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Daniel O’Connor find us on facebook Mob . 083 456 2665 Email. [email protected] Page 2 Sandycove and Glasthule Residents Association Newsletter May 2018 Annual General Meeting Our AGM will be held on Monday May 28th 2017 at 8pm in St Joseph’s Pastoral Centre. All members and prospective members are welcome. An Garda Síochána will give a presentation on local issues. They will also take questions from the floor. Judging from their previous presentations, this will be well worth attending. Dear Resident Subscription Renewal at AGM I hope you enjoy reading our latest newsletter. Membership subscriptions are due at AGM time There’s certainly a lot happening in the area at the and valid until the following AGM. You will find an moment. We have three Council developments application form in this newsletter. A form can also ongoing: Hudson Road Field, Otranto Park and The be downloaded from our website. Baths (at last). Membership dues are unchanged: €15 for individual The first objective of SAGRA (from our constitution) and €22 for household membership. is: “to promote a sense of community and You can renew your membership at the AGM. You neighbourliness among residents of the area”. can also drop the form and payment into Eamonn’s With our three public meetings per year and our bookshop, Sandycove. newsletters I hope we are doing that. Do come To speed processing on the night of the AGM, please along to our Neighbours Evening on Thursday 27th have the form filled in and payment ready. September. Payment by standing order will be particularly We continue to raise issues of local concern with welcome. our Councillors, TDs and the council on behalf of residents. For example in this edition we highlight Membership cards will be posted out after the AGM. seafront flooding and Otranto Park. Thank you to our loyal newsletter distributors. Newsletter Distributors Since January 1999 they have been delivering Our newsletter distributors are a vital part of our this newsletter into the homes and businesses of organisation. If you would like to help out please Sandycove and Glasthule. contact any member of the committee. The time Unlike many resident associations we have a vibrant commitment is not big. You will only be called on commercial village in our midst. I hope we continue twice a year. to support them. Thank you to our advertisers - all local. Email Communication If you would like to keep up to date with SAGRA I look forward to meeting you at our AGM on activities and local events please indicate on your May 28th. It’s a great opportunity find out what’s membership application form. happening in the area, raise issues and to meet and chat with your fellow residents and Councillors. If you are new to the area, this is a great way of Advertising introducing yourself. If you are interested in advertising with us please email [email protected] or Regards phone Liam on 086 804 6938. Liam Madden Our next newsletter will be published in November Chairperson 2018 just in time for Christmas! Thank You Unless expressly attributed, the views expressed in this newsletter We’d like to acknowledge are based on editorial decisions broadly reflective of the policies the support Dún Laoghaire decided by the committee of the Association and should not Rathdown County Council give necessarily be attributed to any individual committee member. to our association. www.sandycoveandglasthule.ie Page 3 Residents Meeting 27th November 2017 Liam Madden, Chairman, welcomed all to the meeting. councillors could do nothing about it. Several members of the audience raised the possibility of placing the Present: Richard Boyd Barrett, TD; Cllr. Patricia equipment elsewhere, with Richard Boyd Barrett Stewart; Cllr. Ossian Smyth; and Cllr. Dave O’Keeffe. suggesting the Baths site refurbishment could be Apologies were received from Councillors Cormac suitable. Devlin, Melisa Halpin and Mary Fayne. Apologies were Maurice Coleman raised the possibility of gym also received on behalf of Mary Mitchell O’Connor, TD, equipment being placed in Hudson Park (Pres Minister of State for Higher Education. field) also being the centre of anti social behaviour, Liam introduced Ruairi O’Dulaing, Senior Parks and said this would unacceptable to all the residents Superintendent, dlr Co Co who presented a most and users of the new park. He also mentioned that interesting demonstration of the vast amount of work there were several issues raised by local residents that carried out by the Parks section of his Department. had yet to be ironed out with the Council before the He gave us some fascinating insights into the work renovation works on the park commenced. carried out by his staff, and showed us slides of Brett McEntagart mentioned that with the closure of unusual projects he had finalised before coming to the concourse in the Council buildings, there was no Dún Laoghaire Rathdown. He explained that this was a space for art exhibitions that were held there on an county with very little land to spare, so it was essential annual basis. Cllr. Patricia Stewart said there was need that all our parks, and green spaces, should be of the for a new Council Chamber, and more accessible space highest standard, and available to all. He explained the for the public being constructed on that site. As far latest policy on removing old trees on suburban roads, as she knew, alternative space for art exhibitions had and their replacement with trees whose root ball should been arranged, and suggested that he get in touch with not affect footpaths and streets. He answered some Ms. Therese Langan, in the Council, to find out more questions asked of him by the audience. details. Cllr. Dave O’Keeffe concurred. Liam welcomed all again, and thanked the 60 The long running saga of the Baths was raised again, distributors who had recently popped the Newsletter with several questions asked. Richard Boyd Barrett into letter boxes all around the area. This major task said pressure on the Council was still needed if we were could not have been completed without them. He ever to get a swimming pool on the site. He mentioned said that the Association’s website had recently been that Clontarf Baths were to be refurbished shortly. revamped, and all Newsletters were available on it. Deirdre McGrath mentioned the water quality at He mentioned that there is a “Letters to the Sandycove, and warned that high rainfall can bring Editor” which can be used to get in touch online. a quick deterioration in water quality due to raw The Newsletter is also available online. He asked sewerage entering the sea. She asked that there be all to support local businesses, and thanked those same day testing of water, rather than being a few days businesses who had advertised in the Newsletter. He behind with warning notices. acknowledged the support Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Co. Council gives to the Association. He reminded the Bob Waddell asked all to support local businesses, audience of our three meetings a year – the AGM on and mentioned that Santa Claus was due to arrive in the last Monday in May, the Neighbours’ Night on the the village on Saturday 9th December when he would last Monday in September, and the second Residents visit all the shops before meeting the children. Meeting on the last Monday in November. Deirdre McGrath mentioned the roll out of the He congratulated the local businesses of Cavistons Seniors Alert Scheme, which supplies alarm Food Emporium, Mitchell & Sons, 64 Wine and Rasam pendants for those who need them. The scheme is who had all won awards in recent weeks. administered by Pobal. He raised the question of asking the Council to move Liam brought the meeting to a close, and invited all for the gym equipment from Newtownsmith. He said the usual refreshments. that the Association had been told that this would SAGRA Committee happen, but it now seems that the Council intends to put single items of gym equipment in a different Chairperson: Liam Madden part of the Green at Newtownsmith, spacing them Secretary: Kay Gleeson Treasurer: John Elliot apart. This is not the result we thought would happen. Cllr. Patricia Stewart said councillors’ requests had Other committee members (in alphabetical order): been overruled by management in dlr Co Co, and John Conroy James Howley as it was now an executive decision, she and other Roger Courtney Maria O’Mahony Grainne Dempsey Mary Roche Page 4 Sandycove and Glasthule Residents Association Newsletter May 2018 Glasthule Gallery to Close T. O’Connor Liz Allen, owner says: “We will close mid May. We have reopens been here 4 very successful years and looking for a new home in the area! After being closed for several months around In the meantime, we Christmas time and are still representing into 2018, it’s great all of our artists and to see Tom O’Connor are contactable on butchers open again.