Policy & Strategy
330 libraries to become ‘community hubs’ under new strategy
As Minister Michael Ring launches the new library strategy, we learn more about what the library of the future might look like.
Programmes
Minister Ring launches 5-year anti-poverty programme
Minister for Rural and Community Development Michael Ring officially launched the Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (SICAP) in Limerick on 20 April.
Initiatives
How to get your Mojo back
When reporter Ray Lucey spotted a poster promising ‘male spaces’, he started asking questions. He encountered Mojo, and learned all about the nationwide initiative.
Development Work
Further perspectives on ‘Alignment’
- Excerpts from reports by Dr Brendan O’Keeffe, Niall Crowley, Debra Mountford, Seán O’Riordan:
Inclusion
NEW RESOURCE: POBAL MAPS
- Social inclusion mapping now a reality
With the click of a mouse, you can now view levels of deprivation in your area under a...
Inclusion
Budget 2010 – COMMUNITIES DOWN AT LEAST 10%
Some of the most severe recommendations in the McCarthy Report will not be implemented this year, but with a similar budget promised for next...
Development Work
2 PROGRAMMES TO BE MERGED – CURRAN IN CAVAN
The Community Development Programme, first established in 1990, is to be absorbed into a new unnamed programme that also incorporates the Local Development and Social Inclusion Programme.
