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'Please consider us': management of new dementia café in Ringsend ask for support from Government

Banshees of Inisherin actress Sheila Flitton also spoke at the opening.

MINISTER OF STATE for Special Education and Inclusion Josepha Madigan was present at the opening of a café for those with dementia in Ringsend yesterday.

Officially launched on Tuesday at the Ringsend and Irishtown Community Centre (RICC), the dementia café, as well as the centre’s new tranquility and sensory gardens, are aimed at “tackling the isolation faced by older people, particularly people with dementia and their carers/families.”

The RICC launched the venture in partnership with the Alzheimer’s Society of Ireland “to provide a much needed social outlet, not only for local residents with dementia, but also providing a social outlet for their relatives/carers, while facilitating access to information and support”.

Lorraine Barry, Services and Development Manager at the RICC said: “We want to provide a space within this community where you can walk in the door and say ‘I think I might have an issue with dementia.’ And they see a friendly face to talk to, a cup of tea, working in partnership with the ALS. We want to create that space.”

Barry also called on the Government to provide more support for local schemes such as these.

“If I had a message for the minister today, and for the public representatives, I would say look at what we’re doing in the community, look at the supports, the work that’s going on… Please consider us when you’re making decisions around where you’re putting funding,” Barry said.

“I know some of our guys are on schemes here, but if I said to come in 12 o’clock on Sunday, they’d do it. They give so much back. We’ve survived because we’re doing it on a shoestring, but we could always do with support.”

In her speech, Minister Madigan credited “the commitment and dedication and team effort” of the community centre staff. 

“Certainly I’ll be bringing the message back to Government of the incredible work done here, and working closely with Oireachtas colleagues and local councillors to see what we can do to support the endeavours that you have here on a daily basis,” Madigan said. 

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Geraldine Plunkett, an Irish actress known for her roles on Glenroe and Fair City, now serving as Dublin city’s first Age Friendly Ambassador, spoke to advocate for accessibility in public spaces, saying that “If something is age accessible, it’s accessible to everyone”.

Also speaking at the event was actress Sheila Flitton, who recently starred in The Banshees of Inisherin.

“It’s very sad but I learned quite a lot about it,” she said, speaking about her own late husband’s experience with dementia.

She went on to detail the positive effects that such a social outlet could have for someone suffering from dementia or Alzheimer’s.

“You encourage them, stimulate them. You listen, and if they say they forget something, you leave and it you go to something like music.”

“I know now that tranquility is one of the most important things they could ever have and somebody, as they’re doing here, to talk to them, and understand them,” she said.

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    Mute Vladimir Vasyectomy
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    Apr 27th 2016, 10:39 PM

    There’s a dodgy motor tax scam operated by the government for decades.

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    Apr 27th 2016, 10:41 PM

    Motor tax is a scam.

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    Apr 27th 2016, 10:55 PM

    Vlad…brilliant!

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    Apr 28th 2016, 12:18 AM

    Vladimir…you boy ya.

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    Mute Peter Fechter
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    Apr 28th 2016, 12:20 AM

    Indeed.

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    Apr 28th 2016, 2:51 AM

    Put it on the fuel and stop ripping us off.

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    Apr 28th 2016, 7:19 AM

    They did that in the 70′s and then reintroduced road tax two years later

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    Apr 27th 2016, 10:44 PM

    Ya, there are hoax water bills also doing the rounds for several months. Some kelly fella was shouting about them today!!!

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    Apr 27th 2016, 11:04 PM

    I’ll put that email address in the same box as my Nigerian prince…

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    Apr 27th 2016, 10:39 PM

    So much for making lreland a cashless society.

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    Apr 28th 2016, 8:21 AM

    There’s also a dodgy scam that has those who are prudent or unemployed pay more in road tax than those with newer motors, often company cars, but as usual no ones bothered..

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    Apr 28th 2016, 8:43 AM

    What have company cars got to do with it?

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    Apr 27th 2016, 10:41 PM

    Shouldn’t that email address be
    info@watertax.ie

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    Apr 27th 2016, 10:42 PM

    Watch that IW. There real scamsters. They even try to extract the PPS numbers of the more gullible.

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    Apr 27th 2016, 10:47 PM

    Ain’t “Motor Tax” a scam!….

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    Apr 27th 2016, 11:18 PM

    Another scam by Smelly Kelly to prop up Irish Water

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    Apr 27th 2016, 11:54 PM

    Motor Tax Scam ….by FG/Labour since 2008 … pre-2008 owners pay 3 times more annual car tax. Outrageous – subsidising those who can afford NEW CARS and their Water Charges. https://www.change.org/p/unfair-car-tax-law

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    Apr 28th 2016, 12:04 AM

    Neuville…05 ford 2 litre….half its value in “road” tax per annum…i cant afford a younger car.thus i get ripped off…enforced by zealous members of the gardai.

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    Apr 28th 2016, 12:22 AM

    Nueville…..bang on..

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    Apr 28th 2016, 7:30 AM

    The dodgy emails are coming from Irish Water to scam money

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    Apr 28th 2016, 9:10 AM

    Are you serious???? You can make any email address cloack as info@motortax.ie. plus any address like ‘info’ is inviting a hack since it clearly has a port to the main software or has many many many users. Amateurs.

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    Apr 28th 2016, 8:48 AM

    Not like the scan of motor insurance that’s going on.

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    Apr 28th 2016, 8:49 AM

    Sry scam

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    Apr 28th 2016, 9:28 AM

    If they can abolish Irish water, they can abolish motor tax. It’s been done before.
    After all, the rich could pay it for us.

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    Apr 29th 2016, 12:42 AM

    Can people not learn that any emails that ask you for any money are a scam

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    Apr 28th 2016, 10:21 AM

    Have received three of these emails in last two days, just bin them.

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    Apr 28th 2016, 9:15 AM

    Lol. They even give instructions on how to scam folk with a phisher. Email with link to secure site….enter your pin…ohoh…doesnt work…enter your reg. Ok. Continue…enter your credit card details…thank you..your motor tax has been renewed to xx/xx/xxxx

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