Great coverage on Vincent Brown last night about the exchange I had with the Taoiseach over the devastating cuts to our community development schemes in the Inner City – as Vincent put... Read more
The Leaders’ Question I didn’t get to ask got some good coverage – Last night I spoke to Ainé Lawlor on RTE 1; The Week in Politics and discussed the 38% Cuts to community... Read more
Very positive outcome for the Gardai with Operation ‘Tempest’ leading to drug seizures, arrests and now charges. This came from co-operation and communication between community Gardai and co... Read more
A COACHING project aimed at introducing organised sport to north inner city girls between the ages of five and eight years was launched at St Mary’s Youth Club in East Wall recently. Ciaran... Read more
At the recent North Inner City Drugs and Alcohol Task Force meeting the points I made during Leaders’ were brought home by one of the community reps talking about the two recent deaths... Read more
Independent deputy Maureen O’Sullivan, who succeeded the late Tony Gregory in Dublin Central and who consistently goes out to bat for the concerns of people living in the north inner city wh... Read more
Yesterday I was on RTE Radio 1 at lunch time in relation to the major drugs issue we have in this country. Have a listen. “There are only about 35 detox beds in the whole country.... Read more
Responsibility for our drugs problem has moved between four Government departments while drugs-related deaths have risen 50 per cent in the Dublin area and 8 per cent nationally, the Dáil ha... Read more
There are those in addiction who want to stop now, not in a few weeks or months time – they could be further in addiction at that stage or, as has happened, dead. There is a serious sh... Read more
The Minister answered part of the question. I sought statistics regarding those who have accepted compensation under the Magdalen fund and those who have applications pending. Some useful in... Read more
