Meath Ogra Shinn Fein says Moilligh Síos!

national | miscellaneous | press release

Thursday August 09, 2007 22:17

by David Byrne - Meath Ogra Shinn Fein

IrishRepublican.net

Meath Ogra Shinn Fein took to the streets and doorsteps of Navan Town to highlight the National Road Safety awareness campaign undertaken by Ogra Shinn Fein.
'Moilligh Síos!' translated as Slow Down will be the theme for the peer based campaign.

Ogra Shinn Fein National Organiser Barry McColgan said "Road deaths are one of the biggest killers of our young people in Ireland, so far this year 264 people have lost their lives on Irish roads. We have a responsibility as a youth movement to play our part in combating many of these preventable deaths, and we all have a responsibility as a community to campaign for more awareness and for practical measures that will impact and lower the number of fatalities on roads."
David Byrne, Meath Ogra Shinn Fein added, ''368 Men, Women and Children were fatally injured in road traffic accidents in 2006.''

Meath Ogra Shinn Fein will be approaching the campaign from a youth perspective, and using our young activists to act as peer leaders in engaging with young people on Road Safety. We feel that this is one aspect of the broad campaign which has yet to be developed on and could potentially be one of the most impacting.
In the weeks and months ahead we aim to bring the message of road safety across Ireland. The campaign will include days of action, protests, erecting murals, petitions, lobbying, public meetings. and we will of course in all of this be campaigning to ensure that the proposals from the road safety policy paper are adopted.