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There was great success for Swords Tidy Towns representing Fingal at the IPB Pride of Place Awards which were announced on Saturday evening

Fingal County Council’s Our Balbriggan project has been short-listed for a top European award by The Innovation in Politics Institute, a Vienna-based organisation which works on a nonpartisan, pan-European level to enable politicians from different countries to share best practice, to network and to build bridges.

The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O’Brien TD, has paid a visit Fingal County Council as part of a series of visits the Minister is planning with local authorities across the country to discuss housing delivery targets for 2021 and the response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Young people from Foróige projects across Fingal have collaborated to write and produce a spoken word poetry piece about Covid-19 and the impact it is having on young people in particular.

Fingal County Council has adopted a budget of €286m for 2021 which will ensure that services are maintained and enhanced into next year. It represents an increase of €16.3m from 2020 and is the equivalent of €966.78 per head of population.

The Excellence in Local Government Awards 2020 will take place this Thursday – 26th November at 3:30pm and Fingal is nominated in 6 categories

For those affected by burst water main in Portmarnock that may affect supply to Drumnigh Wood, Blackwood Lane, Coast Road, Limetree Avenue, Carrick Hill and surrounds in Portmarnock, works will now complete at 10am on 24 November.

Fingal’s Local Community Development Committee (LCDC) has approved the allocation of over €260,000 to community and voluntary groups across the region under the 2020 Community Enhancement Programme (CEP) and the Community Enhancement Programme Community Centres and Community Facilities Scheme.

The Mayor of Fingal, Cllr David Healy, has written, on behalf of the Council, to the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Hazel Chu, to express solidarity with her after she was the victim of racist attacks on social media.

Removal, remediation and replacement tree works are scheduled for Newbridge Demesne, Donabate, in the coming weeks after an arboriculture survey identified a risk to the public and to a heritage wall within the park.