Sustainable Skerries

When the sirens called, you did not want to hear it. If their song caught your ear, it lured you to your doom. There was no way to avoid catastrophe once...

Send in your best water pics! Water in all its facets is the theme of this year’s Skerries Eco Festival (1-3 September), and Sustainable Skerries are inviting everyone in Skerries to...

It’s that time of year, Tidy Towns judges are visiting everywhere in Ireland. And as you probably know already, “Tidy Towns” is not about towns being extremely tidy (though an absence...

At our recent Skerries Eco Night: Biodiversity, we explored a number of questions related to biodiversity in our town. The small groups / tables reported back to the plenary session, and...

The 2023 SkOOP Planting Season is over, and we did it: Dozens of volunteers, children and adults of pretty much all ages, planted 70 new apple, pear, plum, damson, and hazel...

This is a report of sorts of the first Skerries Eco Night, 22 November 2022. It has also a list of actions. Join us in doing something – yourself, in your...

We do it every day, usually several times – eat. And what we eat makes a difference. As you can see from a few examples below, based on the BBC Climate...

Sustainable Skerries Committee Member Brendan Muldoon writes: On a recent trip to the Ballygossan Park Playground in Skerries my eye was drawn to a rather barren-looking patch of ground in the...

Seasonal. Local. Organic. Waste-minimising. Ecosphere-enhancing. Regenerative= SLOWER Food! We braved the rain, saw the Community Gardens at Skerries Mills, welcomed platains, wholemeal sourdough bread, homemade popcorn, wonderful cake made by a...

If anyone here has kids in St Pat’s, they will probably know that some parents have taken the initiative to save torn, worn, and / or scruffy uniform items from the...