CityWide Campaigns
It is essential that the drugs issue is kept on the political agenda to ensure that the necessary commitment and resources are made available to tackle the problem.
Listed below are some of the issues that Citywide has campaigned on:
Formal Complaint - Irish Independent
March 2011: Citywide, the Irish Needle Exchange Forum & the International Harm Reduction Association on behalf of more than thirty Irish drug service providers and professionals lodged a joint complaint to the Office of the Press Ombudsman against the Irish Independent, and the column "Sterilising junkies may seem harsh, but it does make sense" by Ian O'Doherty (18 February 2011 ). In June 2011 the Press Ombudsman upheld our complaint - read the decision here
Election campaign 2011Citywide Election 2011 Campaign
Feb 2011: Citywide Drugs Crisis Campaign launched a general election campaign aiming to put the drugs crisis back on the political agenda.
CityWide demands Lord Mayor to clarify outrageous comments
Sept 2010:CityWide Drugs Crisis Campaign has demanded that Dublin's Lord Mayor, Cllr. Gerry Breen, clarifies the outrageous article in yesterday's Sunday Independent.
Where is the Minister for Drugs?
March 2010: Citywide has called on the Taoiseach to explain how the "National Drugs Strategy can now be implemented without a Minister responsible for the strategy."
Citywide mobilises for Action Against Cuts campaign
Jan 2010: Speaking this morning in Dublin, Daithi Doolan, announced "that CityWide are preparing to launch a major campaign against government cuts to community based drug services."
Budget only deepens drugs crisis
Dec 2009:The governments cut of 11% in Drugs Task Force funding is a serious set back in the battle against the growing drugs crisis.
Oct 2009: Launch of CityWide's response to the Government's National Drugs Strategy
National Drugs Strategy totally undermined by government cuts
Sep 2009: Citywide Drugs Crisis Campaign have challenged the Taoiseach to explain how the, "National Drugs Strategy can be implemented while government policy calls for cuts of €2.6m to the same strategy."
National Meeting Endorses Campaign Strategy
Jan 2009: Over 150 activists and community reps met in St Andrews Resource Centre in Pearse St, to agree a campaign of action to highlight the damage that is being done by the dismantling of the partnership process in the National Drugs Strategy
