Cub Scout Camp in Larch Hill

The Cubs had a great overnight stay in Larch Hill the Scout National campsite in the Dublin moutains recently. This was the last overnight in tents before the winter season, and even though it dropped to about 2 degrees Celcius in the middle of the night, the Cubs persevered and had a great time. There was a great buzz in Larch Hill that weekend, with over 600 people camping in the estate, including a huge Dublinia county camp. The cubs put everything they had been taught in the preceeding weeks to good use, transporting gear, putting up their own tents and cooking their own food (including making garlic bread from scratch!). They were very lucky as representatives from Astonomy Ireland were there and had set up their telescopes near to the camp, and after a night hike without torches (!!!!) the cubs got to see Venus and some of its moons through the telescopes.
For such a short camp a huge amount of activities were taken part, including treasure hunts, obstacle courses, campfire songs and of course making smores on the campfire. They went home tired and happy, with loads of memories to keep them going until the next camp in the new year.
See below for some photos of the event.

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Scout Annual Camp 2009 Photos

Hot off the press! The photos from the annual camp are on line and ready for your viewing, even before the camp is even finished!!!!
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Thanks for the support at the Maynooth Festival!

The 8th Kildare Maynooth Scout Group would like to thank the public for attending our Family Fun Day on Sunday 28th June in such large numbers.

Our aim on the day was to let the community know more about Scouting in Maynooth, see some or our skills and activities we take part in during the course of the year.

The scouts also ran a Bring & Buy sale and parents ran a book sale ans raffle to raise funds for the Maynooth conference of Saint Vincent de Paul. We raised over €500 on the day which will be donated in the coming days.

There was face painting, wind mill making, coconut cup making, back wood cooking, a Leonardo Bridge was built in the middle of the site. There was a large Teepee tent and a large circular black German tent as well as all the normal scout tents on site for the day.The scouts also built a gate, a dining shelter, wash stands an open altar fire - which was used for the back woods cooking as well as the very popular BBQ.

We were delighted to welcome onto our site many local dignitaries: TD's Aine Brady, Emmet Stagg and Bernard Durkan as well our many of our local councilors including the new Mayor of Kildare Councillor Colm Purcell, and councilors Senan Griffin, Catherine Murphy, Paul Kelly and John Mc Ginley. This gave the scout group a great opportunity to outline the current situation in relation to the development plans for a Scout Hall in the harbour Filed which will be open and available to other community groups in the town. We want to inject life into the harbour files and create a central focal point in the area.

The scout group currently has 102 youth members and 21 adult members along with a very strong parents and friends support group.

Finally the 8th Kildare Maynooth scout group would like to thanks our very generous sponsors on the day Garard Mulcahy Butchers, Mac Donald's Maynooth and Maynooth Community Council for all their help in organizing this event and indeed all of the parents and friends who helped in any way to make the day such a success.

Yours in Scouting
Peter Garrad
Group Leader
8th Kildare Maynooth

Scouts at the maynooth Festival

We had a great day out at the harbour field as part of the Maynooth Festival. The Scouts ran a host of activities for the community and raised money for St. Vincent De Paul.

Click here to view a slide show of some of the photos!

We also had a visit from Scoutabout radio who broadcast an entire episode from the festival. To listen to that episode just click play below.

The Ambulane, Jamóige style!!!

Due to the Recession a new ambulance was acquired!