Listowel Writers' Week
Creative Writing Competition for Adults with Special Needs
Prize Fund: €1,000
Category: Short Story, Short Poem or Essay
This competition is open to anyone with Special Needs over 18 years of age on the 1st March 2016.
CLOSING DATE FOR RECEIPT OF Entries is 3rd March 2016.
This Competition can only be entered by post.
Entry Fee: FREE
Adjudicators: Listowel Writers’ Week Editorial Board
Sponsors: Pierse,Fitzgibbon Solicitors
Last year's winner, Philip Brophy of North East Services, with his work, "Night on the Tiles".
Callan Institute Art Exhibition 2016
29th February – 11th March
Deansgrange Library, Clonkeen Drive, Dublin 18
Please join us to view a range of work by artists supported by Saint John of God Community Services.
Library Opening Hours
Monday: 10.00am - 5.00pm
Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday: 10.00am – 8.00pm
Friday & Saturday: 10.00am – 1.00pm / 2.00pm – 5.00pm
Website: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Tel: 01 285 0860
The Library is fully accessible and there is limited car parking available for library users.
Buses: 46A from Dublin; 46A, 63, 75 from Dun Laoghaire; 75 from Tallaght;
63 from Kilternan; 84 from Newcastle; 84, 84A from Blackrock;
Eating Disorder Awareness Evening
Free Information Session for Young Adults and Their Families
Practitioners and Researchers also welcome
WEDNESDAY 24th February 2016
6.30pm. – 9.00 p.m.
Lucena Clinic Services
59 Orwell Road, Rathgar, Dublin 6.
Tea and coffee will be provided.
“An Overview of Eating Disorders in Young People”
Professor Fiona McNicholas
Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist
“Supporting Parents – the self-help organisation’s perspective”
Harriet Parsons - Services Manager
Bodywhys (The Eating Disorders Association of Ireland)
“Eating Disorders in Ireland: findings from the STEDI Study”
Dr. Cliodhna O’Connor - National University of Ireland Maynooth
and Dr. Lesley O’Hara - University College Dublin
“Living with an Eating Disorder”
Ivan Sisk
For full details, contact Catherine Kiernan
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From left: Paul Hawkins - Clinical Nurse Manager, Dr. David McNamara, Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, Emma Balmaine - Chief Executive and Brother Laurence Kearns OH.
On Wednesday 2nd December 2015, the Adolescent Service at Saint John of God Hospital celebrated its 10th anniversary. We had a number of activities to mark this very special occasion including the planting of a Paulownia tomentosa tree by head of the Service, Dr David McNamara. The tree marks the spot where our time capsule is buried, with items that the Service's young people and staff felt were significant or symbolic for 2015. It will be unearthed again in 2025.
