February 5th 2021

NEWS
Lissil Averill’s Skerries Lego scenes 3,7
News briefs 5-7
Skerries Library – how to get books 6
Skerries Credit Union Covid Scheme 8
RIP: Frances Owens 9

COVER STORIES
Skerries Homeschoolers – reports from parents of students from six different Skerries school 10-14

FEATURES
Snow in Skerries – some of our favourite photos 5,17,21
Ella Hilliard’s Wales caps 18- 19
Skerries RNLI call outs 19
New Grant for the Hills Cricket Club 22

REGULARS
Paul Hopkins 4
Ray Tobin’s Skerries Quiz 5,25
Karen Power 16
Karen Gray 20
Tom Reilly 23
Dog of the Week – Archie 24
Classifieds 25
Planning 25
Tides 25
Dave Diebold 26

EDITORS
David and Emily Diebold – [email protected]

THIS MONTH’S CONTRIBUTORS
Words: Karen Gray, Paul Hopkins, Lesley Kavanagh, Maeve McGann, Gerry Mullins, Cait O’Donoghue, Karen Power, Tom Reilly, Bobby Swarbrigg, Ray Tobin
Photos: Jennifer Arbeit, Lissil Averill, Anthony Bools, Michelle Callanan, Diane Cauldwell, Karen Christie, Dan Costello, Noreen Devine, Pete Dice, Aoife Dillon, Shireen Duff, Lynsey Dungan, Emma Gallagher, Lorna Gannon, Ollie Grimes, Marie Kearney, Odharnait Kiernan, Jeannine Laird, Carol Moylan, Barbara Mullins, Karen Power, Grainne Smith, Rachel Walsh

COVER PHOTO:
Meabh Reed(8) – busy doing her school work at home. Photo by Grainne Smith