***LEAD STORY: “People in communities are the heroes , we are just a bridge” – Anna Shakespeare on Pobal at 30***
* **NEWS:** Budget 2024 and reaction **– 8**
* **TRISHAW RIDING:** It costs a lot, yet is becoming popular – **9**
* **What is a SOCIAL PRESCRIBER?** Pauline Mangan explains all! **– 10**
* **MUTE ADVOCATES** Freedom to advocate curtailed by some funders **– 11**
* **PLOUGHING PEOPLE 2023:** **– 12-16**
* **Community INTEGRATION:** First event of its kind saw people make new friends fast **–****17**
* **EVERYONE WANTS PEACE:** Community workers Julia and Marie Louise describe integration work in County Wexford **– 18-19**
* **STEAL AWAY:** Ukrainians here embrace song about The Troubles **– 20-21**
* **COST OF LIVING:** Cash is king **– 21**
* **What is the CIRCULAR ECONOMY?** Six examples **– 22-23**
* **Advocacy & Employment:** Expanding mental health supports in Kildare **– 24-25**
* **HORACE MCDERMOTT:** Vampires in rural Ireland **– 25**
* **ACTIVISM TIPS:** Anti-fascism report draws on experience **– 26**
* **HOMELESS – VOICES OF SOLIDARITY** **– 27**
* **ICELAND TO GALWAY:** A Nordic solution to an Irish problem **– 28-2**
* **VOLUNTEERING:** Kieran Jordan on the joy of reaching out **– 30**
* **ERASMUS+ in Donegal-Derry** **–****31**
* **LOCAL AUTHORITY NEWS – 32**
