On Saturday 19th December 2009 at the Irishtown Youth Diversion Project in John Street 12 young men from the three Garda Youth Diversion Projects that are run by Limerick Youth Service (Ballynanty, Irishtown and St Mary’s Park) took part in wheel changing time trial competitions on Garda cars as well as racing model cars they made themselves.
The story is that there was a programme running for the previous ten weeks which have involved 12 young lads from the three Garda Youth Diversion Projects – which is unusual in itself because the young people from the three different areas wouldn’t get the opportunity to meet in a friendly and safe environment under usual circumstances. Working with tutor Peter O’Brien from Clonmel (and the Community Gardai who are involved in the three programmes and the Limerick Youth Service youth workers). Peter has put this programme together whereby he uses his time with the participants to show them how to build model race cars. While he’s doing this he spends a lot of the time going through road safety, safe driving, rules of the road etc. with the aim of improving the young lads’ attitude toward road safety and also HOPEFULLY reducing car vandalism in these areas.
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