Councillor Dermot Lacey

scouting

Post Archive


  • Jamboree 2008 (Letter to the Editor)

    The Editor, The Irish Times Madam, – For the first 10 days of August I had the honour to be in the company of over 10,000 of the finest young people this country has ever known, who were attending the International Scout Jamboree in Punchestown. Their spirit, decency, enthusiasm, co-operation and mutual respect during some…

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  • Jamboree 2008

    I’m off to Jamboree 2008 tomorrow, so I won’t be posting for a few days.  If you’re going to be at Punchestown, make sure to say hello! I’ll be with the 3rd/40th/41st Dublin, Donnybrook Scout Group.

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  • Dermot on the Radio

    Dermot will be on the Tubridy Show with Dave Fanning at 09:30 on Friday. He’s part of a panel discussing scouting, and the 100th anniversary of the movement in Ireland. Listen to him on RTÉ Radio 1.

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  • Irish Catholic Article

    Article published in The Irish Catholic Ronan Mullen is correct. There I have said it. Yes, this Dublin 4 Liberal agrees with Ronan Mullen ( The Irish Catholic 3rd January)  when in the course of a recent Seanad debate he said that “Communities must solve drugs problem” and that “we have to acknowledge that there…

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  • Scouting Must be Relevant or Redundant

    Opening Address at the National Council of Scouting Ireland “Scouting in Ireland needs to be relevant or redundant” according to the former Lord Mayor of Dublin, Councillor Dermot Lacey. Addressing the  4th National Council of the new merged Scouting Ireland, Councillor Lacey said that “as Scouting begins a second century it needs to be central…

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