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Peace and Reconciliation Partnership Committee

EU Peace III Programme Sligo

Overall programme objective To reinforce progress towards a peaceful and stable society and to promote reconciliation

Connecting The Peace  Dr Morrow Speech - 16,132 kbs

   Marian McGovern talks to students from Mercy College, Sligo and Erne College, Enniskillen about ‘The Peace Script’ - 8,921 kbs  

 

Interview with Dolores McDonagh who gives an overview of the Peace 111 Programme - 5,169 kbs

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The Peace III Programme in Sligo was formally announced by the Special EU Programmes Body ( SEUPB ) at an Information Roadshow held in the Glasshouse, Sligo on 27th January.

EU PEACE III PROGRAMME (2007 – 2013)

Overall programme objective –  to reinforce progress towards a peaceful and stable society and to promote reconciliation Building Positive Relations at the Local Level

Priority 1 Reconciling Communities

Theme 1.1

Theme 1.1   Building Positive Relations at the local level
Aim of Theme 1.1 Building Positive Relations at the Local Level aims

‘to challenge attitudes towards sectarianism and racism and support conflict resolution and mediation at the local community level.  The Priority also aims to establish meaningful cross-community and cross-border initiatives that will improve trust and tolerance, and reduce levels of sectarianism and racism’.

For information on the EU PEACE III Programme in Sligo contact the Office of Community & Enterprise, Sligo County Council, 071 91 11800


SLIGO Peace and Reconciliation Partnership Committee

In February 2008 Sligo County Development Board established as a sub-committee Sligo Peace & Reconciliation Partnership Committee.

Sligo County Council is the Lead Partner in the Sligo Peace and Reconciliation Partnership Committee and secretariat support is provided to the Partnership by the Office of Community and Enterprise. 

Through a process of extensive public consultation, the Sligo Peace and Reconciliation Partnership Committee developed a Peace and Reconciliation Action Plan for Sligo (2008 – 2010).  This plan was submitted to the SEUPB for approval and funding up to €1.9 million was approved in November 2008

Memebers of Sligo Peace III Partnership with Cllr Tony McLoughlin Chairperson, CDB Liam McKeever, Pobal and guest speakers Brenda Hegarty, SEUPB, Ann McGeeney and Mayor Sligo Cllr Jimmy McGarry
Sligo Peace and Reconciliation Partnership Committee October 2009
Pictured with Mayor, Councillor McGarry, Brenda Hegarty, SEUPB, Ann McGeeney and Liam McKeever, Pobal.
Missing from the picture, Cara O’Neill, Janette Gillen, Hugh MacConville, Brian Scanlon, Tom McGettrick, Piotr Rachwald and Rev Alan Mitchell

Membership of the Sligo Peace and Reconciliation Partnership Committee was, in the first instance, drawn from agencies represented on the CDB - Local Government, Local Development, State Agencies and Social Partners.  In keeping with the ethos of the Peace III Programme and to ensure that the perspectives of programme ‘target’ groups were represented on the partnership committee it was agreed that membership be extended under the umbrella of the Community Forum. 

Sligo Peace and Reconciliation Partnership Committee is a sub-committee of the Sligo County Development Board

Lead partner – Sligo County Council

Chairperson – Mr Hubert Kearns, County Manager, Sligo County Council

Assistant Chairperson - TBC

Secretary – Ms Dolores McDonagh, A/Administrator, Sligo County Council

 

MEMBERSHIP 

SLIGO PEACE AND RECONCILIATION PARTNERSHIP COMMITTEE

LOCAL GOVERNMENT
  • Hubert Kearns Sligo County Council - County Manager
  • Veronica Cawley Elected Member – Sligo Borough Council and Sligo County Council  
  • Gerard Mullaney Elected Member - Sligo County Council  
  • Patsy Barry Elected Member – Sligo County Council  
LOCAL DEVELOPMENT
  • Michael Quigley Sligo Leader Partnership Company - CEO
  • Sharon Boles County Sligo Childcare Committee - Manager
STATE AGENCIES
  • Cara O’Neill HSE – General Manager
    Jack Lynch VEC – Education Officer
    Anne Taheny St Angela’s College - President
    Philip Maree An Garda Siochána - Sergeant
    Cara O'Neill HSE - General Manager
  • Jack Lynch  VEC - Education Officer
  • Anne Taheny  St Angela’s College - President
  • Philip Maree  An Garda Siochána - Sergeant
SOCIAL PARTNERS
  • Gerard Queenan ICSMA – Agricultural & Farming Organisation Perspective
  • Brian Scanlon Community Forum – Local Community Development
  • Tom McGettrick Community Forum – Local Community Development
Community Forum Nominations – Representing Perspectives of Peace III Target Groups
  • Bernadette Maughan Sligo Traveller Support Group - Traveller Community Perspective
  • Piotr Rachwald Sligo Immigrant Organisation – New Communities Perspective
  • Shupai Matewa Individual – New Communities Perspective
  • Mildred Gilmore Individual – Protestant  Community Perspective
  • Vanessa Clarke Individual – Protestant  Community Perspective
  • Chris McManus Tus Nua Sligeach – Displaced people, Ex-Political Prisoners, & Former Combatant Perspective
  • Ann Marie Regan  Foroige

Consortium Support

A cross-border consortium with Partners - Pobal (Ireland) and the Community Relations Council (NI) - have been contracted by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB) to assist Partnerships in the delivery of Priority 1.1.  Liam McKeever, Pobal and Peter Day, Community Relations Council have been appointed to work with Sligo Peace & Reconciliation Partnership Committee. 
 

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The Project has been  supported by EU’s PEACE III Programme managed for the Special EU Programmes Body by Sligo County Council on behalf of Sligo Peace and Reconciliation Partnership Committee