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Healthy Offaly plan doing well despite Covid-19 impact
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16 Apr 2021
Dermot Egan (left), Healthy Offaly coordinator, and Cllr John Carroll, Cathaoirleach, at the launch of last year s Longest Day Challenge (picture, Offaly County Council) );
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COVID-19 has had a serious impact on the roll-out of a programme to make Offaly people healthier, a council district meeting was told.
However, Dermot Egan, Healthy Ireland Offaly coordinator, said action had nonetheless taken place across a number of fronts under the State-funded scheme.
A Healthy Offaly Plan was adopted for the county in 2018 by the Offaly Local Community and Development Committee and a Healthy Offaly Team was established in March of that year with a €247,000 budget.
Prestigious awards caps off memorable two weeks for Offaly counselling service
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Community counselling centre, Accessible Counselling Tullamore (ACT), has had plenty of reasons to celebrate recently.
The centre which had its first anniversary on January 20 has been growing from strength to strength despite opening just before the Covid-19 crisis hit.
“2020 was a year like none of us have experienced and the global pandemic is greatly affecting people’s general mood and mental health. We have all had to cope with lockdowns and isolation from family and friends, businesses closing, uncertainty around work, illness, grief, anxiety, fear and many more issues. We are very grateful to have been open to give people a safe, confidential space where they could talk about their issues with one of our qualified counsellors,” said James O’Connor, ACT’s founding member.