Hours before Storm Éowyn swept the country, Fianna Fail’s Dara Calleary was given responsibility for supporting communities. The Ballina native was appointed as Minister for Social Protection and Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht on January 23 by newly elected Taoiseach Micheál Martin.
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Moyross is unusual in having a Marian Shrine dedicated to remembering local children who are deceased and on Monday close to a hundred people gathered at the shrine to light candles and remember each and every one of them.
People wept as the names of at least 50 children and young people were read out.
The Speedpak Group has two commercial businesses – Speedpak which offers contract packing and e-fulfilment services, and Shamrock Rosettes which produces rosettes to order for clients across Ireland and the EU.
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After serving for over 20 years as a voluntary board member and chairperson of Speedpak Group in Coolock, Dublin, Jim Lillis stepped down in August. We met him in Speedpak’s HQ, where staff were busy packing boxes and making rosettes, to interview him for our Changing Ireland Together Podcast. This is also the place where Changing Ireland is packed for distribution.
Originally from Co. Clare, Jim’s days of hurling, squash and hillwalking have stood to him as he’s fit and sprightly at 80.
Notes on above figures:
• Figures for 2007-2009 refer to the Community Development Programme and the Local Development Social Inclusion Programme (combined).
• These programmes were amalgamated into the Local Community Development Programme (which operated between 2010 and April 2015).
• This programme evolved into the Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (SICAP) that has operated since 2015.