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European Mobility Week runs from 16 to 22 September 2025, and Fingal County Council is proud to celebrate this year’s theme, “Mobility for Everyone,” which advocates for inclusive, accessible and sustainable transport options for all. See below for information on Car Free Day, bike-sharing schemes and more!

Fingal County Council has welcomed the commencement of two new affordable and social housing developments which, when completed, will deliver in excess of 1,100 homes to the Fingal area.

Thrive Balbriggan, the Community of Rivervalley & Rathingle in Swords, and the Coolmine Lodge Biodiversity Project in Dublin 15 will each represent Fingal County Council in three different categories in the finals of the 2025 IPB Pride of Place Competition taking place in Limerick on Friday, November 7th.

Join Dr. Kevin Lynch from the University of Galway’s Geography Department as he takes us on a fascinating walk along Balbriggan Beach on Ireland’s east coast.

Some of Fingal’s best up-and-coming craft and design businesses will join over 100 companies from across Ireland at Local Enterprise Showcase during Showcase 2026 in the RDS, running from 18th–20th January. 

With more than 300 women in the room on the day the event, hosted by Dublin City Council and LEO Dublin City, welcomed female founders and business leaders from all four local authority areas in Dublin. LEO Dublin City, LEO Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, LEO Fingal and LEO South Dublin

A new campaign has been launched by Local Enterprise Office Fingal to help businesses to “save time, money and energy” and show them how to make their businesses more productive and improve competitiveness.

Fingal County Council is currently delivering capital projects at an unprecedent scale, councillors were told as they approved a three-year Capital Programme worth €1.43 billion at the October monthly meeting of the Council.

Fingal County Council Arts Office, in partnership with MART Studios and gallery, announces the recipient of the 2025–2026 MART Studio graduate residency, Nicole Manning, a visual artist who works predominantly through the medium of paint. 

Renowned Irish artist John Kindness has been commissioned to create a new public artwork as part of the development of Harry Reynolds Road.

Fingal County Council Arts Office in partnership with the RHA announce Eileen O’Sullivan, a visual artist based in Fingal, as the recipient of the RHA School Studio Award

Fingal Arts Office is pleased to announce Maria McSweeney as the recipient of the Loughshinny Boathouse Studio Award

Have your say by making a submission or observation, by 5pm on 11th August 2025. Note deadline extended.

Ten months after construction commenced, the €40m centre-piece of the Swords Cultural Quarter is taking shape and is on schedule to open its doors in 2027. 

Our historic street furniture are often taken for granted. Limestone kerbing is replaced, post boxes updated, pumps removed when no longer in use. However it is these elements that bring character to our streets and roads and reflect our social history. 

Season 5 of the community excavation Digging Drumanagh will take place between 14-28 May 2025.