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'Shocking' lack of grief
counsellors
03.12.08
GREEN Party local
election candidate Sheenagh McMahon has promised to
campaign for bereavement counselling in Inishowen,
if elected.
Ms McMahon, who is vying for a seat on both Donegal
County Council and Buncrana Town Council next year,
said the peninsula needed bereavement counsellors,
particularly in light of the high level of tragic
deaths over the years. |
"The fact that there is
currently no bereavement counsellors in the
Inishowen area is a shocking failure especially in
an area which has suffered so many awful tragedies
either through suicide, substance abuse, fatal car
accidents and fishing tragedies," said Ms McMahon.
"At the moment people from the Inishowen area have
to travel to Letterkenny to avail of bereavement
counselling which is provided under mental health
services." |
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"I also fail to
understand why people have to go through mental
health services in order to avail of bereavement
services. This is not about mental health, it is
about coping with the loss of a loved one - two very
different things," she added. |
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