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Fingal County Council, Creative Ireland and the Irish School Orchestra presented ‘Orchestral Odyssey’ for children and families in Swords in June 2024. The magic of a full orchestra was brought directly to children in school settings and families in the newly refurbished Carnegie Library.

A fully funded two-day residential for artists is announced by the Exploring & Thinking Partnership – Fingal County, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County, South Dublin County and Dublin City Council. The residential is planned for 9 and 10 October 2024, will take place in Balbriggan, and is looking for 12 artists that currently work in or are interested in working in Early Childhood Arts.

Fingal County Council is preparing an Age Friendly Strategy and would like your input online or at one of our in person events taking place across the county.

Fingal County Council Arts office invites applications for the Loughshinny Boathouse Studio Award, a new studio residency award open to professional visual artist(s) working in any medium. Building on from An Urgent Enquiry, a residency commissioning programme in collaboration with Wexford County Council and Dublin City Council, supported by the Arts Council’s Invitation to Collaboration Scheme in 2019, this opportunity offers an award of €20,000 and a fully funded studio for a nine-month period, commencing in September 2024.

Personality TV host and food writer Donal Skehan has welcomed a new Fingal Food & Drink Policy which looks to create a sustainable and vibrant food community in the County, celebrating local food provenance and positioning Fingal as a premier culinary tourism destination.

The 4 Dublin Local Authorities are delighted to come together under the Active City Dublin banner to run a Parks & Trails Challenge during the month of July.

Ireland’s largest county show is back at the end of June and promises to give visitors to Newbridge House and Farm in Fingal another weekend full of fun, food, animals and festivities.

Works are set to commence in the Ushers Lake Area of Ward River Regional Park on Monday 1st July. The works aim to create a bypass channel of The Ward River that will allow for

NOTICE OF CONSIDERATION OF SETTING A LOCAL ADJUSTMENT FACTOR FOR 2025 (LOCAL PROPERTY TAX)

Watch our webinar recording to learn about the firefighting goats of Howth Head and their goatherd, Melissa Jeuken.