We met at the car park beside the school since we were so early that the gates weren’t even open. It was 9am on Saturday 31st January and sure only mad eejits would be up and about this early in this weather. We had 16 scouts and 3 leaders today. We loaded up the cars, received directions and were off in convoy along the M1 and M50 from Balbriggan to Killakee. There had been some concern that the road up to Killakee would be impassable due to snow and ice, but Brendan took a

We had an almost full meeting tonight. Two people were missing. Ellie form the Cobra Patrol and Brendan from the Leaders Patrol ; 0 ) Brendan was attending a meeting for the County Campcraft Competition, which we will be entering next year for sure. Our PLs & APLs will be attending the competition for a night at Easter this year to see how it all works and so the y can start to prepare for next year. No pressure there then!!!! After our Opening Ceremony we played a very enthu

The Patrol Leaders Council is a forum for the scouts to meet with the leaders and discuss how everyone feels the program is going. We had our first meeting tonight. Unfortunately Jessica could not attend. We discussed several items Games and activities at meetings – We had previosly asked the Patrols to give us a list of games and activites that they wanted to do/play at the Thursday Meetings. Each Patrol met and the PLs gave us a list. Some of the ideas were great. Adjustmen

We had another great meeting tonight. A few of the scouts were sick and so couldn’t attend, but we had another 2 new girls start with us - Roisin & Caitlin. We have probably reached our max number now at 24. Any more and we might be overloaded!!!! We started the meeting with a couple of games of Stuck in the Mud followed by a game of Dunny Flush (very similar except when caught you have to hold your arm up at a right angle and to be freed someone else has to pull your arm dow

So we’re back for a new calendar year of scouting in 2015. We have moved to a new meeting hall/room/venue in Balbriggan Educate Together National School. We have a great plan to start our Pioneering Badge work and run a six week program to get stage 2 covered. We also had 2 new members starting with us tonight. We started off by welcoming everyone back and introducing our new members. It was a very cold and very windy night. Storm Rachel was battering the West Coast, but we h