Galway City Partnership

Employers in Galway city and county are to benefit from the launch today of new employment toolkits to assist companies and organisations to recruit, retain and respect those with disabilities in the workforce. The toolkits were launched simultaneously in Galway city and county today by Hildegarde Naughton, minister of state with responsibility for disability.

During the 1990s, Iceland had some of the highest figures for substance use among young people in Europe. The alarming statistics sparked the development of the groundbreaking Icelandic Model for Primary Prevention of Substance Use, which has since been implemented in 30 other countries, including Ireland.

“I was abused verbally and physically by my landlord in Galway. He threatened to cut my head off and send me ‘on a slow boat back to the Congo’,” said Wally Nkikita from The Galway African Diaspora, urging others to tell their stories of racism and discrimination.