Displayed across one of the walls in the Red House in Dublin's Clonliffe College, home to Crosscare's Drug and Alcohol Programme, is their motto 'Faith in Action'. A simple but practical three-word phrase that encompasses all that is good about a team that for 25 years has been working quietly and tirelessly to prevent the harmful impact of drug and alcohol use on individuals, families and communities in the greater Dublin area.
''I've been given a great opportunity to do something rewarding and to practise the values I believe in and am happy to profess,'' says programme director Chris Murphy, who later this year will step down from his post having been at the helm since the initiative's inception.
Founded in the mid 1980s following a petition from then inner city priest, Fr Paul Lavelle, the Drug and Alcohol Programme developed as an outreach of the Dublin archdiocese's Crosscare charity and came as a direct response to a growing heroin problem sweeping across the city.
Source: Aoife Hegarty, Irish Catholic, 24/03/2011
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