Malahide Community Forum

On May 27th the Community Forum wrote to all candidates with publicly available email addresses (and contacted others via their party emails). We sought support on four local issues in the next Council term. Full details in an earlier post. 1) A Local Area Plan for Malahide2) An alternative cabling route for North Irish Sea Array project3) Support for a local bus link service as an alternative to reduce traffic4) Maintaining the pitches at Bridgefield.

As at today, June 5th, Cllr Aoibhinn Tormey, Cllr Anthony Lavin and Cllr. Eoghan O’Brien acknowledged the correspondence.

Cllr Aoibhinn Tormey and Cllr Anthony Lavin offered support.

Reminder that you can register and change your details up to May 20th.

https://www.checktheregister.ie/en-IE/ or https://www.voter.ie/

MALAHIDE CLASSIC AND VINTAGE MOTOR SHOW will take place at Grand Hotel Malahide on SUNDAY 19 MAY starting at 11am. Admission €10 (under 16s FREE) with all proceeds going to ARC CANCER SUPPORT and CHILDHOOD CANCER IRELAND.

A very successful AGM was held on April 23rd with Residents from 16 estates representing over 1500 households in Malahide attending. We also heard from some of our Local Area Councillors.

Thank you to The Grand Hotel for facilitating us with a room.

Topics covered included:
– Forum’s work on behalf of the Community since the last AGM in April 2023
– Addressing the demographic challenges including stepdown accommodation and need for services for a town of Malahide’s size
– Local Area Plan for Malahide
– Addressing the deterioration of the look and feel of the village/ town
– Establish a clear hierarchy of priorities that puts local needs first and those of visitors second.
– Protecting Bridgefield
– Local Bus service
– Dart+ North Turnback at Malahide Station
– Meeting support for better route for North Irish Sea Array (NISA) cabling through Malahide Area
– Introduction of Community policing areas
– Spread the word about Malahide Community Forum

More detail in upcoming posts.

• website https://malahidecommunityforum.ie
• facebook https://www.facebook.com/MalahideCommunityForum
• email secretary.malahideforum@gmail.com

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The Dublin Inquirer ran a survey on local issues

They have also produced a voter guide where candidates have been invited to answer questions

https://dublinvoterguide2024.ie/areas/fingal-county-council/howth-malahide

Graham Bell Suite, The Grand Hotel, Malahide

Very helpful and informative Public meeting with the North Sea Irish Array (NISA) group at the Grand Hotel on Tuesday April 9th.

Detail was shared on the trench that will be dug taking up a lane of the road and how the cable laying will work.

All of the detail of the project is available on their website where there is a virtual consultation room with all the detail shared at the Public meeting. We encourage all Malahide Residents to inform themselves. https://northirishseaarray.ie/

There is also an opportunity to give feedback directly to NISA https://northirishseaarray.ie/engagement-area/

Malahide Community Malahide Community Forum continue to advocate for an alternative route for the trenches and cable laying to go cross country rather than down the main Malahide to Swords and Malahide to Dublin Roads.

At the same time we would like to hear constructive suggestions from Malahide Residents with ideas to ameliorate the impact locally if the current proposal, to go down the main roads, proceeds. We will share those with the NISA promoters.

Ideas so far include scheduling works during school holidays, funding a local shuttle bus to help locals access Malahide town and reduce car traffic and carrying out enabling works outside of peak commuter times.