much more candidates’ responses, go to can a community tolerate?” the SCA's website at
Parents of young children www.skerriesca.com
READ ON: Famous Skerries kids, PAGE 42
Skerries News is produced in Skerries by Monument Media Ltd., 1 Ardgillan View, Skerries. Co Dublin. Tel: (01) 849 0629. Email: [email protected] and advertisements herein do not reflect the point of view of the publishers. All information is taken as correct at the time of going to press. We reserve the right to edit contributions for style and to fit space
P14: Compost kidsP21: Paul D’Arcy art IN THIS show openingP37: Skerries harps fashion nightISSUEP42: Famous faces - Skerries child stars
News and events:P4: Event Guide; Features:Plus: meet the men P19: From a Skerries behind our rail Typewriter - ‘Three station’s top award; Minutes of Silence’P6: News roundup P22: Inside the life P8: Community of a trawlermanCentre carpark P24: Day of the
Drowning - a tale from the archivesPictures:P46: Eamonn P9: Three pages of Branagan - a tributecolour Paddy’s Day P50: Your rightspictures start here
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show with a full house.Hip-hop Doors open at 8pm, show starts at 9pm. Tickets €12 performance in advance. Also in Blue,
Dance Dimensions new live music sessions on show Bullying – Dance It Sundays just started. Out will run for three days www.bluecafebar.com from 27th April in the North County Cricket Club Balrothery. There are over Nature talk200 kids involved who have From 20th – 22nd April a put their heart and souls Natural Environment into the production. The Conference will be held in venue has never been used Skerries Community for a show before so the College. Topics covered will stage is being custom built. be Geodiversity, Tickets €15 for adults and Biodiversity, Marine Life, €10 for children available Flora, Seabirds, Land Use, from Dimensions and Sustainable Danceware Strand St Management. There will 8490929 also be a field trip to
Rogerstown Estuary. Programme available from Art opening Skerries Mills
An exhibition of Marie Fallons paintings titled 'Table Medley' will be Schoolshown in the Daffodil Gallery on the ReunionLusk/Skerries road from Irish and English custom The 20 year school reunion 28th April to 12th May. Theatre and society. Tickets €10 for the class of 87 of Holy Marie (pictured, centre (concessions €7) Skerries Faith/De La Salle college page with one of her show Bookshop and 087 273 7773 will be held on 28th April. paintings) is well known for Skerries Theatre Group For details on timetable her landscapes but she has present Same Old Moon, a see page 34branched out in a new Comedy Nightcomedy by Geraldine direction with this Aron, in the Little Regular comedy nights take exhibition which explores Theatre, Skerries, from Patchwork place in Blue Cafe Bar on aspects of the still life 18th April to 28th April. the last Wednesday of genre. The play charts the life of exhibitionevery month. They are The paintings show a Brenda Barnes from the hosted by Brendan Burke Skerries Mills Quilters will diversification of her age of 9 to 40. We see and always feature top host an exhibition of recent landscape style. A preview her eccentric fiery family quality comedians. The work from 17th April to 6th of these paintings will be and the hilarious scrapes last few shows included PJ May. The first major available through the she gets into when her Gallager and Maeve Higgins exhibition to be held in Daffodil gallery web site, imagination and from Naked Camera and Skerries will include www.daffodilgallery.com , intelligence come up Joe Rooney from Father wallhangings and smaller from the 20th of April. against the restrictions of Ted. It is always a good pieces of varied styles.
FOR YOUR DIARYUpcoming Skerries Events
Skerries Rail Station staff scoop top award - again!SKERRIES railway station has won best stop in the entire country - yet again. The crystal perpetual trophy was handed back to Senior Depot Man Nicky Byrne (pictured left, centre) and joins a slew of trophies and certificates.
So, what’s their secret? “Keeping it well, I suppose,” says Nicky, who adds: “It’s a team effort, we all do our part.” Over the years, however, this ‘effort’ has paid off, with successive awards helping towards station refurbishment, including preservation of the exterior of the old signal box where Nicky spent 12 years. Ever since, the station has won Best Station every year - for 11 years, despite Nicky insisting “It’s only a job - just one we do well.”
One for whom it’s definitely more than ‘just a job’ is fellow Senior Depot Man, Vincent Sharpe, who loves trains and has travelled as far away as Vancouver and Ukraine to indulge his passion. Pictures from his travels can be seen in the waiting room.
Young Stephen Costigan is third member of the team behind the winning station crew. When next you pass by their ticket window, don’t forget to say a heartfelt, ‘Thanks, men - well done!’
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19 The Green, Skerries Rock, Skerries
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This is a stunning 3 bedroom semi detached house located in an ever popu lar cu l de sac ; exceptionally bright and spacious with excellent reception space downstairs; Accommodation comprises of 3 bedrooms (master en-s u i t e ) , b a t h r o o m , livingroom, large open plan kitchen/diningroom, utility room and large guest WC. Viewing really is a must
Playschool vandalised: toddlers devastated
ON March 20 the Skerries Community Pre School teachers arrived to the Scouts den to find the back door had been smashed in.Unfortunately it was too hazardous to hold the playschool there. No matter how they tried to cover the damaged area it would have been too difficult to stop curious pre-schoolers from investigating and possibly injuring themselves. The scouts were allowed to use the premises as the children are older but the playschool was closed for a week. When play leader Debbie Stevens broke the news to the parents and children that arrived that morning she said most of them were devastated and little Louis Naracu burst into tears.
Food fair for Rás event
SKERRIES restaurant owners are banding together to organise a food fair for when the Rás event comes to Skerries. Representatives from the Skerries Chamber of Commerce, Olive, Seasons, the Pier House, Parachute Cafe, Larrol Tea and Holmpatrick School had a number of meetings last month. The group felt that there was huge scope to work together to make Skerries a food destination. If any other food retailers are interested please contact Greg Reddin at Reddins Stationary.
Skerries on film
DAVORKA Naletilic, living in Skerries, shot a short film titled Electric Fence. It is a story about a chance meeting between a boy and a man on the Armagh border and is told by the boy as an adult looking back on it. It was shot mainly in rural countryside around Swords but there are also some Skerries scenes.Electric Fence was first shown at the Clownes Film Festival in October, then in the Belfast Film Festival on 31st March and will be shown by the Rockabill film Society in Skerries some time this month.
Around the town ...
HE long awaited reconstruction height of the bridge has been raised so of the Ladies Stairs bridge from the accident will not reoccur so now we TArdgillan Desmesne over the are just waiting for the steps to be
train tracks and road to the beach added. The new steps (pictured above) finally started a while ago. have been lying on the ground on both
Unfortunately there has been a halt sides of the bridge for weeks now. in the works and Skerries News would “We just want them to hurry up and like to find out why. finish as we have lost a lot of custom
Trevor Sargent contacted Irish Rail from Balbriggan walkers not being able on our behalf but we have still not to use the bridge” said Carmel from received an answer from them. The Ardgillan Castle.
CHILD’S PLAY ... or so you’d think
CHILDREN play on parts of the still-to-be erected Ladies Stairs, while access from Ardgillan to the beach, just over the railway, is denied
Lusk author becomes millionaire
DEREK Landy's new book Skulduggery Pleasant has just been launched amid massive hype. Landy received a seven figure advance for the book whichis being hailed as Ireland’s answer to Harry Potter.
The main character Skulduggery is a wise cracking skeleton magician so it is not hard to see why he has captured the kids imaginations.
Landy grew up on a farm in Lusk and first realised his love for making up stories in Corduff National School.
“'Everyone else would be struggling to write half a page and I could be up to 10 or 11 pages before I could stop myself,” he recalls
There is certainly no stopping him now. He has been contracted to write three Skulduggery books in the series and the second one is already well underway.
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KERRIES residents will be very pleased to see that the new car park for the Community S
Centre is well under way. The size of the car park has been a problem for a long time and it has got a lot worse since the paid parking system came to Skerries.
The car park was just closed for a week during half term to get the bulk of the work done so it didn't inconvenience centre users too much. When finished the new section will have spaces for 50 cars. The layout of the old section will also be changed to accommodate this and there will be extra spaces there too.
“'It should be finished in a few weeks,” says Sharon Guinane manager of the Community Centre. '”However, if it opens straight away I am sure it will just be filled with cars from people catching the train for the day. There is a big problem at the moment with people abusing the free parking here. half after her class waiting for a fed up with the way people park here.
shopper to move her car. I would like to get the clampers in to “The Board of Management will stop the double parking. decide how to deal with this. The car “It is also really dangerous, park is supposed to be for people especially at school collection time. Whatever they decide to do it will using the centre but I regularly see Often the mothers are chatting and certainly be an improvement on the people parking and just going off to the kids are wandering through the way it is now. Anyone that uses it do their shopping. This means that cars as they are backing. It’s an regularly knows how frustrating it often people actually using the centre accident waiting to happen. can be sitting in your car waiting for can't get in. someone else to get their car out of
There is talk of putting a bar across at the way and has probably also “For the tea dance last month the the entrance and having a ticket noticed how dangerous it is when coaches for the pensioners had to system like at the Pavillions. People there are a lot of young children park on the road outside and they all parking would have to get the ticket about. Regular patrons of the had to walk in from there. It wouldn't validated before leaving. “It would be Community Centre will be relieved be so bad if people would park free for one hour, maybe two. I think to see the size of the new section of properly but they don't. People just this would work. The Board of car park and Skerries News will be park wherever they can. Management will make a decision on monitoring progress with interest.
it. They want it to be for the “I was blocked in once and my young community and will not stop people What do YOU think of the daughter was stuck at school in parking there for a quick collection parking problems in and Drogheda with no one there to collect for the school. around the Community her,” continues Sharon. “One centre Centre? Air your view: user was stuck here for an hour and a Sharon concludes: “Really, I'm just [email protected]
New community centre car park to be better and safer: here’s howCENTRE MANAGER SPEAKS OUT, OUTLINES TIMELINE
Parking has been the least of it. Just dropping off and picking up kids in the Skerries Community Centre car park has been a test of skill,patience and endurance for years but changes are afoot
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Were YOU there?
kerries is truly the place to be for Saint Patrick's day. SThe whole town comes
out either to march or to cheer and the warmth and community spirit can be felt by one and all. It is yet another event in Skerries life that really makes us feel proud to live here.
The 2007 parade was no exception. There were 40 different entrants and everyone knew everyone else. There were baton twirlers, dancers, waterpistols, motorbikes, vintage cars, dramatic floats, martial arts, sea scouts, pirates and lollipops. Something for everyone!
The entrants lined up along the South Strand and then marched to the Monument and up Strand Street where they were judged by all the dignitaries on the Skerries Chamber of Commerce stand. Then the parade culminated at the Mill where there was plenty of room to disassemble and the marchers could then relax and have a coffee or run off for a play.
This years winners were-Holmpatrick school , Overall Prize - for their theme of water safety, cleaning up our beaches and not polluting the water. Moore School of Dance, Best Performance - with a really great display of their talent. Skerries Hardware, Best Float - a van with a fish on top pulling a giant can of paint !Reddins stationary, Best Window - for their display of St Patrick scoring a goal over some shamrocks.Sodo, Most Innovative - Placards, music and laughterVintage Society, Judges Prize - Beautiful cars all polished to a shine.
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HE Green Schools committee in Holmpatrick School hosted a TComposting Day recently to
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Trish Kennedy from Fingal County Council (Green Schools Co-ordinator) gave a talk with slides and answered questions.
After the talk it was the turn of the Holmpatrick kids manning stalls around the room. They each explained a different aspect of composting. There were compost doctors, samples of food decomposing, a compost quiz, leaflets and instructions and even seeds being correctly planted. Then compost bins were given out as raffle prizes and biscuits and orange were given out to those in attendance.
‘BIN’ THERE, DONE THATCompost kids dig up the dirt on recycling those rinds and peel as local school leads the way and shows how easy it is
HAT’S THE WAY WE LIKE IT: Diarmaid Sheridan planting seeds in recycled pots
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Faces in the crowdOur Paddy’s Day parade pictures continue
Photographers: Mark Wilson, Michael Johnston and David Diebold More pics on Page 38
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From aSkerriestypewriter
Can you write? Are you from Skerries? Would you like to be published? If yes, please send your submissions of 850 words or less via email to us at [email protected]. The best will be published each month on this page. Our writer for this month is LORI ALEXANDER of Skerries. Her article is for young mothers with small children. We know it’s not easy!
ou know that niggling voice No such luck! The chances wearing both.that tells you to jump up are, he isn't playing quietly. No When will I learn? Silly Yand check your child's matter how carefully the question. I've learned. Ignoring
whereabouts. It whispers, "he's markers and non-washable the silence is thrill seeking too quiet". "The dog isn't crayons have been hidden away, behaviour. It's my daily brush snarling". "The cat hasn't 'artwork' will be found scrawled with danger. How far can I push scrambled past, squealing across the wall. He'll be my luck? How many dishes can I toddler in mad pursuit". "No discovered, chair pulled up to wash before he pries open the demands for, "JEEEEEWCE!" the fridge, opening pots of birdcage and plucks Gary the resound through the kitchen." youghurt. Or he'll be wearing Canary from his perch?Just silence. Something is lipstick, or his dad's fuzzy terribly wrong. slippers. Some days, he will be CONTINUED ON PAGE 36
I've learned to never underestimate that niggling voice or the destructive prowess of a small child. Sometimes I just weight the odds and take my chances.
I also have a hundred emails to answer. I have that bucket to take to the compost heap, preferably without a child in tow getting grubby, soaking his clean socks, and tracking mud back into the house. I could use my three minutes to balance the checkbook. If I hurry, I can hang the damp laundry safely out of reach before my baby has a chance to drag it across the patio. I might even experience a fragment of coherent thought.
Then I hear the rustling...the contented chatter...the sounds of a sweet-natured child playing quietly. I'm lulled by the thought of peaceful investigation of educational toys...his delight in cuddling a beloved teddy bear. I'm drifting away, giving in to my desperation induced complacency.
THREE MINUTES OF SILENCE
‘He'll be wearing lipstick, or his dad's fuzzy slippers. Some days, he will be wearing both’
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HE opening night for Paul D'Arcys latest exhibition on Friday 30th March at the Daffodil TGallery was a great success. Trevor Sargent
opened the exhibition and local art lovers turned out in force. The paintings, a mix of real and surreal, draw the viewer in and stimulate the imagination. They are concerned with the balance of nature and the universe and are truly stunning. Paul revealed that 14 out of the 20 had sold and other galleries were coming to view the rest later in the week.
Our pictures show - Paul D'Arcy, Theresa Price and Trevor Sargent - Fiona Mackle and Elaine McGloughlin - and the mostly Skerries crowd
Top artist’s local opening night
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N MOLLY Malone's time, the city was famous for its cockles and Imussels, but nowa days it's world
famous for Dublin Bay prawns. However, local inshore fishermen, who trawl for prawns from Howth, Skerries and Balbriggan, just as their forefathers have for centuries, are now scrimping to make a living.
The number of boats is falling. The current generation of family fisher men are no longer able to make ends meet, and young men, the last in their line, are reluctantly having to leave the boats behind. in damp conditions aboard strong smell of diesel and the steady,
It was never a job for the faint- uncomfortable boats, since he was 15. deafening thump of the propeller, deck hearted as I discovered. “My father didn't want me to go to hands huddle in cramped, damp
At 4.30 in the morning, it's pitch sea,” recalls John. “He is a trawler quarters, wedged into the space dark. A bitter southerly wind whistles skipper and I grew up with him being between the galley stove and bunks, through the sodden ropes and lines of away for six or eight weeks at a time, playing cards or tying knots, or a working prawn trawler as she sometimes worrying whether he'd catching a few hours kip.ploughs through muddy waters out of come back at all. “There's a clock, we call it the the tiny harbour. “He knew the hardships and he Richter scale, which marks the list of
But today someone has remained didn't want that for me. But nothing the vessel. When you're steamin' out behind, to work away from the sea he could stop me. I loved everything with the weather beam on, you can roll respects and loves. about the boats. I'd hop off school and 45 degrees. It's really scary.
“This is the time when you take a hang around the harbour. You could “Sometimes my whole life would good last look at the land around you,” say I've sea water in my veins.” flash in front of me. When you look up says John Lawler from the shore, John watches now as the boat and see the fellah in the top bunk and “because there's always that possibility disappears into the dark. The course is you're supposed to be underneath, but in your mind that you might not make set for 10 miles off the coast, where he's in front of your face like you're it back.” the comforting lights of land are lookin' up a hill. You think, this is it.”
John's family have fished these distant, where pilot whales, seals and Ironically, water terrifies John. “I waters for three generations, almost 80 basking sharks patrol the murky can't swim. Most fishermen can't.” It's years. But now he faces a future depths beneath the giant tumbling bad luck, like saying the word `rat' or working ashore, wrapping pallets in a lumps of white capped sea. This is `pig' on board, or throwing a cigarette packaging plant, a fish out of water. where the prawn beds are. packet over the side. Not being able to
At 24, he is old before his time. He “That's the time I'd love the best,” swim makes you more careful, more suffers from arthritis in both hips, the he says, “steamin' out.” He describes respectful of the sea. “You'll never see result of working 14-hour shifts, often vividly how, below deck, amid the a fisherman sitting with his back to the
Young man There has been a sea change in fishing, with Skerries trawlermen struggling to survive while the rest of the country booms. Local fisherman John Lawler, whose family have fished for generations, tells David Diebold why he must turn his back on the life he loves
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happens, but not so much any more. rail. If you go over they'll never find water!' then `WHOA!'. If the When it does happen, a boat with a you. It's the tidal currents. They've winchman doesn't hear you and the `duck's arse’ [a pointed stern] will cut never found anyone whose been lost trawl boards go up into the winch, the water but a flat back boat will sink over the side around here. that's it. You're history. If just one of immediately.”“Muddy. This is prawn weather,” those lines breaks it'll take a hand
On an average working day, most says John. “The rough water churns up clean off,” says John.boats will steam out for hours, then the sea floor. They'll be out there The trawl doors are tied up and, as take several shots or tows, trawling for looking for muddy water around the the catch comes up the side, the muck, about four hours each time. It can take boat and then they'll start trawling.” or silt is let drain away from the net. twice as long to return to port, “When he's ready to bring the catch Once the catch is aboard, you start depending upon the tides.in, the skipper will go down below and shovelling the prawns into the baskets.
Some boats have to sit and wait for tell the lads. That's when you wake Then everyone is tailing the prawns, hours before they can enter the yourself up and have a quick cup of right there, on benches, as fast as they harbour. “Balbriggan is especially tea and a smoke before going to can, while the nets go back down for bad,” says John, “all silted up and full work.” another shot.of old hulks that have been dumped And work they do. The squealing “We would say `we have to kill there from Howth.”of cables over the deck blocks these bastards before they kill us' and
At the end of the day each of the suddenly signals that the winchman is sometimes it would seem like the crew are paid with a share of the bringing in the catch. As the nets come prawns were growing right there in catch. The owner of the boat gets half up they takes their places. front of us. But you'd never hope to the shares and, after the cost of oil and Commands have to be roared over catch less, you're always hoping for food is subtracted, the rest is divvied the howling gale and the shriek of the more than it seems you can get up between the skipper and the deckwinch motors, otherwise there could through.”
very well be a disaster. When the trawl Prawn-catching can, literally, be a CONTINUED NEXT PAGEdoors come up someone will shout matter of life and death. “My uncle's
`comin' up!' and then `out of the boat was dragged by a submarine. It
and the sea DEPTHS OF
TERROR
SOMETIMES the net yields more than prawns.
“A basking shark will destroy nets,” says John, “and
there’s 20-footers off the Dublin coast.
But there are worse nightmares lurking.
“I remember we saw something in the nets once,
bumping and crunching against the beam. We were
sure it was a human body and we cut it loose.”
Bodies are rarely reported as to do so can
mean forfeiture of anentire catch.
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name of John Brennan.One of the most tragic accidents to occur in
The following particulars were Skerries was the death by furnished to an Evening Herald drowning of Muriel representative today by a friend of
the deceased lady.McDonagh, wife of Thomas McDonagh, one of the
Mrs McDonagh was staying in leaders of the 1916 Miramar Skerries, a house on the
beach, rented by The National Aid rebellion. The following and she was accompanied there by report is taken from a other widows of executed leaders,
newspaper dated July 1917 Mrs James Connolly, Mrs Joseph Mary Plunkett and Mrs Eamon Kent.
HE news of the tragic death of Yesterday afternoon, at about 4.30, Mrs Muriel McDonagh, widow Mrs McDonagh went to bathe and To f P r o f e s s o r T h o m a s her companions, who were on the
McDonagh, one of the executed beach, thought she intended to Rebellion leaders caused a painful swim to Shinnick Island a mile away, sensation in Dublin where the as she was making in that direction.deceased was held in very high esteem by a large circle of friends. The tide was half out at the time and
the average depth of water was Mrs McDonagh arrived in Skerries about four feet. They knew that she at the beginning of July for a holiday. was a good swimmer but had not She was stated as having been had any practice for some years. swimming to Shinnik [sic] Island Her friends became alarmed after a when she either became weak or time and noticed that she was in got caught by cross currents and difficulties. They went to go for a suddenly disappeared. When the boat to go to her help.There was alarm was raised a number of some difficulty in getting a boat and people put off in boats and searched when Mr Battersby (Shennick the sea between Shinnick, but Lodge) came to their aid with his without result. b o a t , M r s M c D o n a g h h a d
disappeared.A great number o f peop le congregated on the island and A search was made in the vicinity of maintained their search until the place where she was last seen, darkness set in. When the tide and Mr McDermott's sailing boat receded, the people were able to and several other boats assisted in walk from the mainland to the island. the search when the alarm was The deceased lady was the raised but no trace could be found of daughter of Mr F Clifford, soliciter, the deceased.Dawson Street, and another married sister in Dublin, Mrs Wilson. At about eight in the evening a large The deceased had two sisters who search party went out to Shinnick went to America a couple of years Island and also along the mainland ago and have since married in the coast, but discovered no sign of the States. One of them was an able body. contributor to irish papers both in Ireland and in America under the CONTINUED ON PAGE 32
The Young Man and the Sea
(continued)
hands. The skipper gets two shares, the rest get one each.
That can mean good money for a young man on a good day. But fish ing is seasonal. There are many days when you'll catch hardly anything. “April and May are the hungry months - great weather but nothing out there.
“The other killer is the twin riggers out of Howth - big boats that can go out in all kinds of weather,” he says.
“It's hard to believe, when you go into a supermarket and see the price of prawns, that there's no living to be made as a fisherman. But the price is set by the one processing plant.”
John says the government should set the minimum price for prawns. “If it keeps going this way there'll be no one to do the job. There used to be 24 boats out of Balbriggan, now there are 16. Skerries used to have the biggest fleet in Ireland - now it has about four boats.”
Although the fishing life is tough, John will miss it. Most people don't even know where prawns come from, the hardship and the heartache. But most people have also never seen a 30-foot pilot whale bobbing in the water in front of them, or snatched a seagull out of the air and rocked it to sleep in their hands, or seen the sun rise over the sea.
John's pain is that of a man who recognises that he may never be able to support his family doing what is most important to who and what he is: a fisherman through and through.
“My wife says I still thrash around, roaring `hold that net' sometimes at night in my sleep,” says John. “She knows I can never be totally happy without being on the boats. Ever.”
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HE Kybe pond in Skerries is remain vigilant. Bird flu is carried the body, but a child could have a popular spot for parents and and spread by waterbirds so all brought the body of this duck home Tchildren to stop at on the way unexplained or suspicious dead out of curiosity. Just to advise
to or from school. Many do so each waterfowl should be reported to the anyone reading this, should you day to feed the ducks some bread. I Department of Agriculture just so come across a dead duck anywhere, pass by the pond each day myself they can check them out. I duly rang to notify the Department of and see the kids having a great time up the Department when I arrived Agriculture by phone (1890-200510) watching the ducks fight over the home, and they sent out a vet to get and they will arrange for someone to bread. Unfortunately there are no the body. I had seen the body at one investigate.swans nesting at the Kybe pond this thirty and again at two thirty but Do not touch the body and keep year but they have in the past. when I met the vet at the pond at your kids away from it. It is at this
Recently I noticed the body of a four o’clock the body was gone. time of year that waterfowl are dead duck washed up in a corner of We searched around the pond but migrating and moving around so the pond. It was a female mallard no sign of it. I asked the vet if I perhaps this it the time to let people and was upside down so it was not should have taken it out and put it be aware of this possible danger to very obvious, it was also partially somewhere for him, and he advised public health. Please do not stop covered with dead reeds. me to just get a rake or such and pull feeding the ducks, It is more likely
Ever since I registered my small it ashore where he could get it. He that the duck died of natural causes. flock of hens with the Dept. of stressed not to touch the body. The Female Mallards are sometimes Agriculture I have been inundated only way for humans to catch Bird drowned by over enthusiastic males with regulations and advice about flu is by direct contact with a trying to mate with her.bird flu (N1H5). Ireland has escaped contaminated bird. this disease so far but we all must I do not know what became of JOHNNY WOODLOCK
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death of the deceased lady and of Mr Roderic O'Connor gave formal which they would have the full identification of the body. The evidence. Miss Ina Connolly, 22 St deceased was 31 years of age. Dr Seaside Patrick's Road, Dublin, said she was Healy stated that from the position a great friend of the deceased and of the hands and there being no was staying with her at Skerries. water in the lungs, he concluded
that the heart failure due to On the previous evening, she exhaustion was the cause of death.tragedy accompanied the deceased to the strand. Mrs McDonagh was a very Before the jury retired to consider strong swimmer and swam in the its verdict, Mrs Plunkett remarked direction of Shinnick Island. She was that in the interests of visitors, there
CONTINUED FROM PAGE 24 very far out, continued Mis Connolly, should be lifebuoys or boats on the when the crowd started to call out to strand. People had to depend on
The body was discovered at 7.30 his her to come back. She turned around the generosity or humanity of their morning on the shore at a place only and looked at us. She seemed alright neighbors as in this case. The jury about a quarter of a mile away from at the time and swam further out. found that the deceased died of the scene of the tragedy. This bathing heart failure due to shock or fatality is the first for 35 years in Mrs Plunkett said “My Goodness! exhaustion. They expressed their Skerries. The depth of the water She is an awful distance out.” deepest sympathy with the friends between Shinnick and the shore is Witness suggested getting a boat to and relations of the deceased. deceptive and it is believed that Mrs go after her. There was one on the McDonagh must have got cramps or strand. Mrs Plunkett told witness to AUTHOR’S NOTE: There is an otherwise been taken suddenly ill look after the baby and went to get a account given on the death of while swimming. boat. Witness brought the baby into Muriel McDonagh on the internet
the house and when she brought it which stated that she drowned When the body was found, it was out there was no sign Mrs whist swimming out to Shennick lying face downward with the hands McDonagh. She saw the boat go out Island carrying the Irish flag, crossed. Last night, Mr Roderic and asked Mrs Plunkett what kept her with the intention of erecting it O'Connor, Father Albert, Franciscan so long. She said that the people in on the island. There is no Church Street, Dublin, and Mr Fred the house would not give the oars, suggestion of this given in the Allen, National Aid Association that the servants would not give them newspaper account.Secretary, arrived in Skerries and are out on any account.making arrangements for the funeral.
Laurence Devine gave evidence as The deceased lady, who was a to the finding of the body. A juror said Protestant previous to her marriage, that the people of Skerries would be ‘When thewas received into the Catholic most anxious to help this lady if they church a few months ago. She had thought that she was in distress and body was been receiving instruction since the in their interest the matter of the oars execution of her husband. The ought to be cleared up as it was not found,remains will be removed to the Pro any one from this place that did this. Cathedral tonight. Sergeant Burke, R.I.C., said that the it was face house in question was owned by Sir
John Griffith, but he and his family THE INQUESTwere away at the time and the downwardservant said that she had not Mr Thomas Early, Deputy Coroner, understood what the lady wanted the held an inquest this afternoon on the with theoars for. Mrs Plunktt said that the body of Mrs Thomas McDonagh, refusal was not due to ignorance. A whose body was discovered early handslady wearing a soldier's badge asked this morning. Mr Early said that they for the oars also and they were still were there to inquire into the very refused.distressful circumstances of the crossed’
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How to tell your Torahs from your Celtic cúizis
Report by PAULINE O’HANLON
he monthly meeting of the Skerries Historical Society was held in Keanes Bus Bar on Tuesday T13th March. The talk entitled "Irish County
Nicknames and Coats of Arms" was given by John A. Kavanagh. It was an interesting, intriguing lecture given without any notes or slides.
The talk ranged from the Old Testament, to the Crusades, the Saracens, Brian Boru, Henry VIII of England, the American Revolution and Lord Cornwallis, The Duke of Wellington, Daniel O'Connell and Catholic Emancipation.
We learned about the nicknames of some of our Irish Counties. Meath - the Royal County - was where the Royal High Kings lived at Tara. The name Tara, was supposedly derived from the Jewish Book of the Torah. Brian Boru was, probably, the nearest concept of a Celtic High King. According to Celtic Law a candidate for High Kingship would have to be fearless, have great wisdom, strength, charisma and be without physical blemish or handicap. The Coat of Arms of County Meath is full of symbolism. On the shield is the five-pointed Irish Crown, denoting the fine ancient provinces or 'cúizí' of Ireland. The salmon on the coat of arms signifies the Salmon of Knowledge which Fionn Mac Cool touched with his thumb and became very knowledgeable. Fionn also received healing powers from the Salmon. From Fionn's healing prayer "Slainte an Bhradain Cughat" we still have the drinking toast "Slaínte".
John Kavanagh is the author of two books - one entitled "Irish County Nicknames and Arms" is a detailed account of all the 32 counties of Ireland. His second book deals with states of America. He is now working on a third book. He had copies of his books and we will be able to delve into the histories of thecounties of Ireland. Carmel Power gave the vote of thanks on behalf of the society.
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TIDY TOWNS REMINDERSKERRIES Tidy Towns would like to remind everyone in the town that it is illegal to place notices on lamp posts, poles and cars. This is known as flyposting and is subject to heavy fines. They also say they’d be grateful if residents would check outside their homes for graffiti and remove it as soon as they can, as graffiti will lose Skerries much-needed points in the Tidy Towns Competition. If you need advice on how to remove it, contact Skerries Tidy Towns through the Community Centre and someone will do their very utmost to get back to you with some useful tips.
20-YEAR SCHOOL REUNION UPDATETHE timetable for the 20 year school reunion for the call of ‘87, Holy Faith/De La Salle College on Saturday, 28th of April, has just reached us at Skerries News:
4.00pm: Assembly4.30pm: Tour of the school5.00pm: Class photo - try to have everyone sitting in the same position as the one in 19875.30pm: Pyjama Game - songs with Fr Larkin, followed by tea and sandwiches6.00pm: End of school part; group advances to Blue Restaurant and Bar on the harbour
Suggested donation €5 per person to cover costs of reunion. Surplus funds will be donated to Skerries Community College
NAZI BOOK LAUNCHED: Gerry Mullins of Skerries pictured at the launch of his book, Dublin Nazi No.1, in Skerries Rugby Club recently. The book charts Mahr and his family’s history and features Balbriggan - scene of the Hitler Youth Camps, and Malahide where the Mahr family holidayed.
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know I could just as easily find impression he considers mayhem ‘I know I could him relaxing in the fish tank. a synonym for 'self-expression'. I Sometimes I charge around a marvel at his lack of self-just as easily find
corner, hoping to catch him in preservation instinct.the act, determined not to have The non-initiated may see my him relaxing in to re-clean the room I just child's escapades as the result of finished tidying. I have too often insufficient supervision. Every the fish tank’shampooed a carpet only to harried mother who leaves the discover my son has shed his store, her groceries abandoned, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 19nappy and left yet another with a shrieking child slung over puddle. I'm hoping my guerilla- her shoulder has faced down the It's not entirely impossible style supervision will keep him stares. We know what the that I could find him curled up on his toes. Maybe my 'toddler free' are thinking.fast asleep, but I'm more likely unpredictable appearances will They're smug in their to find him ripping wall paper keep him wondering whether it's certainty that they would handle from the walls, or reorganizing worth even starting the process the screaming-for-sweets child and inventorying the coal of reordering the food cupboard. with aplomb, eradicate world bucket. If I hear him yelling,
Why go to all that effort if I hunger, and bring peace to our "Hi!", I expect to find my little might suddenly appear? beleaguered earth. They boy half-naked, hanging from his Hopefully, I am installing the probably also had the bedroom window, and shouting niggling voice in him, too. opportunity to breathe, to go to at the neighbours.
Some days, short of the toilet alone, and to eat two Am I guilty of maligning my physically sitting on my son, consecutive bites of a hot meal.child's good name when he could nothing will dissuade him from If they ever become parents, be found cheerfully arranging his his urge for mischief. I get the they’ll learn.toy knights and horses? No. I
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KERRIES Harps girls U14 football team completed the Sdouble when winning the Div. 1
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Playing with a very strong wind in the first half the Harps led by 1 - 5 to 2 – 1 at half time with the goal coming from full forward Lisa McGonagle.Playing into the wind in the second half, Skerries had a great start with a goal from Sarah Brannigan. A lovely pass from Orlaith Durkan to Aine Gilmore and on to Sorcha Kelly ended in a super goal from Kelly. Scoil came back with a goal and a point. Skerries then got a free 40 metres out and with superb thinking Becky Davey sent it into Caoimhe Halpin who powered a great shot into the back of the net.
Scoil Ui Chonaill scored another goal and 2 points. Davey then went
Caoimhe Halpin, Sarah Branagan, TEAM: Aisling Spillane, Laura onto score another goal and a point to Aine Gilmore, Lisa McGonagle, Fitzpatrick, Leanne Kelly, Dayna seal the victory. A superb second half Sorcha Kelly. Curtis, Roisin Leneghan, Edel Carroll, performance by the Harps and a well SUBS: Ciara Rogan, Robyn Kehoe, Kathy Gilmore, Orlaith Durkan, deserved victory. Final score Harps 5 – Leanne Murphy, Rachel O'Flaherty, Rebecca Davey, Sarah Brannigan, 6, Scoil 4 - 4 Katie Scully.
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Skerries child stars
DO YOU KNOW A YOUNG ACHIEVER? CONTACT [email protected]
on RTE1. During each ad Blake Webbbreak, he says something
Age 11 different. Blake is in Orla Hopkins’ Dance
DO YOU recognise this Dimensions class and Orla face? Blake Webb is in a put him forward for the series of adverts for audition. This is the only Goodfellas Pizza, ad campaign he has done Saturdays from 6.30pm, so far but he would really during the Big Big Movie like to do more.
The Goodfellas Pizza Boy
first job was for an Jessica DieboldItalian clothes company
Age 5 and as the photographers and their assistants didn't
JESSICA is on the cover speak any English they of the 2007 train sang Happy Birthday to timetable, posters for her to make her smile!which are at stations all Her next job was for over the country Ballygowan. Since then (including Skerries, she has worked fairly above). Jessica has been regularly. She likes doing child modeling performing, clothes and since she was two. Her make-up.
The Irish Rail Poster Girl
The All-Ireland Gymnast
days a week. The Orlaith TrantSkerries team won first
Age 7 place in the Regionals Competition and
ORLAITH has been Orlaith got through to doing gymnastics for represent us in the two years and got into Nationals. She the Skerries Squad last represented North Co. September. She trains Dublin in the under 10s for two and a half even though she is hours, three or four only seven years old.
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Marie Fallon
Table Medley
showing at the
Daffodil Art GalleryMilverton, Skerries
28th April - 12th May
Tel: 849 2142 email: [email protected] are located just outside Skerries Town
on the Lusk/Skerries Road
www.daffodilgallery.com
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GAA who were only narrowly beaten in SOCCERFirst Year Boys beat Portmarnock the All-Ireland S/F Mental Health U18 Girls – hard luck on defeat by 6/8 to 4/2and Col. Choilm 4/10 to Ireland public speaking competition Castleroy in the All-Ireland semi-2/6 this week. Senior girls beat Old in Carlow. final on Monday. This is the first Bawn to reach Leinster S/F. time since 2000 that we have got
FUNDRAISING this far but compensated by beating CAMOGIE Well done for all the hard work to all Portmarnock 3-0 in the league. U16 Junior Girls are now in the Leinster students and staff who together Girls beat St Kevins 2-1 after extra S/F after their recent win over donated over 2,500 for Trocaire in time to reach the All-Ireland Cup Thomastown. the College. final against Castleknock – which
was an astounding 3-0 victory for BASKETBALL RUGBY our team.Well done to First and Second Year Congratulations to the JCTs who Boys teams on their recent wins beat Roscrea in this week's match. GYMNASTICSover St Finians of Swords. Well done Emily Branagan who
BADMINTON won gold in the four-piece set in the PUBLIC SPEAKING Boys U16 badminton were only All-Ireland competition.Well done to Bill Corbett , narrowly beaten in the quarter final Christopher Henry and Maria Green Div 2 against Terenure College. - CON BISSETT, PRO
SKERRIES COMMUNITY COLLEGE SPORTS TEAMS ENJOY A MONTH OF VICTORIES
SKERRIES Karate Club was represented at the 4th Edition Malta Open Karate Championships by their club instructor and North Fingal Shotokah Group team coach Michael Blount.
The Event was hosted by Mr Chris Galea, Chief Examiner to the Shotokan Karate School of Malta and held in Dingli’s Don Bosco Sports Stadium.
Prior to the championships a referee and judges course was given by Mr Oliver Brunton, former secretary of the EKF/WKF refer commission.
Skerries Coach Michael Blount entered the veteran Kata event and took 2nd place and also refereed and judged both Kata and Kumite events.
Certificates of attendance were also issued to those at the referees course.www.skerrieskarateclub.com.info@[email protected].
KARATE NEWS
St Pats line up to say thanks for the jerseysA PICTURE of boys and girls from St Patricks SNS wearing their new jerseys sponsored by Skerries Credit Union. Many thanks to the Credit Union for their support from everyone at St Patricks.
What’s YOUR team or club up to? Send us a photo or mail us an update. Skerries News is YOUR community news. Email us at [email protected] write to Skerries News Community Sports Pages,c/o 1 Ardgillan View, Skerries
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Skerries bids fond farewell to much- loved local man
great affection, recalling his chats with them all and what a familiar sight he was putting balls in his front garden.
During his lifetime, Eamonn always made a very special effort to attend the funerals of any golfers who he had met over the years and in turn there was a huge turn out for his funeral when the golf club formed a guard of honour outside the church. He loved music and ESCRIBED as “a thorough radio and family gatherings and gentleman” by all who knew he was very good at going back Dhim, the late Eamonn i n t o f a m i l y h i s t o r y a n d Branagan whose death took place remembering events with great recently, will be sorely missed by accuracy. His sister May Ryan his family, neighbours and friends.recalled that at a family party at Christmas he sang “Our House” Eamonn was one of a family of six amid great applause. children who with their parents
occupied the historical Mill Cottage There were very many tributes at (now sadly disappeared, but Eamonn’s funeral including a pictures of which can be seen at magni f icent wreath f rom Skerries Mills). He went to St. Manchester United as well as Patrick’s National School and Eamonn as was evident at the huge those from Skerries Town and afterwards went to work at turn out at his funeral.the Golf Club. Eamonn will Milverton Quarries. Also during his simply be remembered as a very lifetime he worked on local farms Football also featured in Eamonn’s popular local Skerries man with and in latter years with Fingal Co. life in a very big way and he was a a deep love of sport and a great Council in the Roads Department. devoted supporter of Skerries affection for his family. He is Town, attending all the matches and survived by his sisters May and Eamonn developed a great love for giving support in many ways Margaret and his brothers sport early on in his life, and his love including selling lotto cards for Brendan and Patrick. for both golf and football was many years. A huge Manchester
legendary. He started off as a United fan, Eamonn loved to travel young boy caddying at Skerries to Manchester to see his favourite Golf Club and had the privilege of team play which he did on many getting to know many famous occasions. But people will miss people including the late Sean Eamonn in particular for his Lemass. He in turn became a golfer personality and his interest in of great skill and ability and loved everything which went on in the his Sunday morning games with his town. He enjoyed his coffee in the friends Eddie Coleman, Seamus Bus Bar, his trips to Bobs Casino Murphy and the late Cathal Boyle and his daily visits to his sister who died very recently. Golfers May’s home in the Mourne Estate. from all over the county knew Neighbours speak of Eamonn with
A THOROUGH GENTLEMAN: Eamonn also supported local sport any way he could
Top club Manchester United even joins tributes to well-known face around the town, writesLiz Kenny
‘Eamonn was one of a family of six who occupied the historical Mill Cottage, now sadly disappeared’
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