Autumn 2017 Fómhair 2017

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Hello everyone and welcome to the Autumn 2017 edition of Classmate.

We have made some changes to your magazine which we hope you will like. There are some new features, like The History Detective, The Culture Vultures and The Whizz Kids. We have also kept some of your old favourites including the Word Spiral.

There’s also lots of information about events in Dublin as well as book reviews and competitions. We’d love to hear what you think about the new look Classmate. You can email us at classmate@dublincity.ie.

The Bookworms 3

The History Detective 6

The Culture Vultures 8

The Earth Defenders 12

The Whizz Kids 16

Team Classmate 17

Your City Council 18

Word Spiral 20

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HARRY POTTER& THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE 20TH ANNIVERSARY QUIZThe world-famous book Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is 20 years old this year. Have you read it yet? If you have, test yourself and see how many questions you can get right.

1. What do students need to enter the restricted section of the library?

2. Which spell or charm can open doors?

3. What is the name of the wizards’ newspaper?

4. What language does Harry use to communicate with the snake at the zoo?

5. What is the name of the all-wizard village near Hogwarts?

6. What is the wizarding pub at the entrance to Diagon Alley called?

7. At Hogwarts, what colour are the plates used for the banquets at Halloween?

8. Who is the resident ghost of Slytherin?

9. What breed of dragon is Norberta/Norbert?

10. Who wrote Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them? (Hint: It is not J.K. Rowling.)

ENTER OUR COMPETITION TO WIN A KINDLE FIRE! Send the answers to the Harry Potter Quiz to classmate@dublincity.ie on or before 5pm on Friday, 3 November. Please put ‘Harry Potter Competition’ in the subject line of the email. The winner will be picked at random from all the correct entries.

Your local library has copies of all the Harry Potter books and films. You can also download the e-books or audio books using BorrowBox if you are a member of the library. Ask for details in your local library or go to www.dublincity.ie/library-eresources for more information.

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HALLOWEEN TREATS! Here are some spooky books to read for Halloween. They are all available in your local library.

The Nightmare Club Series by Annie Graves, illustrated by Glenn McElhinney [Little Island] Age 7+ Welcome to the Nightmare Club. Annie Graves is your host, and she only invites guests who can tell really creepy stories… Eleven of these eerie, funny, scary stories have been published so far. Dr White, the latest instalment in The Nightmare Club series is written by a

group of eleven children as part of the Write to Read scheme with St. Patrick’s College Drumcondra.

Ailfi agus an Vaimpír le Orna Ní Choileáin [Cois Life] Aois 10+ An bhfuil vaimpír ina chónaí ag bun an ghairdín agatsa? Vaimpír is ea Marius a chónaíonn i ngairdín Ailfí. B’fhearr leis rollaí fige agus cáca milis ná fuil agus feoil... Bíonn imní an domhain ar Ailfí go dtarraingeoidh an vaimpír aird ar féin. Ní gach duine atá sásta maireachtáil taobh le vaimpír, fiú más feoilséantóir é…

Magrit by Lee Battersby [Walker Books] Age 10+ Magrit is just 10 years old and she has been in a graveyard

with Master Puppet for as long as she can remember. She created Master Puppet from bones and things others have thrown away. One night a stork drops a mysterious bundle into the graveyard. Magrit is curious and, despite dire warnings from the Master Puppet to stay away from ‘it’, she goes to investigate!

A Cage of Roots, written and illustrated by Matt Griffin [O’Brien Press] First in a trilogy. Age 10+ When American orphan Ayla arrives in Ireland to live with long-lost family, all seems well. Just as she is settling into her new life, the past rises up to haunt her. Can her friends save her from a fate that has been lying in wait for centuries?

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The Bookworms can’t wait for the Bram Stoker Festival. Bram Stoker was an Irish writer from Marino in north Dublin. He is famous for writing the book Dracula. To celebrate his work, Dublin will be going gothic for the Bank

Holiday weekend from 27 to 30 October.

The festival will have lots of free, family-friendly events and interactive experiences designed to send a shiver down your spine. Keep your eye on the website www.bramstokerfestival.com and keep some garlic nearby! It’s going to be a scream

Beidh an chathair beo beathach leis na mairbh!

Have you ever heard of the book Gulliver’s Travels?

It is the story of a man called Lemuel Gulliver who decides to travel the world, but it’s not a world that you or I know! On his voyages he sees some very odd things: tiny people, giants, flying islands and even talking horses! The man who wrote the book was called Jonathan Swift. To celebrate the 350th anniversary of his birth, The Jonathan Swift Festival will run from the 23 to 26 November. Have a look at the events on www.jonathanswiftfestival.ie.

Happy 20th Birthday to our friends in Children’s Books Ireland! To hear about the best new books this year, pick up a copy of the Inis Reading Guide and check out their website at www.childrensbooksireland.ie.

HAPPY 20TH BIRTHDAY

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City Hall is one of the best places in Dublin to visit if you like history. It is a beautiful eighteenth-century building in the centre of Dublin city. It was first built as a financial centre for

the merchants, or business people of the time, and was known as The Royal Exchange. Today, the City Council holds its meeting there.

People from all over the world visit City Hall. It is free and family-friendly and there is a

brilliant multimedia exhibition in the building’s vaults, called Dublin’s City Hall, the Story of the Capital. Tá an taispeántas ilmheán seo ar fáil i nGaeilge chomh maith.

The exhibition tells the story of Dublin from the arrival of the Vikings right up to modern times. It shows how the city grew from a small settlement surrounded by big stone walls into the large open city that it is today. You can also view many of Dublin City’s treasures

there, such as the Great Mace and the City Seal.

City Hall played a part in the the Easter Rising. Sean

THE HISTORY DETECTIVEVISITS CITY HALL / HALL NA CATHRACH

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The City Seal

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COMPETITION!We have 10 signed copies of Anna Carey’s latest book to give away. The Making Of Mollie is about a young girl growing up in Dublin who discovers that her sister has a secret: she has joined the Suffragettes.

There are four statues in the foyer of City Hall. Who are the statues of? Send the answers to classmate@dublincity.ie on or before 5pm on Friday, 3 November. Please put ‘History Detective Competition’ in the subject line of the email. Winners will be picked at random from all the correct entries.

FUNNY FACTThe person who designed the building was called Thomas Cooley. If you look at the picture, you will see the ceiling has a stained glass dome. When it was built, the dome was supposed to be left with an opening at the top (an oculus) like a very famous building in Rome, called the Pantheon. However, because it rains so often in Ireland, they had to cover it in!

FACT CHECKThe funerals of Charles Stewart Parnell and Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa took place in City Hall. You can find out more about Irish history on www.askaboutireland.ie.

Connolly had a key to City Hall because he worked there.He ordered his men to take up positions in the building but was shot dead while trying to raise the flag on top of the City Hall dome.

A copy of the 1916 Proclamation was given to the citizens of Dublin in the 1950s by the family of Nurse Elizabeth O’Farrell. Nurse O’Farrell was involved in the Rising and brought the notice of surrender to the

British forces. This important document can now be viewed in the City Hall exhibition. It was issued by the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army to proclaim Ireland’s independence from the United Kingdom.

You can email classmate@dublincity.ie to let us know where you think the History Detective should visit next.

The Great Mace 1916 Proclamation

The ceiling dome

The foyer of City Hall

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DUBLIN CANVAS:COLOUR IN THE CITY

Have you noticed any of the colourful traffic light control boxes around Dublin? Usually these boxes are painted grey so they will blend in and not get noticed.

Dublin Canvas is a public art project that is changing that. Their mission is to ‘colour in the city’ and by using these boxes as canvases they are transforming the city into an outdoor art gallery!

Dublin Canvas work with artists and community groups to come up with

creative ideas and designs to make the boxes stand out, bringing more colour and fun to the city. Over the last few years more than 100 boxes have been painted. Another 22 new boxes have just been finished in the South Central Area in last few weeks. You can see more of these colourful boxes at www.dublincanvas.com or you can see if there are any near your home or school.

A Ghrá mo Chroí Dublin City by Alison O’Grady

Batter Bricks by Cathal McCoy

R2 by Morgan

The Jacks are Wild by Joe Collins

#Try by Francesca Casale

The Girls are Back in Town by Ariyana Ahmad

Monty by Kim Bale

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THE BUSKER FLEADH!

If you love music you’ll want to be in Smithfield Square on Sunday, 8 October for the Busker Fleadh!

You can play a part in discovering Ireland’s next big star by voting for your favourite act in the Dublin Busker Competition. The line-up features exciting musicians and street performers from Ireland and abroad. The winner of the competition will get recording time in Windmill Lane Recording Studios with a sound engineer and a digital download of their recordings (worth €1,000), as well as a chance to perform live on 98FM’s Big Breakfast show!

The Dublin Circus Project and a range of other street performers will also be there to add some spectacle to the square! No matter what kind of music you like there’ll be something for everyone to enjoy at the Busker Fleadh – 12 noon to 5pm, Sunday 8 October, in Smithfield Square, Dublin 7.

The Busker Fleadh is part of the Smithfield Stoneybatter Food Festival so there will also be a delicious range of food available to buy (from Friday, 6 October to Sunday, 8 October).

This FREE family-friendly event is brought to you by Dublin City Council and supported by 98FM.

For more information visit www.buskerfleadh.ie

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ABCD AT THE HUGH LANE GALLERY!BY LILIANE PUTHODCreate your own art abecedary by looking closely at different artworks from the Hugh Lane Gallery’s fantastic collection.

What is an abecedary? An abecedary is a book used to learn the alphabet. The word abecedary comes from the first four letters of the Latin alphabet, A, B, C and D. The abecedary was invented a long time ago, even before paper existed! In an abecedary

things are collected and kept in an alphabetical order from A to Z. Each letter can refer to a thing, a person, a colour, a season or whatever you would like. It is then illustrated and named, for example: A for Apple.

Using your art abecedary at the Hugh Lane Gallery! Walk throughout the Gallery and look closely at the paintings to discover lots of little details that can inspire your letters. For example, when looking at Renoir’s beautiful painting you could choose U for Umbrella, and make your own drawing of an umbrella. There is no limit to what you can do. Auguste Renoir,

Les Parapluies, 1881-1886

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First you will need a NOTEBOOK. Why not make it yourself?

What material do I need to make my notebook?

For the cover:• 1 x A4 coloured card

For the inside:• 26 x A4 white paper and 1 x A4

tracing paper

• To keep the pages together: 30cm elastic band

1. Take the coloured paper and fold it in half. Press very hard with your index finger on the fold to make it strong.

3. When you have finished, you can slide them together inside the tracing paper and add the coloured paper on top.

5. Take all your folded pages and slide the elastic hoop all the way to the centre of your notebook, where the fold is.

2. Repeat the same, this time with each white paper and the tracing paper.

4. With your 30cm elastic band take the two ends and make a small double-knot just like you do for your shoelaces.

6. Now your notebook is ready to be used. Write a title on the outside, for example My Abecedary at the Gallery. Then write your name and date on the tracing paper and get started.

Here are some ideas for pictures for your abecedary inspired by paintings in the Gallery.

A for Artist B for Boat

C for Carpet D for Dress

D’fhéadfá abecedary a dhéanamh i nGaeilge chomh maith. Seo roinnt moltaí thíos chun tús a chur leis…

A = Ainmhí B = Bád

C = Cairpéad D = Duilliúr

HOW TO MAKE YOUR ABECEDARY

ABOUT THE GALLERYDublin City Gallery -The Hugh Lane is located at Charlemont House, Parnell Square North, Dublin 1. The Gallery is open every day except Mondays. For more information please contact 01 222 5550, email info.hughlane@dublincity.ie or see www.hughlane.ie. Hope to see you soon!

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WHERE’S WILDLIFE? / BHFUIL DÚIL AGAT SA DÚLRA?

Have you ever searched for Wally in a Where’s Wally book? He really stands out with his red-and-white-striped shirt, bobble hat, and glasses, but it can still take ages to find him. Thankfully, wildlife is a lot easier to find, but most of us don’t see it because we don’t look!

Think about your own garden or schoolyard. What kind of wildlife is there? Most people will say just pigeons or gulls, but is that all? Take another look. Are there smaller birds, like robins, or finches, or sparrows? What about plants? Are there wild flowers like daisies or dandelions? How about flowers or shrubs that have been planted? Any trees? Or moss growing on walls?

What about animals? Some gardens and schoolyards have the occasional fox (Sionnach/Madra Rua) or hedgehog,

but think smaller. Smaller than a mouse (luch)! Look closely at the plants and see if you can find ladybirds, beetles (ciaróga), ants, spiders, or woodlice. Would you find an earthworm or two if you looked in the soil?

Of course, it’s not enough to just look for the plant or animal. Look at what they’re doing! Every animal you see is doing something – a thrush doesn’t just hop across your lawn for the fun – it’s

searching for food, and when it cocks its head to one side, it’s listening for an earthworm moving underground. A spider doesn’t spin a web because it can – it’s setting a trap for passing greenflies. Even the flowers are busy – their green leaves constantly change direction as they chase the sun’s movements through the sky – we just don’t notice because they move so slow!

Once you tune your senses into spotting wildlife, you’ll notice it all across Dublin City. Parks like St Anne’s, Bushy, Tolka Valley, Lansdowne Valley, Liffey Valley, Poppintree, Irishtown, and Phoenix Park are full of nature. Their tall trees are full of birds from treecreepers to jays. Their ponds are meeting points for dragonflies and damselflies. And among the grass and shrubs there are lots of strange and wonderful creatures – shield-bugs, grasshoppers and pygmy shrews.

So the next time you’re outside – find the wildlife!

If your school would like any more information please email biodiversity@dublincity.ie

NATURAMA If you want to find out more about nature in Ireland, this beautiful book, Naturama, by Michael Fewer and Melissa Doran is available at your local library. It has lots of interesting facts about Irish nature throughout the season and lots of beautiful drawings too. Fríd Scéithe / Shield Bug

Pygmy Shrew

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BLIAIN NA nAMHRÁN Bhain Bliain na nAmhrán an Gradam Breithiúna amach i mbliana, sa Children’s Books Ireland- Book Of the Year Awards. Is leabhair galánta é d’amhráin faoi na séasúir. Tá an leabhar seo i dteannta le dlúthdhiosca de na hamhráin ar fáil i do leabharlann áitiúil.

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Beacha Ghabhair / Hover Flies – by Anne Ellis

MANY IRISH PROVERBS MENTION ANIMALS AND OTHER WILDLIFENí mhealltar an sionnach faoi dhó: You won’t fool the fox a second time

Nuair a bhíonn an cat amuigh bíonn na lucha ag rince: When the cat’s away the mice dance

Aithníonn ciaróg, ciaróg eile: It takes one to know one

Cad a dhéanfadh mac an chait ach luch a mharú: Like father like son

NÓINÍNÍ BÁNA (DAISIES)Nóiníní bána ar imeall na habhann, Rachaidh mé síos agus piocfaidh mé ceann, Ceann beag do Mháire ‘s ceann beag dom féin, Ceann beag do mo chairde ar oileán i gcéin.

Déanfaidh mé slabhra deas bán is órga, Déanta as nóiníní bána go leor, Beidh sé go hálainn anuas ar mo cheann, Mise ‘mo bhanríon ar imeall na habhann.

Smólach / Thrush – Shane Casey

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HELP SAVE OUR PLANET - BECOME A FOOD WASTE WARRIORIn Ireland, more than one million tonnes of food gets thrown out every year! This is not just a problem in Ireland. Worldwide, 1.4 billion hectares of land (equal to 200 times the size of Ireland) is used to grow food that goes to waste.

Why is wasting food bad for the environment?

Food that is put into landfill produces very smelly gases and liquids which are really bad for the environment. The gas released by the rotting food is called methane. It is a greenhouse gas, which scientists say is one of the causes of climate change.

Precious energy is also used to transport, refrigerate and store food. All this food waste contributes to food and water shortages, and the loss of biodiversity.

Ní chóir bia maith a chur amú.

What you can do to help reduce food waste

About 80% of food waste can be avoided by planning meals and shopping more carefully. Families could save up to €700 per year by putting less food into their bins!

Top tips for a Food Waste Warrior

• Ask your parents if you can keep a food waste diary for a few weeks.

• Try not to put too much food on your plate at mealtimes. It’s better to ask for more if you are still hungry rather than throw out what you couldn’t finish.

• Eat leftovers from the day before and don’t be afraid to eat fruit and vegetables that don’t look perfect, for example a bruised apple.

• Help with planning what you will eat during the week. You might also be able to help prepare some meals with your parents.

• Help with making your lunch for school so that you will eat all of what you bring with you – remember, keep it healthy!

• Grow some food (try some herbs if you live in an apartment or don’t have a big garden).

• Use a garden compost bin or a brown bin. The compost can be used as food for the soil, which will help you to grow healthy plants and vegetables.

Visit www.stopfoodwaste.ie for more information and tips.

HOW TO KEEP A FOOD WASTE DIARYKeep track of all the food that gets put in the bin when meals aren’t finished.

Don’t forget to include the food that gets thrown out straight from the fridge because it is out of date.

Also include the food that isn’t eaten because it doesn’t look as fresh as it did when it was bought.

Figure out which foods get thrown out most often and ask your parents if they could try buying less of these foods.

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GREEN DOG WALKERSIf you read The Giggler Treatment by Roddy Doyle, I’m sure you laughed at the thought of mean and rude adults stepping in dog poo, but it’s not funny in real life!

The Green Dog Walker Scheme was set up as a friendly way to tackle the issue of dog fouling. The idea was first developed in Scotland. Dublin City Council, as well as other councils, have decided to try the idea here.

If you have a dog, you can take the Green Dog Walker Pledge. That means that while you are out walking your dog, you will

• Wear the Green Dog Walker armband and carry a Green Bag dispenser,

• Always clean up after your dog,

• Carry extra doggie bags,

• Happily give others a bag to clean up after their dog if they have none.

You can ask your school to hold a Green Dog Walker event or a talk to tell other pupils, teachers and maybe even parents about the scheme.

Finally, remember, if owners do not clean up after their dog, they could get a €150 fine.

DID YOU KNOW THAT PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN AND FOOTBALLERS ARE THE GROUPS MOST AT RISK FROM DISEASES CAUSED BY DOG FOULING?

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THE WHIZZ KIDSEU CODE WEEK 2017from 7 – 22 October

EU Code Week is going to be even bigger this year! All over the world young people are learning to code. It’s fun and it is also a very useful skill in the modern world. By learning to code you can open up a world of possibilities, from building websites, games and apps, to looking at technological solutions to our everyday problems.

Get involved and check out the website www.codeweek.eu.

SCIENCE WEEK 2017 from 12 – 19 November

Science Week is 21 years old this year! Science Week helps us to understand how science, technology, engineering and maths (the STEM subjects) touch every part of our daily lives. Dublin City Public Libraries will have lots of Science Week activities, including hands-on events and workshops as well as demonstrations from science centres and performers.

The website for Science Foundation Ireland will also have more information at www.science.ie.

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TEAM CLASSMATEDublin City Sport & Wellbeing Partnership run lots of citywide programmes - you are bound to find one that you will want to join!

Beat the Street is a fun, free, real-life walking and cycling game. You can sign up for free at libraries, leisure centres, and community centres. You’ll get a special Beat the Street card that works like a Leapcard. Beat the Street

is for everyone. Individuals, schools, workplaces, community groups and families can all take part. All ages and levels of fitness are welcome.

'Beat Boxes' have been placed on lamp posts all across the city. When you find a Beat Box, tap your card, and you have one hour to tap it on another box and complete the challenge. Tapping two Beat Boxes within an hour records your journey. There are more than 100 boxes so find all the ones in your area to maximise your points.

Prizes will be given for ‘Lucky Taps’ for adults and children and the top teams will win prizes over the seven-week competition. Each challenge will win points for you and for your school. The Beat Boxes were activated on 13 September 2017 so get moving. Join up with any team by visiting www.beatthestreet.me/dublin to win prizes, see your points and distance travelled and watch your team move up the leader board!

Fit-4-Class is Athletics Ireland’s new, ten-week programme that introduces primary school children (from junior infants to 4th class) to athletics in a fun and non-competitive way. The main areas the programme will focus on include agility, co-ordination and balance. When you finish the ten-week programme, you will be presented with your very own Fit-4-Class wristband by the class teacher!

Green Scene is a new way to get more people active by using our parks and green spaces around Dublin City. Keep an eye out for upcoming Green Scene events across the city where you will be able to get involved in fun games and activities. You can also try out a new sport or maybe even get to meet a sporting celebrity!

For more information or to get your school involved email us at: sports@dublincity.ie.

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YOUR CITY COUNCIL:THE INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS DEPARTMENT

DUBLIN’S TWIN SISTER Did you know that Dublin City has a twin sister?

Actually Dublin has four twin sisters or Sister Cities. Twinning means joining two or more cities around the world to build friendships between them. The relationships can be about culture, business, sport or technology, in fact, about anything that the cities have in common. Dublin is twinned with San José in California, Beijing in China, Barcelona in Spain and Liverpool in England.

San José in California is the home of many of the biggest Information Technology companies in the world, for example, Google, LinkedIn and Facebook. This year Dublin City Council and Dublin Chamber of Commerce organised for five Dublin technology companies to visit San José to learn how to improve their businesses. The Lord Mayor and two Councillors also went and met with the San José Councillors.

Of course, Dublin has friends closer to home too, like Liverpool. Both cities are ports, so a lot of our activities have a maritime theme. We are working on a link between Finglas and a community in Liverpool at the moment.

Our job in the International Relations Department is to let everybody know that Dublin is a great place to live, to do business, to learn, to work and

to visit. Our office welcomes visiting groups to the city and it’s a mission we take very seriously. This year so far, we have had meetings with officials and councillors from Budapest, Hamburg, Athens, Antwerp, Beijing, Moscow and Bucharest. They visit Dublin to learn about how we run our city, whether it has to do with planning, traffic or libraries. We learn from them too, and it is always interesting to find that cities face the same issues all around the world, but we often have different ways of dealing with them.

We also like to welcome tourists to Dublin, especially business tourists who come here for conferences and seminars. At the moment we are working with the organisers of Zeminar, a youth summit in the RDS from 10 - 12 October. www.zeminar.ie.

The Artane Band performing at the Spring Festival in Nice, France

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FRIENDSHIP CITIESApart from our four twin cities, we also have many Friendship Cities including Moscow and St. Petersburg in Russia. Dublin holds a Russian Festival called Maslenitsa every February, and our friends come from Moscow and St. Petersburg to celebrate with us.

WELCOMING AMERICASan José is part of a movement called Welcoming America which helps make cities more welcoming and inclusive. The people of San José are putting extra effort into welcoming migrants to their city, particularly from Mexico, and making them feel more included in city life. Dublin City Councillors want to make Dublin a Welcome City and will ask our other twin partners to do the same.

Mar atá soiléir ón alt thall, tá Baile Átha Cliath nasctha le San José in California, le Béising sa tSín, le Barcelona sa Spáinn agus le Learpholl i Sasana.

Ach nuair is daoine nó ainmhithe atá i gceist úsáidtear téarma eile:

Cúpla msh. Cúpla cailín nó má tá tú ag tagairt do dhuine amháin den chúpla sin deirtear leathchúpla.

Tagann an focal cúpla ón Laidin “copula” a ciallaíonn ceangal nó nasc.

Úsáidtear an frása “cúpla focal” go minic. Sa chás seo ciallaíonn sé níos mó ná focal amháin nó roinnt focail. Bainigí úsáid as bhur gcúpla focal !!

SAN JOSÉ

If you would like more information you can email international.relations@dublincity.ie

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WORD SPIRALWork out the puzzle and find the hidden word.

Starting from 1, fill in the grid in a clockwise direction with words, using the clues below. The last letter of each word becomes the first letter of the next word. If you have correctly filled in the

grid, there should be a six-letter word revealed in the centre of the puzzle. To give you a little help, one letter has been filled in. Also, a clue which requires you to use a dictionary is included.

1 2P

6

5 7

8 3

4

CAN YOU WORK IT OUT?1. Jessica dipped her

T_ _ into the sea to test how cold the water was before running into the waves at the beach.

2. The litter bins located on the busy street are E_ _ _ _ _ _ every day.

3. Conor and Ava’s D_ _ _ _ is to go to Disneyland and meet Minnie and Mickey Mouse.

4. M_ _ _ _ is another word for ‘copy’ or ‘imitate’. Check your dictionary to find the answer.

5. Cleaning up the city can C_ _ _ a lot of money so don’t drop litter; bin it or if there isn’t a bin nearby, bring it home to your own bin or recycling bin.

6. Driving on the motorway the drivers must stop at the booth to pay the T_ _ _ before continuing their trip.

7. The children are excited about going to the museum on their school tour but are getting restless sitting on the bus for the L_ _ _ journey.

8. The G_ _ _ _ of students hired bicycles to cycle around Dublin city to visit all the sights.

Hidden Word: Couple. Answers: 1 Toe, 2 Emptied, 3 Dream, 4 Mimic, 5 Cost, 6 Toll, 7 Long, 8 Group