Youth services across Clare and Limerick are to receive a boost of more than €60,000 to their coffers. Three organisations in this region will benefit from the funding from the Department of Children & Youth Affairs under its ‘Resilience and Effectiveness’ initiative. The scheme aims to help smaller youth services to increase their youth work […]
A former Assistant Garda Commissioner has been appointed to head up Safe Balbriggan , an initiative to help tackle crime and antisocial behaviour in the town and build a safer community.
The Balbriggan Leadership Group ratified the establishment of a Safe Balbriggan Pillar at its quarterly meeting, last week.
This brings to five the number of pillars that the Leadership Group is responsible for with Safe Balbriggan being added to Local Economy & Enterprise, Community Affairs & Integration, Employment, Education & Training and Public Realm & Placemaking.
At the meeting retired Garda Assistant Commissioner Michael O Sullivan was appointed as the Chair of the Safe Balbriggan Pillar and the Leadership Group agreed terms of reference, membership and works programme for the new Pillar.