Mayor Martin Reilly at the Community Relations “Breakfast and Banter” event held in All Saints Centre, Clooney, with, from left, Dean Steele, community relations team, Derry City Council, Deaglan O Mochain, Tar Abhaile, Danny Quigley, Derry City Council, Derek Moore, Londonderry Bands Forum, Max Petrushkin, NICEM, and Ray Wilson, PSNI. (Photo – Tom Heaney, nwpresspics)
Derry City Council’s Community Relations team has served up a “Breakfast and Banter” morning at which from all walks of life came together to sit down to a cooked breakfast and have chat with each other.
After breakfast, there were a number of groups who facilitated tables at the event which allowed the men to find out more about what they do and ask questions.
Organisations in attendance at the event – held in the All Saints Centre at Clooney in the Waterside – included the local Bands Forum, PSNI, NICEM, Tar Abhaile, sports coach from Derry City Council and a member of the gypsy and traveller community.
Cllr Martin Reilly, who was Mayor at the time, described it as a “unique event” which was targeted directly towards and essentially for male audiences across all the Derry City Council district communities, to help to promote open communication and social cohesion for the men in our society.
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He added:” The success of this event in terms of participation and outcome as well as the feedback from those involved should lead to more events of this nature in the future.”
Dean Steele from the Community Relations team said it was a “brilliant way” to bring the men of the city together for breakfast and a chat around community relations issues ranging from immigration to policing to name but a few.
He added: “The event was well attended and I would like to thank all our facilitators, former Mayor Martin Reilly for his attendance, The All Saints Caring Association and indeed each man who attended and made the event a success”
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