We arrived down at the den on Thursday 1st, Tony, Emma, Conor and I (Kevin) started to plan the weekend. The plan, if you can call it a plan since we kinda just winged it, was to dig a pit, build a giant fire in it and cook way too much meat for us to eat. Tony picked a site for our fire pit, a spot beside the campfire circle. Conor and myself started digging. We took two spades, a fork and a pick-axe from the stores…
About 29th Dublin Scouts
We are an Irish scout troop based out of in Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland. We're a member of Scouting Ireland. Scouting Ireland is a multi-denominational, co-educational, youth based association across the entire island of Ireland. We have our own scout den and our own grounds just by the sea. We offer weekend activities and weekly meetings to young people between the ages of 5 and 21. We have a long history in the community of Blackrock. Between our different age groups we teach Scouting skills such as pioneering, hiking, rock climbing, backwoods survival training, sailing, canoeing, first aid and other really useful skills.
Our scout den is available to be rented out by scouting and non-scouting groups alike. Our den just recently re-developed has central heating, a large meeting hall kitchen and toilets. We have a large football field between the den and the sea. Our site is located 5 minutes walk from Blackrock village, 1 minute walk from the DART (Dublin city train) stat...
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Some Recent News
Cylcle Hike
April 4th, 2010
The Cycle Hike last weekend was brilliant I hope all of the Explorers that came with us agree. Although by the time I got home I was certainly very tired! We cycled from the top of Mt. Merrion Ave to Cabinteely park where we had obstacle course races and lots of fun on the Spider …
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AIB Better Ireland Programme
March 24th, 2010
We won! We won! We won! Just in case anyone hasn’t heard yet, we won €5000 in the AIB Better Ireland Programme, we had more than 1000 more votes than the other two groups. Thank you to all those who voted, it was well worth the effort.
St Patricks Day Mass
March 15th, 2010
Hope to see you and your family in St John the Baptist Church in Blackrock for St Patricks Day mass. We are attending the 10:30am mass and to ensure enough seat all Scouts must be there by 10:15am. We are finding it difficult to source shamrock this year. If we do there will be the …
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St Patricks Week
March 11th, 2010
There will be no Discovery Scout meeting next week, March 18th. We will return on March 25th. The meeting will start up at 7.30pm from March 25th and NOT 7pm as previously. We will still be finishing at 9pm. Hope you all have a great St Patricks Day
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Rovers and Stretchers
March 1st, 2010
So tonight the Rovers were tasked with making a rope ladder out of nothing but rope, they decided that it would be much more fun to make a stretcher instead and they are basically the same thing anyway, right?!? So with only a bag of ropes and their wits about them they began this terrifying …
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