Malahide | Malahide Library | Seasonal Wreath-making | 14:00-16:00

Balbriggan | The Lark, Church Street |IIMS Christmas Gala 2025 | The Irish Institute of Music & Song’s Annual Christmas Gala Concert is a festive choral showcase (children’s and youth choirs, LORICA and guests) with proceeds supporting IIMS ensembles. | 19:00-21:00

Malahide | St. Andrew’s Church | Christmas with Cór Fingal | Join Cór Fingal for a heartwarming evening of festive music, from joyful favourites to timeless Christmas classics. With performances ranging from the fun and familiar to the beautifully sacred, this concert is the perfect way to start your Christmas season, and will leave you humming Christmas songs all the way home. | 20:00-21:30

Rush | Rush Library | Christmas Crafts | This event is for child 8-11 years old. | 15:00-16:00

Swords | Swords Library | Christmas Crafts | This event is for child 8-11 years old. | 15:30-16:30

Malahide | Malahide Library | Evening Film Club presents | Evening Film Club screens the classic wintry detective comedy The Thin Man (1934) in Malahide Library (91 mins, black & white, PG). | TBC

Skerries | Skerries Library | Festive Story session for children | Morning storytime 10:00-11:00

Swords | 46 North Street | Getting started with Geneology - Free workshop | Join us in Fingal Local Studies & Archives for monthly sessions on how to trace your family history. We will examine the online resources freely available through Fingal Libraries and how these can be used in your search. | 14:30-15:30

Donabate | Donabate Library | Festive Story session for children | Afternoon storytime. | 15:00-16:00

Swords | Swords Library | Festive Story session for children | Afternoon storytime. | 15:30-16:30

Swords | Swords Library | Christmas Crafts | Join us for an afternoon of Christmas stories and festive craft activities for the whole family to enjoy. All ages welcome! | 15:30-16:30

Naul | The Seamus Ennis Centre, The cottage café | Christmas with friends | Join us for a relaxed and heartwarming evening where you can catch up with friends, meet fellow members, and soak up the seasonal spirit over a glass of mulled wine | 18:30 - 20:30

Naul | The Seamus Ennis Centre, The cottage café | The Ballad of Wallis Island Film showing | A reclusive lottery winner lures his favourite musician—and the musician’s ex and former bandmates—to a remote island for a private gig, but old tensions explode as a storm traps them all. | 20:00-22:30

Naul | The Seamus Ennis Centre, The cottage café | A Sensory Parent & Toddler Traditional Music Workshop | Join us for a festive but calming environment that supports children’s sensory needs while encouraging imaginative play, fine motor development, and seasonal engagement. | 11:00-12:00

Ballyboughal | St. Patrick's hall & community centre | Christmas Weekend | Santa Friday & Christmas Fair, Fun for all the family. Everyone welcome — bring friends, family & neighbours. Santa's truck will perform a drive through with Mrs Claus | 17:00-20:00

Lusk | Round Towers GAA Club | The Santa bus is coming! | The santa bus is aid of Laura Lynn foundation is coming to Lusk! | 18:00 - 19:00

Skerries | Skerries Sailing club | Christmas Concert | Ukulele Strummers Christmas Concert In aid of Skerries Youth Support Services | 20:00-22:00

Naul | The Seamus Ennis Centre, The cottage café | An evening with Mary Dillon, Neil Martin & Donal O'Connor | Audiences can expect a rich tapestry of sound that transcends genres and resonates with the soul-stirring essence of Irish folk & traditional music. | 20:00-22:30

Skerries | Skerries Library | Festive Story Time | 10:00-11:00

Swords | Swords Library | Magical Pop-up Forest Christmas Crafts | 11:00-12:00

Malahide | Malahide Library | Christmas magic Show | 12:00-13:00

Skerries | Lifeboat station Skerries | Fancy dress reindeer walk | Fancy dress reindeer walk in aid of Skerries Lifeboat RNLI | 12:00-14:00

Rush | Multipurpose youth facility K56 CC90 | Foróige Christmas Market | Hot chocolate, refreshments, festive arts & crafts, face painting & lots of festive activities. Also come and meet the big man himself.🎅 It’ll be a fantastic event. We hope to see you there!! | 12:00-16:00

Ballyboughal | St. Patrick's hall & community centre | Christmas Weekend | Santa Friday & Christmas Fair, Fun for all the family. Everyone welcome — bring friends, family & neighbours | 12:00-18:00

Malahide | Malahide Library | Magical Pop-up Forest Christmas Crafts | 15:30-16:30

Portmarnock | Portmarnock Resort | Naomh Mearnog Gala Dinner | Get ready for a night of great food, great music, and great company – with some stories along the way! 🎉 Marking 50 years of our club and its impact on the community - both on and off the pitch. | 19:00-23:30

Skerries | Skerries Community Centre - Mourne View | Foróige Christmas Market | Hot chocolate, refreshments, festive arts & crafts, face painting & lots of festive activities. Also come and meet the big man himself.🎅 It’ll be a fantastic event. We hope to see you there!! | 12:00-16:00

Skerries | St.Patrick's Church, Strand Street | Skerries Sea Sharp Christmas Concert | Come and enjoy the songs of Christmas for FREE!!!! 🎄 | 15:00-16:00

Lusk | Community Cultural Centre | Yoga by candlelight | An annual afternoon of movement and meditation in Lusk Community Cultural Centre, followed by tea and homemade treats—limited spaces with booking via the link. | 17:00-19:00

Eileen Hopkins, a member of Swords Toastmasters, took to the TEDxTraleeWomen stage recently with a talk built around a simple but powerful idea: the labels we inherit (or place on ourselves) can quietly limit what we believe we’re capable of. Her TEDx talk, Living Beyond Your Labels, lands that message in a way that feels personal and relatable, and it clearly resonated with the audience.

She genuinely shone on the day. People weren’t just politely clapping — you can see from her speech on YouTube, that she got a standing ovation, which tells you her message really resonated with the room. What came through most was how naturally she turned lived experience into a story with a point: clear, honest, and easy to connect with. And getting a TEDx slot is no small thing; she didn’t just “get through it” — she owned the stage with calm confidence, a strong structure, and the kind of presence that keeps people listening.

Toastmasters isn’t just about delivering a polished speech from a podium — it’s training for real life. It helps when you’re trying to hold your ground in a disagreement at work, when you need to make your point clearly in a one-to-one, or when you’re under pressure on a call, on camera, or even in a quick conversation on the street. You learn practical ways to speak so people actually listen: calm, assertive, and straight to the point. And honestly, who wouldn’t benefit from more of that?

There are four open Toastmasters clubs in the Fingal East area so you are spoiled for choice - Swords, East Coast (Swords), Malahide and Balbriggan. Try it out!

Dublin Airport’s well-known plane-spotting hangout — often called “The Mound” — is due a proper upgrade, following planning approval from Fingal County Council. The goal is to turn what’s been a very informal viewing spot into something safer, more comfortable, and better set up for the steady stream of aviation fans who use it.

The plans describe a purpose-built viewing area, including an elevated platform and seating, with some shelter so people can stay longer (and in worse weather) without it being a scramble around parked cars and narrow verges. In short: more space to stand, sit, and watch the action, designed around how spotters actually use the location.

The wider context is that plane spotting has grown — helped along by social media and flight-tracking apps that make it easy to time arrivals and share photos — which can lead to crowding at peak moments. The works are to be funded by DAA, and while a finish date isn’t nailed down in the piece, the direction is clear: a more official, more welcoming home for a hobby that’s getting bigger every year.

Uisce Éireann says the Greater Dublin Drainage (GDD) Project is back on track after a High Court judicial review was settled on 5 December 2025, meaning the case won’t go to a full hearing.

As part of the settlement, Uisce Éireann says it has committed to additional measures aimed at strengthening public confidence in the project’s environmental protections, and it now expects construction contractor procurement to begin in February 2026, with construction projected to take around four years after that.

In plain terms, this is the major wastewater-capacity project intended to serve North Dublin and parts of the wider region, centred on a new wastewater treatment plant at Clonshaugh (Fingal). The stated scale is significant — capacity for the equivalent of around 500,000 people — and it’s repeatedly described as “enabling” infrastructure, because without extra wastewater capacity, it becomes harder to deliver new homes and support population growth.

For Portmarnock, the key local element is the marine outfall pipeline. Project documents describe a tunnelled section running beneath the Portmarnock Peninsula (including beneath/near Portmarnock Golf Club), with onshore works described in the vicinity of the R106 Coast Road and the Golf Links Road area near the public car park, before heading offshore to a discharge point out in the Irish Sea (described as roughly north-east of Ireland’s Eye).

Following previous successful schemes, it has been decided, by Fingal County Council, to provide free parking on 3 Saturdays in December (13th, & 20th) in the following towns:

Mixed-use scheme (31,053 sq. m GFA) across 5 blocks (A–E) ranging 2–8 storeys (A: 6–7, B: 2–7, C: 2–7, D: 3–7, E: 6–8).

Swords | Balheary Road – Cable Installation (Solar Farm Grid Connection)

Swords | Balheary Road (Horse Hay → Church of the Immaculate Conception) – Duct Installation.

Balbriggan | Harbour Road & Seapoint Lane Junction – Resurfacing & New Step Area.

Balbriggan | Quay Street & Surrounding Roads – Traffic Management Scheme (Consultation)

Malahide, Doabate, Rush, Lusk, Skerries, Portmarnock & Ballyboughal

Have you ever heard of Ireland’s Plein Air Painting Festival Dublin? Well, if you haven’t then you are likely not alone. The Dublin plein air festival is Ireland’s premier outdoor painting festival and one you should put in your diary for next year. Monday 15th to Sunday 21st June 2026. The festival is hosted around North county Dublin / Fingal and welcomes artists from Ireland and all over the world. We know it’s a long way off but you should check out their website here for more details. It’s very interesting to know that this has been happening on our very own doorstep for many years now. Who knew!