Rebecca Mitchell, Annie Holland, Di Di Delaney and John McKeogh from Nenagh Community Training Centre pictured at the Irish Cancer Society's X-HALE training day in Limerick recently

Nenagh youth group gets behind camera for X-HALE awards

Published: Fri 19 May 2017, 9:15 AM

Last updated: Fri 19 May 2017, 10:19 AM

Pictured are members of Youth Work Ireland Tipperary and Nenagh Community Training Centre ahead of their entry to the X-HALE Youth Awards 2017.

X-HALE is an initiative developed by the Irish Cancer Society to encourage young people to take action on the issue of smoking in their own communities.

As part of X-HALE, the Irish Cancer Society hosts the annual X-HALE Youth Awards, which sees youth groups from around the country enter short films and community action projects around the issue of smoking.

In total this year, 39 groups have received funding from the Society and a further six groups will receive support. The Society has awarded over €130,000 to youth groups and organisations through X-HALE to create smoking related community awareness film projects since the initiative started over seven years ago.