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THE GOVERNMENT HAS today announced that a new round of funding from the Dormant Accounts Fund is to be released.
In total, €2.7 million will be used for five measures co-ordinated by the HSE. Part of the fund will support initiatives aimed at preventing the misuse of drugs in communities.
Minister of State with responsibility for the National Drugs Strategy, Aodháin Ó Ríordáin said today the funding will enable local and regional drug and alcohol task forces to “undertake a range of coordinated activities aimed at raising awareness of drug and alcohol-related harm in local communities”.
Speaking to TheJournal.ie, the junior minister emphasised the importance of these groups in tackling Ireland’s drug problem.
“Every drugs taksforce is difference because every area is different,” he said.
“Different groups know their area best and they know the age profile of the area, whether alcohol abuse is prevalent, they know about the off licence locally and can tap into it all better.”
To gain access to some of the funding available, groups can submit applications pitching their ideas for campaigns or for evidence based research.
Disability services and home carers
The money will also support a number of local disability services as well as respite services for people who have a disability. Included in these measures are health-related supports for young people aged 15 to 24 with disabilities and autism.
Further to this €2.7 million, the Department of Social Protection announced €1 million from the Dormant Accounts Fund will be used to support home carers. The new measure will be implemented by Pobal, which will take applications from the start of next month from eligible groups.
Project proposals which provide training, information and related support services to home carers will all be considered.
“The purpose of this measure will be to upskill carers to provide the best care possible, to reduce the risk of injury to the carer and to help them cope with the emotional and psychological aspects of their role,” Minister for Social Protection Joan Burton said today.
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It’s amazing to think the amount of species lost at the end of the last ice age. Some amazing animals we just missed out on by a heartbeat of seeing. Megatherium, a sloth the size of an elephant… Mammoths, sabre-toothed cats, etc.
This whole story is BS – we all know the earth is only 5000 years old.
4.6 billion*
says who?
The reason being that the planet was hit with multiple comets 1200 years apart 12000 years ago….wiped out a lot more than animals.
@ Anto Mahon
Believe it or not, it was actually an Irishman who claimed the world was less than 5000 years old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ussher_chronology
Lucky they were we probably would of just eat them or wore them.
@Talleyrand Frye good stuff pity he forgot to read Genesis 1:1 as this scripture shows that the earth could be billions of years old.
Its amazing to think in the last 40 years we have lost 50% of our worldwide wildlife http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/09/1409030-animals-wildlife-wwf-decline-science-world/
I heard Irish water cut them off for not paying
I think they had paid
Died of thirst waiting on the bar man in coppers
“All along these Mammoths where contributing to their own demise”. I wonder could man learn anything from that sentence
I could die of thirst with the price of beer
Again, this is a story abound a foreign country!
There never was – or never will be – any woolly mammoths in this catholic and holy country.
You will have to wait until SF/IRA get into power before we can expect total isolation from the outside world like N Korea.
Yes Leo – but, in the meantime, we have a language (Irish) that nobody else speaks and sports (GAA) that no-one else plays – so it’s a good start…
We also have our fair share of morons
Do you have to bring SF/IRA into a discussion about mammoths?
Leo is just butt hurt because he got his ass handed to him on another article about his bigotry, chap just isn`t very good at this posting lark, and tends to go from article to article spouting his crap
I think someone slagged off his Bowler hat that he was wearing a few weeks ago and he can`t seem to be able to keep it together since.
And SF/IRA never engaged in bigotry, bus?
You are Just like your mate Leo ,Dotrice
This article is about Mammoths, only the likes of you two could possibly drag bigotry, SF/IRA into it – Newsflash, you aren`t funny or controversial, or engaging
To put it simply, so your tiny little mind can understand,
You are just boring, repetitive and ridiculous.
I`d hazard a guess, that you are both the same person
Pathetic at best is how i would describe you
You brought up bigotry. Sad that insult is your only defense…☺
Last word
tool?
Not sure why we should feel sorry for them though seeing as they caused the ice-age in the first place.
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