< Previous© June 2018 The Meath Coaster10€160k for Laytown Family Resource Centre ProgrammeLaytown Resource House has received €160k through the Family Resource Programme. This funding will help the Family Centre to assist families in the areas of Laytown, Bettystown, Mornington and Donacarney and the wider communities.It will offer support and assistance to fam-ilies in reaching their potential and offer a programme of activities that include sup-port groups, training programmes, parent and child groups and Early Childhood Education and subsidised afterschool and summer camps. Preschool: Morning 9.00-12.00 (Ecce 0r CCSPU) Afternoon pre-preschool session 12.30-3.30pm Afterschool: With school collection, hot dinner, help with homework & play fee: CCS Incredible Years: Infant & Parent Pro-gramme, 8 week peer support programme, promoting the best physical, emotional and language development for your baby, parent and baby attends Swings & Slides: For Parents & carers of 0-10 years old, 6 week programme, fo-cusing on the importance of play, com-munication and behaviour management techniques.Parents Plus: Parenting Programme for adolescent years (11-16), 6 week pro-gramme, a positive guide to managing be-haviour problems & promoting children’s learning & confidence Adult Education: LMETB offer courses, we provide recreational courses as Indian cookery, arts craft etc. Parent & Toddler Group: (Term time) 10.30am-12.00 WednesdaysCook It: 6 week HSE approved cookery and nutrition course that provides prac-tical information on healthy eating and improves skills by showing participants ways to provide healthy, nutritious, low cost meals and snacks for their families.Summercamps & Camps During School Holidays See our Face book page: Lilliputs Family Resource HouseLatyown Resource House5 Strand Haven, Laytown: 0872988234/0419828588§Adult Education GuidanceThis LMETB Service supports adults in-terested in returning to education or up-skilling. We offer information and advice on the many opportunities open to the adult learner: what is available and where; how to apply, costs and funding supports depending on circumstances. We host a monthly drop-in morning in the Alpha Centre, old Coláiste na hInse, Bettystown and will be there on Tuesday morning 19 June 9.30am to 12.30pm. §© June 2018 The Meath Coaster12Laytown Tidy TownsSchool children from Scoil an Spioraid Naoimh took part in An Taisce Spring Clean and tidied a stretch of Laytown beach as part of their Green School Initia-tive on 22nd of May.Some Second Year girls from Loreto in Balbriggan were doing a project on the Environment. They volunteered to help us with our litter pick one Saturday in April and did a very thorough job of the beach at the mouth of the river Nanny. We really appreciate their input on the day, and hope their project went well! We have planted some trees on the grassy area behind the bottle banks. Hopefully they will grow well there!In the next few weeks our group will be joined by a CE participant. We hope that he/she will be interested in helping to put a shape on the flowerbed at the railway sidings, and will help to maintain all the other flowerbeds and planters around the village. We also have projects such as trees to plant on the approach road and the maintenance of the memorial gar-den flowerbeds. Enough to keep anyone busy!! We hope the participant enjoys taking part.Anti-Social BehaviourYet again this is what was left at the bot-tle banks one recent morning. Five empty boxes and two bags, one containing house-hold waste and one an artificial Christmas tree. We really cannot fathom the thought processes of the people who think this is acceptable....it is Litterling and is an of-fence. Added to this we also found hundreds of ciga-rette butts. And finally, just in time for Darkness To Light, some clown decided to add some light by setting fire to the Pieta House Clothes Recycle Bin with a cost in the region of €1,000 to Pieta House. There is no excuse for this mindless, selfish behaviour. §PLEASE PLEASEHELPKEEP OUR BEACH SAFE AND REPORT SPEEDING OR DANGEROUS DRIVING TO THE GARDAI041 9827074(WHY NOT ENTER THIS NUMBER IN YOUR MOBILE PHONE NOW)If possible try to take a photograph of the offending vehicle to show registration number and the driver, the Gardaí will take action.“At 08.30 on Saturday 28th April a beautiful young girl and her father were about to walk onto the beach when they were almost killed by a lunatic driver who crashed at high speed into and onto the traffic bollard at the entrance to Bettystown beach. She screamed to her father, I am scared Daddy take me home I don’t want to go on the beach, Daddy take me home, take me home. They left the beach with her sobbing her little heart out”If you see this sort of driving, please report it immediately to the Gardaí But Do Not approach them“An elderly Gentleman who was litter picking on the beach at the time attempted to flag down the two cars involved. One stopped while the other drove at him knocking the litter picker out of his hand. The driver, the same one who almost killed the little girl, then jumped out of his car and threatened the elderly Gentleman with a baseball bat – alone on the beach he could have been seriously injured”The local Councillors and the Beach Management Committee seem powerless to stop this type of behaviour and Meath County Council are failing in their “Duty of Care” to us all by not enforcing their own Bye Laws.We, as beach users, must therefore try to protect ourselves by reporting Dangerous Driving and Anti Social Behaviour to the Gardaí.This is the only way we can make our beach safe for all and be able to enjoy this wonderful natural amenity.This notice has been placed by concerned citizens of Laytown, Bettystown and Mornington.LAYTOWN BETTYSTOWN MORNINGTON LAYTOWN BETTYSTOWN MORNINGTONLAYTOWN BETTYSTOWN MORNINGTON LAYTOWN BETTYSTOWN MORNINGTON LAYTOWN BETTYSTOWN MORNINGTONMEATH'S GOLD COAST MEATH'S GOLD COAST MEATH'S GOLD COASTLAYTOWN BETTYSTOWN MORNINGTON LAYTOWN BETTYSTOWN MORNINGTON LAYTOWN BETTYSTOWN MORNINGTON© June 2018 The Meath Coaster14Please mention The Meath Coaster when replying to advertisementsA big, warm “Hello” from SonairteWe are very thankful to the wider community for your support during the last few months. We would also like to thank the extended Sonairte team and volunteers who have been working away behind the scenes and who have been planning for our future. New volunteers always very welcome, contact hello@sonairte.ie You can follow our progress on www.sonairte.ie and on Facebook (Sonairte) and Instagram (Sonarite.ie). Sonairte will continue with our education-al programmes and courses. We continue to supply fresh seasonal organic vegeta-bles to local restaurants and the Dublin Food Co-Op.Animation For BeginnersCome & Make Your Own MovieMonday 9th- Friday 13th July 10.30am-1pm 8+ Years €75 All Materials Supplied Limited places – Max 15 places only Come and Join the FUN!LMETB provide an extensive range of educational and training opportunities, (more information available at www.louthmeath.etb.ie)Please keep a lookout on Facebook for our upcoming courses, camps and general information hello@sonairte.ie or 041 982 7572 (Mon-Wed).Sonairte Veg Box SchemeBoxes contain a mix of the or-ganic, seasonal produce currently available from Sonairte’s garden. Just choose how much you want (€10, 15, 20, 30 etc.), contact us here and your box will be waiting for you.We currently have various herbs, spinach, mixed salad leaves, some potatoes, rad-ishes chard, Jerusalem artichoke and leeks.Please order by Thursday @ 5pm email hello@sonairte.ie) and then collection will be on Friday between 12-5pm. Thanks!Get GardeningRaised Beds Bargain @ €30Tomato plants €2Eco Shop open every Friday 11-5pmNational Heritage Week - Saturday 18th August In SonairteForaging: Learn what your ancestors ate. Willow Weaving Workshop: Learn how to make traditional Irish products to keep our heritage alive. Bee Aware Workshop and Wild Bee Presentation: Folklore Tales: Guided walk and folklore tales Of Our Irish Trees. §2018© June 2018 The Meath Coaster15 Continued over....Make a splash this Summerwith 1 day turnaround*on print & signageProvidingProfessionalPrint Services to Meath Coaster Since 2009*Subject to T&CsPlease mention The Meath Coaster when replying to advertisements© June 2018 The Meath Coaster16Electron Microscope comes to School!Bunscoil Buachaillí Réalt na Mara, DonacarneyPromoting the STEM Outreach Pro-gram into Primary education, Bun-scoil Buachaillí Realt Na Mara School received an Electron Microscope where several classes engaged with the use of this instrument to better understand the everyday items we see.The Hitachi TM4000plus, the most pow-erful desktop Electron Mi-croscope on the market, made Bun-scoil Bua-chaillí Réalt Na Mara School the first in the country to use the instrument and learn about Microns and Nanometers.Second, third and Fourth class pupils learnt that there are 1 million microns in a metre and 1 Billion nanometers in a metre.Samples were placed into the Electron Microscope by the boys and samples from pollen particles, a fly’s head, eye and foot were observed and measured. They could see the spikey nature of a pollen parti-cle. The boys noticed on a fly’s foot how it grips and tastes food. A pupil’s hair was donated in the aid of science and they looked © June 2018 The Meath Coaster17041 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 AVAILABLEand measured its thickness. They saw the difference between a fly and bee’s wing, the difference between sugar, Clogher-head Salt and Bettystown Beach Sand Particles. They looked at a dandelion seed and how different a clover leaf is from a potato leaf. Seeing the Stomata present on every green leaf encouraged the boys’ conversa-tion around Photosynthesis.It is hoped that this project helped to in-still and encourage the wonder of Mate-rial Science in our locality. The energy and great questions from each class would suggest it did just that. The Hitachi TM4000plus Electron Micro-scope was donated to the school by Hi-tachi High Technologies Ireland and will be brought around to other schoolsBettystown SandPollen Continued over....© June 2018 The Meath Coaster18Marian Harkin visitSligo native and Member of the Euro-pean Parliament, Marian Harkin visited our school recently. She came to view our projects which formed part of our applica-tion for our Blue Star Programme award. The Blue Star Programme encourages us all to grow our knowledge and under-standing of the European Union. Boys in various classes chose from a wide vari-ety of themes from Ancient Rome. to the Flags of Europe, and the workings of the European Parliament.Programme co-ordinator for the school was Ms. Orla Carragher. She represented us at the Blue Star seminar in Dublin re-cently and led the project presentations to Ms Harkin.Boys from Ms Smith, Ms. Dunne, Mr Lynch, Ms Gerrard and Mr. Arthur`s classes presented on various aspects of the EU and afterwards engaged Ms Harkin in a lively question and answer session about her work and about the EU.Ever the teacher, Marian delighted in en-gaging with the boys and was impressed by both their projects and by their ques-tions. But, the demands of her hectic schedule meant she had to peel herself away and head to another round of meet-ings, another set of negotiations.And in her wake, our EU flag flutters proudly in the Mornington sunlight, sym-bol of unity, solidarity and harmony. §© June 2018 The Meath Coaster19Bunscoil Buachaillí Réalt na Mara GAA Update Cooney Cup We have qualified to the Final of the Cooney Cup where we will be up against Whitecross NS, Julianstown. The Final will take place on Friday 8th June in Pairc Tailteann, Navan. Cuman na mBunscoilWe are in to the Division 1 Semi Final against Kells NS which took place Tuesday, 29th May, after the Coaster goes to print.Best of luck to you all!MDL Leinster Final 2018Bunscoil Bua-chaillí Réalt na Mara, started off their cam-paign with a 2-1 win over Scoil uí Riada of Kil-dare. Both sides performed well with Conor and Charlie linking up very well. Oisin was sol-id between the posts pulling off a very good save to secure all three points for Donacarney. Next up was scoil Assaim who proved very difficult to break down. After a valiant effort from Donacarney the score finished 3-2 in favour of Scoil Assaim. Davin and David linking up well to create chances for the in form Jake up front. Bishop Foley provided the opposi-tion for round 3 with Donacarney coming out on top on a score line of 5-2. Caelam and Cormac worked very hard throughout to round off a very good performance for Leinster final Day finishing runners up. §Next >