Imagine Dundrum is holding a webinar on Tuesday November 16th, 8pm.
A Changing Dundrum Village: information and inspiration
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We are planning a Halloween gathering on Saturday 30th October from 5pm-7pm on the green in front of the shops. We hope you can join us for this gathering and that both kids and adults can make the effort to come in some sort of Halloween attire.
With the times that are in it, we would ask you to please adhere to Covid guidelines. There will be hand sterilisation points around the green that we’d encourage you and your kids to use throughout. As it will be dark at that time, we ask all parents to take full responsibility for their children around road safety, especially around the Farmhill and Larchfield Road junctions.
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€665 was collected via this year’s method of leaving collection boxes in the shops at the Green. We’d like to thank everyone who contributed to this very worthy cause, and a special thanks goes to Mairéad Joyce for organising this once again. The Committee agreed to top up the figure by €335, and the final cheque sent into Our Lady’s Hospice was for €1,000.
There will be no Outdoor Coffee Morning on the Green for the Hospice collection this year.
Instead a Hospice Box has been left in Roebuck Pharmacy, and 2 boxes have been left in Lynam’s. You can have a coffee in Lynam’s and make a donation. 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 again to Mairéad for organising.
Dear Neighbours,
We hope you are keeping well. We are delighted to invite you to the first in-person community event of the year. We hope that the weather will be kind to us and that you will join us for some sweeping and some chat.
Autumn Clean-up – Saturday 18th September 2021 from 12 midday.
Meet on the green in front of the shops.
All residents are invited to take part. Free litter-pick equipment (gloves, bags and pickers) have been supplied by Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council under their Community Clean-up Scheme. Please feel free to bring your own gloves and equipment if you prefer. DLR County Council will collect the litter bags after the event.
The Clean-up is part of the Dublin Community Clean-up initiative. There are over 70 events planned throughout the county between the 11th and the 19th of September. By participating in organised clean-ups we can make a positive difference not only in our own community but also globally.
We will be adhering to the following guidelines for the clean-up. Hand sanitiser will be available to all participants.
Covid Guidelines
Congratulations to all the kids who took part in our first Easter Bake Off Competition!
There were an amazing 47 entrees in total, and the competition was fierce. The standard was extremely high and Sam found it impossible to only pick 3 winners, so had to extend it to 5.
The winners were:
1st place: Amaya Byrne
2nd place: Luke Hamilton
3rd place: Trudy and Lottie Mollins
4th place: Isobel and Faye
5th place: Anna Murphy
Congratulations to the 5 winners. The prizes were a €30 voucher for Smyth’s, a big jar of Easter eggs, a €20 voucher for Sam’s, and two boxes of cookies for 4th and 5th place.
There is a good chance this will become an annual event. So plenty of time to start practising for next year. It’ll be cut-throat…
Dear Junior Bakers of Roebuck,
Show off your baking skills this Easter and maybe win a prize!
1st Prize: €30 voucher for Smyths Toys
2nd Prize: Jar of yummy eggs courtesy of Sam
3rd Prize: €20 Voucher for Sam’s Cafe
The competition will be judged by Sam himself!
Bake any kind of Cake or Bun and
• submit a sample (slice or bun) plus a photo
• along with your name, a brief description of your amazing creation, and an adult’s phone number
Submit your entry to Sam’s on Easter Saturday by 3pm.
Winners will be announced on Easter Sunday Morning.
Open to 12s and under.
Many thanks to Marie for organising and Sam for being willing!
The slightly older boys and girls who would normally be attending our Neighbourhood Friendly Coffee Mornings got a special Christmas surprise from the Residents’ Association this year. A small gift of a lovely plant, box of chocs and DLRCoCo magazine was dropped into the houses of our more senior residents before Christmas. Hopefully 2021 will see the return of the coffee mornings.
Santa came to visit all the good boys and girls of Roebuck on December 5th. He travelled around the area on an electric cargo bike, handing out selection boxes like there was no tomorrow. The kids, who by that point had whipped themselves into a frenzy, were absolutely delighted! Thanks to Santa for visiting us here, and thanks to all the Elves who organised, helped on the day with their tools (magic wheelbarrow, bell etc.). Thanks too to Elf Aoibhinn for lending Santa the bike. Also, last but certainly not least, a big thanks to the tall Elves who put the lights on the tree on the green, and to the Tidy District Elves who used their sparkly magic to conjure up some wooden pallet Christmas trees and to decorate the green with some Christmassy decorations.
A huge thanks to Laurie Easterby and Dave O’Loughlin for organising the amazing Halloween Walk event in our area back in October. It involved 8 separate installations in front gardens – Bram Stoker Tribute, The Graveyard, Wild West, Jurassic Park, Space, Alice in Wonderland, Witches Den, and Superhero. A large amount of preparation went into this, and it was particularly appreciated by the kids in the area. Even though they couldn’t call into houses, they were thrilled to be able to walk around, look at everything, and show off their costumes at the same time. Unfortunately we don’t have any good photos to share with you, but if anyone has, please send them in and we’ll put them on the website.
