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Mr Liam O’Brien, Community Sector Representative

Liam O'Brien is the Coordinator of CARP-Killinarden, which treats opiate users in a part of Tallaght for the past seven years. It is a community-based response to drug treatment and one of 50 such clinics in the Dublin region. He has been involved in various community led responses to antisocial problems in the West Tallaght Area since coming there as a school Chaplain in 1990. He serves on the board of Tallaght Homeless Advice Unit, Tallaght Community Workshop and the Life Project Ballyfermot. He facilitates an Addiction Studies Course in the local Institute of Technology, which is now in its sixth year. He has been a community representative on the local drugs task force since its inception. He has a primary degree in Science, a Higher Diploma in Education - for his sins he was a secondary level teacher for 16 years. He has a Masters in Moral and Religious Science from Louvain, Belgium and an MSc in Drugs and Alcohol Policy from Trinity College Dublin. He lives locally in Killinarden.

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