Community (Editor's Choice)
Scariff Bay Community Radio secures full-time licence
With a decade of broadcast experience, volunteers with Scariff Bay Community Radio were on tenderhooks in recent months, pending the outcome of their application for a full licence to allow the station to dramatically increase its level of broadcasting. Now approved, it brings to 22 the number of community radio stations in the State with a full-time licence.
Community (Editor's Choice)
Gemma Dunleavy: “Community to me means soil”
Singer and activist Gemma Dunleavy is a proud daughter of Dublin’s north inner city — Sheriff Street — and Is someone whose work has become synonymous with community pride, social justice, and cultural resistance. Gemma says, “Community to me means soil — the soil my roots are planted in.”
For Gemma, community isn’t just a place — it’s an identity, a lifeline, and a legacy built by generations of women who “kept the place warm with their hands” when support from outside never came.
Community (Editor's Choice)
Dublin – Government policymakers, community organisations and activists must confront reality
THE emergence in 2024 of far right or populist political figures in Dublin like Malachy Steenson, Gavin Pepper and Gerry Hutch, shows what Ireland's political future might look like if deprived communities continue to be neglected. That's one of the findings of Dublin City Community Co-op's newly published advocacy paper, titled: Poverty and Populism - Is Dublin City a Canary in the Coalmine?
Community (Editor's Choice)
Moving Ukrainians is putting them out of jobs, splitting friendships and undermining integration
Over the summer in Loop Head, Co Clare, and in Borrisokane, Co Tipperary, local people protested over government plans to move refugees who had integrated and become part and parcel of the community.
Community (Editor's Choice)
Communities minister calls for Covid-like spirited response as refugees arrive
A new style ‘Community Call’ is all but certain after Joe O’Brien, Minister of State with special responsibility for Community Development and Charities, met earlier today with over 150 leaders from the community and voluntary sector and local government.
He called for the same “spirit” that was evident in the response to the pandemic at community and national level. As a start, the Department of Rural and Community Development has given a “commitment to allow flexibility in [community] schemes and programmes so people are freed up to work with new arrivals”.
Community (Editor's Choice)
Take a deep dive into a #SicapStory – From Malawi to Wexford
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.
Community
The community’s desire to see Moyross progress
Devotion to the community emerged as one of the strongest features during Moyross's #BuildOurRoad campaign.
Community (Editor's Choice)
New-look ChangingIreland.ie launched by Minister Michael Ring
Launching the new-look ChangingIreland.ie, Minister Michael Ring was effusive in his praise for the project: “Changing Ireland is a unique publication... a high-quality news magazine which has encouraged all involved for nearly two decades to work harder for the betterment of our communities."
Community (Editor's Choice)
ReStart: The social enterprise helping asylum seekers feel at home
Amid ongoing discussions about the Irish direct provision system, one student-run social enterprise is working to ensure that refugees and asylum seekers are able to integrate in their communities.
Climate Justice
Dark clouds of climate crisis DO have a silver lining
Every dark cloud has a silver lining and the threat of climate change could see the rebirth of strong forces for community development.
