TOWARDS Healing, the free confidential and counselling referral service, will provide extended opening hours this Monday and Tuesday in response to the publication of nine reviews of dioceses and religious congregations. These reviews have been undertaken by the National Board for Safeguarding Children in the Catholic Church.
The Towards Healing extended opening hours are: 8pm to 1am Monday and Tuesday. The Towards Healing telephone helpline operates normally from Mondays to Thursdays, from 11am to 8pm, and on Fridays from 11am to 6pm.
Towards Healing can be contacted on Freephone 1800 303416 (Rep of Ireland) Freephone 0800 0963315 (Northern Ireland and UK).
A native of Ennis, Colin McGann has been editor of The Clare Champion since August 2020. Former editor of The Clare People, he is a journalism and communications graduate of Dublin Institute of Technology.