Letterkenny Community Centre shares first look at new Jim Lynch Community Building

The new Jim Lynch Community Building is now complete and fundraising efforts are ongoing to help pay for it. Photos: Letterkenny Community Centre Facebook

placeholder image — The new Jim Lynch Community Building is now complete and fundraising efforts are ongoing to help pay for it. Photos: Letterkenny Community Centre Facebook

The now-completed building has state-of-the-art changing facilities and a spacious and bright meeting room

Letterkenny Community Centre has shared a first look at the inside of the brand new Jim Lynch Community Building.

The now-completed €1.4m building project has state-of-the-art changing facilities and a spacious and bright meeting room.

The sod turning took place at Letterkenny Community Centre in March 2024 with the 'Buy a Brick' campaign launched to help raise funds for the project.

The community building will be suitable for public events, meetings, and functions and will be able to host events for up to 70 people. It will also be available for birthday parties. There are also plans to erect a stand in the future.

Letterkenny Community Centre shared: “This project has been a labour of love - built by the people, for the people - and we couldn’t be prouder of what’s been achieved. While the building is now complete, fundraising efforts are ongoing to help pay for it. As a non-profit community centre, we rely on the generosity of our supporters to deliver top-class facilities like this for the people of Letterkenny.

“Our ‘Buy-a-Brick’ Campaign is still open - and every brick makes a difference. Each one is a laser-engraved polished granite brick that will be permanently installed in a prominent position inside the new building, to be proudly viewed for generations to come.”

Individual or memorial bricks are €130 and family or business bricks are €300. Bricks can be purchased at reception, online through this link or by calling Liam on 074 91 22761 or 086 3370027.

Letterkenny Community Centre has thanked everyone who has bought a brick so far, saying the support “means the world”.

Jim Lynch was a Letterkenny town councillor who sat on the local authority in the town for 29 years.

Originally from the Ard O’Donnell area, the former principal of Cloughfin National School was first elected to Letterkenny Urban District Council in 1985. He remained a councillor on Letterkenny Town Council until it was abolished in 2014, having served as the mayor of the town in 2009. Elected as a councillor for Independent Fianna Fáil councillor, he later sat as an independent.

Mr Lynch was well known for his community work in the Letterkenny area and had a particular interest in the town’s heritage and environment and the development of the cathedral quarter. He was active in the Letterkenny Tidy Towns Committee and also edited the Letterkenny Christmas Annual. He also served on the Letterkenny Community Centre Committee, the International Folk Festival and the Letterkenny Reunion committees.

Jim Lynch passed away in September 2022 at the age of 75.