Social Inclusion

Highlight your ideas for rural Ireland on Tues, Nov 15

Highlight your ideas for rural Ireland on Tues, Nov 15

If you have ideas for a socially inclusive rural Ireland, this event is for you. Next Tuesday, November 15 (from 10.30-12.30) ideas are being sought during an online forum organised by the Department of Rural and Community Development.

It invites anyone who is “passionate about rural Ireland” to join the event to discuss key themes from ‘Our Rural Future’.

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Cavan ready for major international rural dev’t conference

Cavan ready for major international rural dev’t conference

Cavan tonight began to welcome 400 people from as far away as Canada, Korea, Latvia and Columbia for an international gathering of rural development workers, policy makers, academics and ministers and their officials. They are in town to attend a major conference titled ‘Building Sustainable, Resilient and Thriving Rural Places’.

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Campaigners welcome amnesty

Campaigners welcome amnesty

Gone is “the fear that the next knock on the door will be someone to take us away”, said Tjanasi Potso, responding to today’s announcement by Justice Minister Helen McEntee of an amnesty for undocumented migrants.

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Humphreys: Draft islands policy by year’s end

Humphreys: Draft islands policy by year’s end

Minister Heather Humphreys, speaking in the Dáil on May 25th, gave an update on the development of a new islands policy. While work on the policy was delayed by the pandemic, it is one of the key elements in ‘Our Rural Future’, the Government’s new rural development policy.

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Take a deep dive into a #SicapStory – From Malawi to Wexford

Take a deep dive into a #SicapStory – From Malawi to Wexford

In Wexford – as  featured in our long read here –  community workers under SICAP made people welcome during a pandemic. The same good community work is happening across the country, from Inchicore to West Mayo. It is but one of many #SicapStories. It would make for an ideal television series, as amateur film-makers are proving.

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People new to Ireland to learn ‘an cúpla focal’ this month

People new to Ireland to learn ‘an cúpla focal’ this month

Free Irish language and sean-nós dance classes are being offered to new Irish communities in Meath, Louth and Cavan this month through a collaboration by Cultúr Migrants Centre and Conradh na Gaeilge. The online classes are some of the many events taking place across the country – mostly online – during this year’s Seachtain na Gaeilge.
“Initiatives such as these, while they may seem tokenistic, actually play a very important role in helping migrants and refugees to assimilate and integrate into Irish society and culture,” says Sorcha Grisewood who interviewed those involved in the collaboration:

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Social enterprise sector has a new representative body from today

Social enterprise sector has a new representative body from today

CAPTION: A year ago – last July 19 – the Government’s first National Social Enterprise Policy was launched and, in November, the first National Social Enterprise Conference (run by the Department of Rural and Community Development) took place in Croke Park. Pictured among the attendees are two of the founders of a new body launched today called ‘Social Enterprise Republic of Ireland’ (Seri) – Larry O’Neill, CEO of South Dublin County Partnership and Senan Cooke, author of ‘The Enterprising Community’. They are pictured here with Bernie Walshe from Sunflower Recycling. (PHOTO BY: Changing Ireland).

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How to get your Mojo back

How to get your Mojo back

When reporter Ray Lucey spotted a poster promising ‘male spaces’, he started asking questions. He encountered Mojo, and learned all about the nationwide initiative.

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NEW RESOURCE: POBAL MAPS

- Social inclusion mapping now a reality With the click of a mouse, you can now view levels of deprivation in your area under a range of categories and down to street level. You don’t hear people saying ‘Thanks to Pobal’ everyday, but that’s where the credit is due...

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Budget 2010 – COMMUNITIES DOWN AT LEAST 10%

Some of the most severe recommendations in the McCarthy Report will not be implemented this year, but with a similar budget promised for next year and the year after, it's far from over for communities. For now, commentators are talking about the cumulative effect of...

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