Portmarnock Lions Club
Welcome to Portmarnock Lions Club
The Portmarnock Lions Club was founded in 2004 and serves the community of Portmarnock and surrounding areas.
Portmarnock is a beautiful coastal town in North Dublin and is home to the famous Velvet Strand.
We hold our meetings in Portmarnock Hotel and Golf Links which is the ancestral home of John Jameson founder of the world famous Jameson Whiskey.
Come back and visit us where we will continue to provide updates on our activities and upcoming projects.
Committee 2018/19
President : John Lonergan
Secretary : Paul McHale
Treasurer : Bill Caffrey
Members: Frank Lynch, Ken Bracken, David Sweeney, John Lonergan, Bill Caffrey, Noel Kelly, Tony Kehoe, Shay Smyth, Ron Nolan, Brendan Curtis, Gerry Cattell and Andy Harmon.
ZERO COST PORTMARNOCK LIONS HELP LOCAL COMMUNITY FAMILIES
Thousands of families throughout Ireland will receive Christmas Hampers this year following a series of Food Appeals held by Lions Clubs throughout Ireland.
Every cent and every food item we collect will go directly to the beneficiaries because we incur no administration or salary costs.
The 113 Lions Clubs in Ireland have no professional administration and incurs no management costs.
All our members are volunteers and the administration costs of all Lions Clubs are funded by our members. This means that every cent we collect can go directly to the causes which we support.
In addition to the Food Appeal, Lions in Ireland runs a series of national and local projects. National projects include a Suicide Awareness and Prevention Programme, a range of Youth Services, an Alcohol Awareness Programme for schools, Carers Weekends, a Holiday Week in Trabolgan, Co. Cork, support for Homeless Street Children, Intel/Lions Ideation Camps, Diabetic Screening, Medic Alert, Message in a Bottle and Spectacle Recycling. Individual clubs run hundreds of local projects, many of which support local charities. Lions Clubs in Ireland also contribute to major international projects such as ‘Sight First’ and emergency relief in areas hit by natural disasters.
Lions Clubs International was founded in the United States in 1917 and is the largest Humanitarian, Voluntary Organisation comprising of 1.4 million members with over 46,000 Clubs in 208 Countries. Since 1968 Lions Clubs International Foundation has awarded more than $ 800 million in grants, to support humanitarian projects throughout the world.
In 2007 it was designated the No 1 Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) and remains so to this day.
Lions Clubs International is the world's largest service club organization with more than 1.4 million members in approximately 46,000 clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas around the world.
