The Royal College of Surgeon’s Ireland in association with REACH is offering free one to one grinds to any students living in Dublin City Centre who are preparing for either Junior or Leaving Certificate. For further information click RCSI Grinds. For queries or to register email reach@rcsi.ie or call (01) 402 2364.

Sandymount Tidy Towns has organised their second Greenway Walk to take place this Saturday the 20th of October at 11am.

The walk will start from the Green in Sandymount and will be followed by tea in the Christ Church Hall.

For more information please click Greenway walk October 20th

Met Éireann has issued a weather warning for Dublin valid until 6 pm on Wednesday 17th. October. They forecast that “some local flooding is possible from the rain but coastal flooding is also a threat due to additional combination of spring tides, low pressure and SE gales and some high seas tomorrow”.

Between 1 am on Wednesday 17th October and 1 30 am on Thursday 18th October there will be a total of three very high tides in a row.  These high tides are above the City Council’s tide watch level and just below the Council’s tide alert level. Following a meeting of the City Council’s Flooding Assessment Group the following precautionary actions are being taken:

The Liffey Boardwalk defences are being closed on Wednesday morning.

• The car parks at Sandymount promenade and at Clontarf are being closed tonight.
• The flood defences on the River Tolka are being put in place.
• Drainage crews are being mobilised.
• The flood gates on the River Dodder have already been closed. There may be very localised wave overtopping in parts of Sandymount and Clontarf.

Dublin City Council maintains a stock of sandbags at various locations for strategic purposes and will be deployed by Drainage staff, if required.

A series of five lectures organised by St Andrew’s Resource Centre and Trinity College Dublin, will begin on Thursday the 1st of November. The theme of the series is Trinity and its neighbours, centring on historical figues such as Daniel O’Connell and King Sitric and their connection to areas in the city centre. For more information on this lecture series click Trinity and Its Neighbours

Thank you for your letter regarding St. Mary’s Day Centre in Rathmines. I appreciate you taking the time to write to me about this matter.

This issue was brought to my attention some months ago by Joan Steadman and Father Sheehy.

Following our discussions I then spoke to the Health Service Executive in order to get further details of the plans for St. Mary’s and the area in general. It is true that the HSE is planning to consolidate services to save money, but also, to try and better manage the huge problems with sick leave within the organisation and how this impacts on the delivery of services. The aim insofar as St. Mary’s is concerned is to ensure that sick leave does not mean that the centre would have to be closed on a given day.

This is the explanation that was given to me though I am looking into it further given the importance of the service, the people who work there and those they look after. As I write this, it is my understanding that no final agreement has been reached.

I understand the importance of this facility for the community and I am actively working to address any curtailment of services. I have been in touch with the Minister directly on this issue, she has responded to me and we will be discussing the matter further.

Thank you very much for your interest.

All the best,

Eoghan

Following Sandymount’s success in this year’s Tidy Town competition a public meeting will be held this Thursday (11th) at 7.30pm in Scoil Mhuire to celebrate the result and plan for 2013. For more information on the meeting click here: October Public Meeting

The Ringsend Slí na Sláinte walkings routes will be launched by Cllr Kieran Binchy on October 17th at  11.30am.

The launch is taking place in Ringsend Park and will be followed by a short walk along the new route.

If you are an arts project based in Dublin City Centre you may qualify for funding from Dublin City Council.

Click to read the guidelines and criteria: Arts Grant 2013

To download an application form click: Application Form

Congratulations to Mark James Kelly and Eric Doyle, pupils of Synge Street CBS, who won joint first prize in the EU Young Scientist physics category in Bratislava.

The boys’ project involved simulating how objects respond to gravity in certain environments and has earned them the top prize of 7,000 euros.

Mark and James were the winners of the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition earlier this year which led to them representing Ireland at the EU Competition.

For more information on the competition and a list of winners see here.

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