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Wednesday, 23rd July, 2025. Vol. 18, Issue 30 • 9A, Crowe Street, Dundalk, Co. Louth Tel: 042 932 0888 | Email: editorial@dundalkleader.com; advertising@dundalkleader.com
“You are not alone”
Rainy Day Resilience!
Call for action from local charity amid spate of local suicides By Paul Byrne LOCAL suicide awareness charity, SAFE Castlebellingham have launched a billboard campaign in response to the alarming spate of suicides around the County in recent weeks. The group want to reach out to those suffering in silence and let them know that there is a voice on the other end of the phone ready to listen to them and talk with them about any problems they are facing. SAFE (Suicide Awareness For Everyone) Castlebellingham is a community-based mental health service was established in 2022 following the deaths of teenage brothers PJ and Mikey Matthws just 13 weeks apart. 17-year old PJ from Castlebelling-
ham, took his life on the family farmyard and just 13 weeks later, his 18-year-old brother ended his own life after being devastated by his brother’s death. Sandra and Patrick Byrne from local company Eliteform Manufacturing Ltd were friends of the Matthews family and wanted to do something to help anybody struggling with their mental health and from that SAFE Castlebelingham was formed. Mark Gordon, is the PRO for SAFE and as he explains the group wanted to run a billboard campaign in Dundalk and Drogheda letting people know of the service that they provide following a spate of suicide’s locally in recent weeks. Local An Post Delivery worker Sonya O’Callaghan, refused to let the Continued on Page 2 local flooding stop her from delivering around town on Monday.
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