Thursday - August 28, 2008
Same Irish town, different kind of problem
I gather Strabane has a whole lot of homeless drunken layabouts. Bad for the tourist trade you know. But you can’t call them homeless drunken layabouts. Or displaced persons with substance abuse issues. Or winos, bums, deadbeats, tramps, hobos, or even some lovely gaelic expression meaning “he who loves the poteen too much”. Oh no. Euro-peon PC and all that ... you have to give them aid, and call them
The plight of Strabane’s street drinkers will not be shoved down a side alley, the Chairman of Strabane Council has warned.
Jarlath McNulty was speaking after comments were made on a radio station this week regarding the town’s street drinkers and plans to open a drop-in centre.
A scoping document has been completed. The Council together with other agencies have identified a location and have spoken with the street drinkers. They are now putting together a funding package.
If funding can be secured, the centre would be situated in Strabane town centre and would provided facilities including showers, tea and coffee and access to a professional counsellor.
It would not however provide over night accommodation.
Well now, isn’t that nice of them? Apparently “street drinking” is such a problem there that the local gov has analyzed the issue and decided that there are two entire classes of street drinkers!
“The street drinkers need our help, not our criticism.”
The drop in centre is a project that has been developing behind the scenes for some time now and involves a range of bodies, including the Housing Executive, the PSNI and the Derry based project Foyle Haven.
It has broken on-street drinkers down into two groups, chronic on-street drinkers and the Friday and Saturday drinkers.
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