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With Thanks to Mike Jenn from London who sent us this powerful example of how community men’s shed can get off the ground This is an initiative of two retired guys.  Having researched/thought about it in late autumn we decided to make a go of it just before Christmas 2010. From then...

The next Irish Men’s Sheds Association Shed Reps meeting and first Annual General Meeting will take place in Moynalty Steam Threshing Museum, Moynalty, Kells, County Meath on Wednesday the 14th of September. Moynalty and Summerhill Men’s Sheds are kindly laying on refreshments for those attending the meeting at 12pm. The meeting will begin...

The Louth Men’s Sheds project was started by the Netwell Centre and the Louth County Council.   The project is very simple and has one criteria, men.  The ‘shed’ environment encourages men to share skills and learn new ones for example, skills in wood turning, mechanical work and horticulture, to name...

The next Irish Men’s Sheds Association Shed Reps meeting will take place in St. Munchins Family Resource Centre, Limerick City on Friday 24th of June. St. Munchins Men’s shed are kindly laying on refreshments for those attending the meeting at 12pm and the meeting will begin at 1pm. It is our...

The Erris Community Health Forum in conjunction with the local Primary Care Team are hosting a meeting with a view to establishing a Community Men’s Shed in Erris, Co. Mayo. This meeting will take place in the Broadhaven Bay Hotel on Wednesday 27th April at 7.30pm. The guest speaker will be...

BRIAN O’CONNELL(c) We’re not used to men discussing health issues or feelings over welding machines, but at Men’s Sheds support groups, emotions and engines go hand-in-hand A GROUP of men gathers in a room in the new adult education centre in Gorey, Co Wexford. Large industrial saws and welding machines...

Following from the hugely successful Men’s Sheds gathering in Tipperary in January the first meeting of the representatives of each Men’s Shed will take place in Arklow on Monday the 14th of March from 1pm – 4pm. It would be great to have a representative form every Men’s Shed on the Island of Ireland at this meeting. The meeting will...