Local Organisations and Clubs

Descriptions, Addresses, Email Addresses, Contacts, Telephone Numbers

RAPID South West Inner City Dublin
RAPID (Revitalizing Areas by Planning, Investment and Development) is a Government initiative which targets the 46 most disadvantaged urban areas and provincial towns in the country. The implementation of the RAPID programme is led by the Department Of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs. Community and voluntary participation is at the heart of the RAPID programme. RAPID is organized to ensure that local communities have a strong input into the plan for their own area.
Contact: Margaret Quinn
RAPID Co-ordinator
SWIC2/Lr Crumlin RAPID Areas
Dublin City Council Local Area Office
639 South Circular Rd
Dublin
(01) 222 5114
E-mail: margaret.quinn@dublincity.ie

Rialto Development Association
St. Andrews Community Centre has been serving the needs of the community of Rialto for over twenty five years. The centre provides accommodation for a range of projects addressing social inclusion and cultural development including the Rialto Day Care Centre for the elderly, the Rialto Youth Project and the Rialto Community Drug Team.
Contact: St. Andrew’s Community Centre
468 South Circular Rd
Dublin 8
(01) 453 0744

Rialto Youth Project
The Rialto Youth Project works with young people who are most marginalized in the community. They operate a number of groups including young women’s groups, young men’s groups and work with young drug users.
Contact: Jim Lawlor
St. Andrew’s Community Centre
468 South Circular Road
Rialto
Dublin 8
(01) 453 1638
E-mail: ryp@club.ie

Rialto Family Centre
The Rialto Family Centre provides early childhood intervention and prevention to vulnerable children and their families.
Contact: Sharon Moore
560 South Circular Road
Rialto
Dublin
(01) 473 4746

Rialto Active Retirement Association

The Active Retirement Association (RARA) was established in 2005 and aims to encourage people of 55 and over to maintain their independence through social contact and sporting activities. The group wants to promote a more positive attitude to ageing and retirement.
Activities include: Computers, Bridge, Line Dancing, Bowling, Day Trips and more!
Membership is open to active over-55s in Rialto and neighbouring areas.
Contact: Debbie Lynch
Rialto Community Network
(01) 473 2003
Email: rialtonet@connect.ie

Dolphin House Homework Club
The homework club was set up in 1998 in response to the high levels of early school leaving. Other activities include art, literacy, games, computer work, and educational trips.
Contact: Sabrina Porter
Dolphin Community Portakabins
Dolphin House
Dublin
(01) 473 7884
Email: dolphinhousehomeworkclub@hotmail.com

Dolphin House Digital Project
Dolphin House Digital Community Project provides a state-of-the-art vibrant digital community centre where computers, learning information and new innovations in digital technology are easily accessible and user-friendly. Dolphin House Digital Community Project enhances the quality of life of all ages living in the new digital era.
Contact: Marie Roe
384 Dolphin House
Dolphin’s Barn
Dublin 8

Dolphin Crèche
Dolphin Crèche caters for children between the ages of 2.5 years and school-going age or 5 years. Dolphin Crèche is registered with the local Health Board’s Pre-School Services.
The staff in the crèche work as a team. ‘We encourage close co-operation between parent and staff in the crèche’. The aim of the project is to provide a safe, creative and loving environment for your child.
Contact: Fiona Fanning
310 Dolphin House
Dolphin’s Barn
Dublin 8.

Dolphin Health Initiative
The Dolphin Health Initiative was set up in September 2006. It was funded by the HSE for 2 years. The initiative provides a space for local people to deal with their own well being through programmes such as the Women's Groups, Older People's Groups, Breakfast mornings, Yoga, Outreach, and a Drop In, where advice and information on subjects such as Social Welfare and Rights & Entitlements is available.
Contact: Vera Ashton
085 776 9959

Fatima Health Initiative
Fatima Health Initiative is a community development health project which aims to tackle the high rate of ill-health within Fatima and improve the holistic and spirit of the Community. Through a range of programmes the Fatima Health Initiative provides a space which allows local people an opportunity to put their own wellbeing at the top of the agenda and deal with the stresses of day to day living.
Contact: Edel O’Reilly
Fatima Groups United (FGU)
Community Portakabins
Reuben Street
Rialto
Dublin 8
(01) 453 4722
Email: info@fatimagroupsunited.com

Rainbow Intercultural Project
Rainbow Neighbourhood Project is an intercultural group working in Rialto to bring new communities together with Irish people in a supportive, social environment. The group aims to ‘bring the new communities into the wider community’ and to help immigrants feel at home in Ireland.
Contact: Atinuke Diya
568 South Circular Road
Rialto
Dublin 8
(01) 473 2003
Email: rialtonet@connect.ie

Local Drugs Task Force
The Canals Communities Local Drugs Task Force was established in 1997 as one of fourteen Local Drugs Task Forces. The Task Force provides a continuum of care in the Canal’s area for drug users and their families and supports local groups and communities in their growth and development. It works to facilitate an effective response to drug issues in areas experiencing the highest level of drugs use. The Task Force supports and funds a number of projects and initiatives in the Canal Communities area (Bluebell, Inchicore, Rialto).
Contact: Mary Ryder
(01) 620 6413/6455
Email: mary.ryder2@hse.ie or elaine.whelan1@hse.ie