Limerick s frontline suicide volunteers seek Covid vaccine
Volunteers say vaccination would enable them to physically respond to help people, rather than just operating a crisis phone line Kayla Doyle and Caitriona McMahon of Community Crisis Response Team in Rathkeale. Picture: Brian Arthur
Mon, 01 Mar, 2021 - 12:14
Nicole Glennon
A volunteer service that travels to people in suicidal distress has had to revert to operating a crisis line only due to Covid-19.
The Community Crisis Response Team (CCRT), based in Rathkeale, Limerick, operates an out-of-hours crisis line from 5pm to 6am, 365 days a year, responding to calls from people who are in suicidal distress or from those who believe someone they know is in suicidal distress.
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Over the next several weeks, many of us will be celebrating holidays that bear particular significance in our lives. I, like most of you, look forward to entering into a new year and putting 2020 behind. Yet, as I look forward to spending this special time with those I hold dear, I am holding in my heart the families that will not have a loved one with them at the dinner table, opening gifts, and with whom to create and share cherished memories. New Haven like cities both within Connecticut and nationwide has had to confront COVID-19’s challenges while simultaneously addressing an increase in gun violence. The loss of life to gun violence is unreconcilable. Burying a loved one who was stolen by senseless violence carries unimaginable grief and healing is a long, painful journey, sometimes with no end.
€50,000 boost for Limerick-based charities and voluntary organisations
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ESB has awarded more than €50,000 to six Limerick-based organisations working in the areas of educational access and homelessness which have been impacted by Covid-19.
This support is part of ESB’s Energy for Generations Fund which provides more than €1million annually in direct assistance through a quarterly fund to organisations working in the areas of homelessness, suicide prevention, educational access and support.
As part of a range of Covid-19 initiatives, ESB increased this funding by €250,000 to provide emergency support to organisations around the country in response to the pandemic.
The County Limerick recipients include:
Limerick groups receive early Christmas present courtesy of RTÉ Does Comic Relief
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Deirdre O Kane with Minister of State, Joe O Brien. Also pictured are Denise Charlton, Chief Executive of The Community Foundation for Ireland and Dee Forbes, Director General of RTÉ );
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Thirty community and voluntary groups across Limerick are to receive more than €211,000 in combined funding from the monies raised during the RTÉ Does Comic Relief telethon earlier this year.
The money is being distributed by The Community Foundation for Ireland which has provided over €60 million to communities across the country during the past 20 years.