Bremore Castle
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Anyone suggest or know of any good Mother & Baby/Toddler groups in the area?? I have a 2yr old boy and a 3 month old. Cheers
Cocoon is very good. They do half-day/half-week or full-day/half-week deals with reasonable prices. You can check them out at http://www.cocoonchildcare.ie/index.asp if you like. They tick all the boxes for us and I can recommend them.
Hi Emer, theres a parent and toddler group in the order of malta hall on monday and fridays from 10am-12, costs €3 but that covers all of your kids (towards the rent & tea/toast) I’ve an almost 2yr old and a 5wk old and have been a couple of times. I think there is also a parent & toddler group in PJ’s play centre (near the church) that meets on a wednesday.
FAO site administrator, there is a balbriggan parents forum maybe you could add there address to the links section?
http://balbrigganparents.activeboard.com/
Any Bremore Castle Mammy’s on Facebook? there is a new group that might be of interest to you, it’s called: Balbriggan Mommies
Hi, we’re in the process of setting up a saturday morning parent & toddler group in balbriggan (Hyde Park hall) & are looking for donations of suitable toys/equipment if you know anyone who can help or if you would be interested in joining the group when its up an running please contact 0874117282 (Eva)
Just wondering, when we had the power cut, I noticed there were no emergency lights in operation?
Does anyone know what the story is there?
Well done on the site lad!
Eimer
Hya, didnt know there was emergency lights!! it was real spooky though wasnt it???
hi,
was wondering if anyone could tell me what primary schools there are in balbriggan and which ones are good. trying to get my son enrolled. thanks
Hi, just incase you haven’t noticed theres great a forum section on this site
the link is up in the top right hand corner.
Ify – I’m not in the school system yet but will be soon enough, there are quite a few primary schools in Balbriggan, the following link will bring you to a page where you can access an excel spreadsheet of all of the primary schools in the country, if you filter on county for “Fingal” it will narrow down the search for the ones in and around Balbriggan:
http://www.education.ie/home/home.jsp?pcategory=10917&ecategory=12016&language=EN
Non denominational:
Bracken Educate Together N.S. Castlelands
BALBRIGGAN EDUCATE TOGETHER NS HAMLET LANE
School taught through Irish
GAELSCOIL BHAILE BRIGIN Castlelands
Catholic Religion
S N PEADAR AGUS POL N BALBRIGGAN (St Peter & Pauls Jnr infants to 2nd class …feeds into St Molaga’s for 3rd class to 6th)
ST MOLAGA SENIOR NS BREMORE (3rd to 6th classes only)
Protestant Religion
ST GEORGES N S (new building on Naul road to Motorway just past the cemetary)
Hope this helps a bit,
Eva
thanks a mil Eva. that was really helpful.
Hya – There is also St Teresa’s in Pinewoods – my son goes there and its a great school.
Hi there – recently I have noticed a lot of rubbish on the main street in the estate – having seen a rat in Bremore Castle before… I am a bit concerned. Especially as children play there. Is it something the Council could help with, once the take-over has gone ahead? Any other suggestion?
Hi!
We are looking for a babysitter in the evening. We have a boy who is going to be 4yrs in January. Anyone has recommendations to make?
Thanks
Annie
Hi, Just wondering if people would be good enough to keep an eye out for a smokey grey cat, missing since early fri 04dec.
He’s neutered and microchipped and has a collar and silver fish shape tag on him..
He’s quite timid and is likely to hiss at you if approached.
I’m minding him for a friend and he escaped by accident. He doesn’t know the area and is likely terrified.
any info greatly appreciated.
Sabrina
087-7983553
Hi Annie
if you are still looking for a baby sitter our aupair is available some evenings if you would like to avail of her services.
you can get me on victordunne1@gmail.com if you would like to meet her.
regards
Victor.
hi ive just moved into the estate,i have a problem with my car park space.there are two spaces together, one is mine and the other is another neighbours.the neighbour has a shed on his car space and is using my space to park his “two” cars on.when i confronted him about it, he said because the space wasn’t directly at the side of my house that anyone can use it.after confronting other neighbours in the estate they seem to think its not right aswell.im not lookin to make enemies in the estate im just lookin a safe place to park my car a space that is rightly reserved for my house.so if anyone knows anything about this i’d appreciate your opinion.cheers! shay at 47 bremore.
hi, Charlie from the residents association here, I am living in no 41 across from you if you want to pop over some evening to chat about it. Issues like this have come up from time to time and we can definatly offer advice on it. You should check your deeds or with your landlord about the space but if it is a “free space” then you are entitled to use it to park in.
The parking issue should be sorted now, spoke to both parties and they then had a chat themsleves and the issue is now hopefully sorted, thanks to everyone involved for being so accommadating, Charlie
Hi all – had a negative experience in a local pub the other night and was wondering if any in the estate have had the same. Me and two friends went to Harbour Knights on Friday night. One of my friends noticed a sign on the door, saying that guests are welcome to order food in. She asked bar staff, who confirmed and gave us the number of a local take-away. As soon as the take-away was delivered at the door, my friend was verbally abused by the pub manager. He stated it was not allowed to have food in the pub and when we objected that we had been advised from bar staff, he just got ruder and more aggressive. In the end, we had to go eat outside in the smokers’ patio. On any other occasion we’d have simply left, but we were there to see a friend play live and despite the rude treatment, we even stayed for one more round of drinks. The manager was at the bar and as I was waiting for my change, he sniggered at me. I pointed out that he was being very rude and he started again on his aggressive behaviour. Bar staff sniggered too. And after an hour I realised why: she had given my change in a bundle, carefully keeping a tenner for herself. I had heard that it can be common practice for bar staff in pubs to give the wrong change, hoping people won’t check. I now know it’s true. I would be interested in knowing from other residents if they had similar negative experiences in Harbour Knights, or if it was just an unlucky night. In the first case, I think among local residents we should warn each other of places that do not deserve our custom. Especially at a time when pubs are not doing well economically and are advertising on the radio about their friendly atmosphere, this unmannered treatment of paying guests is just not to be tolerted. Thanks and look forward to hearing your views. Alessandra.
That’s shocking Allesendra. never had an experience like that at O’Shea’s/Harbour Knights. The fact that it was the manager is very worrying, who can you complain too??
Hi Liz, thanks for your support. I was going to complain to the pub owner, but I have since then found out that he IS the manager. It makes it even more shocking, that he should treat his customers this way.
Maybe a letter to the Licensed Vintners Association or to some radios? What do you think? Anyone got any advice?
It’s time people learned to behave properly with their customers, instead of expecting we be grateful to them, for letting us in.
Alessandra,
You may approach Joe Duffy at RTE Radio 1 who exposes people and businesses like this. You can contact him at joe@rte.ie. He could air your problem on the radio.
You can listen to some of the previous live podcasts on the RTE Radio 1 website.