November 10th 2023

NEWS
Alan Smith’s bench at Skerries Men’s Shed 3,9
News Briefs 5
RNLI rescue 6
Currachs need new home 6

COVER STORY
Skerries men behind Ireland’s first space craft Dr Ronan Wall manager of the Centre for Space Research at University College Dublin and Peter O’Kane, engineering manager at Realtime Technologies 10-12

FEATURES
Photographer’s launch party for Skerries Photographers Calendar 2024 8,12
Launch of Sean O’Gorman’s book ‘Skellig’ 8
Frock & Co customer night 10
Skerries One Act Theatre Festival 10
Book Week at Skerries Community College 11
Steve Moore’s Out of the Blue 13
Northern Lights in Skerries 14-15
50 years commuting with Owen Morrissy-Murphy 16-17
SEALS at Skerries Educate Together 18
Sustainable Skerries 19
Frame Customer Night 20
Tony Healy – our calendar cover photographer 20

REGULARS
Paul Hopkins 4
Skerries Mam – Karen Power 21
What’s On 22-23
Skerries Dog – Lola 24
Tides 25
Planning 25
Manchild- David Diebold – 26

EDITORS
David and Emily Diebold – [email protected]

COVER PHOTO
Ronan Wall and Peter O’Kane with the first ever Irish space craft by Emily Diebold

THIS MONTH’S CONTRIBUTORS
Paul Hopkins, Lasma Kerve, Mark McCauley, Owen Morrissey Murphy, Fearghal O’Connor, Karen Power, Skerries RNLI, Fiona Spelman, Sustainable Skerries