Evening Herald – Jamboree 2008
The Evening Herald has some coverage of Jamboree 2008, including quotes from Dermot. Article here, and the part with Dermot:
One Scouting group that celebrated their own milestone birthday this year is out in full force at Jamboree 2008. It’s 80 years since Donnybrook Scouts was set up and Labour Councillor Dermot Lacey, who is also President of the Donnybrook Scout Group, had his tent ready when I spoke to him recently. “I think scouting is the most modern youth movement in the world,” he said.
“If you look at the things that are important now in education — young people working in small groups and deciding for themselves, concerns for the environment, internationalism — scouting was doing all of that 100 years ago.
“The challenge for scouting is for us to update our methods to keep in tune with society. But our values remain progressive and important,” said Dermot, who believes he’s learned more from scouting than anything else he’s done in his life.
“Donnybrook Scouts is in great shape. We have about 200 kids and about 50 leaders and we’ve a great spirit in the group”.
