Category Archives: Events

As well as topping up the Hospice Coffee Morning collection, and donating to a chosen charity every Christmas, we also organise a collection for a worthy cause every time we hold a summer party.

For our Mad Hatter’s summer party collection, we have chosen Rosemount Family Resource Centre. A very worthy, and very local, cause, who do an awful lot on a very tight budget.

We know a lot of people don’t carry cash anymore, and our collection buckets are a lot lighter as a result! So we’ve set up the option to donate online.

5/7/23 – This collection has now been completed. Many thanks to all who donated. An absolutely incredible €835 was collected in person, and online through our website. The committee then agreed to top it up to €900. Rosemount Family Resource Centre was delighted with the donation, and it was put to good use during the summer.

To celebrate our newly planted Green (our own Wonderland), we are having our Summer party on the 24th June, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. It will be a Mad Hatter’s Party – so come with your best headdress! We will have BBQ food, teas and coffees (bring your own cup), games and great company! We would be grateful if people could bring traybakes/buns as well. We will be collecting for the Rosemount Family Resource Centre.

Following on from the installation of our new defibrillator down at the shops (code to open: C159X), we’re organising a Cardiac First Response-Community course.

It’s a once-off 4 hour course run by St. John Ambulance at their premises on Upper Leeson Street. The course teaches CPR, the use of AEDs, and how to recognise and treat heart attacks, stroke and choking. The ratio is 1:6 instructors to learners. Successful participants will be issued with a Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council (PHECC) certificate which is valid for 2 years.

The course will be held on a Saturday. We’re aiming for the end of February (24th), but it will depend on how many are interested in doing it. We may need to organise multiple courses.

The cost per person is €20, plus 66c for the online processing fee. (The actual cost is €60 per person, but the Residents’ Association will be covering the difference.)

If you are interested in doing this course, please fill out this form:

https://forms.gle/ET4iWyuRYA4ZXCmz9. The link to pay can be found at the end of that form.

This course is for current Roebuck Residents’ Association members only. If you are not sure if you are a member of the Association or not, please see here for the area we cover. If you do not live in this area, unfortunately you cannot become a member. If you do live in this area, you need to have paid your annual subscription to be a current member.

Santa very generously took time out of his busy schedule to grace our presence (presents?) on Saturday. For the third year in a row he traveled by electric bike. He’s very committed to sustainable travel methods as we know. All the little Roebuckians were delighted to see him, and following his tour of the area he arrived back to the Green where some busy elves had set up a mulled wine station for the older boys and girls. Good luck on the big night Santa, and see you next year in Roebuck!

Thanks to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Council Council for part-funding this event.

Hospice Boxes were left in Roebuck Pharmacy and Lynam’s for a couple of weeks in
September. A sum of nearly €300 was collected, and the Association brought this up to €500.

Blackrock and Harold’s Cross Hospice are very thankful for our support. Thanks as always to Mairéad for organising.

There will be no Outdoor Coffee Morning on the Green for the Hospice collection again this year.

Instead Hospice Boxes have been left in Roebuck Pharmacy and Lynam’s. These boxes will be in situ until the end of this month.

Blackrock and Harold’s Cross Hospice are very thankful for our support. Please give as generously as you can.
Thanks as always to Mairéad for organising.

We were delighted to donate the amount collected at our summer party to a local Ukraine charity Ukraine Action. We presented a cheque for €600 to two members of the board earlier this week.

We had a great turn-out for our Summer Party on Saturday 18th June. The weather held up and great fun was had. Thanks to all who participated. A special thanks to those who organised and helped out on the day. As always, these events wouldn’t happen without a crowd of willing volunteers.

We held a collection for Ukraine, and a total of €593.39 was collected.

Due to the reindeer being on a strict training schedule Santa resorted to traveling around our area on an electric bike again this year, hand delivering selection boxes to all the little Roebuckians. We learnt a lot about Santa on this jaunt around the area. For example, did you know he is 1,798 years old? Or that he traveled back to the North Pole on a normal airplane after his visit here? In disguise of course. Good luck on the big night Santa, and see you next year in Roebuck!

Thanks to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Council Council for the funding of this event.