< Previous© June 2017 The Meath Coaster10The Stamullen Roundup By Grace Tierneykids. The juniors (aged 6-16) are aiming to resume training at noon on Sunday 11th of June. It’s a mixed activity with plenty of running about and positive coaching. Perhaps you have the next Charlie Brown in your house? Equipment provided. Details available from Colm at colmspostbag@gmail.com.This month the vice principal of Stamullen N.S., Mrs. Tuite will be leaving the students for a happy retirement. We all wish her well. She’ll be a hard act to follow.The “Stamullen Needs a Playground” group has posted a detailed report on their work to date on their Facebook page to keep the community updated. They’ve attended a huge number of meetings with developers and political folk. They’ve secured funding of €130,000 for the facility but finding suitable land is proving difficult. They’re not giving up and would love to hear from anyone who can help.Mature Movers (age 50+) is continuing on Wednesdays in St. Patrick’s GAA centre at 2p.m. More information is available from Ruairi on 049-906-7337 or rmurphy@meathcoco.ie.Congratulations to the girls and boys of Stamullen and Julianstown who made their First Holy Communion during May.Got Stamullen news? Send it to Grace (087-9074145) or grace@meathcoaster.comThe junior members of Stamullen’s Badminton Club had great success recently. With the help of their coach Paddy Bird both the under-11s and under-13s emerged victorious in the Meath League Finals. A hearty “well done” goes to Evan McDonnell (captain), Danny Sherlock, Jack Walshe and Emily Ryan of the under-11s and to Olivia Byrne (captain), Hannah O’Connor, Shonagh Murphy and Suzanna Schutzmann of the under-13s.The Golden Girls of Stamullen are off on their travels again and people outside of the group are welcome to join them. They’re heading to an evening race meeting at Fairyhouse on the 1st of June and a tour of beautiful Carlingford on the 26th. If you’re interested get in touch with Rose on 086-8377033.SWAT Baseball is returning to the fields of Gormanston College this June, for adults and © June 2017 The Meath Coaster11Clean Coast Award for Mornington BeachMornington Beach is a Clean Coast The Green Coast Award aims to ac-knowledge, promote and protect the environment of rural beaches. It places a strong emphasis on community and en-vironmental activities. The Green Coast Award builds on the public participation process as it involves local communities in the production of coastal management F. Watson & Son LtdFuneral Directors Complete Funeral ServiceLAYTOWN, CO. MEATH Tel: 086 0275440 • 041 98382279 DYER STREET, DROGHEDAwww.droghedafunerals.ieServing the Entire East Meath Area and Drogheda since 1921plans and encourages their participation in the adoption and implementation of these plans. This process gives the people who are most affected by such the plans, a say in how they should be designed and im-plemented, thus promoting a fine exam-ple of the bottom up approach. The plans must be sensitive to conservation sites of national and international importance and ensure that they are implemented in line with international beach management best practice. To achieve the award, beaches must have excellent water quality and ef-fective and appropriate management to ensure protection of the natural environ-ment.The scheme is co-ordinated by An Taisce with support from Department of Climate Change, Community and Environment, Failte Ireland and Coca Cola. §© June 2017 The Meath Coaster12Scoil an Spioraid Naoimh New School DevelopmentGreat excitement in the school com-munity as the site notice for a plan-ning application for the new school was erected on the perimeter walls recently. The development will see a new 4,100sqm two-storey primary school building erected to feature 24 classrooms and two ASD classes. It will also consist of the re-furbishment of the 1947 former national school Mt Carmel. Exciting times ahead!6th Class Win a Song for EuropeThe sixth class pupils from Scoil an Spio-raid Naoimh recently did their school and country proud as they took first place in a recent Eurovision style song contest fi-nal. This was part of an Erasmus+ funded project. The winning song with lyrics composed by the pupils themselves was entitled ‘We Are Europe’. Each school in each country was given the An ecstatic Irish jury and pupils congratulate each other on an historic victorySixth class pupils encore at European Song Contest Final© June 2017 The Meath Coaster13041 98 444 98 041 98 111 98086 838 4444www.eastcoastcabs.comEAST COAST CABSEAST COAST CABS SERVICING MEATH COAST & DROGHEDA REGIONS CABS - 4, 6 & 8 SEATERSNEW RANGE OF MINI-VANSCOACHES - 16, 24, 36 & 54 SEATERS AVAILABLEsame tune to work with and encouraged to create lyrics about Europe and friendship. Pupils also sang and played all musical in-struments themselves including ukuleles, guitars, keyboard, viola, trumpet, beatbox and shakers. From start to finish, this was a memora-ble experience for all involved with the song and preparation for the contest. After months of practice, the day finally came. The final round of voting proved to be very tense. As our judges conferred, we listened in anticipation as the scores rolled in from country to country. Finally the last score came in and we were ecstatic because WE WON!!!! Ireland beat Romania by just one point. We would like to thank all our co competitors and members of the Irish jury: Elisabetta Harding, Gerry Simpson, Jim Walsh, Sophie Alwright and Jacob O’Dowd. We are so proud of the children and teach-ers for all the effort they put into this great achievement. We are extremely thankful to be given the opportunity to partici-pate in “A Song for Europe -12 points”. We didn’t only love performing but also watching other countries perform their original songs. Go to www.ssnlaytown.ie to see the winning performance.New School WebsiteHave a look at our new web-site! www.ssnlaytown.ieMore links to follow as the site is still under construction.© June 2017 The Meath Coaster14News from Julianstown Summer is almost here, and we have been very busy planting up our display boxes ready to place them throughout the village. Have you noticed the three new raised beds on the approach roads beneath the Julianstown signs? They too are begin-ning to look really well. As you know June is the month when the Adjudicator from the Supervalu National Tidy Towns comes around and our Tidy Towns group, together with some very willing volunteers from Albania, are do-ing our best to make the village presenta-ble with cleaning the verges, weeding and general tidying up. We think it’s looking good and thank all our residents for going the extra mile, including Tim and Mary who you see out doing that thankless job of litter picking. Don’t forget our Saturday morning clean ups continue ... we meet at the Village Garden at 10.30 am, generally work for an hour or two, followed by a cuppa and chat. You may also have noticed that we have been cleaning all the verges and footpaths in the village on Tuesday eve-nings from 6/7 p.m ..... we could do with your help!We were delighted to be invited to Kilk-enny by the Heritage Council of Ire-land for our Village Design Statement. Julianstown is the National Pilot for small villages and this project was funded by the Heritage Council some years ago. Two of our members, Jackie and Niamh went to Kilkenny Castle to meet with HRH Prince Charles, who proved very interested in the work that we and lo-cal communities put into our villages. We were proud to promote Julianstown, East Meath and Ireland’s Ancient EastOur Village Garden looks stunning© June 2017 The Meath Coaster15087 911 2411 087 279 8738041 9836177New Castles & Slides For HireJUNE SPECIAL OFFERSBouncing Castles Hire from €50Wide Range of Slide Combi CastlesObstacles & SlidesFree Safety Mats with all Bouncy CastlesBungee Runs, Gladiator Duel, Adults & Kids Sumo WrestlingNew Ultra Pad SUMO for 201750ft Crocodile Obstacle CourseCombi Bouncy CastleHippoDino Combi CastleBugs Bunny BouncyFire Truck combiHigh Slide Obstacle Course€200 Cash Draw with every Castle Hire, Draw at end of JuneWhat a wonderful experience we had in Sonairte on May 20th. It was the Dawn Chorus! We met at 4.30am to walk through the woods, down to the bird hide on the river Nanny and were led by Lenny Lene-han of Bird Watch Ireland. The weather was perfect, and of course, the birds did not disappoint us. Then we had a wonder-ful performance by the Mornington Gos-pel Choir singing their hearts out. It was a magical experience and to top it off at 6am we had a wonderful hearty breakfast cooked by Bridget in the Sunflower Cafe. We do hope this will be a yearly event! We are now planning our Summer Fes-tival and Street Fest which will be held in our Village Garden on 11th June from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. This year we have an added surprise in that Meath Daily will be coming along to film the event. So make sure you’re there early for a fun afternoon with lots of entertainment for the chil-dren and adults. Admission €5 per family. Don’t forget to speak a cúpla focal on the day. There will also be a prize for the best ‘Crazy Hat’. As they say get your ‘think-ing hats on and create a Show Stopper!Whitecross National School – 6th class Graduation is on June 23rd; and their school tour is on 26/27 June. School closes June 30th. Best wishes to all the boys and girls who will be sitting their Junior and Leav-ing Certificates from the JDCA.Annual Mass and Blessing of Graves – Stamullen Friday 23rd June @ 7.30 p.m.Julianstown in Moorechurch Cem-etery – Sunday 2nd July at ll.30 a.m. and Kilsharvan Cemetery Friday 14th July at 7.30 p.m.www.Julianstowncommunity.com Fa-cebook: Julianstown Tidy Towns Group §© June 2017 The Meath Coaster16Senior Infants on TourThe senior infants from Donacarney Girls recently spent a fun-filled morn-ing in LoLo Town in Navan. While there they became involved in lots of imagina-tive play, becoming hairdressers, shop-keepers and gardaí. Some took on the role of farmers, looking after animals on the farm. Others became rockstars in a band, playing keyboard and guitar. The school was a very popular place with many girls eager to take on the role of teacher. Sums were written on the blackboard and rules were strictly enforced! The cafe was a hive of activity with waitresses and cus-tomers galore. The fire-fighters had great fun sliding down the pole on the way to an emergency. The children enjoyed ex-clusive dining in the LoLo town ‘hotel’. Lunch was like a royal banquet, with eve-ryone taking turns to wear crowns while sitting on the hotel thrones! As if that wasn’t enough excitement for one day, there was another special treat to follow. On the return journey we visited McDon-ald’s in Drogheda for lunch. Réalt na Mara Cailíní5th Green Flag for DonacarneyThe school was awarded a 5th Green Flag at an awards ceremony in City North Hotel, on Thursday 24th May 2017. Our photo-graph shows An Taisce co-ordinator with Tata Hoey and Isabelle O’Toole members of the Donacarney Green Schools Com-mittee receiving the Green Flag on behalf of the school.The pupils were very excited to receive their 5th Green flag as they already have flags for Litter & Waste, Energy, Water & Travel.The theme for this flag was Biodiversity. You may ask what is Biodiversity. The girls explained that Biodiversity is all the trees and plants, flora and fauna that sur-round us. © June 2017 The Meath Coaster17Fred 041 9829021086 8075521LORETO Secondary School BalbrigganDIRECTFive Oaks/Stameen, 8:00Grange Rath, 8:05Donacarney, 8:10Mornington, 8:15Bettystown, 8:20Laytown, 8:25Julianstown, 8:30Loreto 8:45Loreto / Gormanston via StamullenFive Oaks / Stameen 7:35Grange Rath, 7:40Donacarney, 7:45 Mornington, 7:50Golf Links Road 7:52 Bettystown Eastham Rd, 7:54Sevitt Hall/Manor 7:58 Betaghstown Wood 8:00Laytown, 8:05 Julianstown, 8:10Gormanston 8:15 Continues to Loreto BalgrigganStamullen 8:20 Stamullen Glasheen 8:25Stamullen St Pats 8:30 Gormanston 8:35Loreto 8:45Private Bus Hire Also AvailableFormerly Part of EastCoast TravelTimes are approximate at start of year. All stops in between existing stops. Places are restricted Please phone well in advance to book a place!For the past 2 years the girls have been working hard to increase awareness of the importance of our native plants, animals and habitats. They have been busy identi-fying and creating wonderful habitats for the insects, birds and bees that inhabit our school garden. Some of the insects have even taken up residence in the specially constructed Insect Hotel. They have ex-amined the flora and fauna in the garden as well as planting a willow tunnel and grow-ing lots of vegetables including beetroot, pumpkin, carrots and beans. Other projects included habitat mapping, an environmen-tal review and survey. I t was a very busy year indeed and the girls will celebrate with a well- deserved party in June. Donacarney will raise the Green Flag on 7th June 2017. Well done to all involved. § © June 2017 The Meath Coaster18Le Chéile Educate Together National SchoolMornington Road, Drogheda Co. Louthwww.lecheileetns.comMornington Road, Drogheda, Co. MeathLe Chéile ET NS hosts Erasmus+ Project Closing Party for European Teacherstwo year project titled ‘Magic and Myths Unite Europe’ has proven hugely success-ful in the local primary school, developing the students’ love of story, music and art. The programme has enabled and fostered a platform for co-operation and learning exchanges for both students and teachers alike. Over the course of the two years teachers from each country have visited partner countries sharing their experience, knowledge and cultures. Commenting on the project, principal at Le Chéile ETNS Fiona Rock noted “As well as sharing good practice, one of the main aims of the project is to foster a sense of EU citizenship and develop a greater understanding of each other’s tra-ditional tales and legends through art, mu-sic, drama and ict.” In the weeks leading up to the visit, prep-arations across the school are evident on every wall and window, with excited pu-pils immersing themselves in the culture and history of their partner countries. As part of their welcome and the projects Pupils and staff at Le Chéile ETNS wel-comed 18 visiting European teach-ers and representatives from Léargas, Educate Together, Board of Management, parents and friends recently as part of the EU’s Erasmus+ Project. The event which took place at the primary school on the Mornington road marked the final phase of the project.Since 2015 Le Chéile ETNS, has been actively engaged in the Erasmus+ pro-gramme for education. It has since devel-oped partnerships with seven European pri-mary schools across Italy, Turkey, Finland, Spain, Cyprus, Romania and Greece. The © June 2017 The Meath Coaster19041 98 444 98 041 98 111 98086 838 4444www.eastcoastcabs.comEAST COAST CABSEAST COAST CABS SERVICING MEATH COAST & DROGHEDA REGIONS CABS - 4, 6 & 8 SEATERSNEW RANGE OF MINI-VANSCOACHES - 16, 24, 36 & 54 SEATERS AVAILABLEclosing party the visiting teachers were treated to a medley of traditional Euro-pean dances performed by 3rd and 4th class pupils which culminated with an Irish song finale.During their visit, the group had ample time to explore our wondrous locality and see first hand the historic sites and legends they had grown to hear about over the past two years. The teachers were taken on a walking tour of Drogheda and surrounding beaches all made more enjoyable by the fabulous weather. But no visit to the An-cient East is complete without a trip to the legendary Newgrange and Slane Castle. Fiona added “ The Staff and pupils are proud of their work and the knowledge they have gained through the Erasmus+ Programme and it was an honour to share that with our visitors here at our school on the Mornington Road..”For more information on the Erasmus+ project please check out the project’s website www.magicandmythsuniteeurope.weebly.com. Next >