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Story Time: Almost every library in Ireland runs weekly Story Time sessions for toddlers, reading a well-known book to an avid audience of preschoolers.
Suits: Age 2-5. Time: Check with your local library for times, it’s usually in the morning, midweek. Find out more here.
Book Clubs: There are children’s book clubs in branch libraries across the country, meeting once a month to discuss a new book. The members of the club choose the book to read and the library staff research the background and read it too so that they can take part of the conversation. If your local library doesn’t have one – why not start your own?
Suits: Age 8-12. Time: Check with your local library for times, it’s usually in the early evening, midweek. Find out more here.
Dubray StoryFest: This one’s not technically in a library, but it’s sure to appeal to book-lovers. Dubray StoryFest will be a day of interactive author and illustrator events, along with storytelling, drawing, book-inspired yoga, lullabies for babies, face-painting and dressing up. Plus under-threes go free.
Suits: Under 12s. Time: 10am to 5pm, Saturday September 29th. Location: Airfield Estate, Dundrum. Find out more here.
CoderDojo: Learn to code in your local library, with CoderDojo. Children can learn to code, build a website, create an app or a game, and explore technology in this laid-back club.
Suits: 7-17 year olds – adults must stay with children throughout. Time: Every Saturday, 12.15pm. Location: Lucan Library, every Wednesday, but there are CoderDojo clubs in some libraries all over the country, so ask your local branch. Find out more here.
Children’s Creative Writing Group: Aspiring writers get together on the last Wednesday of every month across several Dublin libraries, discussing and critiquing their work.
Suits: 9-12 year olds. Time: Various times, depending on the library. Location: Various libraries. Find out more here.
Manga Drawing For Teens: Artist John Carpenter will be holding a manga-drawing class in Blanchardstown Library this Saturday that will cover action, full figures and faces.
Suits: Ages 12+. Time: This Saturday at 11am and 1pm. Location: Blanchardstown Library. Find out more here.
Children’s Chess Club: Athy library hosts a children’s chess club every Thursday where junior master players can pit their wits against their peers.
Suits: Under 12s. Time: Thursdays 6pm to 8pm. Location: Blanchardstown Library. Find out more here.
Wexford Scrabble Club: Wexford Town library is home to a weekly scrabble club for secondary school students, and it can get quite competitive, so we’re told!
Suits: 12-18 year olds. Time: Every Friday at 3.30pm. Location: Blanchardstown Library. Find out more here.
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They’ve known this for years but still have done nothing about it. Forward thinking and Irish Government don’t go together in a sentence.
@Ciaran Farrelly: they don’t shine at any kind of thinking really
What about using windfall money to invest in infrastructure like our decrepit water pipes?
@Phil O’ Meara:
or housing;
or roads;
or schools;
or hospitals;
or trains;
or giant printers!!
Why has the journal not reported any of the recent good news on the economic front? Lower unemployment again, higher tax receipts, evidence that one of the multinationals based her pays more than the headline 12.5% rate?
If you only read the Journal you’d swear that the country is struggling while in fact it’s booming!
@joe:
But you can’t complain if booming is about!
@joe: booming fot the few..
@joe: that wouldn’t fit with the Left Wing bias.
@joe: less people on the dole can easily be made to look well when you see people being dumped into the likes of seetec or tus, and the fact is the higher tax receipts are coming from people already over stretched with crappy pay packets and stealth tax after stealth tax……you might want everyone to be all happy because in your eyes its a wonderful time, but sadly for lots of people there is no recovery and most are barely keeping their heads above water
@Michael Patrick Newell: Well you have that because one million people in Ireland pay little or no tax at all.
@Michael Patrick Newell: look around you and open your eyes. There are jobs for anyone who wants them. You have to start somewhere, start in a low level job and work your way up.
The prospects that come from having a job are much greater than those that come from not having one.
Life is what you make it!
@joe: its a false economy.
More in work than a few years ago but also more shitty jobs. Far less permanent jobs, lower real wages. Unaffordable rent.
When a person earning an average wage hasn’t a hope of buying a house the society is in serious trouble.
The rich poor divide is growing rapidly we are heading towards having a lower income tier of society who can never own property with a very small proportion owning everything….
sound familiar? Is should because we have had it here before with the landed gentry. We are heading for a return to feudal times with pesants and elite.
@joe: What is booming Joe ? does that mean theres a bust coming too..
Its Booming for bankers and Property Owners .. while people with even decent jobs struggle to pay rent
@joe: Yeah, all those cribbing and moaning should “commit suicide”.
@Gowon Geter: there’s always a busy coming. It’s just a question of when! That’s how economics works!
@Gowon Geter: tourism, restaurants, bars, tech, construction. A knock on from that is a load of support jobs in the wider services sector.
@joe: Ok Joe. You get a job in the service sector, then try to afford rent (haha), health insurance (because wouldn’t want to wait a week on a trolley or a year for a scan), groceries, utilities, you’ll probably need a car because good luck finding suitable accommodation within walking distance from your wonderful new job and public transport is just not a viable option in many places so then there’s motor tax, car insurance, petrol, (a carbon tax coming down the tracks, and if you own a laptop, phone or TV you’ll probably be hit for a TV licence eventually too), oh and also try to save for a mortgage that you’ll never qualify for on your salary from this wonderful job but don’t worry, as you put it it’s all about work ethic and Ireland is a bountiful land of plenty for those who don’t want to just sit on their ass on the dole, why, work your way up in that job and in maybe 10-15 years you won’t be in the red every month. Hurrah. Seriously, have you actually been paying attention to the state of this country and challenges workers face, how expensive it is just to live here? or are you in some sort of little wealthy bubble where none of this affects you so you look down at the great unwashed and assume they must not be as smart or talented as you are, sure why else would they be struggling?
When the shinners get into power they will bring in a sustainable corporation tax policy that will cover everything…. bring forth the shinners
@Tony Henry: tell you what muppet, look around the country its in a terrible mess, and guess what it’s not SF in government!!
@Tony Henry: well they cant be any worse than the role over for a brown envelope or cushy job FFG circus act who would rather pucker up to large corporations and then expect the joe soap tax payer or irish business to pick up the tab……bring fourth the clowns of the FFG clown college
@rumug: don’t SF have majorities on councils?
@milton friedman: here and there they are. What’s your point? County councils have little to no power.
The first paragraph says it all about this Government, “reliance on using corporate tax receipts to plug spending overruns”
Why is there so many spending overruns is the first place. Tax payers money been wasted every day while so many worthy causes are crying out for extra funding. Disgraceful
The people’s money trough can add more and more tax under FFG rule…
@Willy Mc Bride: What?
We’re a high cost economy that can’t afford itself anymore they should of let the troika sort out the place before the kicked them out ,
Possibly but, when all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
Strange I didn’t hear a peep from the IFAC when the government were signing off on the dodgiest of dodgy deals in relation to the 3 billion euro broadband. Cos if they think that made any economic sense given how its been done and where it will be sold to after, then these lot really aren’t good with numbers. Don’t worry lads in order to avoid the multinationals from ever paying the full amount they are meant to, we will just lump another tax on the irish and label it something to do with the climate or health, that usually works and gets a nice juicy tax robbery i mean take
Same old story the have and the have nots , the poor are been forced to pay even if it leaves them hungry as the rich continue to feed their bank accounts .
It’s cool, we have an entire population of idiots who will continued to vote FFG and pay a whole battery of new income taxes, stealth taxes, property, water, carbon taxes, air, death etc so that the poor, struggling mega-corporations aren’t out of pocket.
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