Angela Shafer, community education coordinator from Northside Partnership in Dublin, wants to alert community workers to work being done in their area through SICAP that may be of help to people in other counties. Specifically, an initiative promoting financial inclusion among people with intellectual disabilities.
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Members distributed free period packs to schools across Dublin City, the annual Dublin City Comhairle na nÓg Youth Conference heard.
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Pobal is celebrating 30 years in operation this year. It has expanded rapidly and now has over 700 staff in 12 office locations around the country. In 2022, it distributed €901m on behalf of government departments to thousands of community groups.
It’s CEO, Anna Shakespeare, is clear, however, that the agency’s 30th anniversary celebrations are not about Pobal as such, but about the communities they serve.
The motto of the Cycling Without Age Ireland initiative, launched in 2017, is ‘The Right to Wind in Your Hair’.
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Society on the whole tends to view older people as non-sexual beings. Inaccurate as that may be, it is nothing new. However, it can have a particularly detrimental effect on the healthcare needs of those in the LGBT+ community.
Since 2018, a course for health and social care professionals has been helping to make healthcare settings more welcoming.
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