Ho Ho Ho, Christmas in the Village!

What a beautiful day everyone had on Sunday, 27th November, when Shankill Main Street was turned into a winter wonderland for the second edition of the already long-awaited Christmas in the Village festival.

Supported by DLR County Council and Shankill Business Group, the event was a wonderful celebration of the Christmas spirit and the result of local initiative and hard work.

A wide range of surprises, from Santa’s Grotto, the Petting Farm and the Festive Market Stalls to the Kids' Zone and live music took place from 1 p.m. until 6 p.m., marked midway by Santa's appearance driven by who else but John Brady, owner of Brady's Pub. While waiting for Santa, everyone went around the market stalls to buy Christmas gifts. The already well-known Shankill calendars, which are done every year by the award-winning Shankill Tidy Towns team and feature photos sent by the village's professional and amateur photographers, were on sale as well.

Here is a special photo we took with the permission of the Shankill Tidy Towns team. We are proud to share it with everyone and to say a big congratulations to them for their amazing work in the village, which this year brought them the overall prize winner of the 2016 Tidy Districts Competition.

All the children were extremely excited to meet with some famous Star Wars characters as well as Mickey and Minnie Mouse, who made many friends in the street and brought lots of smiles and hi-fives.

At 3:30 p.m. Santa showed up in the village and was welcomed by everyone as the rightful bringer of joy, gifts and childhood memories.

  

A huge thank you and well done to the organisers.
Now the Christmas spirit has officially arrived in the village!

Volunteers needed for SCAN

SCAN (Shankill Community Association Newsletter) is the monthly community newsletter that was delivered to households monthly free of charge until about two months ago. It won 1st prize for Community Services in the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council's Community Awards 2011. Now SCAN needs volunteers who will help continue writing and delivering the newsletter. If you have some free time or know someone who does, please ask them to contact SCAN on scanshankill10@eircom.net. More about the history of SCAN here.

Thank you, Rosalie!

Shankill is a safe and beautiful village and we want it to stay the same at all times.

An incident however happened recently not far from the Centra shop in Shankill (some sources mentioned the Holly Park area more exactly).

Rosalie L., the brave make-up artist from Shankill, who was assaulted by an unknown man in his 40's on the 3rd January 2016, has chosen to write a Facebook post about this traumatic event so that people can be more careful when they walk alone in the dark.

You can see Rosalie's Facebook message below.

Hey everyone. I was debating whether or not to post this as I didn't wanna worry people or seem like I am looking for...
Posted by Rosalie Lockhart on Monday, 4 January 2016

The case is under Garda investigation and it is understood that house-to-house enquiries are ongoing in the area.

Thank you, Rosalie, for helping to keep our village safe!