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is an online support group – see the website for details. Provides talks,
seminars and workshops, information packs and an educational resource
(i-figure: a mind and body approach).
Bord Pleanála, An
64 Marlborough Street, Dublin 1
Tel: (01) 858 8100 Lo-call: 1890 275 175, 9.15am – 5.30pm Mon to Fri
Fax: (01) 872 2684
Email: bord@pleanala.ie Web: www.pleanala.ie
An Bord Pleanála is the statutory body with responsibility for the determination
of planning appeals, assessment of local authority infrastructural development
and other strategic infrastructure projects, and compulsory acquisition of land
under the Planning Acts and Building Control Act.
Bóthar
Old Clare Street, Limerick, Co. Limerick
Tel: (061) 414 142, 8.00am – 6.00pm Fax: (061) 615 833
Email: info@bothar.ie Website: www.bothar.org
International aid agency that provides families in poverty with the means to
improve their lives by providing livestock. Bóthar is currently working in over
40 countries using 16 different species of animals including cows, goats,
pigs, yaks and bees.
Publications: Bó Vine – quarterly newsletter.
Bowel Cancer Support Group
Irish Cancer Society, 43–45 Northumberland Road, Dublin 4
Tel: 1800 200 700, 9.00am – 5.00pm Fax: (01) 231 0555
Email: support@irishcancer.ie Web: www.cancer.ie
Support group that gives practical information and emotional support to
patients who are about to have or who have had treatment for cancer of the
colon or rectum. Group members provide peer support which enables men
and women to discuss their feelings and anxieties, to understand the shock
that can accompany a diagnosis of cancer and to help them to come to terms
with it. The group can provide support before and after surgery and assist
with the common physical and emotional side effects of treatment. Whatever
the difficulty in the beginning stages, the group believes that the patient can
adapt following surgery and treatment and return to a full and active life.
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