MR TILLEY ENLIGHTENS
Mr Tilley (right) would like to thank local residents for their generous contribution to his Christmas Lights fund raising venture. He was able to donate €1000 to the Hospice and €325 to the Tsunami disaster on your behalf.

CALLING ALL PAST PUPILS
OF MARIAN COLEGE
Marian College is celebrating 50 years with a Past Pupils Black Tie Dinner Dance on Friday 28th October in the Burlington Hotel.

The organisers are very anxious to get in touch with all past pupils. If you are interested telephone 6684036 or email: pastpupilsmariancollege@eircom.net with your name, leaving cert year and phone/email details. Your year representative will then contact you.

ENABLE IRELANDS 2ND ANNUAL ART EXHIBITION
- 23RD &24TH APRIL 2005
Enable Ireland Welcomes you to their 2nd Annual Art Auction & Exhibition. The exhibition will be held in Enable Ireland, Sandymount Avenue, Sandymount, Dublin 4 on Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th April 2005. All welcome.

For more information contact the East Region Fundraising Office on 01-2615921 or email: chazell@enableireland.ie

WOMEN'S MINI MARATHON - 6TH JUNE 2005
The Flora Womens Mini Marathon will be held this year on Monday 6th June 2005. We hope you would support us by raising funds for your local area for children and young adults with physical disabilities. To receive your t-shirt, sponsorship card or any further information, please contact Caitlin or Belinda in the fundraising office on 01-2615921 or 01-2615917 or email: bkearns@enableireland.ie

ENABLE IRELAND'S MID-SUMMER GALA BALL - 18TH JUNE 2005
To raise funds for Enable Ireland Services in the East Region (Dublin / Wicklow), we are organising our 2nd Annual, ‘Mid-Summer Gala Ball’ on Saturday 18th June 2005, in the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham.

If you would like to be part of this exciting fundraising event, tickets can be purchased for €140 or €1,400 for a table of ten people. To make your booking, please contact Caitlin in the Fundraising office on (01) 2615921 or by email: chazell@enableireland.ie

Enable Ireland, founded in 1948, is a leading national provider of services to children and adults with physical disabilities and their families. All proceeds from these fundraising events will go towards enhancing our services in the Dublin/ Wicklow region, where we work to provide a balance of therapeutic, assistive technology, social, educational, training and employment services to clients that takes into account individual and family needs. Services are provided from Sandymount, Bray, Tallaght, Crumlin, Sandyford, Dun Laoghaire and Arklow.

WILD TRACKS
The Irish Wildlife Trust has a current project called Wild Tracks which is aimed at fostering an awareness of local wildlife areas at a community level. They aim to liaise with local community groups to foster a sense of ownership of the wildlife around us in parks, wild areas etc.

This project has been helped with funding from the Vodafone Nature Fund and Conservation Volunteers Ireland. Any group from around the Ringsend/Irishtown/Sandymount area who would like to do a guided walk and talk in the Irishtown Nature park is welcome to contact the Irish Wildlife Trust at 860 2839 to arrange a walk during the month of April.

THE IRISH CYCLING CAMPAIGN
The Irish Cycling Campaign (ICC) recently called on the Minister for Transport, Martin Cullen, to ensure that cyclist and pedestrian representatives are appointed to the new National Safety Council (NSC) board, once its current 3-year term ends on April 14, 2005. Currently both of these key groups of vulnerable road users are excluded from the NSC.

David Maher PRO of the ICC explained “currently cyclists and pedestrians are excluded both from the NSC board and from its Road Safety Committee. The domination of the NSC by sections of the motoring industry such as the AA, the Motor insurers and the National Roads Authority (NRA) has left vulnerable road users voiceless in their campaign for safer roads. Currently there is no forum for cyclists or pedestrians to express their concerns in this area”.

SCHOOLS RADIO PROGRAMME
A new Docklands Schools’ Radio Programme is currently underway with six secondary schools participating, including Ringsend Technical Institute, Westland Row CBS, Marian College and St Mary’s Holy Faith, Haddington Road. The programme is run in conjunction with Anna Livia Radio. Tune in to 103.2 FM Mondays and Fridays at 1 pm from now until the end of May.

SOUTH EAST INNER CITY
The South East Inner City Local Education Committee are busy putting the finishing touches to a Healthy Lifestyles awareness week which takes place from 25 April to 29 April with a follow-up awareness week in early November. The highlight of the week promises to be in St Andrew’s Resource Centre on 27 April when sports demonstrations, club stands, exhibits, artwork and a directory of sports and other club activities will be on display.

CUSTOM HOUSE QUAY PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE
The Custom House Quay Pedestrian Bridge will be officially opened in May and will be called the Sean O’Casey Bridge.

REBECCA IS BELGIUM-BOUND
Rebecca Nagle, aged 12, from Sandymount has been selected to play for the Dublin Under 13 girls’ Basketball team that is travelling to Belgium in May for a five-day Basketball Tournament She plays for Meteors girls’ teams under 14 and under 15. Rebecca is following in her brother Mark’s footsteps as two years ago he played for the Dublin team in the boys U13 Basketball Tournament in Liege, Belgium.

DODDER YOUTH LEARNS TO DRIVE
As we all know the price for driving lessons in this country is very costly. A lot of young people cannot afford to learn how
to drive through professional instruction.

This is the reason why Dodder Youth Service with the help of the RAC School of Motoring gave young people in the locality the opportunity to see what it is like to drive.

Using the RAC School of Motoring simulator the young people learned the basics of driving. They then went on to practice the driving theory test with excellent results. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the experience and now feel they can’t wait to drive.

Dodder Youth Service would like to thank the RAC School of Motoring and their instructor Tony Whelan for volunteering their services. To find out about learning to drive, call the RAC on lo-call 1890621621.

Anyone aged 17 and over, living in the area interested in joining the Dodder Youth Service should contact 6608875.

SEAN MOORE COMMUNITY AWARDS 2005
The Sean Moore Awards for ‘exceptional community service’ are presented in memory of Sean Moore, former TD and Lord Mayor of Dublin. This is the tenth Award Ceremony which began in 1988.

Nominations are open to individuals and groups from Dublin 2, 4 and 6. Community organisations, residents associations, youth groups, clubs and individuals are invited to submit their nominations marked ‘Private and Confidential’ to:

The Chairperson,
Panel of Judges,
Sean Moore Community Awards,
15 Fitzwilliam Street,
Ringsend,
Dublin 4.

Nominations which should be in a sealed envelope must be accompanied by background information about the person or group nominated and details of why you think they should receive an award.

The awards will be adjudicated by an independent panel of judges. Nominations must reach the judges by 5pm on Friday 30th April.