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m e l D Housing Section, Donegal County Council l Bundoran Community Library, Civic Offices, Station Island, Lifford, Co. Donegal Station Rd, Bundoran. Tel: (074) 91 72211 Ethnic Liasion Officer Donegal Town Branch Library, VEC Offices, Mountcharles Rd, Donegal. Letterkenny Garda Station New Line Road, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal Help Us To Help You Killybegs Branch Library, Bridge Street, Killybegs. Tel: (074) 91 67100 Web: www.garda.ie Leabharlann Phobail na Rosann, Ionaid Teampaill Garda Racial and Intercultural Office Chroine, An Clochan Liath. Garda Headquarters, Harcourt Square, Dublin 2 Donegal Independent Leabharlann Ghaoith Dobhair, An Sean Teach Pobail, Tel: 01 6663150 Doirebeaga. Web: www.garda.ie and Confidential Asylum Seeker & Ethnic Minority Services Citizens Information Centres: Health Service Executive, Community Services Incident Reporting Ballybofey, Co. Donegal Located at Public Services Centres in Tel: (074) 9131391 Ballyshannon, Carndonagh, Donegal Town, Dungloe, Scheme for Racist and Letterkenny and Milford (contact details above). Web: www.hse.ie Also at Buncrana CIC, 12 Lr Main St, Buncrana. Donegal Health Information Line Lo-call: 1850 636 313 Sectarian Incidents. www.citizensinformation.ie Fax: 074 91 26441 Email: [email protected] Health Services Executive: Because We Care! Available at HSE facilities including local Health Office of Minister for Integration Centres and Hospitals. Dun Aimhirgin, 43 – 49 Mespil Road, Dublin 4 Please return to: Tel: (01) 6473236 Good Relations Officer, Social Inclusion Unit www.hse.ie. Email: [email protected] FREEPOST, Community, Culture & Planning Port na Failte Donegal County Council, Station Island, Lifford, Co. Donegal This literature and information will also be widely available in other public service and community Intercultural Resource Centre facilities throughout Donegal including Education Port House, Port Road, Letterkenny Tel: (074) 91 72568 facilities and Youth Centres and on the Council Tel: (074) 91 26550 Text: IRS, followed by your message to 51772 web site at: media.ie www.durgan by produced Email: [email protected] Web: www.donegalcoco.ie www.donegalcoco.ie European Union European Regional Donegal County Development Board European Union Development Fund Bord Forbartha Chontae Dhún na nGall European Regional Comhairle Chontae Dhún na nGall Investing in your future Donegal County Council Development Fund Project supported by PEACE III Programme managed for the Special EU Programmes Body by Donegal County Council Investing in your future What is Sectarianism and Racism? The scheme has been developed on an interagency basis List of distribution centres with key stakeholders including HSE, Donegal County Incident report forms and information leaflets are widely Sectarianism Council, Donegal VEC, Citizens Information Service, available throughout Donegal including: Sectarianism is conduct or words or practices which An Garda Síochána, Local Development Companies, advantage or disadvantage people because of their Youth Services and representatives of minority groups Donegal County Council Offices and Public Service Centres: political or religious beliefs. within Donegal. Lifford Office (HQ), County House, Lifford. Racism How does it work? Racism is conduct or words or practices which Letterkenny Office, Neil T Blaney Rd, Letterkenny. advantage or disadvantage people because of their If you or someone you know have been a victim of a colour, culture or ethnic origin. racist or sectarian incident or any kind of racial/sectarian Carndonagh Office, Malin Rd, Carndonagh. discrimination it is your right to report it. What is a Racist or Sectarian Incident? The scheme’s reporting form can be obtained at any of Milford Office, Main Street, Milford. the listed distribution centres, or it can be downloaded A racist incident does not have to be a crime, it can be on Donegal County Council’s website: www.donegalcoco.ie Dungloe Office, Gweedore Rd, Dungloe. any form of racism or sectarianism and it is officially where it is also available in other languages. defined as: ‘any incident which is perceived to be racial Donegal Town Office, Drumlonagher, Donegal. or sectarian by the victim or any other person’. All reporting forms will be returned (freepost) to: Good Relations Officer, Social Inclusion Unit, Community, Also Town Council Offices at: What is the Donegal Racist / Sectarian Culture & Planning, Donegal County Council, Station Island, Lifford, Co. Donegal. T: (074) 91 72568. Instant Letterkenny Town Council, Public Services Centre, Incident Reporting Scheme? reports can also be made by mobile phone by texting IRS Neil T Blaney Rd, Letterkenny. followed by your message to 51772. Donegal CDB Peace and Reconciliation Partnership has Ballyshannon Town Council, Public Services Outreach and a shared vision: Depending on the wishes of the person making the report, Library, Abbey View, Ballyshannon. the incident will be recorded only or passed on to another ‘Donegal, a county where racism and agency for follow-up or action. Buncrana Town Council, Civic Offices, sectarianism no longer exist and where St. Oran’s Rd, Buncrana. Data will be collated from the scheme and it will be all feel equally valued and confident mapped and reported on a quarterly basis to Donegal Bundoran Town Council, Main St, Bundoran. that they belong’. County Development Board. The CDB is an inter agency board established under the Better Local Government Act Public Libraries To Help Us Help You: 2000 made up from the state agencies, social partners community and voluntary sector, local development and Central Library, Oliver Plunkett Rd, Letterkenny. This scheme was developed as a pilot project and it is local government. an independent and confidential reporting mechanism Carndonagh Community Library, for the local community to report any form of racism or The analysis of these reports will: Public Services Centre, Carndonagh. sectarianism happening in County Donegal. • Provide an overview of sectarian and racist incidents reported to Donegal County Council Moville Branch Library, The Square, Moville. • Provide a map of where these incidents are taking place Because We Care! with a view to identifying trends or areas where additional Clonmany Branch Library, Parochial Hall, Clonmany. interventions may be required The person reporting to the scheme will have the choice • Help to identify key issues arising from the incidents Buncrana Community Library, St. Mary’s Rd, Buncrana. to remain anonymous or if requested the report will logged be forwarded to an appropriate agency which can give • Help to direct responses to key issues arising Lifford Community Library, The Old Courthouse, support or advice. This scheme has been developed as • Provide a basis for recommendations to other partners Diamond, Lifford. part of the Donegal Peace III Action Plan 2008 to 2010 and key stakeholders on how such issues may be which found that there was a lack of data available addressed Raphoe Branch Library, Diamond, Raphoe. in relation to the occurrence of sectarian or racially • Help individual requests/need for help to be followed up motivated incidents in the county.