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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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Prevention of the construction of an oil refinery on part of the remaining Sandymount Strand.
  4. Participation in the oral hearing to prevent the construction of underground storage caverns for liquid petroleum gases, propane and butane, in the seabed .
  5. 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.
  6. The protection and preservation of Sandymount Green, and the designation of part of Sandymount Village as a Conservation Area.
  7. Having Sandymount Strand zoned as an SAC and SPA.
  8. Traffic Speed Control – 50Km/Hr on Strand Road and 30KpH in Sandymount Village
  9. Addition of Pedestrian Crossing Lights – Strand Road, Gilford Road, Sandymount Green
  10. BANNING of HGVs in Sandymount Village and Strand Road
  11. 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.

2021

TypeDateDownload
Minutes13th September 2021SAMRA Committee Minutes2 - 13th September 2021
Minutes12th July 2021SAMRA Committee Minutes2 - 12th July 2021
Minutes14th June 2021SAMRA Committee Minutes - 14th June 2021
Minutes10th May 2021SAMRA Committee Minutes - 10th May 2021
Minutes12th April 2021SAMRA Committee Minutes - 12th April 2021
Minutes15th March 2021SAMRA Committee Minutes - 15th March 2021
Minutes15th February 2021SAMRA Committee Minutes - 15th February 2021
Minutes1st February 2021SAMRA Committee Minutes -1st February 2021
2020 AGM Proceedings & Key Notes18th January 2021AGM 18-01-2021 - Proceedings and Key Notes
2020 AGM Presentation18th January 2021SAMRA - 2020 AGM - FINAL
Minutes11th January 2021SAMRA Committee Minutes -11th January 2021
Minutes9th December 20207th December 2020
Minutes23rd November 2020SAMRA Committee Minutes - 23rd November 2020
Minutes9th November 2020SAMRA Committee Minutes - 9th November 2020
Minutes26th October 20209th November 2020
Minutes26th October 202026th October 2020
Minutes12th October 202012th October 2020
Minutes29th September 202028th September 2020
Minutes11th March 202011th March 2020
Minutes of SAMRA & STTCA Meeting13th February 2020Joint SAMRA & STTCA Meeting Minutes 19 Feb 2020
MinutesFebruary 20204th February 2020

2019

TypeDateDownload
   
   
2019 AGM MinutesJanuary 2020AGM - Minutes and Follow Up Actions 13 01 2020
2019 AGM PresentationJanuary 2020SAMRA - 2019 AGM - PRESENTATION
MinutesNovember 201925th November 2019
MinutesOctober 201921st October 2019
MinutesSeptember 201923rd September 2019
MinutesAugust 201929th August 2019
MinutesJuly 201922nd July 2019
MinutesJune 201924th June 2019
MinutesMay 201927th May 2019
MinutesApril 201929th April 2019
MinutesMarch 201929th March 2019
MinutesFebruary 201918th February 2019
2018 AGM Minutes15th January 20192018 AGM Minutes - 15th January 2019
2018 AGM Presentation15th January 20192018 AGM Presentation - 15th January 2019
MinutesJanuary 201910th January 2019
   
   

 

2018

TypeDateDownload
MinutesDecember 20183rd December 2018
MinutesNovember 20184th November 2018
MinutesOctober 20188th October 2018
MinutesSeptember 20184th September 2018
MinutesAugust 20187th August 2018
MinutesJuly 201811th July 2018
MinutesJune 20186th June 2018
MinutesMay 20181st May 2018
MinutesApril 2018No Meeting
MinutesMarch 201820th March 2018
MinutesFebruary 201820th February 2018
MinutesJanuary 201823rd January 2018

 

2017

TypeDateDownload
MinutesDecember12th December 2017
MinutesNovember15th November 2017
MinutesOctober17th October 2017
MinutesSeptember22nd September 2017
MinutesAugust17th August 2017
MinutesMay29th May 2017
MinutesMay22nd May 2017
MinutesMay8th May 2017
MinutesApril26th April 2017
MinutesApril5th April 2017
MinutesMarch22nd March 2017
MinutesFebruary27th February 2017 Special Meeting
AGMJanuary2017 AGM Minutes - 15th January 2018 2017 AGM Presentation

2016

TypeDateDownload
AGMNovember2016 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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Latest Updates

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General News

Summer Newsletter

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Proposal for Pedestrianisation Trial at Sandymount Green

SAMRA - Letter to DCC re PedestrianisationTrial - Rev 1This is a request to DCC to carry out a Pedestrianisation…

Easter Newsletter

Here's an Easter Newsletter update recently posted to all of SAMRA's members Best wishes SAMRA Committee EASTER NEWSLETTER

Letter from Minister Eamon Ryan to SAMRA – 18th January 2021

Eamon Ryan TD Response to SAMRA Letter re Sandymount Strand Covid Mobility Trial 18th January 2021.docx

PROPOSED DCC CYCLE ROUTE and petition to Minister for Transport

This document describes SAMRA's position and forward strategy in relation to the DCC Proposed Cycleway, which has been mailed directly…

Letter to Minister Eamon Ryan

This is a letter to Eamon Ryan requesting his intervention on the DCC proposed cycleway routing, seeking an "Off-Road" alternative.…

Notification of SAMRA’s Annual General Meeting

This the notification of SAMRA's Annual General Meeting for 2020 Monday 18th January 2021, 7.30 - 9pm by ZOOM To…

SAMRA’s letter to Minister Eamon Ryan TD

This is the letter following the meeting on 25/11/2020 between SAMRA & Minister Eamon Ryan TD, Minister for Environment, Climate,…
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