Fingal County Council is inviting applications for the Artists Support Scheme 2021.
This strand of funding allows professional artists to avail of an award up to €4,000 towards travel/professional development opportunities, a residency or towards the development of work.
The objective of the Artists Support Scheme is to support individual professional artists from Fingal to develop their artistic practice.
The award, with a total combined fund of €100,000, is open to practising artists at all stages in their professional careers working in music, visual art, drama, literature & dance. T
o be eligible to apply, applicants must have been born, have studied, or currently reside in the Fingal administrative area.
Fingal Sports Office were delighted recently to present St. Michael s House in Skerries with the first of the adapted bicycles they have purchased through the Dormant Accounts Fund.
The bicycles are specially designed for people with a disability and will be used by students at the school to take part in programmes such as Cycling Ireland s Learn to Cycle programme.
The bicycles where presented to the school by Sports Inclusion Disability Officer, David Daly. Mayor of Fingal, Cllr David Healy, said: I am very pleased to see Fingal Sports Office using the Dormant Accounts Funds for such a hugely worthwhile project.
A local Green Party councillor has called for a 30kmph speed limit to be implemented in a number of key locations in Malahide.
Cllr David Healy has called for a 30km/hr speed limit on all streets in Malahide north of: the junction of Old St and Dublin Road; the Diamond; the junction of Townyard Lane and the Mall; the junction of St James Terrace and The Mall and east of the underpass under the railway on Bisset s Strand.
He has also called for a 30kmph speed limit at Streamstown Lane and Carey s Lane, Malahide.
Putting forward a motion at a recent Local Area Committee meeting, Cllr Healy noted that the issue of speed limits in the county had been discussed numerous times in the past.