SAMRA is Dublin's longest established residents' association.
Our main aims are to protect and improve the environs of Sandymount Strand, Sandymount Village & Dublin Bay.
We would really like you to join us and have your voice heard.
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SAMRA began with a group of residents of Sandymount concerned at the creeping loss of beach and sea at Sandymount as an environmental and recreational amenity for the citizens of Dublin.
In 1957 Sandymount Residents Association was formed to end the use of Sandymount Strand as the main refuse dump for Dublin City. An agreement was reached with the then Dublin Corporation that all dumping would cease in 1963 at a point close to the city end of Beach Road near the present Sean Moore Road.
That Association expanded in 1965 to become the Sandymount and Merrion Residents Association because of Dublin Corporation’s plans to fill in the whole of the Strands as far as the City boundary at Merrion Gates with municipal, industrial, and hazardous waste, in breach of the agreement, and the construction of a rubble causeway across Sandymount Strand by Roadstone to a site in the sea for an unauthorised cement plant. The causeway was described by Dublin Corporation as "a line of advance filling". Neither the causeway nor the Roadstone site had any planning permission. The beaches had by that time been zoned as areas of High Amenity with the stated objective of declaring them an area of Special Amenity under the 1963 Planning Act.
Sandymount and Merrion Strands were used extensively by thousands of Dublin families as their seaside playground and, for many, their only affordable holiday resort.
These are the current serving Committee Members. We need your help and involvement.
David Turner
(Chair)
Margaret Brindley
Joan McArthur
Karl Anderson
Irene Duffy Lynch
(Committee Member)
Liam Handy
Paddy Dunne
(Committee Member)
P J O' Gorman
(Committee Member)
Niall McElroy
Planning
Jeremy Humphries
Treasurer
Mark Wheeler
Type | Date | Download |
2019 AGM Minutes | January 2020 | AGM - Minutes and Follow Up Actions 13 01 2020 |
2019 AGM Presentation | January 2020 | SAMRA - 2019 AGM - PRESENTATION |
Minutes | November 2019 | 25th November 2019 |
Minutes | October 2019 | 21st October 2019 |
Minutes | September 2019 | 23rd September 2019 |
Minutes | August 2019 | 29th August 2019 |
Minutes | July 2019 | 22nd July 2019 |
Minutes | June 2019 | 24th June 2019 |
Minutes | May 2019 | 27th May 2019 |
Minutes | April 2019 | 29th April 2019 |
Minutes | March 2019 | 29th March 2019 |
Minutes | February 2019 | 18th February 2019 |
2018 AGM Minutes | 15th January 2019 | 2018 AGM Minutes - 15th January 2019 |
2018 AGM Presentation | 15th January 2019 | 2018 AGM Presentation - 15th January 2019 |
Minutes | January 2019 | 10th January 2019 |
Type | Date | Download |
Minutes | December 2018 | 3rd December 2018 |
Minutes | November 2018 | 4th November 2018 |
Minutes | October 2018 | 8th October 2018 |
Minutes | September 2018 | 4th September 2018 |
Minutes | August 2018 | 7th August 2018 |
Minutes | July 2018 | 11th July 2018 |
Minutes | June 2018 | 6th June 2018 |
Minutes | May 2018 | 1st May 2018 |
Minutes | April 2018 | No Meeting |
Minutes | March 2018 | 20th March 2018 |
Minutes | February 2018 | 20th February 2018 |
Minutes | January 2018 | 23rd January 2018 |
Type | Date | Download |
Minutes | December | 12th December 2017 |
Minutes | November | 15th November 2017 |
Minutes | October | 17th October 2017 |
Minutes | September | 22nd September 2017 |
Minutes | August | 17th August 2017 |
Minutes | May | 29th May 2017 |
Minutes | May | 22nd May 2017 |
Minutes | May | 8th May 2017 |
Minutes | April | 26th April 2017 |
Minutes | April | 5th April 2017 |
Minutes | March | 22nd March 2017 |
Minutes | February | 27th February 2017 Special Meeting |
AGM | January | 2017 AGM Minutes - 15th January 2018 2017 AGM Presentation |
Type | Date | Download |
AGM | November | 2016 AGM Minutes - 25th November 2016 |
Passionate about your Home and Environment?
"It is clear to see the pictures of our beautiful environment - but readers need to know that this is genuinely under threat. Not by malice or intent BUT by the cumulative effect and unintended consequences of our local planning processes.
Dublin Bay is a unique environment, on the doorstep of Ireland’s capital city and MUST be protected from these threats for our future generations.
SAMRA Committee members express their deep and genuine concern and are URGENTLY looking for your support"
To enable us to protect and preserve Sandymount Environs, Heritage for ourselves and our children.
Since 1962 SAMRA has been working on the residents behalf. It is the longest established residents association in Dublin.
You will join the voice of the locals and residents who support the AIMS of SAMRA and the KEY TOPICs which are being worked via your SAMRA Committee.
You will help give the Residents a voice, empowering and leveraging collective representation.
Your contribution will make a key difference !
Please join to help support the work SAMRA does in challenging developments that threaten Dublin Bay, the Strand or local amenities.