Thursday, July 2, 2026

VIDEO REPORTS FROM ‘CLAIMING OUR FUTURE’

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We’re uploading video reports from Saturday’s historic ‘Claiming Our Future’ event, the biggest Civil Society gig in the Republic Ireland in a generation.
It wasn’t a protest and it was different. And it achieved its aim of finding out what we’re FOR in a new Irelan
d. The top 3 values a new Ireland needs to emphasise, according to the final vote, are:
– equality,
– environmental sustainability
-and accountability

Also popular were policies leading to better governance and a maximum wage as well as the minimum wage.

Our first video is with Niamh McGrath aka ‘The elephant in the room’.

An in-depth and lively 11-minute interview with one of the organisers Siobhan O’Donohue is now online at

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqfm945n77U

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Changing Ireland
'Changing Ireland' is Ireland's No.1 community development magazine, publishing quality journalism since 2001. Volunteer-run, not-for-profit, based in Moyross, Limerick, employing one editor and freelance contributors. Core-funded by the Dept. of Rural and Community Development. T: @changingireland Also on Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, etc. Visit our archive for two decades of news reports: https://changingireland.ie/digital-magazine-archive/

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