Donabate Parish Council
Donabate Portrane Community Council is community organisation in the Donabate Portrane Peninsula in Fingal. It is represented on the Fingal Community Forum. It is affiliated to Muintir na Tíre (a national voluntary organisation dedicated to promoting the process of community development in Ireland). Donabate Parish Council is incorporated as a Company Limited by Guarantee since 2006, having the company number 420069, the word “Limited” being omitted by licence of the Minister for Enterprise and Employment.
The Council is a democratically elected non-party political body representing the residents of the Donabate Portrane peninsula. It covers the two civil parishes of Donabate and Portrane. The committee includes members elected at the A.G.M. and nominated representatives of local Residents' Associations.
The Council has sub-committees such as Tidy Towns, Neighbourhood Watch. In 2004 it formed a sub-committees to form a secondary school which was opened this year.
Donabate Parish Council is now known as Donabate Portrane Community Council. The trading name was changed in 2007.
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