Allen Meagher | Changing Ireland

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Allen Meagher is the founding editor of 'Changing Ireland'. Linkedin: https://ie.linkedin.com/in/allen-meagher-33a1601a

Moyross – where every youngster backs Wesley!

Posted by Allen Meagher | Sep 24, 2021 | Empowerment, Income & Employment

Until recently, Moyross Youth Academy (MYA) was one of Limerick’s under-the-radar success stories.

“Our communities are not for sale”

Posted by Allen Meagher | Sep 14, 2021 | Empowerment, Income & Employment

•Jobs Club / LES protests in Dublin

Local residents campaigning for over 50 years

Posted by Allen Meagher | Aug 4, 2021 | Activism & Volunteering, Community

Why has the community of Garryowen been left without a community centre? It is almost certainly the only community of its size and age in all of Ireland without such a facility.

Remote Working: Humphreys attends cabinet meeting by logging on from Bere Island

Posted by Allen Meagher | Jul 28, 2021 | Community

Minister Heather Humphreys logged in via a secure highspeed broadband hub on a West Cork island to attend yesterday’s cabinet meeting.
As it happens, she has perfectly synchronised her demonstration of remote working on islands with the main theme in the Summer Edition of Changing Ireland – out this week.

YOUTHWORK: DON’T LAUGH NOW, THIS IS SERIOUS!

Posted by Allen Meagher | Jul 23, 2021 | Community, Development Work

Humour should be recognised by academia as a tool in non-formal education settings and for engaging youth. It should be part of the curriculum on courses purporting to teach youthwork and related subjects, say the organisers of a comedy festival with a difference, held in June.