February 2018FREE!The Meath CoasterMagazine and Services Directory© February 2018 The Meath Coaster2Examination, Scale, Polish & X-RaysDon’t su er with ToothacheWe have a walk inEmergency Service.No appointment neededJust call in to our surgery.Save MoneyHave 2 fillings done at the same appointmentBelfast Prices Mon - Fri 8am to 8pmSaturday 9am to 5pmNervous Patient?Don’t worry, we specialise in treating nervous patients. 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(London)Tel: 01 - 841 7344www.balbriggandentalcare.ie01841 73 44© February 2018 The Meath Coaster4The Meath CoasterMagazine and Services DirectorySince June 2005, The Meath Coast-er is published monthly and dis-tributed in County Meath between Grange Rath, Donacarney, Mornington, Bettystown, Laytown, Julianstown and Stamullen, as well as in some local shops. Each issue has over 7,000 copies.This month’s cover is called “Morning child” by David Stanley. If you have any interesting seasonal photos or of local people or places, send your photos to the Meath Coaster at dermot@meathcoaster.comYour Local MediaWe proudly promote Citizen Journalism which means ordinary citizens “playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analysing and disseminating news and information” All our articles are directly submitted by local people. As a local publication serving our communities, if there is something you’d like to submit for publication, please email it to the address below. We try our best to publish all local material but the pages fill up fast! .CONTACT DETAILSAddress for correspondence:The Meath Coaster147 Betaghstown WoodBettystownCo. MeathPhone: 041 9813860 Email: dermot@meathcoaster.comWhere to Get A CoasterYou can pick up a copy each month from Tesco Bettystown, Dunnes Stores, South-gate; Limited supplies are in Pat’s Cen-tra, Bettystown; Anchorage Supermar-ket, Parish Rooms, Julianstown; St Pats, Stamullen, Centra Stamullen. The Coaster online @ www.meathcoaster.com/library, All Rights Reserved© Meath Coaster 2018PRINT DEADLINESThe Coaster goes to print on the Friday before the last Sunday in every month. The closing date for the MARCH issue is Friday February 23rd Distribution begins with the weekend of the First Sunday in the monthADVERTISING RATESAdvertising in The Meath Coaster really works! No other media is so effective in the Meath coast area. Effective advertising needs repetition and time. Don’t just take our word for it, phone our many long term advertisers! Our monthly advertising rates are a bargain. and there are discount packages for longer bookings. Our cost per thousand readers is the lowest in the area and our cost per ad space is unrivalled.To get our ad rates, please either...Go to www.meathcoaster.comPhone 041 9813860 or Email: dermot@meathcoaster.com © February 2018 The Meath Coaster5The Coaster on your iPad!Good news for mobile screen users. Since Christmas Eve, the Coaster is now available online as a digital maga-zine!This is the start of an exciting era for the Coaster. All future issues will be available on both mobile devices such as iPads and smartphones as well as laptops and desk-top computers. If you’ve ever wanted to zoom in on a photo, or share an article with a friend, at home or overseas, then now you can. Just go to www.meathcoaster.com/library/, click on the latest issue and start reading.The content will also change during 2018. As the digital magazine is not restricted by space, articles and photo/multimedia galleries can be much larger than the print issue. You’ll start to notice extra content in the digital Coaster . Audio and video contributions are now welcome! Another advantage of the digital ver-sion is that web links are live and clickable. Phone numbers can be tapped to call directly on smart-phones. We would like to invite everyone to explore the oppor-tunities that the digi-tal version can offer.All of the 2017 issues are available now at http://www.meathcoaster.com/library/Enjoy!iPad editiioniPhone editiionDesktop editiionWant to find a particular person? You can search the Coaster contents in both ver-sions. The computer version includes a selectable table of contents which will be available in mobile versions later.© February 2018 The Meath Coaster6Bettystown Tidy Towns GroupDefibrillator locations and trainingLocal residents are being asked to take note of the locations of the external defibrillators in the area. The defibrillator locations listed below are accessible to all members of the public 24 hours a day, all units are located on the external walls of these premises,1. At the entrance to Dolphins Montessori, Inse Bay.2. Pat's Centra, Bettystown 3. Harry's petrol station, Mornington4. Entrance to Grange Rath Estate at Colpe CrossIf anyone in the community would like to learn CPR or wants to know how to use the External Defibrillators that have been installed around the community please attend one of the free training sessions offered at the Donacarney Com-munity Centre, the red brick building. Demon-strations are provided by the East Meath Respond-ers every 3rd Thursday of each month between 8.00 pm- 10.00pm.,15th February, 15th March, 19th April, 17th May, 21st June, 19th July, 16th Au-gust, 20th September, 18th October, 15th November, 20th December.For further information please contact the East Meath Cardiac Re-sponse Unit, who are on Facebook. Local Walks - Slí na Sláinte With the beautiful natural resources freely available to us in our local community, you don't need costly gym membership or stylish attire to get fit, just head out the door and go for a walk, it's free, easy, so-cial and it's the latest trend.Why not try walking the local beaches at Laytown, Bettystown or Mornington. Or create your own preferred walking trail with a combination of road and beach walking. There are Slí na Sláinte road signs along the Golf Links road from Mornington to Laytown. They are located approximately 1km apart so walkers can judge the distance they want to walk and track their walking progress. The Slí na Sláinte coast road walk, footpath all the way, from Laytown train station to Berrills in Mornington is 5km, 10km return.A regular programme of walking keeps your heart strong, improves muscle strength, helps to manage your weight, makes you feel good and above all is en-joyable and fun. Colour Flyers2,500 - €125 • 5,000 - €17510,000 - €275* Excludes artwork + VAT19 Fair Street , Drogheda041 980 3135 / 9810505info@beulahprint.ieProvidingProfessionalPrint Services to Meath Coaster Since 2009*Subject to T&Cs© February 2018 The Meath Coaster8Laytown Village Enhancement We are delighted that work has com-menced on our project at the former Library Site which will make this Com-memorative Garden an example of what our community has been seeking for quite some time, particularly since the former library was demolished. Thanks to Meath County Council we have been provided with funding under the RAPID Programme to undertake this work. Contract has been awarded to local company Elite Landscaping and design plans provided by McKevitts Architects, Drogheda. Residents of Marian Villas have been working with our committee to ensure that they will have a proverbial “front lawn” that they can be proud of and which they will help to ensure that the fin-ished product is cared for into the future. We will continue to work with Meath County Council and with our local Coun-cillors so that many other new develop-ments will begin to happen in our area that has felt somewhat neglected in the past. Success will breed success and hopefully local people will now see a good reason to support our on-going fund-raising ef-forts. We are appealing to local residents to come along and join our organisation. Those who are interested can contact our Chair Ben Bailey or alternatively make contact through our email address which is communityrep4lb@gmail.com.Another item of good news is that the lo-cal Community Employment Scheme is now approved by the Department of So-cial Protection and we are pleased that our committee is well represented on that initiative which is being managed by an amalgam of Laytown Village En-hancement; St. Colmcilles GAA Club; Julianstown Residents Association and Sonairte. Advertisements for the position of supervisor closed on 2nd February. The total complement of workers is 25 and the work of local community organi-sations will be greatly enhanced once the scheme is up-and-running. Once the Su-pervisor is in place advertisements will begin to appear shortly for eligible work-ers who have been on the live register for some time.We are also pleased that Meath County Council has included our proposal for an inter-generational park beside the current playground as a significant project under the Village Amenities Programme. We are keeping our fingers crossed that the Department of Rural Affairs will approve this application.Again matching funds for all these pro-grammes will be needed and we are desperately seeking public support for our fund-raising initiatives as we cannot continue to bring such projects to fruition unless we have local support to provide much-needed funds. We are pleased to announce that the winner of the self-catering week-long cottage holiday on the Wild Atlantic Way is local man Stephen Watson. We wish to thank all those who supported this raffle and in particular the sponsor of the holiday, John Higgins. We also ap-preciate the assistance of Tom Behan of Gilna’s Cottage Bar for his on-going help with our fund-raising efforts. §© February 2018 The Meath Coaster9Scoil Oilibhéir NaofaPantomineOn Monday 22nd January the children were treated to the panto ‘Sleeping Beauty’. The children had an amazing time. LoughcrewWe have been doing lots of work in our writing class, our teachers are very proud of how well we are doing. Enrollment Open DayFebruary 3rd was the Enrolment Open Day, 3pm-5pm. Please see the website https://scoiloilibheirnaofa.scoilnet.ie/blog/?page_id=134 for additional infom-raont about enrolment in 2018 or phone us on 041 9887431.Junior Infants This month the Junior Infants classes have been learning about the Arctic. Their teachers have set up Aistear activi-ties to support their learning. §Next >