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CONGRATULATIONS TO Our highly trained carers have a reputation for quality care SHANKILL TIDY TOWNS "Our core value is to care for our clients developed over 25 years of as we would for our own families." supporting local Shankill families. - Paul Caskey, Home Care Manager t 01 634 6816 e [email protected] w beechfieldprivatehomecare.ie Ballybrack CHRISTMAS LOAN 01 272 5603 Silver Medal Winners & Third Place Carrickbrennan 01 272 5608 Loan Amount Weekly Payment In Dublin - National Tidy Towns Dalkey €600 €13.22 7 01 272 5605 Overall Winners - Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Foxrock 01 272 5607 Tidy Districts Rate of Interest Number of Weeks Glasthule / Dún Laoghaire 10.44% 48 01 272 5606 More information inside this issue Sallynoggin / Glenageary Typical APR Total Pay 01 272 5604 Shankill 10.99% €629.66 01 272 5602 John Kane and Chris Daly Warning: If you do not meet the repayments on your loan, your account will go into arrears. This may affect your being presented with the credit rating, which may limit your ability to access credit in the future. Terms and Conditions apply. Loans are subject to approval. Core Credit Union is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland. Reg. No. 225CU. E&OE. Tidy Towns Silver Medal by Minister Michael Ring scan 36 www.scanshankill.com An Garda Síochána Crime Prevention CONTACT scan If you have any comments on any article or wish to contact us – our details are: IF YOU SCAN LOVE IT, c/o St. Anne’s N.S. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Stonebridge Road LOCK UP Shankill Joan Randall (RGN), RIP Tel: 086-1065264 AND SUPPORT NETWORK FOR SEPARATED, E: [email protected] The family of the late Joan Randall, Shanganagh DIVORCED AND DIVORCED-AND- LIGHT UP. Grove, wish to express their gratitude to all those who www.scanshankill.com sympathised with us on our recent loss. RE-MARRIED PEOPLE Office Hours: Sincere thanks to all who attended her funeral Mass, A support network for separated, divorced and divorced- everyone who called to the house, sent Mass cards, and-re-married people has been set up within the St. Monday to Friday Simple steps can help letters of sympathy, and to those who also made generous Anne’s Parish community and all are welcome to contact protect your home. donations to the Blackrock Hospice. 087 3814213 9.30am - 12.30 Lock Up and Light Up us by texting or by emailing us at Whether you are at home or as part of An Garda [email protected] going out, remember to turn Special thanks to Fr. John O’Connor for his kindness DISCLAIMER Síochána’s Operation Thor. on some lights, use timer to Joan and for conducting a beautiful funeral service. A supportive, compassionate person in the network www.garda.ie SCAN Newsletter is produced switches, lock all doors and Thanks to Fr. Michael and Fr. Eamonn for their visits, will respond and together you can discuss how the windows, use an alarm, store by members of the Shankill blessings and prayers during her illness. network can be of help to you...either through one-to-one keys away from windows and Community who are voluntary, contact or by welcoming you into our monthly support part-time and unpaid. letter boxes, and don’t keep We also appreciate all the help and support from Joan’s large amounts of cash or extended family, wide circle of friends and all the staff group meetings. Some people may opt for both types of € SCAN does not accept any jewellery in the house. of St. Anne’s Ward for their kindness, all the groups that support, which are freely available to everyone. responsibility for any views Joan had been involved with over the years and indeed all expressed in contributions to the All communications will be guaranteed complete newsletter. Neither does SCAN our wonderful neighbours. confidentiality and everyone will be warmly welcome. take responsibility for any service May Joan Rest in Peace. or otherwise advertised. Michael, Sheila, Niamh and Mark. The Support Network Due to space restrictions TEXT: 087 3814213 publication of all articles cannot be guaranteed. In This Issue... Pearse Connolly, RIP The wife and family of Pearse Connolly, RIP, formerly of 04 Boosting Your Immune System 22 School News in SCAN: Library Road, would like to sincerely thank family, friends For Winter Woodbrook College and neighbours for all the support they received at such a sad time. 07 A message from 23 Great Irish Scientists You SHANKILL Mary Mitchell O’Connor TD May Never Have Heard Of: John Joly 08 Citizens Information: Gerry Comiskey, RIP ChristmasIN THE Budget 24 School News in SCAN: Nancy Comiskey would like to thank all the Scoil Mhuire 10 neighbours who attended the funeral of her husband Editor-In-Chief Shankill Bowling Club Gerry. Their kind words were a comfort. Special Village Barbara Lyons 26 ICA Notes thanks also to Fr. Eamonn Monson and Colliers’ 11 Recipes: Operations Manager Funeral Directors. Mushroom Stuffed Chicken Breasts 27 School News in SCAN: Lynsey Kidd Instant Banana Ice Cream Rathmichael National School Festive Advertising/Office Managers Patricia Kiersey 13 Gardening Tips 28 Shanganagh Cemetery: FIRST SATURDAY BOOK SALE fun Margaret Dromey Beginus Millet for all Helen Taffe 14 Ask a Councillor: Tom Conlon will be selling and signing copies of his Cllr. Carrie Smyth 29 Shankill Old Folks Association books ‘Victorian Dun Laoghaire - A Town Divided’ and Sunday the family Creative Director/ ‘Twice Built - The Construction of St. Patrick’s Church, Advertising Manager 15 30 Monkstown,Co.Dublin at the Saturday November 5th First 27th Dorcas Moore Shankill Action for a Green Earth Shankill Juvenile Hurling Club 1976 Saturday Book Sale, which supports the Shankill Old November Treasurer/Company Secretary 16 Shankill Community Folks Association and Meals On Wheels and takes place 1pm­6pm Paula Gray First Responder 31 Local History Society Lectures in the Shankill Old Folks Association Day Centre, Lower Road, Shankill, between 10am and 1pm. There will be Digital Manager 18 Tidy Towns 33 Shankill GAA Club News the usual excellent selection of books, CDs, and DVDs to Blake Edgmon choose from, so make a point of calling into the book sale 20 Loughlinstown Pitch & Putt Club 34 Planning Notices on Saturday November 5th morning to avail of the opportunity to pick up some excellent reading material 21 Ask a Councillor: for Autumn. Donations of books, other than school/text Cllr. Denis O’Callaghan books, accepted on the day. scan 02 scan 03 a scan march _scan oct good.wed 19/02/2016 12:28 Page 14 SPRINGTIME: NUTRITION TIPS Spring is finally rearing its pretty head. The wild weather of Meat and fish: Buy the best grass reared meat you can winter is, in my opinion, no time to start purging or fad afford and you will get omega 3 oils that are so beneficial to dieting. It’s a time to mind yourself, if just to protect yourself good health, but don’t eat it daily. Processed meat like ham Boosting Your Immunefrom Systemthe elements.Much Forbetter to waitWinter until lovely spring, or sausages contain nitrates, so only consume these occasionally. Eat oily fish such as mackerel, salmon and when the great outdoors beckons. by Ailish Connelly Here we bust some health myths and nail tips for our box sardines up to three times per week. You can feel the chill in the air already and the evenings Keepfresh, up springy your intakesel ves. of bright coloured veg and fruit. Lovely Sugar: Sugar is hidden in many processed foods so don’t scan NEWdrawing dec 2015_scan in. For nourishment, oct good.wed traditionally22/11/2015 14:45 at this Page time 18 of orange root veg, butternut squash, pumpkins, dark green consume often. Sweeten home baking with organic brown year, we turn to warming soups and to stews, to broths, leafyDetox: veg You of alldon’t sorts, need red to cabbage ‘detox’ if youand goplenty to the of loorainbow daily. The organs of detox in the body ie, kidneys, liver, skin and sugar, molasses (full of B vitamins) or wild honey. Fizzy drinks casseroles and seasonal winter veg. coloured fruits will ensure you get your range of vitamins are nutritionally void, so don’t take! andlungs, minerals. do a perfect job of detoxing our bodies without Home made bone broths are an excellent, cheap source special detox products. Drink lots of water, up to 2 litres per Supplements: Vit D supplement is a good for the Immune of minerals to boost our body during the cold and dark of Upday. to Constipation 80% of our immunemeans your system waste is systemin our gut. is sluggish. Yes, our Eat system for winter/spring. In sunshine, expose some skin…up winter. Buy the best meat or chicken on the bone you can gut!fibrous So ourfruits gut and flora veg are and a exercise.very important Psyllium source husks, of available im- to 20000iu Vitamin D is available to the body after 10 afford, preferably organic, use up the meat part and keep munein health health stores, via aregut’s a gentlemucosal way immune to help system.improve Probiotics gut minutes outdoors. the bones for your broth. Boil up bones with some onions, havefunction. an anti-inflammatory action and cause a reduction in Fish Oils (or flaxseed for vegetarians) for brain/skin/Cardio- carrots,SHANKILL some peppercorns and organic veg MEN stock and REMEMBERED IN pro-inflammatory cytokines. So if you don’t take live yogurt vascular health, for those who don’t eat enough fish/seeds.