Month: August 2021

August Newsletter

Creativity on a Shoestring   Welcome to the bonkers world of creative reuse. Hop out into your garden, dive up into your attic, rummage in your drawers, and go fish in your bin. Look high and low for inspiration. Get curious about the possibilities all around you. Make the unloved lovable. Find beauty in waste. This workshop is for young budding curious explorers. With ReCreate Ireland, we’ll show you how your family can to do ‘creativity on a shoestring’. This workshop is part of ReCreate Ireland’s Curious Play Summer Series. Online platform: The online workshops will be delivered using the Zoom video call software. It will be necessary to download this free software in advance of your workshop. For safety reasons and to support your participating child, a parent or grown-up must be present in the room throughout all activities and workshops. Parents are welcome to participate. Children’s Art in Libraries Creative Hubs sustain high quality arts experiences for children, schools and families to access in their library and locality, through partnership. Brought to you by Dublin City Arts Office and Libraries. Date: Wednesday 18th August  Time:10.30 -11.45am Age: 5-8 years (and families) Where in the World  Have an imaginary day. Transport yourself and your family to another place, another planet, under the sea or even a trip to an imaginary island. Inhabit a new place, create new characters by transforming the space around you. This workshop is part of ReCreate Ireland’s Curious Play Summer Series. A quirky box of reuse materials will be provided by ReCreate and can be collected from Cabra Library in advance of the workshop Online platform: The online workshops will be delivered using the Zoom video call software. It will be necessary to download this free software in advance of your workshop. For safety reasons and to support your participating child, a parent or grown-up must be present in the room throughout all activities and workshops. Parents are welcome to participate. Children’s Art in Libraries Creative Hubs sustain high quality arts experiences for children, schools and families to access in their library and locality, through partnership. Brought to you by Dublin City Arts Office and Libraries. Monday 16th August 10.30am – 11.45am 5-8 years (and families) Summer Stars Summer Stars National Reading Adventure 2021 Summer Stars is the public library national summer reading programme for children that runs from the 14th of June until the end of August. All children throughout the country are invited to join the adventure and to enjoy the fun and pleasure of reading and writing over the summer. Register with library staff to join and get your own Summer Stars reading card to record your progress, there will be rewards and incentives along the way. Summer Stars is non-competitive and every child who reads even one book/ ebook is regarded as having completed the programme – and it’s all completely free! Do you have strong views about a book you read? Was there a brilliant character that you wanted to shout about? Or was there a big twist in the plot that startled you? Have your review published online. Enter this year’s Summer Stars short story competition! Open to 6-18 year olds living in the Republic of Ireland. There are three age categories: age 6-9, age 10-14, age 15-18.  To enter, write a story using the following opening line: Of all the places in the world, I never thought I would be here. Each category winner will receive a Tablet. Each finalist in all categories will receive a €50 voucher. That’s a lot of great prizes and a lot of chances to win so let your imagination fly and start writing today!

As you know the Navan Road Community Council has had numerous meetings with the National Transport Authority (NTA) in relation to the proposed Bus Connects proposal.  We have made it clear at our meetings and through our submissions that we will not tolerate the removal of trees on the Navan Road

Our avenue of trees is looking really good at present but can you imagine what it could look like if a large proportion of these trees were to be felled?  We have always in our conversations with the NTA stated that we will not accept any tree removal. 

These trees contribute to our Quality of Life. Let’s keep it that way! And, let us have a transport system that works for the pedestrian, the cyclist, the commuter, the elderly and the disabled.

So, our NRCC Committee has now, as other communities have done – placed ribbons on the trees to alert everyone to what might happen if we are not vigilant.