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In the second part of this series, mindfulness teacher Rita O'Donovan talks about minding our mental health in these difficult times and shows us a body scan mindfulness exercise to help us become more aware of what our bodies are telling us.

In this video, mindfulness teacher Rita O'Donovan talks about minding our mental health in these difficult times and shows us a mindfulness exercise to help us become more aware of what our bodies are telling us.

In this video, Jill Barrett, Executive Performance and Leadership Coach, talks about the difference between reacting and responding to a stimulus, and the importance of pausing and giving ourselves some space between stimulus and response. Part two of a four-part resilience series.

In this first part of a four-part series about resilience, Barry from Blanchardstown Library speaks to Jill Barrett, Executive Performance and Leadership Coach, about the different types of resilience, and gives some practical tips on how to build up your own resilience.

Fingal has an ancient and varied maritime history from Viking raids and the medieval havens of Howth where the pague arrived, to the pirates of Lambay and the smugglers of Rush and Loughshinny. By the later fourteenth century the mouth of the Liffey had silted up and merchandise had to be landed elsewhere along the coast.

Saturday the 16th May is National Drawing day which brings to mind the importance of illustrations, drawings and paintings of our heritage sites that have survived through the ages. In the 18th century the fashion for drawing antiquities was exemplified by Gabriel Beranger whose paintings of his Rambles thro’ the County of Dublin in 1770s beautifully recorded now long gone castles and monuments in Fingal.

Mary Ellen (Molly) Adrien was born on 25 September 1873. She is remembered as one of Fingal’s ‘Revolutionary women’. Molly joined Cumann na mBan after its establishment in April 1914 and is said to have been instrumental in forming the Lusk branch. On Easter Sunday 1916, Cumman na mBan were ordered to assemble at Black Church Phisboro, an order countermanded and were sent away to await recall. However Molly remained in the city and was chosen to bring the order to rise from Pearse to the leader of Irish Volunteers Joseph Lawless and then to Thomas Ashe Commandant of the North County Brigade.

There are 54 historic graveyards within Fingal which form a significant element of the county’s heritage. Many are still in use. Some such as Lusk, Swords, St Douloughs and Grallagh are associated with saints and date from the earliest periods of Christianty. Others like Cloghran, Holmpatrick and Mulhuddart are medieval parish graveyards.