Waterford City’s Darkness Into Light Walk will not take place this year.<\/p>\n
The decision was made at a meeting of the local organising committee last night.<\/p>\n
Des Purcell, chairman of committee, outlined the reasons behind the decision on ‘D\u00e9ise Today’.<\/p>\n
He said the recent decision by Pieta to move the Waterford service from the Waterside in the city to a new location<\/a> was “upsetting” for the committee.<\/p>\n “They can’t justify taking money from the people of Waterford when the house is closing, that’s the bottom line,” he said.<\/p>\n “They do not want to go and request money from the people of Waterford while, simultaneously, the house is closing.”<\/p>\n He explained that a letter would be issued to Pieta headquarters today informing them of the decision.<\/p>\n The walk was due to take place in May and, also speaking on ‘D\u00e9ise Today’, committee member Jim Griffin outlined that posters and placards had already been ordered.<\/p>\n “It’s a black or white issue,” added Mr Purcell.<\/p>\n “Either we have a walk and we have a house or we don’t have a house so we don’t have a walk.”<\/p>\n He outlined issues with the proposed co-location model put forward by Pieta which would see the charity establish a presence within every Integrated Healthcare Area across the country.<\/p>\n Mr Purcell described having a physical house in Waterford as “sacrosanct”.<\/p>\n For the latest Waterford\u00a0News<\/a><\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/b>Spo<\/strong><\/a>r<\/strong>t<\/strong><\/a>,<\/a><\/b>\u00a0tune into WLR News on the hour and download the WLR App for news on demand.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waterford City’s Darkness Into Light Walk will not take place this year. The decision was made at a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,180023,18,19,17],"class_list":["post-395206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-darkness-into-light","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116262332426521532","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}