In this week’s Ballymun Does Recovery podcast host Jimmy Bell sends a special Christmas message to all the listeners and people in the Ballymun community.

Links & Contact details:

Star Easy Street

Contact: 086 136 9635

Back to normal service on January 5th 2026

https://www.brace.ie/

Contact Number: 01 842 8071 / 01 846 7900

Email: [email protected]

Jingle & Mingle Dinner

Christmas Day, 1-3 pm, Trinity Comprehensive School, Ballymun Road.

Contact Seany: 083 096 1979 for information

Check the following sites for updates on meetings:

https://www.caireland.live/

https://www.ballymunlocaldrugstaskforce.ie/news_nameetings

https://www.facebook.com/events/brace-community-response/open-alcoholics-anonymous-meeting/462025694768609/

Samaritans: 01 116 123

This month Ballymun does Recovery podcast host Jimmy Bell talks to Marie and Karen about a new national initiative to reduce alcohol harms as well as the locally accessible integrated alcohol service . The SAFER Acohol Project is currently being piloted in Ballymun and was officially launched at the start of December 2025.

Contact Marie Lawless at

[email protected]

Ballymun Local Drugs And Alcohol Task Force

https://www.ballymunlocaldrugstaskforce.ie/index

01 883 2142

SAOR EBI (Extended Brief Intervention)

Phone: 01 856 6406

email: [email protected]

Factual information about alcohol visit:

https://www2.hse.ie/living-well/alcohol/

In this months Ballymun Does Recovery Podcast, the host Jimmy Bell talks to Catriona, Mark and Eimear about 'CoSAR', a twelve session Recovery skills programme that was recently piloted in Ballymun. The podcast concludes with a real life Ballymun recovery story.

In part 2 of the Live Ballymun does Recovery podcast the host Jimmy Bell and guest co-host Mark Davis discusses all things recovery with individuals from Ballymun who are substance free. This event was part of a calendar of events for Ballymun recovery month for September 2025.

Links:

Profile for Ballymun Recovery

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Take a look at Ballymun Recovery

(@BallymunRecove1): https://x.com/BallymunRecove1?t=9_7VZPRS0CqBeKYXB7L8iQ&s=08

Instagram

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In this week's special Live Ballymun does Recovery podcast the host Jimmy Bell and guest co-host Mark Davis discusses all things recovery with a panel of six individuals from Ballymun who are substance free. This event was part of a calendar of events for Ballymun recovery month for September 2025. This is part one of two, which will be scheduled for Friday September 27th at midday.

Links:

Profile for Ballymun Recovery

https://share.google/Mh9FDw5KxjO6nIF0K

Take a look at Ballymun Recovery

(@BallymunRecove1): https://x.com/BallymunRecove1?t=9_7VZPRS0CqBeKYXB7L8iQ&s=08

Instagram

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In this week's Ballymun Does Recovery Podcast the host Jimmy Bell and guest co-host David Fennell discusses with Ken and Jennifer from Janus Solutions in Brixton, London the "resonance factor", a fairly new drug use approach currently employed in some drug services in Ireland as another pathway to recovery.

Links:

https://www.janussolutions.co.uk/

https://www.facebook.com/ballymunrecovery/

https://x.com/BallymunRecove1?t=9_7VZPRS0CqBeKYXB7L8iQ&s=08

https://www.instagram.com/ballymun_recovery/?hl=en

In this week’s Ballymun Does Recovery Podcast there’s a different flavour to recent shows. This week Jimmy is joined by a co-host, Dave from The Star Project. Along with guest Pierce, they discuss the many roads to recovery. The podcast also includes Niamh’s story, just one of our many true recovery stories.

You can find out more about Pierce’s work via Ballymun Communications.

In this week's Ballymun Does recovery Podcast, host Jimmy Bell talks to two members of Ballymuns ever-growing and popular Recovery Road Cycling Club. The discussion is followed by real life recovery stories.

https://recoveryroad.ie/

On the eve of Septembers Ballymun Recovery month 2025, the host of Ballymun does recovery podcast Jimmy Bell speaks with Róisín about the packed calendar of recovery events for September 2025. The podcast concludes with two real life recovery stories

In this month's Ballymun does recovery podcast the host, Jimmy Bell discusses with 2 guests, Cleo and Patrick, education as a pathway in recovery. The discussion is followed by two local recovery stories.