N e w s l e t t e r o f t h e M a l a h i d e C o m m u n i t y F o r u m February 2009 / Issue 25 Annual Meeting

Annual Meeting The AGM of the Forum will take place on Monday 23 February at 8pm in the All are welcome! Guttenberg Suite at The Grand Hotel, . If you are a member of one of the following Residents’ Associations, you are entitled to attend and vote: Footpaths Abbott’s Hill, Ard na Mara, Biscayne, Bissett’s Strand, Castle Heath, Chalfont, Chamley Park, Church Road, Gaybrook Lawns, Marina Village, Millview, O’Hanlon’s Lane, Old Golf Links, Old Please lobby Street/Railway Ave, Seamount, Seapark, St. Margaret’s Road, The Haven, The Moorings, The Rise. Reporting Crime Nothing too small Individual members who paid €5 before 31/12/08 are also entitled to vote but anyone can come along and pay €5 at the door to take part in the discussion and then become a member for 2009.

Age Action Agenda for AGM Volunteers needed 1. Report of the Committee 2. Adoption of Accounts* Survey Follow-up 3. Election of Committee for 2009 First results 4. Presentation by Age Action on their Care and Repair service (see below) 5. Any other business Planning *Copies of the accounts for 2008 available from the Hon. Sec. in advance or at the meeting . Do you need permission? Age Action – Care and Repair Graffiti Guardian Delivery Can you help? This Care and Repair Service uses a pool of Individual residents and their associations have volunteers and handypersons to carry out reported a marked increase in graffiti in Malahide small repairs or to complete minor home recently. If the graffiti is on a private boundary wall Graffiti tasks for older people. If you are an elderly it is the responsibility of the owner of the Report it! person and need help with minor electrical residence to remove it. Likewise graffiti on the repairs such as changing plugs, fuses or light boundary walls of Malahide Demesne is the bulbs, hanging curtains, mowing lawns or responsibility of the Parks Department of the Farmers’ Market small plumbing jobs like fixing a dripping tap, Council; road signs are the responsibility of the A welcome return this scheme is for you. It is currently being Traffic Department and the utility companies are set up in Malahide to offer you assistance. responsible for their property. Green Bins Age Action hopes to be up and running by the The placing of graffiti is a criminal offence New collector end of February so if you need help, or know an and incidences should be reported to the local older person who does, please telephone Dan Gardai. Lucey on 086 337 5490 or Dorothy Robinson on The Litter Management Unit of County 845 1232. Council provides support to Residents’ Associa- Extra volunteers are also required. If you tions who wish to tackle this problem and paint / would like to volunteer yourself, or if you know cement mix / paint brushes are provided free of anyone who would be interested, please con- charge. Please call the Litter Management Unit on tact the above numbers. 890 6799 if interested.

Farmers’ Market Planning Permission We are delighted to learn that the Farmers’ Market will re- If you are thinking of making an alteration to your house you turn to Malahide from Saturday 7 February and will open may require planning permission - or you may not. Some small from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm. It will again be an outdoor- alterations are exempt from the requirement to apply for indoor market located in the yard beside the GAA club on permission but there may be conditions that need to be met. Church Road. has an excellent website on which all the rules of planning are clearly shown. www.fingalcoco.ie/planning/ Because an alteration may seem small to you, don’t as- Reporting Petty Crime sume that it may not need permission. Malahide Gardai believe that many small crimes are not being reported and they ask that you please contact Survey Follow-up them about any concerns, no matter how trivial they may seem. The telephone number of Malahide Garda The community survey published eight months ago has had Station is 666 4600. Note it carefully, where you can several positive results. The most significant has been the choice find it easily. of Malahide by Fingal County Council to participate in a new Applications for Neighbourhood Watch schemes need to be liaison scheme between the Council and three communities, the made through the Garda station and will be very welcome. others being Skerries and Ongar The scheme will involve the appointment of a Council liaison officer who will provide a single point of contact for any issue in Malahide, regardless of the Council department involved. Did you get this copy delivered? The County Manager, David O’Connor, attended a recent meeting of the Malahide Community Forum to outline the The Malahide Guardian is published about four times each year. scheme. He made it clear that the survey was a major factor in We try to deliver it to each household in Malahide, over 6,000 the decision to choose Malahide. copies, but inevitably this doesn’t always go according to plan.

We also leave some in the library and various local shops and it can be downloaded on our website, www.muintir.ie/malahide We rely heavily on volunteers who deliver door-to-door in Green Bins most areas but if you didn’t get a copy through your door, The collection of green bins is the responsibility of would you be willing to deliver to the neighbours in your Greyhound Recycling since the beginning of January. There street or area? If so, please contact Malahide Community still appears to be some confusion about the timing of col- Forum, as shown at the bottom of this page. Assistance is lections in different areas. There is a website at always appreciated greatly. www.greenbin.ie and a Customer Service Department on 1890 342 342 from which up to date information may be obtained.

Footpaths We have been constantly trying to have local footpaths repaired and upgraded where necessary. If you are aware of any problem areas, please lobby our local councillors directly. They are listed below for your convenience:

Peter Coyle (The ) Robert Kelly () 8 Burrow Court, , Co. . 64 Seabury Crescent, Malahide, Co. Dublin Tel: 846 0327, Mobile: 087 283 7160 Tel: 087 811 0111 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected]

Alan Farrell () Eoghan O’Brien ((Fianna Fail) 42 Biscayne, Malahide, Co. Dublin 7 Seabury View, Malahide, Co. Dublin Tel: 845 6500, Mobile 086 820 3320 Tel: 086 858 0562 e-mail: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected]

By Post: Hon Sec., Malahide Community Forum, 1A Biscayne, Malahide, Co. Dublin. Phone 845 2142 Email : curegmw@indigo. ie Website: www.muintir.ie/malahide

Committee members : Chairman: Hazel Bolton (Castle Terrace) Vice-Chairman: Michael Gill (Church Rd) Hon. Secretary: Margaret Cure (Biscayne) Hon. Treasurer: Harry O’Neill (Auburn Grove) Nuala Burke (Townyard Lane), Michael Dowling (Chamley Park), Gerry Duggan (Broomfield), Margaret Farrell (Sonesta), Michael Giblin (Old Golf Links), Tim Gillooley (Chalfont), David Greene (The Moorings), Hilary Hughes (Abbott’s Hill), Mark Hely Hutchinson (Church Rd), Mark Keane ( Lane), Dermot Kearns (St Margaret’s Rd), Gerry Kingston (Millview), Anthony Lavin (Chalfont), Marna Law (Marina), Maura Loughrey (The Haven), Donal McCarthy (O’Hanlon’s Lane), Gaye McDonald (Gaybrook), Helen McGivern (Old St/Railway Ave), Catherine McMahon (The Rise), Maire Ni Bhaoill (Castle Heath), Sandra O’Carolan (Seapark), Ken O’Connor (Dublin Rd), Breda O’Mahony (Bissett’s Strand), Desmond O’Neill (Seamount).