Kind regards

David.

Eric I look forward to speaking with you again and meeting you in person to agree a strategy going forward. I have always preferred dealing with people face to face and any outstanding business I have from the election will be conducted as such. As this will be my last post, if anyone should care to contact me my number is 087-942-7501.
Kind regards
David.

I alluded to your company in my posting because your profile highlighted your successful development of the company as your achievement of note. I hope the business continues to be successful and that it negotiates these difficult times of economic adjustment.

It’s a positive that the campaign for the local election allows members of the community to become aware of the range of work and services ongoing in Youghal. I’m glad to hear yourself and Robert contacted Eric, and I hope that consensus will be found to support the work he and his colleagues in Nagle House are doing.

I had no intention of making personal remarks, and I regret my posting came across that way. I have no personal issue with you at all, I admire you for standing for election and wish you all the best in your political career.

On the substantive issue of drug use in the community, Gordon is right in asserting we need something beyond the quick fix. Perhaps future work in this area will get more attention and support, and that would be another positive to emerge from this discussion.

As I wrote earlier, I would like to see the new Town Council, regardless of the personalities and party affiliations involved, engage with the professionals active on drugs and other initiatives. Youghal needs an army of professional and voluntary community workers to deal with the plethora of social issues simmering in its post industrial community. You don’t need a seat at the Town Council to be an active citizen for positive change in your community.

You ask others not to make personal remarks on this forum, yet do so yourself?

The only thing I take an interest in, is the role local government has to play in this and in other respects. Obviously any would be candidates for town council or otherwise should bear scrutiny, if they stand for office. If you’re talking about the thread on politics.ie (linked below should people wish to read it) , quite a few candidates there came in for criticism and/or questioning (it is by no means as civilised a place as youghalonline, and people should leave their sensitivities and multiple identities at the door!) Most of those that responded there did so with honest answers and good grace, Donie Daly and Eoin Coyne being prime examples.

http://www.politics.ie/cork/41098-local-elections-youghal-09-a.html

If we may venture back to the real world for a moment, I hope that any communication between the community workers and yourself proves beneficial and constructive, to both parties, and I hope that your initial experience with the vagaries of the ballot box proves also to be constructive for you. I am no fan of your party, but I commend anyone who puts themselves out there.

Fairplay for a responce.

I feel the FF party vote will not have done the majority of their representatives any favours today but its the feeling of the electorate that needs to be heard,thus is democracy.

I wish you well today and i am available if you need to look at this issue further if elected.

I leave you with a qoute from a voice that was heard at a consultation meeting for the new drugs strategy…

“The drug misuse problem is a much a symptom as a problem in itself. It is the tip of the iceberg. It is a symptom and not a cause. It is important that we are not all the time crisis led. We need to go beyond the quick fix. Maybe there is something aboutt space and dialogue,listening and conversation and the need to think in terms of the long term and not be lurching from one scheme to another. That isn’t particularly helpful. Something about slowing the whole thing down as well. There needs to be a longer slower approach. We need to give people some quality, the quality of been listened to”

Regards
Gordon

I’m not sure why you feel my company and its products are relevant to this subject, and I see no reason to make personal remarks, it’s not constructive and prohibits possible participants in the debate.

Kind regards
David.

Eric has talked on CRY about his work in the CDI and made his phone number available via Youghal News and on posters/fliers throughout town. He’s not that hard to find, and informed and articulate too.

Despite Mr Daly’s interest in drugs, he appears not to have done his research. That bodes ill for the future – what other issues will he take on without understanding the full implications? Mr Kinsley is well placed to offer an experienced critique of Mr Daly’s proposal.

Perhaps Mr Daly could donate some Cupron products to clients of the Youghal Coommunity Drugs Initiative. Surely they could avail of the gloves, pillow cases and socks he markets?

Beware of business men taking on community issues without knowing what they’re talking about! They may mean well, but their policy intitiatives could have been cooked up with cronies down the back of the pub, rather then evolving through a detailed, thoroughly researched analysis.

I would like to see the new Town Council, regardless of the personalities and party affiliations involved, engage with the professionals active on drugs and other initiatives. Youghal needs an army of professional and voluntary community workers to deal with the plethora of social issues simmering in its post industrial community. The front line staff deserve the support of public representatives, rather than having their dedicated, difficult work undermined.