Community Mental Health Matters
Donations of quality used furniture are helping save lives in Cork, as the proceeds from their resale are being used to fund one of Ireland’s most deeply committed independent suicide prevention charities. Lisheens House in West Cork sells donated furniture to raise money to fund its free counselling training and […]
FOUNDER of Skibbereen-based suicide prevention charity Lisheens House, Noreen Murphy, has been honoured for her work. Noreen was presented with the Inspiring Woman Social Enterprise award at the Graham Norton Gin Inspiring Awards at a ceremony in Cork last Friday night. Read more on the Southern Star
The Network Ireland West Cork Businesswoman of the Year Awards 2019 luncheon took place in Liss Ard Estate, Skibbereen, Co Cork on Friday, May 31, 2019. The guest speaker at the awards event was esteemed West Cork entrepreneur Anne O’Leary, Chief Executive Officer at Vodafone Ireland. The five West Cork […]
When approached recently by people concerned at the spate of suicides in their community, Noreen Murphy, founder of suicide prevention charity Lisheens House, based in Skibbereen, Co Cork, was determined to help out a community left reeling from the aftermath of these deaths. Noreen, who founded the charity after losing […]
About half of the 500 people helped every year by a Skibbereen-based suicide prevention charity are young people – and that number is increasing every year A WEST Cork mother is certain her teenage son would have taken his life by suicide were it not for the support of […]
Phone a Friend, our phone call service to tackle rural isolation, is rolling out in Autumn 2018. We are currently registering both Service Users who wish to avail of the service and Volunteers who wish to be part of the Phone a Friend team Please click on the links below […]
Elizabeth is inspired by nature and the design and colour found on fabrics. She creates her beautiful and delicate pieces from a fusion of these two elements. Each unique piece requires craftsmanship, time and patience to make. A selection of Elisabeth’s work can be seen and is for sale in Lisheens House Centre […]
“Caring2Create Art Workshop with the Disabilty Network West Cork turned out to be a fun time with all the participants expressing their unique take on questions of love..What is Love? What does it mean to you?..love of the natural world. What do you love? The finished result ..Four LOVELY wall […]
Caring2Create outreach workshop with The West Cork Disability Network” facilitated by Karen Billing One panel of All You Need is Love wall art done . Three more to go .A fun time had by all collaborating on this piece. Keep posted to see finished work in the next few weeks.
GRASSROOTS DIARY CLAIRE FOX Independent WHEN Bantry native Noreen Murphy lost her husband Dona! to suicide in 2007, there were little or no mental health services in the West Cork area. A woman who likes to get things done, she set about trying to do something to fill the gap but […]
