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Mixed Messages in Newry & Mourne
£3 million was budgeted last year on trying to reduce the relatively large number of people taking their own lives in Northern Ireland, a problem which the executive is resolved to tackle and one that disproportionately affects young people (and males at that).
With this in mind I find it a little odd that Newry and Mourne Council would glorify the taking of ones own life in a manner so overt as renaming a playpark in "honour" of hunger striker Raymond McCreesh. I might humbly suggest it's also something their equality unit may want to look at.
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Using the plight of self harm and suicide victims to try and make a political point is a new low, even for you Beano.
11 Jul 2008 @ 21:13
Comment from: Junkmale [Visitor] · http://junk-male.blogspot.com
And supporting the Councils decision is a new (but not entirely unexpected) low for you Seamus.
12 Jul 2008 @ 00:40
Comment from: Ignited [Visitor] · http://www.redemptionsson.blogspot.com
A new low for beano? A new low for suicide prevention in Newry & Mourne as they have to deal with the glorification of suicide on one hand and the prevention on the other.
12 Jul 2008 @ 02:24
Comment from: Da [Visitor]
Seamus, I think the new low is probably for Newry & Mourne council rather than Beano.
12 Jul 2008 @ 12:51
Well considering that the majority of the people who live in the area and whose children use the playpark support the Council's decision, then I don't really have a problem with it. But then Unionists have been known to be selective when it comes to the democratic will of the people.
14 Jul 2008 @ 19:29
Comment from: Da [Visitor]
So you wouldn't have a problem with a "Johnny Adair Children's Park" then?
Are the people in Newry and Mourne really so Sectarian - I would have liked to have thought not - you obviously know better.
Let's get real here.
Are the people in Newry and Mourne really so Sectarian - I would have liked to have thought not - you obviously know better.
Let's get real here.
22 Jul 2008 @ 21:36
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