This is annual Suicide Awareness Week
The suicide and self-harm crisis centre Pieta House is asking local communities in Clare to organise fundraising events during Suicide Awareness Week which runs from 10th to 17th September
Pieta House saw a 40% increase in the number of people seeking help in the first six months of this year
Joan Freeman, CEO of Pieta House, spoke with John Cooke on Monday’s Morning Focus about the services they provide in the Midwest
If you’d like to speak to someone in confidence about depression, or issues relating to suicide you can contact Pieta House in Limerick – the Centre for Prevention of Suicide and Self Harm on 061 484444 or look up pieta.ie
You can always call the Samartans on 1850 60 90 90.
If you’d like to speak to someone about coping with bereavement through suicide you can contact Clare Suicide Bereavement Support on 086 0565373.
Clare MABS & Citizens Information Service will hold a morning seminar on the ‘Personal Insolvency Bill’ which will be chaired by Marie Keane President Clare Law Association on Wednesday 12th September in the Temple Gate Hotel Ennis at 9.45am
The Personal Insolvency Bill 2012 has been published and is currently being discussed by the Oireachtas. The Bill aims to introduce new arrangements for dealing with personal and mortgage debts as well as setting out very detailed rules about the procedures for operating the new arrangements.
The seminar will describe the main features of these proposed new arrangements, with particular emphasis on those arrangements, which will apply to people with low incomes and relatively small amounts of debt in particular in dealing with perennial issue of mortgage debts added Paul Woulfe Manager of the Citizens Information Service in Clare
John spoke with Paul Joyce BL, Senior Policy Researcher with FLAC and Paul Wolfe of Clare Citizens’ Information service who encouraged people to come along
Contact Clare Citizens’Inforation Centre on 0761 075260 or email [email protected]
The funeral mass of Robert Sheehan who was murdered in Bunratty last weekend took place at Corpus Christi Church in Moyross last Thursday
Speaking in his homily, parish priest Fr Tony O’Riordan, condemned those responsible for murdering the 21-year-old father-of-one who was gunned down as he attended his brother’s wedding reception.
Fr O’Riordan called to those in authority to examine their attitude to marginalised communities, education cuts and the management of public estates and condemned the killing
Robert’s father Patrick spoke during his son’s funeral mass, and said his family do not want any revenge attacks for the killing
John spoke with Moyross Parish Priest Fr Tony O’Riordan.
Sergeant Joe Downey, Crime Prevention Officer with the Clare Garda Division joined John in studio for this week’s Garda Focus
He appealed for information on a number of crimes committed in the county over the past seven days
Contact Ennis Garda Station on 065 6848100.
Clare fundraiser for Pieta House Tom McEvoy thanked the Gardai as they announced that Garda Cycle this Saturday is raising funds for Pieta House
Pieta House is planning on expanding services – hopefully to Galway, Cork, Kerry and Roscrea in the next eight months
The Money Doctor John Lowe spoke about US bond guru Michael Hasenstab who is now the biggest single private investor in Irish government bonds after raising his massive bet on an Irish recovery to €6bn
Brian Finnegan of the Clare branch of Birdwatch Ireland joined John in studio to speak about the group’s Shannon lagoon outing last Saturday.
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