***LEAD STORY: Grassroots community workers say – The State did not listen.***
* **Dublin troubles:** Community organisations call for action
* **Map shows Rich-Poor gap widening**
* **Good reads:** Start 2024 with a book from your favourite community worker
* **Bernadette McAliskey:** If you’re afraid to speak out now, you will fail your community
* **Irish civil society:** 200 groups call for peace in Gaza
* **Roma women’s health:** Pavee Point play crucial role
* **Community radio in Ireland:** Concerns over future funding
* **Cena housing** Stylish outdoorsy Traveller-built accommodation emerges
* **M****en’s sheds:** €1m funding boost
* **Femicide:** Women’s Aid calls for zero tolerance
* **Animal welfare in the community:** Leitrim loves its pets
* **Darndale/drogheda:** New respect between residents and Gardaí
* **Social Enterprise** national conference
* **Pride of Place winners /** What’s happening in Lisdoonvarna?
* **C****limate & communities:** Siobhán Mehigan from Wicklow reports on a recent gathering
* **Values and principles:** Community-State civic forum becomes an annual event
* **Corkonians** **hope to compete for national title in 2024**
* **Horace:** Exclusive from Cop 28.
* **Local authority news**
