Last weekend our newly appointed PLs (Patrol Leaders) and APLs (Assistant Patrol Leaders) attended a Leadership training course run by Fingal Scout County. This was to help them on their personal development to becoming effective leaders and to help them understand how and why new scouts might need their support. They were joined by scouts from Skerries, Balbriggan, Lusk, and Brackenstown. The course started early on Saturday morning when tents were pitched.The scouters runni

To kick Start our scouting year, we held a Group Camp in our County Campsite in Bog O' The Ring. All sections were represented from Beavers to Rovers. Gear was packed up on Friday night and dropped out to the site, where Donal, Sean, and Ciaran started to get the tents up. By 9am there were enough scouts and scouters on site to start getting the marquee and sleeping tents up. Some scouts and cubs were going to have their first ever experience of sleeping in an Icelandic tent