Jim Codd, an Aontu councillor based in Co Wexford with the catchy election slogan “Give Codd the nod” has rang the alarm bells about people living in rural Ireland during Covid-19.
Councillor Codd has been overwhelmed by the amount of people who have contacted him after he wrote about a man thinking of committing suicide.
According to Agriland, Jim Codd said “The amount of people locked away on their own, cut off from all human contact, is frightening. It’s a powder keg ready to explode”.
I’m in regular contact and am under no illusion that it’s going to be easy but he has taken the first step and asked for help. I am also sad to report that I have been contacted by even more people seeking help, reaching out and telling me about their fears and anxieties, and the incredible loneliness that they feel during these incredible times,” said cllr. Codd.
Councillor Codd is not one for sitting on his hands.
He is busy setting up a “Neighbourhood project” to help those isolated. “I want volunteers to be available to answer their phone to lonely people in our community. I’m not asking for qualifications or specialist skills, I’m just asking for you to be a neighbour.
This is not the Samaritans or Talk to Tom. This is simply a call for neighbours in the true Irish sense of the word, to have a socially distanced chat with people who have no-one to talk to.
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