Men’s Health Programme starting this Thursday!

Mens Health Programme to improve life expectation.

The Newry Rainbow Community in partnership with Newry & Mourne District Council and the Public Health Agency are delivering a Men’s Health Programme that will provide an opportunity for participants to obtain a personal health profile and have an opportunity to organise a programme of activity to improve your health and wellbeing.
Participants will be able to access free gym sessions, personal trainers, dance classes, football, zumba, and much more. Information available on a range of topics and one on one specialist smoking cessation is also available.

For more detailed information and to sign up come along to the NRC Centre at 82a Hill Street Newry this Thursday evening January 26th between 7pm and 8pm.

Go on, make that New Year resolution a reality with a fun, rewarding and supportive programme to get you back on the road to better health & wellbeing!

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Your Disco Thanks You

The Next NRC Disco in the Brass Monkey in Newry on the 4th of February marks Passion’s Fifth Birthday. Quite an achievement in a small city such as ours and credit must go to the friendly management and staff at the Brass Monkey for allowing us to use their excellent venue as well as all the hard workers within the NRC who month in month out set up and run the night on a voluntary basis.

To mark the milestone Passion will be held a week later on Saturday the 4th of February so there will be no 28th of January Disco. Read more »

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The Youth of Today

Fellow gay Oscar Wilde might once have said “I am not young enough to know everything” but even the young need to challenge their preconceptions from time to time. One of the most satisfying happenings this winter for the NRC was the visit to our Centre by several groups of young people ranging in age from around 14 to 18 as part of the SELB’s Drugs Alcohol and Sexual Health Programme (DASH). If you ever needed your hopes boosted for the future here was the very tonic. The Youth Groups came from as far away as Cookstown and as near as Warrenpoint and Burren.

It was obvious that not very many of the enthusiastic visitors had ever been in the situation before, in a room with so many gay people, where they had to stop and think for a moment what life would be like for a Lesbian Gay or Bisexual person in their area or even in their school. They certainly weren’t afraid to ask questions and there were some very constructive in-depth discussions indeed. From growing up gay and getting through school, to coming out, to what a Civil Partnership was like, it was all covered and more.

It was interesting to note that some of the most relaxed and open view points came from young people who lived in country areas and not from towns where you would have expected people to be more open to difference. It really is something else to know that you have given a complete cross section of young folk food for thought and maybe planted the seeds of something they will take home, discuss with their friends and hopefully help make life easier for any of their peers they might meet along the way, who may just happen to be gay themselves. It certainly was good to be able to paint our community in it’s true light. Thanks to Rab McGrogan for making it happen.

It’s maybe sad to think that our young people in this day and age still have so little knowledge about what it’s like to be gay growing up or of the assistance there is available to them if needed, even though chances are they all have gay friends – but they just don’t know it! This really is where most of the work needs to be done. There are still far too many of our young people who have a real difficult time coping with ‘being different’ during a period that’s supposed to be the ‘best years of their lives’ even though for some it ends up being the worst!

The Newry Rainbow Community has formed the NRC Youth Group who meet regularly at the NRC Centre at 82a Hill Street. If you are between 14 and 21 and would like to get involved feel free to join their Facebook Page at www.facebook.com/nrcyouth call in to the centre or email us.

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Passion’s Fifth Birthday 4th February

Passion 4th February 2012, Brass Monkey, Newry

Passion 4th February 2012, Brass Monkey, Newry

The next Passion is our Fifth Birthday and we are trying something new.

Yes it’s a Date Change!

We are holding it on the First Saturday of the Month so the next Passion will be on Saturday the Fourth of February, Upstairs in the Brass Monkey as usual from 9.30pm. Admission £5 or €5

There will be NO Passion on the 28th of January

Five years old and still running which is a mighty achievement and hopefully it will still be going in another five.

Look forward to catching up at Passion on the 4th of February

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Outside Looking In

Chatting to people home for Christmas from England at Passion the other week, it was instantly obvious to see that things have really changed in the lives of the local LGB and T community compared to a few years ago. Sometimes it just takes someone from the outside looking in to point this out to you!

When people who went away from Newry because it wasn’t a comfortable place to be for them, tell you that it has changed so much for the better and that it’s in no small way due to the efforts of the Newry Rainbow Community maybe it is time to sit and reflect on how far we have come in a few short years. Read more »

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