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€4.7m peace package for Donegal
30.01.09
A €4.7m funding package
for the county including Inishowen was launched
yesterday under the Donegal Peace III Action Plan.
Around €700,000 of the funding will be distributed
to community groups and organisations around the
county between now and June. The programme will run
until 2010. Chairman of the Donegal Peace and
Reconciliation Partnership county board, Cllr
Francis Conaghan, officially launched the plan
yesterday. |
He said it was compiled
after an extensive public consultation process in
early 2008. Cllr Conaghan said it also outlined the
type of actions that needed to be undertaken to
further promote peace and reconciliation in Donegal.
"It was the people on the ground, through their
participation in consultations, and their written
submissions, who identified the priorities,
objectives and actions that now form our action
plan," |
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said Cllr Conaghan.
The total budget for the Donegal Peace III Action
Plan 2008 -2010 is €4.7 million.
Cllr. Conaghan said the plan was now in place to be
implemented.
He said it was "about action and getting things
done". He said the high level of interest in the
programme reflected the vibrancy of Donegal's
community and its commitment to "working for peace
and reconciliation in both their own communities and
across the border”. The Donegal Peace III Action
Plan 2008 - 2010 is supported by the PEACE III
Programme and is managed for the Special EU
Programmes Body by the Donegal Peace and
Reconciliation Partnership.
For further information, please contact the Peace
III Office, Community and Enterprise Unit, Donegal
County Council, on 074 91 72232. You can also email:
peace3@donegalcoco.ie . |
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