Skerries Cycling Initiative

04/05/2026

Getting ready for our community cycle on Sunday 10 May, 2.45 at Skerries Mills car park for 3 pm start!
Don't forget to sign up using this link
https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=I_zccnF1lEWBVK_iwL3qmD3CgKdKQcRNhLyxnPyAx65URVM4VUJRMzlRMUE2WU4yVkNYWVoxQjJPMC4u&route=shorturl
There will be refreshments for all signed up at the end! Bring a keep cup if you can.
Fingal County Council Skerries Community Association - SCA
Sustainable Skerries

01/05/2026

Time to get tyres pumped and chain oiled so that you can join us on our community cycle on Sunday afternoon 10 May - see poster below.

06/07/2025

Looking for a super summer camp for your 6- to 10-year-olds for the week beginning Mon 14 July? Something active, fun, outdoors? Which will teach them new skills on the bike, and which includes drills, games, and more, under the instruction of professional cycling instructors? Well, we have just that for you - and even a few spaces left! More info in the booking form, or contact Michael at
[email protected]
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdS6SAngg1HGgTCq3F8EiFHqs7mBWjjZCGSLhUtE6ydK1tvDQ/viewform

25/07/2024

More learning and fun today on the last day of Skerries Cycling Initiative's Cycle Camp held in Skerries Community Centre.
Thanks to Irish Centre for Cycling for making it so enjoyable for the children and thanks to the Community Centre for facilitating the camp.

24/07/2024

Day 2 of Cycle Summer Camp.
Learning valuable skills for when cycling on the road. Skerries Community Association - SCA Skerries Community Centre

23/07/2024

Skerries Summer Cycling Camp organised by Skerries Cycling Initiative and provided by Irish Centre for Cycling started today in Skerries Community Centre.
In this short video we see 7-10 year olds cycling in a circle while learning which side of the road they should be cycling as they keep to the correct side of the markers.
Day 1 went well with some new sign ups.
Michael McKenna, SCI

05/07/2024

SCI-sponsored Cycling Summer Camp for 7-10 year olds:
Tue-Thu 23-25 July, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m., cost to parents: €30 per child. SCI / Skerries Cycling Initiative is part of the Skerries Community Association.
Link to the booking form with more information:

Throughout the course of the camp, we may take some photos and video. These photos and video may be used on future marketing material. If you do not wish your child to be photographed &/or do not wish for them to appear on any marketing material, please select NO

08/03/2024

Be part of our St Patrick's Day Parade with Skerries Cycling Initiative
Our theme for this year’s St. Patrick's Day Parade is "Cycling is Fun" and we invite people of all ages and backgrounds to wheel, walk and sing along behind the Skerries Cycling Initiative banner.


☘ Meet 2.30 P.M. at South Strand on 17 March ☘
We don't know where exactly in the running order we will be.. you'll know us by the bikes!

Let’s have people dressed colourfully (including green but not just green) and colourful wheeled machines to create a spectacle showing how people love cycling around our town. Let’s have placards/signs saying “Cycling is Fun” in the languages we hear people speaking in Skerries.
It will be all about the joy and freedom of cycling and saying this in all the languages that are alive in Skerries.

Here's the Chant (which we hope every SCI parade biker will chant out loud and strong, especially at the 'Viewing Stand' at the end of the parade where we will all BUNCH UP in front of the official dignitaries!

1, 2, 3, 4.
Cycle fun for-ev-er more.
5, 6, 7, 8.
On your bike and you-'ll feel great!

Also, we will have fun / circus music played loudly through our mobile PA speaker system. No need to know the words,
just enjoy

07/11/2023

To signup for a place on our cycling skills course just fill in this simple Form and hit the "Submit "button.
https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=I_zccnF1lEWBVK_iwL3qmD3CgKdKQcRNhLyxnPyAx65UNkxFWFQ5MVpHUDdYOFY3WVJBMjlZQzRaVS4u

14/07/2023

SCI member Dermot Higgins has a close encounter of the terrifying kind with black bears on his Yukon adventure

Eight days into a solo canoe journey through the Yukon backcountry, Dermot Higgins met a bear. It went badly for both of them.