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Jun92019.Pdf Established 1967 www.lucannewsletter.ie Sub. 80c Sunday 9th June 2019 Our legacy……. The image shows children running through a buttercup meadow – a natural playground, or is it? The scene is in one of our parklands where wild flowers and grasses have been planted giving us a taste of what life was like in Lucan a couple of generations back. Many of us enjoyed a childhood of running through the fields, that are now housing estates – such is progress!!! But isn’t it sad to think what the collective “we” have done in our time on this earth. There was a time when the term “Climate Change” was very far removed from us ordinary people, but now we find it is in our faces, and “we” unwittingly have played our part. Suddenly, we’re all sitting up and taking notice – the Bloom gardens this year focused heavily on climate change, on both land and sea, we saw wildflower gardens, and pollution from our coasts. Pollination is big on the agenda now when it comes to our planting. The UCD garden showed how our diet has changed over the centuries. Not that we want to go back to nettles and the likes, but we do need to take stock of what we are consuming these days. Who remembers bringing back mineral bottles to the shops for a penny, or leaving out empty milk bottles for the milkman; pre-plastic days when your lunch was wrapped in paper, within a paper bag; terry nappies; food not wanted was placed in a pot to be collected for feeding pigs – ‘slop’ was the term we had for it – yes, this was in Lucan! Bad planning all over the country has played an immense part; our transport system leaves a lot to be desired. I could go on, but the straw that broke the camel’s back is the latest ESB Leaks scandal, where thousands of litres of oil have been leaking into the ground in certain areas for the past twenty years………. When the grandchildren ask “What have you done in your lifetime?”, how will we answer them? m.m. Citizens Information Centre maximum personal rate of SPC. If you have fewer Ballyowen Castle Community Centre, Lucan than 2,080 contributions, you can use up to 1,040 Ph. 0761 07 5090, Fax. 01 6217930 Home Caring Periods (20 years) and up to 520 Email [email protected] credited contributions (10 years), to help you www.citizensinformation.ie qualify for an SPC. Your combined Home Caring Periods and credited contributions cannot be more Opening hours from April 2019: than 1,040 (20 years). Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 10am to 1pm and 2pm to 4pm. Wednesday 2pm to 4pm. If you reached pension age on or after 1 For your convenience, please arrive before September 2012, your entitlement to a pension 12.30pm in the morning and before 3.45pm in the will be calculated using both the current yearly afternoon as we close promptly. averaging system and the new TCA calculation. If you are entitled to a SPC, the rate of pension you Citizens Information Phone Service (CIPS) get will be based on whichever calculation is best 0761 07 4000 opening hours 9am to 8pm Monday for you. You can get a State Pension to Friday. (Contributory) form from your local post office and your Intreo Centre or Social Welfare Branch MABS (Money Advice and Budgeting Service) Office. helpline and MABS mortgage arrears helpline are both on the same number 0761 07 2000 Further information is available from your local Citizens Information Centre. Free Legal Advice Clinic (FLAC) on Thursday nights from 7pm to 8pm. FLAC Legal Information & Referral line 1890 350 250 (lo-call from landlines) / 01 8745690 (mobiles). Primrose Hill Garden st rd Know Your Rights: Opening 1 June – 3 July Featuring Summer Flowers State Pension (Contributory) Question: Very top of Primrose Lane, Lucan I will be retiring soon. I spent many years working and I have also spent time raising and through the black gates caring for my family. Can I qualify for the State 2pm – 6pm every day Pension (Contributory)? Entrance: Adults €6 Answer: The State Pension (Contributory) (SPC) is paid from the age of 66 to people who have worked and have enough social insurance contributions. Would you like to join a free course Recent changes introduced a new method to in Digital Skills in Lucan? calculate the rate of SPC paid to a person who The not-for-profit organisation, Third Age is reaches pension age on or after 1 September starting new classes in the next few weeks geared 2012. The new method can help people who have to people aged 45 and over, those with a disability spent time out of the workforce caring to qualify or currently unemployed. Classes may be of for an SPC. particular interest to a local retirement group. Firstly, you must be aged 66 or over and have Classes will begin at Lucan Library shortly, enough Class A, E, F,G, H, N or S social date and time to be confirmed. insurance contributions, you must have started to The free training course is a 10-hour programme pay social insurance in Ireland before the age of over five weeks, two hours per week, up to 10 56 and you must have 520 full-rate contributions participants per course. It covers introduction to (10 years of contributions). the Internet, Internet security and safety, email, Then, provided you reached pension age on or search engines and websites, accessing online after 1 September 2012, you can have your government services, conducting everyday contributions assessed using the new Total transactions, online banking, online voice and video calls and use of apps. Contributions Approach (TCA) and can avail of a new HomeCaring Periods Scheme. The TCA If you would like to register your interest, phone counts the total number of contributions you have Third Age on 046-9557766, email paid. If you have 2,080 or more contributions (40 [email protected], or log on to years of employment) you will qualify for the www.thirdageireland.ie Lucan U3A U3A stands for university of the 3rd age, university in the sense of a gathering of people. We are a learning circle of people that encourages members to share The following is our provisional programme for this year's Festival: many educational, creative and social activities. We are supported by Age Action. Weds 4th Sept An interesting talk about the "The Invincibles" We meet on the second Monday of the month by Michael O'Doibhilin (venue to be confirmed) from September to June. Our next meeting is on Monday 10th June at 2.30 pm in the Ballyowen Thurs 5th Sept Castle Community Centre, (behind Lidl). Village Historical Walk meet 10.30 opposite New members welcome. Circle K garage (aprox 2 hours) Sale of Lucan Village and surrounding areas 100 years ago Talk and slide show 8pm Celbridge Camera Club Fri 6th Sept Annual Photo Exhibition Interactive forum between 4th yr Primary students and senior citizens 10.30am Castletown House, Celbridge st th Fireworks on the Liffey Weir at 9pm plus 1 to 14 June surprise event 11.00am, to 4.00pm daily Sat 7th Sept Visit our Website: Walk in the historic grounds of Lucan House www.celbridgecameraclub.net (by kind permission of the Italian Ambassador). See Viking village, oldest cemetery in Lucan and various other attractions.Adm €5 at gate from 1pm. Our next open, general Model Railways, Photography, and War of meeting is on Monday 10th Independence exhibitions in St Andrews Parish June; 18.30 to 19.50 in Centre from 2 to 5pm. Lucan Library, in the Sun 8th Sept Supervalu shopping centre. Family Fun Day in the Village. Garda Open Day. Our general meetings allow Food Stalls, Community stalls, street entertainers, the committee to deliver an bouncy castles and Vikings at the weir. update on the progress of key projects and Lucan's own street train. provide attendees with an opportunity to voice Exhibition at St Andrews Parish Centre their opinions and/or bring forward suggestions. All from 2 pm to 5.30 pm. Member or not, if you have an idea or suggestion Generally all events are free but Lucan House you'd like to share, come along and tell us about which is our main fundraiser is charged at €5 with it. Looking forward to a positive and productive children U12 free. meeting. Men's Shed at 086-8178315. More information on venues will be published later. Joe Byrne, Chairman Celbridge Concert Orchestra ANNUAL CONCERT CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL DUBLIN Sarsfield Park & District Association The next meeting is at 8pm on June 11th, in SUNDAY JUNE 23rd 8pm Kenny’s back lounge. With special guests from U.S.A. Grand Haven String Orchestra Michigan This will be our last meeting before Summertime. Local public representatives are welcome to Tickets €10, €5 Concessions: attend. Contact Helen 086 1075084 Parish Notes St Mary’s Folk Group St Mary’s, Lucan Our next Mass is this Sunday at 12.15pm. www.lucanparish.com Please come along and join in the singing. Lucan Justice and Peace Group – Strawberry Breakfast Holy Communion for the sick and Sunday 9th June 2019, housebound: If you wish to avail of this service or if you know 9.00am to 2.00pm someone who does, please contact one of the St Mary’s Parish Centre priests. After all Masses The Irish Catholic: Proceeds are in aid of the Youth Community Don’t miss out! ‘The Joy of the Gospel is here!’ Training Centre in Livingstone, Zambia.
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