It is time to ask about how caring Ireland really is. Ireland’s population cohort aged 80+ is projected to quadruple to over half a million people by the middle of this century, creating a growing need for home care services.
Read More
Near FM, probably the country’s best established community radio station, covering Northside Dublin, today interviewed Changing Ireland editor Allen Meagher. You can listen back to the show here.
Read More
Did you know that Changing Ireland is available in 310 public libraries – and university libraries for the record – across the country?
Read More
Working as a community development worker with Galway Rural Development has been life-changing, ex-prisoner Damien Quinn told a recent ‘In Our Words’ event in Athlone. The celebratory occasion was held to showcase the value of the Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme for which Damien works.
Having used his three years in prison to better educate himself, he found that the work involved in turning his life around was not over at all when he came out. Due to his criminal record, he was locked out of the type of community development roles he sought. That was the case until he was finally given a break.
Alice Ann Lee is employed by an organisation called Families First / Archways which is focused on early intervention, empowerment, and keeping families together and connected to their communities.
The project is funded primarily by the Department of Justice.
She tells the project’s story here.