Inside Another Landmark Year for Ana Liffey: New Strategies, Life-Saving Responses, and a Bold Push for Inclusivity – Read the 2023 Annual Report!

Special attention is paid to the launch of our Who We Need To Be… The Strategic Plan of Ana Liffey Drug Project 2024-2029 and the subsequent comprehensive review of how the organisation is structured.

“We’re taking active steps to increasingly have people with lived and living experience employed throughout the Ana Liffey,” says our Chairperson, Vivian Geiran, in the report. “When it comes to how and by whom our services are delivered, this is now an inbuilt part of the discussion.”

Expanding on the theme, our CEO, Tony Duffin, says: “In addition to those with lived and living experience we’re also taking steps to ensure that our services have the widest possible positive engagement with people from diverse backgrounds. It’s our goal too to have the full spectrum of Irish society represented on Ana Liffey teams.”

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Elsewhere in the 2023 Annual Report, our Director of Services, Dawn Russell, reflects on Ana Liffey’s key role in the joined-up, multi-agency response to the cluster of Nitazine overdoses which occurred towards the end of the year in Dublin.

“Our outreach teams immediately hit the streets, passing on news of the overdoses to peers who did an excellent job spreading the word through their own social circles,” Dawn says.

In a special 2023 Annual Report focus piece, our Clinical Nurse Manager, Jade McGroarty, explains how Ana Liffey delivers its low threshold nursing services to our clients.

“We focus on health equity, ensuring that people from low-income areas get the care they need,” Jade notes. “Unlike some services, we don’t turn people away if they’re intoxicated, because it could harm their health.”

We also get the thoughts of service users; summarise Ana Liffey’s contribution to the Citizens’ Assembly on Drugs and other advocacy work; and report on the financial year.

Read the 2023 Annual Report HERE