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THE KILDARE ANIMAL Foundation has said it is struggling to remain open after running out of money.
Founder Geraldine O’Hanlon said the volunteer-run shelter has not been able to pay its bills for the past two weeks.
“We get so wrapped up in taking care of the animals that fundraising gets put on the back burner,” she told TheJournal.ie.
“But we desperately need money now to pay for food and veterinary costs.”
The centre – which is currently home to 49 dogs, 43 cats and 50 other animals – costs about €2,000 a week to run.
One of its biggest spends is on treatment for animals that have been mistreated, O’Hanlon said.
We take on difficult animals. A lot of them are at various stages of malnutrition when we get them. While another person might say, ‘This one’s a hopeless case’, our attitude would be to say, ‘Give us two weeks with them’.
‘We need help’
In a Facebook appeal, she wrote that the centre is the “last and best chance” for the animals it homes.
We need help. When I see the animals asleep in the sun, I am thankful they do not know how fragile our world is.
The shelter, which will celebrate its 21st anniversary at the end of the month, receives small state grants, but relies on public donations.
Meet some of the animals being cared for at the Kildare Animal Foundation.
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Source: Kildare Animal Shelter/Facebook" title="">Donations can be made on the shelter’s website or posted to Kildare Animal Foundation, South Green Road, Kildare Town.
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In a local shop this morning and 4 guys from the north walked in with no masks. They were asked to put them on and said they were “exempt”. It’s crazy and frustrating the sheer ignorance of certain people but that’s what’s happening on a daily basis up here in Donegal.
@Brian: I hope they were refused service
@Shaun Gallagher: poor girl couldn’t do a thing. She was on her own and they were very unpleasant towards her. Enforceable need to brought in to stop this.
@Brian: enforceable laws. My apologies
@Brian: Correct. They are fined upto £10k in the North if they don’t wear it. Should be the same here
@Brian: Bring in an SS type force sure. No half measures.
@Monster Munch: sure why not. If that what it takes to deal with muppets
@Brian: The SS to deal with three lads in Donegal… Yes!
@Monster Munch: muppets who don’t wear masks
@Brian: The SS are not the answer Brian to anything. 95-97 percent are wearing masks. Time to change the script.
@Monster Munch: change what script. I’m referring to people who don’t wear masks. It’s the same script that everyone is listening to and reading about. Did you miss the memo on this. Maybe you can’t comprehend the damage the entitled 2-3% who don’t wear masks can do. Bring in hefty enforceable fines to those who don’t adhere to the guidelines.
@Brian: But I can comprehend the damage the SS would do. Will we get the concentration camps going as well? Reminder we got to single digit cases with mask Compliance below 50 percent…
@Monster Munch: your constant referencing to SS and concentration camps is quite disturbing. Maybe have a wee ly down. Tomorrow is a new day and you might see the value of masks after a good rest.
On Wednesday the next 10 days are absolutely critical, on Thursday the next 10 days are critical, on Friday the next 14 days are critical. Wonder what today will bring…
@Monster Munch: you’d nearly think that there is a global pandemic on the go that has claimed a million lives.
@GrumpyAulFella: Just trying to figure out if it’s 7, 8 or 13 days that are critical. Im holding firm as best I can. It’s in our hands after all.
@Monster Munch: if you assume that every day is critical until this is over then this messaging won’t bother you so much.
@GrumpyAulFella: Why don’t they just say that then? Is there a timeline for this to end?
@Monster Munch: yes when a vaccine is available but sure if you have to ask that question then you’re a lost cause. Too many people incapable of making their own decisions and looking to be mammy’d again.
Mehole reported yesterday that the rate in stranorlar/ lifford is a wopping 361 per 100000. I can’t find the population of stranorlar, but the pop of ballybofey/stranorlar is just under 5000. The pop of lifford is just over 1, 500. If we take a rough population of this bigger area as 6, 500, that equates to about 24 individuals who have tested positive
@Anne Marie Devlin: yes, they are out to get ya
@Anne Marie Devlin: I’m originally from close to there. There’s nothing in Stranorlar apart from one secondary school with 900 pupils, one secondary vocational school with around 350 pupils, a large primary school with several hundred kids. There are of course several housing estates but the schools in particular cater to a very large catchment area, I’ve not seen details on contact tracing which rules the schools out, of course I’m just expressing an opinion on this and I could be completely wrong!
@Anne Marie Devlin: the population of the Lifford – Stranorlar electoral area is almost 26,000. The positive cases for the area as reported on Thursday evening was 87 and then rounded up to 336 per 100,000.
Waste of time. Only suggestions, no powers to enforce. People will do what they want.
@David Connell: yes it is a waste of time if people like you do nothing to help stop the spread of the virus. The sooner you do what’s asked of you the better it is for everyone. Only the people can stop the spread.
@Macca Attack: I only stated facts. I agree with you, but government should make laws that hold people accountable. Fine people if need be, but make it a law. Simple.
@David Connell: Spain 200 euro …on the spot or Jail
@Charles Shelly: what effect has that had on their cases? Have they gone up or down?
@Monster Munch: what a dumb question
@David Connell: you’ve sad it. People will do what they want and then NPHET get accused of “blaming people” for the spread of the virus. If the govt empower the police to enforce then the govt is accused of introducing a “police state” by the anti-mask, anti-lockdown mob. The power to halt this is in the people’s hands.
It’s in the filing cabinet
What an attitude the government has to MAKE IT LAW….LIKE IN Spain 200euro fine. To soft a Government …In Galway there all not wearing mask 50% of them out shopping..
@Charles Shelly: HSE’s own survey said Compliance was at 95-97 percent. Masks are not the issue.
No such thing as wet pubs.
@Colum Cusack: yo obviously haven’t been in some near closing time. Glasses, dripping just coming from ‘washer’, floor wet with spilled pints, counter and tables dripping, toilets flooded, toilets in corners where clientele make use of facilities. Most of this is not seen due to level of inebriation, just the comment, “the place was heaving”.
@Colum Cusack: A term coined by NPHET to dehumanize social ways of life into mere virus control vehicles.
@Brendan Cooney: Total Exaggeration there now, maybe that might happen in One Pub, but you could visit 100 others and NO such situation would arise. Contrary to your opinion, they are NOT Pigsties .
They were probably on their way to the anti mask protest march in letterkenny taking place LATER today. A slap in the face for health care workers.
@C_O’S: Time to get the water Cannons out.
@DJ Dave Wexford: bulldoze them. Better still, round them all up and dump them on Rathlin O’Birne. They can wear no masks to their hearts content there.
Dr Jay Bhattacharya has been on point throughout this crisis. We need to do a proportionate analysis on benefits vs costs of lockdown. This debate still isn’t happening https://youtu.be/T_COvdCujaA
As usual a lot of the outbreaks seem to be arising from uncontrolled indoor gatherings, but what do they do, take the easy but stupid option and close the controlled indoor environments. The only country in Europe to take this draconian measure at this stage and drive all the parties into houses where no-one has control or of course tip over the border to where the pubs are open
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