Aware

This is a voluntary joint initiative by St Columcille’s Hospital and Community Health in south Dublin and Wicklow.

The service is free of charge and welcomes people with all types of dementia and their family members and carers.

Mental health organisation Awarehosts a support group every Wednesday at 7.30 p.m. in the Villa Pacis Centre, on the grounds of Our Lady Queen of Peace Church on Putland Road in Bray.

Aware support groups offer individuals the opportunity to talk openly about depression, bipolar and other related mood disorders and their impact.

For more information, visit www. aware.ie he said.

‘I am excited about this new role as it will allow me to work with local TDs, Stephen Donnelly and Pat Casey and Cllr Pat Vance, to deliver for the place I call home.

‘Bray is an area where locals are increasingly being priced out of. I’m all too well aware of this problem as it has affected me directly.

‘Having grown up in Bray, I’m committed to making it the best town it can be; a town that people can go to school in, get a job, buy a house and raise a family in.

‘I look forward to meeting the people of Bray, and working to make a difference in people’s lives.’

Chris was raised in Richmond Park, and attended St Fergal’s National School, Boghall Road and St. Brendan’s CBC (now Woodbrook College), where he completed his Leaving Certificate in 2008.

The restaurant manager married Grace Sheehan in 2016 and they have a nine-month-old son, James.