Media
Press Releases:
17 February 2012: Launch of new Broad Based Drug Alliance Initiative
Citywide along with SITPU, voluntary organisations, community drug services, church organisations, members of the artistic community and others are today launching a new broad based drugs initiative to give new and urgent impetus to the drugs crisis in Ireland today.
21 March 2011: Citywide responds to Programme for Government
CityWide welcomes the inclusion of the section on drugs in the recently published Programme for Government. While we welcome many of the commitments in the programme for government we do have concerns about some.
1 Feb 2011: Citywide Election 2011 Campaign
Citywide Drugs Crisis Campaign launched a general election campaign aiming to put the drugs crisis back on the political agenda.
20 Sep 2010: CityWide demands Lord Mayor to clarify outrageous comments
CityWide Drugs Crisis Campaign has demanded that Dublin's Lord Mayor, Cllr. Gerry Breen, clarifies the outrageous article in yesterday's Sunday Independent.
24 March 2010: Where is the Minister for Drugs?
Citywide has called on the Taoiseach to explain how the "National Drugs Strategy can now be implemented without a Minister responsible for the strategy."
21 Jan 2010: Citywide mobilises for Action Against Cuts campaign
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."
10 Dec 2009: Budget only deepens drugs crisis
The governments cut of 11% in Drugs Task Force funding is a serious set back in the battle against the growing drugs crisis.
19 Oct 2009: CityWide response to the Government's National Drugs Strategy
400 people in Ireland die of drug related deaths every year, Ireland's drug trade is now worth €650m, there is widespread intimidation, gangland killings and anti social behaviour as a result of drug dealing. Yet this year the government has already cut €2m from Drug Task Force budgets.
15 Sep 2009: National Drugs Strategy totally undermined by government cuts
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."
12 Jan 2009: National Meeting Endorses Campaign Strategy
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
