Comhairle na nÓg helps young people to address period stigma
Members distributed free period packs to schools across Dublin City, the annual Dublin City Comhairle na nÓg Youth Conference heard.
Read MorePosted by Kathy Masterson | Nov 27, 2023 | Empowerment
Members distributed free period packs to schools across Dublin City, the annual Dublin City Comhairle na nÓg Youth Conference heard.
Read MorePosted by Allen Meagher | Nov 17, 2023 | Funding Programmes
Pobal is celebrating 30 years in operation this year. It has expanded rapidly and now has over 700 staff in 12 office locations around the country. In 2022, it distributed €901m on behalf of government departments to thousands of community groups.
It’s CEO, Anna Shakespeare, is clear, however, that the agency’s 30th anniversary celebrations are not about Pobal as such, but about the communities they serve.
Posted by Kathy Masterson | Oct 27, 2023 | Community
The motto of the Cycling Without Age Ireland initiative, launched in 2017, is ‘The Right to Wind in Your Hair’.
Read MorePosted by Kathy Masterson | May 5, 2023 | Health
Society on the whole tends to view older people as non-sexual beings. Inaccurate as that may be, it is nothing new. However, it can have a particularly detrimental effect on the healthcare needs of those in the LGBT+ community.
Since 2018, a course for health and social care professionals has been helping to make healthcare settings more welcoming.
Read MorePosted by Kathy Masterson | May 2, 2023 | Community
“The far-right does not represent working people – trade unions do”, is the message contained in a powerful anti-racist short video that was released by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) on May Day.
Congress General Secretary Owen Reidy said: “The video is part of an overall plan by unions to counter the far-right and to promote the fact that the trade union movement was built on the simple idea of uniting working people standing stronger together at home and abroad, committed to fighting poverty, discrimination, racism, and fascism.”
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