Council

Cllr Seána Ó Rodaigh has been elected as Mayor of Fingal while Cllr Daniel Whooley has been elected as Deputy Mayor.

Fingal County Council has welcomed the news that all eight applications from Fingal to the Community Monuments Fund have been successful with a total of €270,000 awarded.

Fingal County Council has commenced a  programme of public toilet improvements in four regional parks and the Mayor of Fingal, Cllr David Healy, recently opened the first at Millennium Park Playground in Blanchardstown.

Open the door to heritage is the message from the Heritage Council as National Heritage Week 2021 is launched.  Culture and heritage groups, as well as communities, families and individuals in Fingal are invited to get involved and celebrate and share heritage. National Heritage Week will run from Saturday, 14th to Sunday, 22nd August, and has become one of Ireland’s largest cultural heritage events. 

Fingal County Council are delighted to announce, in partnership with the Irish Coast Guard and Howth SAAO Committee, that a new safety initiative for Howth has been completed. The innovative network of safety signage is now in place on the Howth Looped Paths walking trails.

Rush has been selected to take part in the Irish National Practice Transfer Initiative (NPTI), which is funded by the EU URBACT Programme.

On the 21st of June 2021, Fingal County Council will commemorate this local historic event by launching a Fingal Libraries exhibition entitled The Burning of the Coastguard Buildings which will be displayed in  Skerries Church, Rush Library and  the Atrium, County Hall Swords. The Council’s Arts Department will also launch a unique bespoke writing commission entitled “a Burning Tide” in partnership with the Irish Writers Centre, in which six renowned authors will, in their own unique style, produce six modern writing pieces which will represent their interpretation of the events that transpired on the night of the 18th June 1921.

Fingal County Council in partnership with FOIRA (Fingal Old Irish Republican Army Commemorative society), the descendants of  the fatally wounded RIC officer and IRA volunteer are working in collaboration with the people of Ballyboughal to produce a high-quality re-enactment video/documentary which will not only commemorate those who lost their lives on the 18th April, 1921 it will provide a historical reference that will be used to promote a deeper understanding of this local legacy which was significant to the Irish Republican Army movement which was growing in strength, 

Primary Schools across Fingal are to receive a weather station rain gauge as part of an effort by Fingal County Council to produce more detailed rainfall records for the county.

The first Dublin Climate Action Week (#DCAW21), will take place from Monday, September 13 to Sunday, September 19, and is being planned to demonstrate the ongoing efforts, ambitions and the collaborative approach of the four Dublin local authorities, in addressing climate action.