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Wednesday, 10th April, 2024. Vol. 17, Issue 15 • 9A, Crowe Street, Dundalk, Co. Louth Tel: 042 932 0888. | Email: editorial@dundalkleader.com; advertising@dundalkleader.com
Pieta pledge for Louth Mental Health charity express disappointment over local Darkness into Light decision to cancel this year’s event shock announcement that they wouldn’t be proceeding with this year’s event due to their THE suicide prevention and mental disappointment of the failure of the health charity Pieta have stated that HSE to reach an agreement with they will work hard to expand their Pieta to establish an office in Louth. services in Louth while thanking “Dear Supporters, Dundalk’s the Dundalk Darkness Into Light Darkness into Light Committee has committee for all their support reached the difficult decision not to throughout the years. proceed with this years event.
By Tamara O’Connell
Darkness Into Light is Pieta’s flagship fundraiser, an event that is attended by hundreds of thousands of people who wake in the small hours of the morning to take part in the event.
“For the past number of years we have been strongly advocating the need for a physical presence for Pieta within Louth due to a very high level of suicide and the consequences this has on the well- A wave from Kathleen. Carlingford Lough and the Cooley Peninsula Last week the Dundalk Darkness being of our County. facebook page posted this spectacular photograph of a wave rising up over Gyles Quay last Saturday morning. into Light committee made the Continued on Page 2