Ms Sarah Whelan:

As for our youth work in County Louth, the place we meet for our youth groups is shared with a crèche. We do not have our own space to meet up and so forth. We lack the funding to get our own service. We would like to have our own space that we can call our home and be able to feel comfortable in. While we are grateful for the space we share with the young kids and the room we have for our youth service to meet up and so forth, we wish to have our own place.

Also, we lack CEDAR in our area. There used to be shops but those buildings are vacant now. We could transform one of those buildings into a youth club and use it as a meeting place. We just need the funding. We would all benefit from having our own space. We would be grateful for and appreciative of that.