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“Our job is to smash limiting beliefs” – Eileen McHugh
Hundreds of young people have benefited from programmes run by Hair Together, which provides programmes mixing wellbeing activities with hairstyling and barbering, to support young people in Ballymun and surrounding areas. It was founded by Eileen McHugh and she spoke about her own journey through adversity and that of Hair Together at the In Our Words conference in Athlone, which showcased the impact of grassroots community work through the Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (SICAP).
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Ukrainian community workers put many questions to President Zelenskyy during recent visit
Natalia Krasnenkova was among those who were front and centre during the recent official visit by the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to Ireland. She and Olya Marintseva, as active members of the Ukrainian community in Kerry and as community workers there, were invited to meet the president. Here she provides a first-hand account of that meeting:
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Minister and officials hear ideas and concerns from communities nationwide
Cork today hosted the fourth annual National Civic Forum, marking the first time it was hosted outside Dublin. Opened by Corkonian and Minister of State, Jerry Buttimer, it brought together representatives from community organisations, agencies and local and central government to discuss how to tackle social exclusion and improve civic engagement and true collaboration.
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Dublin – Crosscare Community Cafe also provides a grocery service
The Crosscare community cafe in Portland Row, Dublin, is seeing demand go up as well as its costs, according to senior manager for community services Yvonne Fleming. She says that the impact of inflation was really noticeable towards the end of the year and it is hard to find a steady source of funding.
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Social enterprises ideal for former prisoners say UCC researchers
Today’s Ireland is wrestling with an unexpected scarcity: a scarcity of belonging. As digital life expands, the infrastructures that once offered connection - shared spaces, local rituals, everyday community interactions - have thinned out. We see the consequences everywhere, including rising levels of loneliness and anxiety experienced by young people, reflected in recent Eurobarometer research.
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Difficulties opening bank accounts is holding people back from Tús opportunities
Tús is the Irish word for start or begin. However, bureaucracy around opening bank accounts is having a severe impact on some people who want to get back into the labour force, according to James Hill of the Northside Partnership in Dublin.
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Regulator responds to complaints from group supporting Ukrainians
Helping Irish Hosts, a group formed by Irish volunteers to support war refugees displaced in the early months of Russia’s full-scale attack on Ukraine, has criticised the level of difficulty it faced in getting charitable status. In the end it actually gave up on the process, which it criticised for being unwieldy, unrealistic and even threatening.
