N.A Ireland Eastern Area

About This Site
This site is designed to act as a service to addicts who are already in NA and may be visiting Ireland or to Irish based addicts who are looking for a new way of life. If you need any assistance in getting to meetings call the NA helpline at 086-8629308 where you'll be given local contact numbers and we'll do our best to help.
This is our page. With your help this can become a useful resource for addicts around the world and a source of information for those wishing to learn about our fellowship. This site is currently being developed. Feel free to add this page to your links.

How NA Operates
NA operates from the ground up. There are no leaders and every member, no matter how long they have being attending meetings, has an equal say in the fellowship. Each group is autonomous and decides for itself how it conducts meetings within the NA Traditions.
All groups must be self-supporting and a voluntary collection is held at the end of meetings to pay for rent, coffee, etc. Group decisions are made by holding a business meeting called a 'group conscience' on a regular basis.

Each member has a say at the conscience and can ask for a conscience to be held at any time but they are normally held once a month. Issues such as who sets up the meeting (secretary) and how the rent is paid are normally dealt with at these meetings.

If there are a large number of groups in an area a committee is often formed called an Area Service Committee. This committee is made up of representatives from each group and its main functions are to provide a service to groups and to find out how best to carry the NA message to addicts who still suffer.

The area is funded by groups who donate money from their collections to help pay for the maintaince of the phoneline and other duties carried out by the area. In turn Areas may form Regional committees but groups are not answerable to either committees as long as they operate within NA Traditions