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Community Alert Month
This October is national Community Alert month and over 1,000 Community Alert groups around the country are being encouraged to Participate. Community Alert is a crime prevention and community safety programme run by Muintir na [...]
Muintir na Tíre, Fr John Hayes and Northern Ireland: ‘Names and flags avail nothing’
FOR nine decades the Irish social movement Muintir na Tíre (Irish for 'People of the Land') has been embedded in rural communities across the 26 counties. The organisation, founded by Limerick-born priest, Fr John Hayes, [...]
Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation
Sheep would prefer to eat sweet grass than be warned of a prowling wolf. And so too it is with us. There is a strong tendency to ignore much of what is unpalatable so we [...]
Ballycastle Community Alert, Co Mayo. A Case Study
Testimonial on the SAS In 2020 this group highlighted that 5 lives were saved during lockdown, by each person having and using the Monitored Alarm which they got with the help of the volunteer Caroline [...]