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Aims of SAMRA

Aims of Sandymount and Merrion Residents Association

To underpin the SAMRA Constitution.
To protect and improve the environs of Sandymount Strand, Sandymount Village & Dublin Bay.
To give the residents a voice, empowering & leveraging collective representation.

A platform to:

Provide visibility of proposals and development schemes.
Provide an integrated overview of schemes likely to impact the area.
Support key decision points and dates, enabling SAMRA input.
To enable residents to develop key messages and make critical input to decisions.

The Story of SAMRA

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.

Achievements and Activities

The final cessation of large scale dumping by the end of 1978, with the additional promise by the Local Authority that all land recaimed from the sea up to that date, and not needed for essential Port purposes, would be public parkland. [Some garbage dumping did in fact continue to a limited degree in the period up to 1981 which included the “bin” mens strike.
Pressure from SAMRA led to the creation of Sean Moore Park [originally called Beach Park] and of Irishtown Nature Park, in line with proposals from the Association.
Prevention of the construction of an oil refinery on part of the remaining Sandymount Strand.
Participation in the oral hearing to prevent the construction of underground storage caverns for liquid petroleum gases, propane and butane, in the seabed .
The original design and landscaping of the promenade to cover the Dodder Valley Drainage Scheme pipes laid on Sandymount Strand, in order to create an amenity for Dubliners.
The protection and preservation of Sandymount Green, and the designation of part of Sandymount Village as a Conservation Area.
Having Sandymount Strand zoned as an SAC and SPA.
Traffic Speed Control – 50Km/Hr on Strand Road and 30KpH in Sandymount Village
Addition of Pedestrian Crossing Lights – Strand Road, Gilford Road, Sandymount Green
BANNING of HGVs in Sandymount Village and Strand Road
The Association also holds a community event for children and families of the area in Sandymount Green in June each year and at Christmas for the lighting up of the Christmas tree. Prior to Dublin City Council generously providing us with a “real” Christmas tree and lights, the Association had since the 1960’s lit up one of the trees in the Green with the support of the small traders in the village.

The SAMRA Committee

Sandymount and Merrion Residents Association Committee 2020

These are the current serving Committee Members. We need your help and involvement.

David Turner
(Chair)

Stephen Hurley
(Secretary)

Joan McArthur
(Treasurer)

Lorna Kelly
(Planning)

Irene Duffy Lynch
(Committee Member)

Liam Handy
(Committee Member)

Paddy Dunne
(Committee Member)

P J O' Gorman
(Committee Member)

Niall McElroy
(Committee Member)

Jeremy Humphries
(Committee Member)

Mark Wheeler
(Committee Member)

SAMRA has a Committee which meets monthly and has an AGM. The following are documents and information from these meetings.

2022

Type	Date	Download
Minutes	7th February 2022	SAMRA Committee Minutes - 7th February 2022
Minutes	10th January 2022	SAMRA Committee Minutes - 10th January 2022
Minutes	13th December 2021	SAMRA Committee Minutes - 13th December 2021
Minutes	22nd November 2021	SAMRA Committee Minutes - 22nd November 2021
Minutes	17th October 2021	SAM SAMRA Committee Minutes - 17th October 2021
Minutes	13th September 2021	SAMRA Committee Minutes2 - 13th September 2021
Minutes	12th July 2021	SAMRA Committee Minutes2 - 12th July 2021
Minutes	14th June 2021	SAMRA Committee Minutes - 14th June 2021
Minutes	10th May 2021	SAMRA Committee Minutes - 10th May 2021
Minutes	12th April 2021	SAMRA Committee Minutes - 12th April 2021
Minutes	15th March 2021	SAMRA Committee Minutes - 15th March 2021
Minutes	15th February 2021	SAMRA Committee Minutes - 15th February 2021
Minutes	1st February 2021	SAMRA Committee Minutes -1st February 2021
2020 AGM Proceedings & Key Notes	18th January 2021	AGM 18-01-2021 - Proceedings and Key Notes
2020 AGM Presentation	18th January 2021	SAMRA - 2020 AGM - FINAL
Minutes	11th January 2021	SAMRA Committee Minutes -11th January 2021
Minutes	9th December 2020	7th December 2020
Minutes	23rd November 2020	SAMRA Committee Minutes - 23rd November 2020
Minutes	9th November 2020	SAMRA Committee Minutes - 9th November 2020
Minutes	26th October 2020	9th November 2020
Minutes	26th October 2020	26th October 2020
Minutes	12th October 2020	12th October 2020
Minutes	29th September 2020	28th September 2020
Minutes	11th March 2020	11th March 2020
Minutes of SAMRA & STTCA Meeting	13th February 2020	Joint SAMRA & STTCA Meeting Minutes 19 Feb 2020
Minutes	February 2020	4th February 2020

2019

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

2018

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

2017

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

2016

Type	Date	Download
AGM	November	2016 AGM Minutes - 25th November 2016

Why Join SAMRA?

What can SAMRA do for Resident of Sandymount and Merrion?

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.

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