LEAD STORY – WE WANT CHANGE BEFORE WE DIE!

• NEWS: – €4m for rural social enterprise through PEACEPLUS.
• WE WANT CHANGE BEFORE WE DIE!

– Community worker provides an unique perspective.
– ‘Before We Die’ founder Tony Murray tells his family’s story.
– Taoiseach commits to act on issues raised.
– Revisit policies, suggests Des North, St John of God.

• IT’S A START! An apprenticeship for non-profit administrators by 2027
• 10 PROJECTS JOIN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE PROGRAMME. 
• COMMUNITY & COUNCIL AWARDS.
• SOUTHSIDE PARTNERSHIP has a new plan.
• URBAN FOOD POVERTY: Shocking data led to Dublin 10 Food Alliance.
• RURAL POLICY: OECD publish report.
• SOCIAL FARMING EXPANDS: News updates from Social Farming Ireland and Kerry Social Farming.
• CO-OPERATIVES OFFER MORE TO OUR ELDERLY POPULATION: UCC researchers explain how.
• THE GREAT CARE CO-OP: Making carers more visible.
• JOBS EXPO FOR THOSE EXPERIENCING BARRIERS: Organisers surprised by turnout.
• 35 YEARS OF NEWS: Travellers’ Voice magazine.
• ALL GO IN SKIBBEREEN: New model for engaging men.
• BOXING FOR KIDS WITH ADDITIONAL NEEDS: The High Five Boxing Academy.
• LEARNING BEHIND BARS: Changing Ireland a guest of Limerick Prison Education Service.

• LEAD STORY – CRAIG O’BRIEN: Fighting for Change.
• NEWS: President Zelenskyy meets community workers.
• CRAIG O’BRIEN: Fighting for change.
• TRAVELLER-LED HOUSING: Co-launched in Galway.
• SOLUTION: To prevent older people becoming homeless.
• COMMUNITY CAFES GET ORGANISED
• Southill Cafe, Limerick: “We are victims of our own success”.
• Crosscare Cafe, Dublin: “The costs are going up”.
• ‘They give up after a few tries’: Difficulties opening bank accounts is holding many people back from Tús opportunities.
• ALICE ANN LEE: The invisible work keeping families together.
• LOCAL DEVELOPMENT COMPANIES: Two-day conference held in Ballina.
• 4th NATIONAL CIVIC FORUM: Strong views in Cork on a stormy day.
• COMMUNITY RADIO: Scariff gets full broadcast licence.
• VOLUNTEERS: Accuse Charities Regulator of being “unrealistic”.
• ‘IN OUR WORDS’ SICAP STORIES: With Eileen McHugh, Sabrina Whelan and Damien Quinn.
• SOCIAL ENTERPRISE: Essential for former prisoners.
• GRATEFUL AMIDST GRIEF: Ukrainians adapting to living in Sligo.
• ROOFTOP GARDEN IN GALWAY: Spuds boost morale.
• LEARNING CURVE: Swimming in acronyms!
• TRALEE COFFEE POD: Connects refugees to work and to locality.
• ERRIS: Disappointment to miss out on FRC approval.
• What is bio-regioning? We do our best to explain!

LEAD STORY – GEMMA DUNLEAVY: “Community to me means soil”.

• News: – Senan Cooke honoured at first ever national social enterprise awards (See page 31 for full results).
• SALARIES: Staff quitting grassroots community jobs.
• Budget 2026 sees DRCDG get €611m.
• Gold standard in climate action: Dolphin House, Dublin.
• LIBERTIES LEADER: Fr. Michael Mernagh on Haughey, being jailed and more
• LITTLE LIBRARIES: Where are they coming from?
• INFLUENCERS: EU backs Kildare integration work.
• GENOCIDE AND IRISH CIVIL SOCIETY SURVEY.
• IN OUR WORDS: Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme showcase
•  CLONDALKIN: Responding to drug-related gang intimidation.
• MENTAL HEALTH: ‘No Shame Board Game’ gets young Travellers talking.
• BALLINACURRA PROMISES: Minister Calleary visits Limerick.
• Gabriel o’Connell: The Interview.
• Have cash, no account: Small community groups struggle with banks.
• Local Community Development Committees: Annual networking.
• QUEER IRELAND: “Huge allyship” shown.
• APPLES: Celebrating community orchards.
• The pandemic left a mark on rural Ireland: Some groups only returned to action this year

HOW DO YOU CHANGE A CITY? With hundreds of volunteer community gardeners!

• LEAD: 25 community gardens across Cork city
• NEWS: Local authorities now legally obliged to support community gardens.
• Integration: Letter Lingo from Leitrim.
• News: – Forsa approves pay deal.
• Interview: Green Spaces co-ordinator Maria Young.
• Interview: Carol Baumann on a life in development.
• Moyross Youth Academy: Voices from the saddle.
• Climate Justice: Justice Centre grows in 5 years
• WARNING: Populism rising amidst poverty and plenty.
• POLICY: Social Inclusion Forum 2025.
• ADVOCACY: Senior Citizens Parliament co-ordinator Pat Mellon.
• WHEEL SUMMIT: Taoiseach condemns Israel’s murder of volunteers.
• Traveller pride: Who did what?
• Dublin: Bernie Roche is Community Volunteer of the Year.
• Going solar: Dunshaughlin Community Centre saves €14k p.a.
• Youth: No Name Clubs going 50 years.
• News: Toolkits to boost inclusive employment.
• Local authorities: Humans of Dublin City.
• Empowerment: UL nurtures new community leaders.
• Human rights: Uisce Cliste.
• Best Practice: Balbriggan wins award for “great places” map.

FIERCE FUNDRAISERS – The A-to-Z of establishing a social enterprise hub in Dublin’s inner city

• Community workers say we should learn from Britain’s experience
• Food brings people together in Tullow.
• 12 things I now know about Ukrainians and their fab country.
• Clones children’s project has a telling impact.
• INTERVIEW: Minister of State Jerry Buttimer on inclusion.
• TWO DEPARTMENTS: Minister Dara Calleary busy from first day.
• REBRAND: The ILDN is now the LDCN.
• NATIONAL CIVIC FORUM:
• Mary Hurley highlighted recent achievement.
• Increase in poverty pushing children into criminality in Dublin.
• Sláintecare Health and Communities Programme: Community workers see progress by listening to people.
• NEWS: Pay deal for Section 39 workers.
• SOLIDARITY: Irish community worker visits Palestinian farmers.
• SOUTH KERRY GAELTACHT: Arty approach to housing solution.
• FETTERCAIRN: Youth and Horse project is thriving.
• WICKLOW: Community development in addiction recovery.
• WINNERS – 2025 Aontas awards.
• THE SECRET COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WORKER – It’s 2027 and us Irish are refugees.
• NEWS: Why groups are boycotting Twitter (aka X).

SHARING CULTURE TRUMPS FEAR – Culture workshops in Wexford / Pride in Kilkenny.

• COOLOCK: Jim Lillis, one of Ireland’s longest-serving chairs, interviewed. Speedpak goes international.
• NEWS: Budget increase for early years workers welcomed.
• NEWS: 10 years of PPNs.
• FUNDING: Volunteer Centres / Rural regeneration.
• COMMUNITIES AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES: Extra staff help local authorities apply for grants.
• COMMUNITY PROJECTS PROVE WORTH: Showcase in Athlone of 27 projects supported by the Empowering Communities Programme and the Community Development Programme.
• SOCIAL IMPACT: Waterford Area Partnership shows impact of community work.
• MEDIA RESOURCES – Podcasting support / Tips for videos.
• CLIMATE – Inishowen communities drawn to positivity.
• FUTURE FUNDING – ILDN calls to restore community funding levels.
• TRAVELLER ACCOMMODATION – CENA building in Galway.
• WINNERS – Student awards / Tidy Towns.
• FINANCIAL INCLUSION – Northside Partnership offers training and toolkit.
• THE SECRET COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WORKER – People at Meetings – Part 1.
• LOCAL AUTHORITY NEWS

COMMUNITY TRAUMA EXAMINED

• POVERTY: We need more people employed to help vulnerable children.
• NEWS: Screenhouses in Meath, Queer Sheds in Clare, Clann Credo’s €215m and Library Briefs.
• FUNDING: Four recent community funding announcements.
• COOLOCK: Overwhelmingly enthusiastic response to Kelly’s essay.
• WELCOMING NEW COMMUNITIES – conference report:
  • Tim Dixon’s tips based on science.
  • 30 new jobs to counter disinformation.
  • Vital work highlighted.
  • 10 video resources.
  • Leitrim shows how integration is made easier by volunteering.
• GOVERNMENT UNDERMINES INTEGRATION: Moving refugees is undermining integration and volunteering.
• RURAL SOCIAL SCHEME AT 30 – Steve Dolan writes.
• CHANGING IRELAND TOGETHER – Shauna McClenaghan from Inishowen.
• WELLBEING / MENTAL HEALTH – Project in Dundalk tries art, Birr project goes outdoors, Donegal FRCs take to mountaintop – and all are exceptional.
• LOUTH URBAN FOOD SANCTUARY
• THE SECRET COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WORKER – NEW COLUMN
• LOCAL AUTHORITY NEWS

Dolphin House community warns of breaking point over regeneration delays.

PLUS – Rural communities in Ireland, Portugal, Finland and Slovenia learning to be more resilient.

• LET’S LEAD IN EQUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS appeals Robert Carey.
• COMMUNITY WORKERS HAVE A DUTY TO SPEAK UP says Noel Wardick.
• 10 MILLION EUROPEANS LIVE IN HUMAN RIGHTS GREY ZONES writes Andrew Forde.
• CIVIL SOCIETY CALLS FOR PEACE – Protests leading to boycott of Israeli firms.
• REPEAL DISABILITY ACT – say campaigners after victory over tiered payments.
• CLIMATE CHANGE: “WHAT DIFFERENCE CAN I MAKE?” – Youghal’s blue and green network values action.
• WATERFORD HOMES DESERVE RETROFITTING – Strong community but homes are draughty.
• AWARD FOR LGBT+ PROJECT IN SLIGO – as national survey reports “stark deterioration” in mental health.
• FIRST CHURCH TO INSTALL SOLAR ROOF PANELS – Fethard-on-Sea’s bills now negligible.
• €4M IN RURAL FUNDS FOR GLENAMADDY
• UKRAINIAN INTEGRATION – Supporting Ukrainians in Kerry is of national interest.
• Pilot Podcast: Brendan O’Loughlin talks climate justice in Offaly, Michael D and Mayo football.
• MENTAL HEALTH WORK IN MEATH – some surprising issues emerge.
• RURAL RESILIENCE –
  • Erasmus+ seminar on community resilience.
  • Letterfrack international conference.
  • New bursary for rural development.
• BALLYFERMOT GROUP REBRANDS ITSELF
• LOCAL AUTHORITY NEWS
• HORACE – Always look on the bright side of life!

LEAD: Boats, gyms, money, no problem with the Social Model of Disability.

PLUS – A SPECIAL REPORT FROM COUNTY DONEGAL.

• Food poverty – Volunteers heading to Dáil.
• Lough Ree’s accessible boats
• Financial inclusion training in a Dublin flat – Group develops handbook for people with intellectual disabilities.
• Gym has equality lessons for Europe.
• Steering young drivers to safety – Recommended LEADER project
• Donegal Local Development has a new view.
• Shared office support services model launched.
• Árainn Mhór joy over “best project in 20 years”.
• Ukrainian integration on Árainn Mhór:
  • “We’d take 100 more people”.
  • First baby born on island since 1970s; we meet the dad!
  • War refugees describe island life.
  • Community worker sees untapped potential.
• Recognition in new €50m Community Fund.
• One million stars project for hope, light and solidarity.
• Creeslough Hub is “another step towards healing”
• UKRAINIAN INTEGRATION: Tania’s working life in Ireland
• €45k awards for measuring social impact: Tips from the winners.
• Ballinasloe LIFE editor writes about how community media are battling the democratic deficit.
• Social enterprises employing ex-prisoners – from serving sentences to serving cappuccinos.
• Travellers and Climate justice – an overlooked minority
• Food poverty Q&A
• Solidarity
• Calls to re-run volunteer programme
• Local authority news

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
• Men’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?
• Climate & 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

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

LEAD STORY –Why Communities Love Summer

• AI PROMISE & THREAT
• Welcome for islands strategy
• Pobal’s 30 years – Events coming in Galway and Dublin
• ILDN’s new team.
• Tasc at 21.
• LEAD STORY – Creating community space indoors and outdoors
• Think co-operatively – Who will go first, ask UCC students
• Multiple warnings – Increase pay or community services will collapse
• 25 YEARS OF FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRES – Why we need €3.3m more this year
• Retrofitting four counties – Community solution to private sector disinterest in rural areas
• Travellers get voice back after a silent decade – Community Development Projects expanding
• Networking – Galway wants to know are you doing what they’re doing?
• Community Recognition Fund
• Integration and Community Champions in Cavan and Monaghan
• BOOK REVIEW – Legendary lessons from disability activists
• People – Why is Ivan Cooper like a magpie?
• Darndale and Drogheda – Two novel community-based initiatives make impact.
• Social inclusion forum
• Volunteers – from Ballina to Kildare

LEAD STORY – Solidarity Rally Speeches You Didn’t Hear About

• IT’S NOT THEM OR US, says Martin Collins
• Clear message of anti-racism.
• Thanks Dublin says Lucky Khambule.
• One question from Bernadette Devlin.
• Cork’s Mexicans feel at home.
• Dublin’s Muslim sisters volunteer for all.
• Polish in the Midlands connect via tv.
• Communities to have more say – says Government
• Queer Ireland – People grateful to 300 champions; LGBT+ organisations are working to tackle isolation
• Travellers’ lives matter – Donegal Travellers launch research findings.
• Community cars won’t drive themselves – Volunteers pivotal to success
• Recovery through community employment – Killian and Geraldine tell their stories.
• Changing Westmeath – Moate volunteers raise a million and turn cowpark into tourism attraction.
• Is Monaghan the most Irish town in Ireland – Yes, say some locals
• HORACE MCDERMOTT – We’re on the move folks!
• LOCAL AUTHORITY NEWS

Winter 2022/’23

• LEAD STORY: Salaries & Staff Retention Warning.
• VALUES AND PRINCIPLES: Better relations promised between State and C&V Sector.
• CLIMATE ACTION: Tipperary project setting a lead.
• WINNERS: Changemakers Pitch-Fest.
• FAMILY SUPPORT: Erris community secures funding / Tusla explains background.
• CIVIC FORUM: Taoiseach attends opening of dialogue with civil society.
• QUEER IRELAND: Inside Dublin’s Outhouse.
• POST-COVID RECOVERY: Groups still nervous to reopen.
• REFUGEES: Inishowen’s new workers from Ukraine wish to help everyone.
• SOCIAL ENTERPRISE: Three counties work together.
• SPORTS AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: Kerry boxing club wins on streets.
• ADVICE: Groups urged to measure their social impact.
• GREEN OFFALY: Faithful county takes Welsh path.
• RURAL IDEAS: 100 people propose solutions.
• ERASMUS+: One young man’s experience.
• An Cosán: 20,000 graduates to date and strong appeal to community development groups.
• REMOTE WORKING: Now over 300 Remote Working Hubs are Connected.
• LOCAL AUTHORITY NEWS

• Autumn 2022
• News: Inchicore CDP experiences violence.
• Early Years Pay Win for SIPTU Members.
• Social Enterprise survey.
• PLOUGHING – Pictorial coverage: Junk Kouture.
• The Future is in the Fields.
• ‘Tis great to see people in 3-D.
• DAMIEN QUINN of Spéire Nua: “I say it all the time – prison was the easy part.”
• RURAL DEVELOPMENT: Views from Columbia, Czech Rep, the USA, Sweden, Finland.
• Taoiseach on inclusion, optimism & a just transition.
• O’Brien tells 38 country reps about Gov’s social inclusion work.
• WHAT WILL YOUR LEGACY BE? Youth leadership in Dublin.
• INEQUALITY: Class and Education in Dublin.
• CLANN CREDO: Athlone Boat Club / 36 tips to manage rising costs.
• Youthwork: More ethnic minority youth workers needed.
• One of the best: Killarney Men’s Shed.
• Pre & Post-Budget Analysis: With SVP, Dóchas, Inclusion Ireland, Irish Traveller Movement, Social Justice Ireland.
• Ireland/Ukraine:
• Refugee Factcheck.
• Tree of Peace.
• Interviews.
• Moate: “The best thing in our community in 37 years.”
• 21st Anniversary: Changing Ireland hailed for “track record.”
• Horace: Unparalleled insights.

• LEAD STORY – Brian Harvey says we ignore FRC insights at our peril
• REFUGEES & COMMUNITY DEV’T: €10.5M EXTRA for community work supporting Ukrainians.
• Relief as social inclusion funds will no longer be diverted.
• Govt agrees on how to work best with Community & Voluntary Sector.
• Refugees who volunteer.
• BOOK: ‘No Child Shall Suffer’: 14 real-life stories documenting poverty in Dublin’s inner-city.
• DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION IN INISHOWEN: ChangeMakers’ model of good practise.
• EARLY YEARS / CE, Tús & RSS: Katie Barr on why we need more men and better pay.
• Reforms to RSS, Tús & CE schemes.
• IRELAND WINS UN AWARD: For community work.
• SOCIAL FARMING: 8 reasons to be hopeful.
• VOLUNTEERING: Two new volunteer centres open.
• 81 GROUPS RECEIVE SSNO FUNDING
• SOCIAL ENTERPRISE
• New €2m Empowering Communities Prog.
• 50th Anniversary of RnaG: 6 positive things happening with the Irish Language.
• DONEGAL – PANDEMIC POSITIVES: Arts group formed in lockdown wants to stay online.
• HORACE MCDERMOTT: Unparalleled insight.

• COVER: Solidarity with refugees.
• REFUGEES: Pages 5-9.
• 21 reasons why Ireland is a better place today for taking in refugees. On the other hand…
• Ukrainians need firm information.
• Hosting: We’ve taken in 4 people.
• VOLUNTEERING: 10-11.
• New Volunteer Centre in Offaly.
• Couple volunteering since 1975.
• DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SUPPORT SERVICES: 12-15.
• Offaly staff get calls from worldwide.
• Ethnic minority project a model for others.
• West Cork publishes 80th newsletter.
• HUMAN RIGHTS: 16 & 18-19.
• 2002 law still denying Travellers the right to nomadic life.
• Self-employment for people with disabilities.
• “If they did it, so can I” – Christina McDonald, owner of Grá-Nua.
• FUNDING: 17.
• €15m for Community Centres.
• Calendar of Dept’s funding deadlines.
• MEATH: 20-24.
• Community workers showcase.
• Success with Navan schoolbus.
• MENTAL HEALTH: 23 & 26.
• SoSad: Every county should have one.
• Independent services in West Cork.
• LEADERSHIP: 28.
• Pilot in Darndale & Drogheda: 24 people start new community leadership prog.

• COVER: A Stable Bond.
• LEAD STORY: Youthwork & Moyross jockey Wesley Joyce.
• OUTDOORS: Funding for 84 adventure spots.
• UNIONS: Seek 3% pay rise for community workers.
• SOCIAL ENTERPRISE: Humphrey’s promises more support.
• COMMUNITY CLIMATE ACTION PROG: Details of €5m+.
• WESTMEATH: One great thing!
• FOOD: Pizza & Food Forests.
• REGENERATION NOT: O’Devaney Gardens 17 years on.
• REFUGEES: Cape Clear is ready.
• COMMUNITY RADIO: President on 25 years.
• DEMENTIA INCLUSIVE: Near FM’s dedicated programme.
• CO-OPS: Olive McCarthy interview.
• EAMON O’CUIV, TD: Make Tus work better.
• JOHN BAWLE, MULLINGAR: “My head was gone”.
• SMART VILLAGES: EU pushes digital.
• HORACE: No masking the truth.

• Changing Ireland – Autumn 2021 – Issue 74:
• SMASHING TIMES: MARY MOYNIHAN on 30 years of work & the upcoming Dublin Arts & Human Rights Festival.
• MARCH: Protests mount over Jobs Club.
• FOSTERING: Call for more Travellers to foster.
• CHILDCARE: Strain over low pay.
• FUNDING: Co-op gets value from LEADER.
• TOWN WEBSITES: Humphreys urges others to follow Cootehill.
• EQUITY: WHO’s DR MIKE RYAN & Minister of State JOE O’BRIEN.
• 10 TIPS: Using humour in youthwork.
• YOUTHWORK: Humour is the missing ingredient, says FERGAL BARR.
• DISABILITY SUPPORT: 5mins support daily “not nearly enough”, says SARAH FITZGERALD.
• ACTIVISTS: End “incarceration” of disabled young people!
• IRELAND’S FIRST WILDLIFE HOSPITAL: Volunteers needed.
• 5 REFUGEES: Stories of people who have settled here.
• EU CLOTHING WASTE: Roscommon Women lead the way.
• HORACE: Back at work & Marcus’s behaviour is of concern!

• COVER: You can work remotely 14km offshore.
• LEAD STORY: Islands and remote working – obstacles & opportunities / Inishturk – Families embrace remote working.
• MONAGHAN: Ireland’s only community-owned hotel.
• SHOW US THE MONEY: An Taoiseach asked about funding.
• TAOISEACH’S SUPPORT: Top backing for community-led approach.
• FRESH START: New Community Development Pilot Programme / 7 new pilot CDPs named after 124 apply.
• FOSTERING: Tusla calls on new communities / Blessings on her experience fostering / 6 myth-busting facts on fostering.
• GARRYOWEN: 50+ years wait for a community centre.
• LEADER: Hedge Funds in Co. Dublin.
• TENDERING: Communities may lose jobs clubs.
• YOUTHWORK & HUMOUR: An essential ingredient.

• COVER: “Conas atá tú?”
• LEAD STORY: Community development explained – integration in Meath & Wexford.
• EDITORIAL: Integration & equity: Conas atá tú?
• MIKE RYAN: WHO says global vaccine inequality could define us.
• ABUSE: Following FRC case, HSE’s Paul Reid condemns vaccine queue skipping as abuse of trust.
• BEST ADVICE: The Wheel has weekly updates for community groups on vaccine rollout.
• NATIONAL: Huge appetite for 8 Community Development Projects.
• OUR RURAL FUTURE: 150 point plan to transform rural Ireland.
• THREAT: Call to protect Local Employment Services.
• NICOLA BROWNE: We need to put the ‘human’ back into human rights and social care organisations.
• INTEGRATION & AN CÚPLA FOCAL: Angolan refugee & Sudanese doctor enjoy sean nós dance classes during lockdown.
• WEXFORD: How community workers gained trust to work with people here seeking sanctuary.
• Siobhán O’Brien: Real community work is about building trust, relations & community.
• DUBLIN: Locals displaced by inner city’s gentrification.
• NEWS: €70m in LEADER funding.
• LEADER: Kerry village forges ahead.
• HORACE’S DIARY: No masking the truth!

COVER: We’ve got our sense of community back.

• LEAD STORY: Steo Wall interview.
• EDITORIAL: Stronger communities may emerge.
• ABUSED: 84% of young women said it had a “severe” impact on them.
• NATIONAL: Development network’s plan launched.
• BOFIN: Islanders film life on one of Ireland’s few Covid-free spots.
• POLICY: National Volunteering Strategy launched.
• GOV’T COVID FUND: Keeping groups such as Lucan’s going.
• WAKE UP CALL: Instagram activism on the rise.
• BETH ARDILL: Why Tasc’s report is good news for community development workers.
• DAVIE PHILIP: ‘The Peoples Transition’ sings of bottom-up development.
• AINE RYNNE: Biodiversity Leadership Training.
• WILD CORK: Biodiversity is truly for everyone.
• IN THE AIR: Community medics.
• RURAL DEV’T: “It can happen anywhere” – Joe Kelly, Kiltimagh.
• SERI: New association for Social Enterprises.
• CO-OPS: Trees, Transition & Housing.
• ROB CAREY: Of course the earth is flat!
• LEADER: Musical inclusion in Louth.
• LIBERTIES: Graham Mooney made history – we meet again.
• CLOUGHJORDAN: Ecovillage clocks 20.

COVER: Communities Serving The Country.

COVER: Tallaght to West Clare.

• LEAD STORIES: Volunteers in Testing Times / Why Peace-Loving People Become Activists.
• EDITORIAL: Compassion is our new Currency.
• DIRECT PROVISION: UN says NGOs should look again.
• COPING DURING COVID: Laois & Offaly Case Studies.
• COMMUNITY WORKERS: Ways to counter racism.
• SENATOR FLYNN: Empowered by Community Development.
• HOPE FOR LAOIS: Volunteers rapidly set up new project.
• OUR LIBRARIES: They keep delivering.
• AN COSÁN: Started with an online advantage.
• FOOD DISTRIBUTION: Collaboration across country.
• CHLOE CAREY: Anti-body-shaming video goes viral.
• VOLUNTEER LOCKDOWN DIARIES: Now truly unique.
• FOOD: Collaboration across country.
• GAMBIA: Logical that community is favoured over individuals.
• EDITOR’S FAMILY NEWSDESK

COVER: Early Years March.

• Journalism opportunities.
• Early Years march.
• EDITORIAL: Coronavirus V Communities.
• FLASHBACK: Female empowerment in 2001 in The Liberties.
• CAMPAIGNS: Why communities want change.
• Social skills: Grants rush.
• DIGI-SKILLS: An Cosán on the case.
• HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR TOMI REICHENTAL: Whispers lead to murder.
• MY JOURNEY: Of use to individuals & society.
• LEADER: Supporting Meath River Rescue.
• INTERVIEW: Kevin McCarthy, Sec. General, Dept of Rural & Comm Dev’t.
• LIMERICK’S URBAN CO-OP: 24/7 success.
• NORTH DUBLIN: Showcasing successes.
• YOUTUBE: Mayo migrants show the way.
• DON MULLAN, EYE-WITNESS: Treasure peace.
• HSE ADVICE: During an epidemic.