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11th October 2016 • Volume 23, Issue 35 • Leader House, North Street, Swords, Co. Dublin. K67 P5W4. • Tel: 01 8•400•200 • info@northcountyleader.ie • www.northcountyleader.ie
Recognition For Portmarnock Students Following on from the success of Portmarnock Community School at the SAGE World Cup in Manila, Fingal County Council honoured the students with a civic reception on Wednesday October 5th at Portmarnock Hotel and Golf Links. Students, Colin McAndrew, Emma Ford, Ravi Gollapalli and Anvu Sundaravadaively received a silver medal at the SAGE World Cup, where they presented a prototype application for an emergency call out service for emerging economies. The event, which was attended by a large gathering of teachers, pupils and parents, as well
as representatives of Action Ireland Trust also included a photographic exhibition by the students of Hlalele High School Lesotho and Portmarnock Community School. The event also celebrated the 50th anniversary of Lesotho’s independence from Britain in 1966. Keynote speakers included Minister of State at Department of Foreign Affairs, Joe McHugh and HE Paramenete Phamotse, Lesotho ambassador to Ireland. Acting County Mayor, Cllr Brian McDonagh was present, as were Eithne Deeney, Principal of Portmarnock Community School, Stephen Peppard from Fingal County Council and Fran Whelan from Action Ireland Trust. In recent years, Action Ireland Trust and Fingal
Pictured are Portmarnock Community School students, Ravi Gollapalli, Luke Fagan, Zoe Greer and Luke Peyton at the Civic Reception for the school after their great showing at the SAGE World Cup n Manila recently
County Council have taken up the mantel in terms of delivering development opportunities within the kingdom of Lesotho, including health, education and key infrastructural services. The County Council have partnered with Action Ireland Trust to put in place a plan-
ning and mapping project for Lesotho. This has also included the wonderful service provided by students from Portmarnock Community School, who have been part of this project for the past few years. See more pictures in next week’s edition.
Local senator, Dr James Reilly (FG) has confirmed that Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Katherine Zappone has agreed to meet residents who live near Oberstown Youth Detention Centre in the next few days. This comes after he appealed to the Minister to ‘Act Now’ as reported in last week’s edition of this newspaper. He told the County Leader, “I wrote to the Minister, Katherine Zappone on a couple of occasions and then raised the matter in the Seanad, as regards to what was happening at Oberstown. The recent spate of violent incidents involving inmates, which led to serious injuries to staff members needed to be addressed.” “The good news is that the Minister has agreed to meet the residents committee at her office in Dail Eireann on Thursday,
By Patrick Finnegan 20th October at 5pm. This has been warmly welcomed by Dr Reilly, who lives near the detention centre. “I’m very grateful for this offer from the Minister and I think it’s important that the concerns of the residents are heard. If I could put it in a nutshell, what people want is to know that they are going to be safe in their own homes, that their children will be safe, that the young offenders and staff can also be safe in their environ-
ment. Also the investment of the tax payers in this facility will also be protected,” he said. The committee will expect to have their concerns listened to and assurances given by the Minister that she will respect their concerns. “This facility has been a source of employment for many people in the area over the
Senator James Reilly
years, but it’s only fair to say that young offenders, some of whom are very challenging, need to face
sanctions should they persist in reoffending. Above all this is a rehabilitation centre, where young offenders can be educated and rehabilitated to give them a second chance at life.” When asked what he thought the problem at the centre is, he felt there was a need for a tiered system and approach by those
who are embracing the system and the services that are there, and those who repeatedly refuse to embrace this and are violent and aggressive, should be kept in a more secure unit with slightly less liberal regime. There needs to be consequences for this kind of behaviour, with privileges denied,” he concluded.
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