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(London)Tel: 01 - 841 7344www.balbriggandentalcare.ie01841 73 44© March 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 from Laytown Beach” by Paul Hayes. 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 APRIL issue is Friday March 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. 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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 Easter Camp at Courtlough Hands up Who wants the most Adventure filled Easter camp in Balbriggan.Get your kids outdoors to burn off all those Easter eggsCourtlough Outdoor adventures have Aerial Trekking climbing walls ZiplineSplat master Archery Guaranteed to keep your kids busy.Only €25 per day or €70 for 3 days 10am- 2pm April 3rd 4th & 5th To book email events@courtlough.ie or call 01-8413096To find out more about camps ,Birthday parties and school tours log onto www.courtlough.ie © March 2018 The Meath Coaster6Spring Flyers2,500 - €125 • 5,000 - €17510,000 - €275* Excludes artwork + VATProvidingProfessionalPrint Services to Meath Coaster Since 2009Spring has Sprung!19 Fair Street , Drogheda041 9803135 / 9810505info@beulahprint.ie19 Fair Street , Drogheda, A92 VN2K St. Brigid's Day was celebrated in Donacarney GNS on the 1st of Feb-ruary. The pupils made crosses to bring home to their families and had them blessed at mass. Ann Hanan, one of our grandparents has helped our pupils for the last 14 years to make St. Brigid's Day crosses. Donacarney Girls School would like to send a warm thank you to Ann for all her help and support down through the years keeping a wonderful tradition alive in our school.Pyjama Day was held on Wednesday 14th February in aid of the Laura Lynn Foun-dation. The Pyjama Day was organised by our student council members. €715 was collected to be donated to the Laura Lynn Foundation. All the pupils wore their pyjamas to school. Even our Principal, Mrs. Mc-Cloughan turned up in her onesie...§Donacarney Girls National SchoolSpring Flyers2,500 - €125 • 5,000 - €17510,000 - €275* Excludes artwork + VATProvidingProfessionalPrint Services to Meath Coaster Since 2009Spring has Sprung!19 Fair Street , Drogheda041 9803135 / 9810505info@beulahprint.ie19 Fair Street , Drogheda, A92 VN2K© March 2018 The Meath Coaster8a more size appropriate space on the ap-proach road from Julianstown. We hope they will continue to flourish there!And when spring is on it’s way, spring-clean comes shortly afterwards! National Spring Clean takes place in April, and we will be holding our spring clean of Laytown during that month. We will confirm the date in next months issue.All are welcome to join in as always.....the more people volunteering the more we can get done!If you would like to take part in National Spring Clean in either your village or your housing estate, you can register online for the event and receive bags, gloves etc. to help with your event.Laytown Tidy TownsSpring is in the air....at least these lovely daffodils seem to think so! These ones have just put in an appearance mid Feb! We have planted these lovely pampas-type plants, kindly donated by a local resident, on the approach road to Laytown. We think it makes a marked improvement to the roadside!As previously reported, we have transplanted the larger plants from the planters in Laytown, moving them to We have ventured out once again to clear the road from Laytown as far as Sonairte. Although it has only been three weeks since we last cleared it we collected three more bags of litter this time. Disappoint-ing to say the least....hopefully this time people might think twice before throwing rubbish out of car windows and keep the road looking as good as it does now!This new memorial bench, kindly donated by the Reilly family from Alverno Heights in Laytown, has been placed on the green area beside Netterville Terrace. It allows a lovely view of the beach! Sincere thanks to Meath Co. Council for putting it securely in place.And finally...these are the new bags being supplied by Meath Co. Council for picking up dog poops! 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