Council

The Fingal County Council Public Planning Counter has reopened. See full details below.

Fingal County Council in association with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade are delighted to be part of the Virtual Africa Day celebration 2020 which provides a great opportunity to showcase African culture and communities living in Fingal

Fingal County Council will immediately commence preparations for the construction of the Broadmeadow Greenway after An Bord Pleanála granted planning permission for the €12m project.

In March 2020 An Post gave every household free postcards for posting to family and friends across the country to help them stay connected during lockdown. With social media etc. sending postcards had gone out of fashion.

So a lesser known research  site to while away an afternoon is TARA or the Trinity Access to Research Archive http://www.tara.tcd.ie/ TARA is an open access repository with restricted access only in unavoidable instances, e.g. where publisher copyright restrictions prevail. One of the many collections is that of Prof. Edwin C. Rae was Professor of the History of Art at the University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana.

MyPlace is a 3 week project in partnership with Make Create Innovate, Fingal Libraries and Creative Fingal which invites young people (and their families) to participate in the exploration of building, making and interactivity as part of Cruinniu na nOg 2020.

Watch Reuben teach you 5 ways to be creative & funny: write an adventure for your friends, create games to play, build cool stuff, bring a puppet to life and draw funny cartoons.

Would you like to know how to make ice cream?  This is an Ice Cream making workshop where you learn how to make your own freezer which you then use to freeze your own batch of ice cream.

Join Alan Nolan, renowned children's author and illustrator, for an online class suitable for 7 to 10 year olds including storytelling, live drawing, a reading and some step by step drawing.

Are you between 8 and 12? Would you like to try your hand at creating your own animated stories and mini games? Then join Sabine McKenna of creative computing classes Skerries for this free five-week online course! All you need is access to a computer and the internet, plus a parent to help you set up your free Scratch account - and you're good to go.