Dundalk reveal season ticket prices for 2014 season

Dundalk FC last night released their season ticket prices for next season.

Purchasing a season ticket will offer savings for supporters, working out as the equivalent of seeing at least six, and possibly seven, home games for free.

Prices are as follows:

ALLOCATED STAND
Adult	€250      (Saving of at least €110)
OAP/Full-Time Third Level Student	€200      (Saving of at least €96)
GENERAL STAND ADMISSION
Adult	€200      (Saving of at least €120)
OAP/Full-Time Third Level Student	€160      (Saving of at least €80)
GROUND ADMISSION
Adult	€160      (Saving of at least €80)
OAP/Full-Time Third Level Student	€150
SECNDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS (Age 13-17)
Ground	€75         (Saving of at least €85)
Stand	€125      (Saving of at least €115)
PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS (12 and Under)
Ground	Free to members of the Junior Supporters Club
Stand	€50

The tickets will be on sale from next Tuesday from Oriel Park or the club’s stall in the Marshes Shopping Centre. An installment plan is also available where you can pay off the cost of your season ticket before the start of the season.

Meanwhile, the club has also announced an increase in the cost of general admission to Oriel Park for next season. The new pricing structure is as follows:

General Stand Admission
Adult	€20
Concession (OAP/Full Time 3rd Level/Second Level)	€15
Ground Admission
Adult	€15
Concession (OAP/Full Time 3rd Level/Second Level)	€10
Juvenile (Primary School 12 or Under without Free Season Ticket)	€5

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Dundalk FC offering free season tickets for primary school children

Dundalk FC has announced that they will be offering free season tickets to primary school children, aged 12 and under, for the 2014 campaign.

As part of the process the club will be launching a new Junior Supporters’ Club in the coming weeks. This new initiative will be free to join with all members entitled to a free season ticket for the upcoming season as well as further benefits.

Chairman Ciaran Bond stated: “This has been a long-standing ambition of the board since we completed the takeover last year. With this unique plan we wish to make Friday nights at Oriel Park a more family friendly experience and to ease the burden on parents who wish to bring their kids to matches.”

General Manager Paul Johnston added: “We have recently added our former captain Liam Burns to our ranks as Schools Co-Ordinator and he will be involved in the rolling out of this project in the coming weeks. We have been visiting a number of schools in recent weeks and the interest in the club is massive in the community.

“This initiative will hopefully have the short-term benefit of making attendance at live football matches at Oriel Park much more affordable for families plus have the long-term benefit of introducing kids to supporting their local football club and set them on their way to becoming life-long fans.”

More information will be released soon on this initiative. Junior Supporters’ Club members will also be able to vote for their own Player of the Year and have the opportunities for to get involved in the club as ball-boys and ball-girls.

Information on other season ticket prices will be announced shortly.

Coláiste Lú open night

Coláiste Lú will hold an open night for primary school students and their parents in Chapel Street, Dundalk, on Thursday October 24^th from 7pm to 9pm.

Applications for the 2014/2015 academic year will be accepted on the night or before November 8^th.

For further details on the school visit www.colaistelu.ie

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Extension planned to CBS primary school

The Board of Management of the CBS Primary School in Chapel Street have applied to Dundalk Town Council for planning permission to build a new two storey extension onto the school.

The proposed development will consist of the demolition of 45 square metres of the existing single storey toilet block and the remove of four existing prefab classrooms.

They will be replaced by a new two storey extension, which will consist of 12 classrooms, a junior general purpose room, a library, staff room, three special education tuition rooms and all ancillary accommodation.

The proposed extension would be 2,001 square metres and would also require minor internal works to be carried out to the existing school, including a new level access ramp to the existing main entrance.

As well as the extension, the school have also applied for permission for 38 car parking spaces, 70 bicycle spaces and two junior play areas.

New apps from local students help cross the generation gap

Louth students cross the generation gap with app innovations
Lisa McGowan from Scoil Uí Mhuirí, Dunleer, Co Louth; older participant Pat Kilboy from Blackrock, Co Louth; Barrett Akpotor from St Oliver’s Community College, Drogheda; and Nadine Weldon from Scoil Uí Mhuirí, at Dundalk Institute of Technology

Transition-year students from four schools in Louth have been involved in a unique project with adults in the region to come up with prototypes for four mobile apps that aim to cross the inter-generational divide.

The SANDPiT project involved 40 transition-year students and nine adults aged in their in their 60s and 70s who worked together to co-design the apps.

The group showcased their innovations at Dundalk Institute of Technology on Friday.

The apps include an emotional well-being app, an inter-generational quiz app, a community security app, and a ‘Don’t Panic’ app to get help for the elderly quickly following a fall.

The project was run by Louth VEC and the Casala applied research centre at DKIT. Casala’s Dr Julie Doyle, who specialises in human computer interaction research, worked with the group during a series of workshops that were held over nine months.

The Louth students hail from Scoil Uí Mhuirí in Dunleer; St Oliver’s Community College in Drogheda; O’Fiach College in Dundalk; and Bush Post Primary School in Cooley. They worked with the adults to develop the apps to prototype stage.

“We mixed up the generations on the teams and it was wonderful to see how they interacted,” said Doyle.

She said that when older people are using apps, aspects such as contrast, colour and text size need particular attention.

“Our plan is to have the more relevant projects developed into fully fledged apps and a number of DKIT students will be working on this during the summer,” added Doyle.

The project has also been shortlisted for an EU GoAct award for best practice in inter-generational learning.

Source: Silicon Republic

Swit swoo – Images released of new Dundalk school

An artist’s impression of the new post-primary school planned for the Marshes has been released by Co Louth VEC.

Pobalcholáiste Chú Chulainn will cater for 1,000 students, with hopes that it can be open by September 2014. It is hoped that construction will get underway in the coming weeks, with enrolments being accepted shortly also. The school will admit first year students only in September 2014 and will grow each year thereafter.

Pobalcholáiste Chú Chulainn will be a purpose built post-primary school capable of catering for up to 1,000 students and will have the full suite of specialist classrooms and workshops including science, art, technology, materials technology (wood), engineering, music, technical graphics and home economics. The school will also come with a fully stocked library, a guidance suite, computer suites, special learning needs facilities, a full size gymnasium with fitness suite, hard core play areas, a football field and a large canteen/social area.

As the school’s student cohort expands the college will opt to provide the full range of Department of Education and Skills programmes at senior cycle level including the Transition Year, the Leaving Certificate Established Programme, the Leaving Certificate Applied Programme and the Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme.

Further details on the school are available on the Louth VEC website.

The VEC will also be opening the new all-Irish post-primary school Coláiste Lú in Chapel Street this coming September.