Established 1967 www.lucannewsletter.ie Sub. 80c Sunday 12th May 2019 A timely reflection for Ramadan….. Recently two aging parishioners were lucky enough to visit the Great Silk Road in Uzbekistan. The road has existed for millennia and the great cities of Tashkent, Samarkand Bokhara and Khiva were cities of great learning where silks and spices, especially from China were traded for European ideas and contact. Of note is that these cities tolerated the great world religions that lived and intermingled together on the great routes connecting East and West. Intermarriage was common. There are now major infrastructural projects been built to reconnect Europe and Asia by road, rail and air. We live in a world experimenting again with exclusion, hatred and obfuscation rearing their heads despite the obvious post war advantages of working in harmony and supporting the intermingling of different peoples. Europe has been a beacon in that regard. Uzbekistan is a safe and gentle outpost of Islam where there is little exclusion or distrust. The cities are clean and safe and the great Mosques and Madrassahs (schools) stand in monument to their great cultural and scientific achievements. Astronomy, Medicine and writing skills with papermaking and bookmaking were developed in the area under Islamic control. There are many now who preach a distrust of Islam. Myths abound about what that religion actually teaches. The Koran does not preach intercommunal strife and exclusion, it rather preaches and teaches tolerance and hospitality to different races and faiths. To blame Muslims for the evils of a few of their more extreme adherents is like the blame attributed to the Irish as a race for IRA atrocities. Christians also committed atrocities in the name of the Bible over the centuries. Many of our new Irish neighbours are of the Muslim faith. They are our neighbours; we welcome them into our community and we look forward to their cultural and economic input which will definitely be an advantage to us all. After all, we are admonished in this contracting world to love our neighbour. Tony Feeney Citizens Information Centre Free Dietitian Led XPERT Course for Ballyowen Castle Community Centre, Lucan Type 2 Diabetes Ph. 0761 07 5090, Fax. 01 6217930 in Quarryvale Family Resource Centre Clondalkin. Email [email protected] A free 6 week course to help you manage your www.citizensinformation.ie Type 2 Diabetes. This is an award winning Opening hours from April 2019: education course delivered by the HSE Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 10am to Community Dietitian. It is a 6 week course 1pm and 2pm to 4pm. Wednesday 2pm to 4pm. running for 2.5hours each week for 6 weeks. For your convenience, please arrive before The next course we have running is: 12.30pm in the morning and before 3.45pm in the X-PERT course starting Thursday 6th June and afternoon as we close promptly. every Thursday up to and including Thursday Citizens Information Phone Service (CIPS) 11th July in the morning in Quarryvale Family 0761 07 4000 opening hours 9am to 8pm Monday Resource Centre, Clondalkin. to Friday. Places are limited and you must register to MABS (Money Advice and Budgeting Service) attend. helpline and MABS mortgage arrears helpline are Call Elaine Brennan, Diabetes Co-ordinator on both on the same number 0761 07 2000 076 6958054 to register and find out more Free Legal Advice Clinic (FLAC) on Thursday information. nights from 7pm to 8pm. FLAC Legal Information & Referral line 1890 350 250 (lo-call from landlines) / 01 8745690 (mobiles). As part of the Work Matters at the Library Liffey Sound will hold initiative, on the 13th May its Annual General starting at 6.30pm, there Meeting on Thursday will be a series of one on the 16th of May at one sessions on our Online 7.30pm in Ballyowen Resources that are Castle Community Centre, Ballyowen, available on our Webpage. Lucan. Liffey Sound operates to the highest These will assist you in your quest to start a standards. In 2015, we adopted the recognised business, engage in further education or return to Code of Governance for Voluntary and work. Community Organisations and are listed on the The training will help you to access EBooks, E- register of compliant bodies. We maintain the Audio, E-Magazines, Newspapers, Vision-Net, strictest financial controls and operate a totally Language Learning and Online Courses all free open policy, whereby everyone in the community with your Library Card! is encouraged to come in and view our operations and all are welcome to attend our A.G.M You can book a place at Lucan Library by dropping in or by ringing us at 01 6216422. "Lucan Live" Local Election Coverage 2019 Don't forget to tune into Liffey Sound 96.4FM for its comprehensive local election coverage. All candidates from Lucan, Palmerstown/Fonthill will be interviewed on every “Lucan Live” on Sarsfield Park & District Tuesdays & Wednesdays at 3pm for the next few Residents Association weeks. If you have any questions that you would Due to the lack of residents attending the AGM like Brendan or Maria to ask the candidates, on 9th of April it is now being held on Tuesday please email [email protected] or phone the 14th May at 8pm. The venue is Kenny’s 6109339. If you missed any of the programmes, Function Room. It is vital that residents attend the you can listen back to all of them via podcast on meeting; otherwise a new committee cannot be our website and Facebook page. elected and decisions that affect our estate cannot www.liffeysoundfm.ie or catch up on Facebook be supported. Liffey Sound 96.4FM- Lucan's Community Please attend this meeting on Tuesday 14th radio station! May, at 8pm. Society for Old Lucan (SOL) SOL Committee: Helen Farrell (chair), Elaine SOL is the local history group for Lucan; open Hurley, Billy Sines, Darren Tully, Stephen to everyone. Free to join - email Callaghan, Paul Butler. [email protected] We have an active Contact us: [email protected] Facebook group that you can join; “Society for Old Lucan (SOL)” and Twitter as @Soc4OldLucan. Lucan ICA SOL field trip - Leixlip Castle guided tour Tues 14th May: Craft Group Saturday 18th May 10.30-12.00 meet 10am – 12.30pm with Please book your place here: various crafts being worked on. https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/sol-field-trip-guided- We will have our Howth entries tour-of-leixlip-castle-tickets-60976154319 of Arts and Crafts on display for everyone to come in to the bungalow to view No attendance without a booking. Limited to 15 them. attendees, but a waiting list is in operation for this highly popular tour, so if you’ve booked a ticket Wed 15th May: At 8pm, we have invited the and can’t attend, notify [email protected] Women’s Auxiliary of the Ahmadiyya Muslim asap to free up your space. If you have trouble Association of Ireland to come give us a talk on booking your spot, email us. their lives and culture and see our Arts and Crafts. Meet at the castle gates at 10.30 sharp! We wish to say a great big Thank You to Mr. Local tour charge applies, please bring exact Thomas Doolin of Dublin Fire Brigade, who gave change – Adults €8 and Students/OAP’s €4. us a great talk and presentation on Wednesday night on the daily activities of the Fire Brigade and on safety in the home. Update on St. Finian’s & “Adopt a Monument” scheme Get Well Wishes to any of our members who re We are in the finals for the Adopt a Monument unwell at present. heritage scheme which would give SOL members access to the advice and support of archaeologists and heritage experts. This would help us develop St. Mary’s Parish – Lucan the story of the site and have access to archaeological experts and heritage guidance. Ultimately, we want to see St. Finian’s medieval church and graveyard be a heritage tourism spot in Lucan. We should know in the next 2 weeks if we have been successful. More to follow! St. Finian’s Digitised Graveyard Transcriptions Thanks to Dave Power, SDCC Local History, you can now view the transcriptions of all of St. Finian’s gravestones that were extant in the late 1980’s, plus a cemetery map, transcribed by Dr. Michael JS Egan, link = http://bit.ly/2VK1jZ1 This is a fantastic resource for members and for all those who have ancestors buried in St. Finian’s. Many thanks to Dave for this work. All are invited to a meeting to plan our parish Gathering. This Meeting will take May Hermitage talk postponed until place on Saturday May 18th from 2.00 pm to Autumn/Winter 5.00 pm in the Parish Centre. Originally, we’d planned a talk on the Hermitage for May 18th. We have deferred this until the This is an opportunity to be part of shaping winter period as members were keen to go on a the future of St. Mary’s Parish, and we are field trip in the better weather. hoping for a good turnout Christian Meditation: We meet each Tuesday Parish Notes at 8pm in The Bungalow. Everyone welcome. Sr. Geraldine, 6217158 St Mary’s, Lucan www.lucanparish.com St Mary’s Folk Group Best Wishes to the boys Our next Mass is this Sunday at 12.15pm. from Please come along and join in the singing St Mary’s Boys N.S. who will receive their First Holy Communion next Holy Communion for the sick and Saturday 18th May housebound: If you wish to avail of this service Hope you all have a lovely day and please or if you know someone who does, please contact remember this in your prayers one of the priests.