{"id":1859,"date":"2026-01-21T22:38:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T22:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/justclp\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2026-01-22T12:37:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T12:37:56","slug":"quote-west-armagh-northern-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/justclp\/quote-west-armagh-northern-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote: West Armagh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">\u201cI genuinely think if we continue doing what we&#8217;re doing we&#8217;re going to promote continued failure and we&#8217;re going to continue to have high statistics of addiction, mental health, unemployment and poverty, and <\/span><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">we need a new way of going forward to empower local community to have hope for themselves<\/span><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">, if we continue doing what we&#8217;re doing we&#8217;re continuing that cycle of generational unemployment, mental health, disability and addiction\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">West Armagh resident and community leader<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1907 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/justclp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2026\/01\/Quote-West-Armagh-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/justclp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2026\/01\/Quote-West-Armagh-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/justclp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2026\/01\/Quote-West-Armagh-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/justclp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2026\/01\/Quote-West-Armagh-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/justclp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2026\/01\/Quote-West-Armagh-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/justclp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2026\/01\/Quote-West-Armagh.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI genuinely think if we continue doing what we&#8217;re doing we&#8217;re going to promote continued failure and we&#8217;re going to continue to have high statistics of addiction, mental health, unemployment and poverty, and we need a new way of going forward to empower local community to have hope for themselves, if we continue doing what<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":877,"featured_media":1907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,15,51,30],"class_list":["post-1859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-northern-ireland","tag-photo","tag-quote","tag-west-armagh"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - 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