Fergus McCabe Summer School - Sept 2025
Citywide 30th Anniversary Event Presentations
- Restorative justice: Repairing the social harms of drug criminalisation in Ireland - Dr. Ian Marder, Associate Professor in Criminology, Maynooth University
- Drug Decriminalisation: 10 years on - Niamh Eastwood, Executive Director, Release
- Drug Policy - the International Context - Ann Fordham, Executive Director IDPC
- Community Drugs Projects - Benefits and Impacts- Dr Laura O'Reilly -CEO Star Ballyfermot
Community Drug Projects: Responding to drug-related harms - Aileen O’Gorman, Professor of substance use and social policy
RADE Film: Core characteristics of Community Drug Projects - Watch here: https://youtu.be/5c4udPufQBo
- A Community Development Approach to Drugs - Anna Quigley, Citywide Co-ordinator & Noreen Byrne, Community Activist
- Key Issues Emerging - overview - Anna Quigley, Citywide Co -ordinator
- Role of Power and Moral Judgement in Implementing ‘A Health-led Approach to Drugs’ - Prof Alex Stevens, School of Law, University of Sheffield, and Senator Lynn Ruane in Conversation
- Report from Discussions and Actions Identified - Fergus McCabe Memorial Summer School1st Sept 2025
Messages and Tributes
Message from President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins
Poem for Fergus by Maureen Penrose, Community Activist & Artist
Opening address from Taoiseach Micheál Martin T.D.:
Photos from the event:
