Community

“I am from the area and I work with over 60 young people from the area. These young people are crying out for a community centre.” - Youth worker, Jonathan Collins

“The violence and anti-social behaviour that was endemic in Garryowen last summer stands as a bleak testament to the need for substantial investment in community space and community services” - John Buttery, Garryowen Community Development Project co-ordinator.

Minister Heather Humphreys logged in via a secure highspeed broadband hub on a West Cork island to attend yesterday’s cabinet meeting. As it happens, she has perfectly synchronised her demonstration of remote working on islands with the main theme in the Summer Edition of Changing Ireland - out this week.

Humour should be recognised by academia as a tool in non-formal education settings and for engaging youth. It should be part of the curriculum on courses purporting to teach youthwork and related subjects, say the organisers of a comedy festival with a difference, held in June.

INTRODUCTION The surge in remote working could boost the population on Ireland’s offshore islands and restore their viability. As indeed it could for much if...

Remote working in the extreme: From Germany to Inishturk, Co. Mayo

In Wexford - as  featured in our long read here -  community workers under SICAP made people welcome during a pandemic. The same good community work is happening across the country, from Inchicore to West Mayo. It is but one of many #SicapStories. It would make for an ideal television series, as amateur film-makers are proving.

Oxfam, Christian Aid, Concern and Trócaire want changes to the definition of “climate justice” in the Government’s Climate Bill. Otherwise the definition should be scrapped, they say. They have written to all TDs and senators explaining why.