tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80311853656413466262024-03-13T12:30:05.381+00:00Changing Ireland BLOGThis blog includes news from 2009-2017 on Community Development in Ireland.
For up-to-date news and a FULL ARCHIVE OF MAGAZINES from 2001 to today, see: www.changingireland.ie
Established in 2001, Changing Ireland is an independent, community-based magazine focused on community development and social inclusion.
Our magazine is published and managed by the not-for-profit organisation Changing Ireland Community Media CLG.'Changing Ireland' magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00709934228667871907noreply@blogger.comBlogger256125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031185365641346626.post-69502335989893072632017-12-17T19:54:00.004+00:002017-12-17T20:10:47.576+00:00Journalist's first-hand experience on JobPath
PARTING COMPANY WITH TURAS NUA
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'Changing Ireland' magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00709934228667871907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031185365641346626.post-28309303110299643442017-06-30T15:58:00.002+01:002017-12-17T20:11:37.531+00:00Get the latest bumper edition here!
HOT OFF THE PRESSES!
Get it here first! Latest edition just out!
36 pages of news, colour, views and insights!
Quality original journalism, about Ireland and abroad.
Plus Horace.
FLICK through the pages and DOWNLOAD THE FULL PDF HERE (5.8mb): http://bit.ly/CI-Issue57-36pages-June2017
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Made in 'Changing Ireland' magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00709934228667871907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031185365641346626.post-39748719148193749122017-06-26T21:18:00.000+01:002017-06-27T00:04:36.140+01:00YOUNG DADS LEARN THE ROPES
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MOTHER AND SISTER OF LATE CLODAGH HAWE LAUNCH FUND FOR WOMEN’S AID
Read the full article in Issue 56 - Winter 2016/’17 of ‘Changing Ireland’!
Flick through the pages or download the PDF here: http://bit.ly/CI-Iss56-Winter2016-17
The mother and sister of Clodagh Hawe
who was murdered in her home last year
alongside her three sons Liam, Niall and&'Changing Ireland' magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00709934228667871907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031185365641346626.post-79728166710253620162017-06-26T21:12:00.000+01:002017-06-27T00:03:22.235+01:00
Community workers,
Researchers and Minister size up
barriers/solutions
BY ALLEN MEAGHER
Read the full article in Issue 56 - Winter 2016/’17 of ‘Changing Ireland’!
Flick through the pages or download the PDF here: http://bit.ly/CI-Iss56-Winter2016-17
The 2016 annual Pobal Conference was held in The Helix threatre, DCU, Dublin, on the day after the world learned that'Changing Ireland' magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00709934228667871907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031185365641346626.post-17119060312316185342017-06-26T21:09:00.000+01:002017-06-27T00:04:24.421+01:00
CROSS-BORDER PROJECTS ALREADY NEED MORE SUPPORT
Read the full article in Issue 56 - Winter 2016/’17 of ‘Changing Ireland’!
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BY ALLEN MEAGHER
Is the threat Brexit poses to communities being taken seriously?
Brexit poses a threat to the peace process on 'Changing Ireland' magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00709934228667871907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031185365641346626.post-81202660181477881922017-06-26T21:02:00.002+01:002017-06-27T00:05:08.101+01:00
“WE ARE SERIOUS AS A DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITIES”
BY ALLEN MEAGHER
Read the full article in Issue 56 - Winter 2016/’17 of ‘Changing Ireland’!
Flick through the pages or download the PDF here: http://bit.ly/CI-Iss56-Winter2016-17
Community groups and interests can work outside the formal structures or within those structures and in many cases they are obliged to 'Changing Ireland' magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00709934228667871907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031185365641346626.post-46444466016807305172017-06-26T21:01:00.000+01:002017-06-27T00:39:17.175+01:00Cover story - Look Good, Do Good! Entrepreneurs and their communities
Read the full article in Issue 56 - Winter 2016/’17 of ‘Changing Ireland’!
Flick through the pages or download the PDF here: http://bit.ly/CI-Iss56-Winter2016-17
COVER STORY
5 top Social Entrepreneurs in Dublin:
€45,000 handed out to spur on communities
Five thrilled winners were presented with €5,000 to €15,000 cheques as award winners in Social 'Changing Ireland' magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00709934228667871907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031185365641346626.post-77395357263707873382017-06-26T20:58:00.004+01:002017-06-27T00:14:55.977+01:00PRIDE OF PLACE WINNERS 2016
Read the full article in Issue 56 - Winter 2016/’17 of ‘Changing Ireland’!
Flick through the pages or download the PDF here: http://bit.ly/CI-Iss56-Winter2016-17
PRIDE OF
PLACE WINNERS
Pride of Place is an all-island competition that acknowledges the work that communities are doing all over the island of Ireland.
“The competition is about showing 'Changing Ireland' magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00709934228667871907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031185365641346626.post-46512101666932122872017-06-26T20:58:00.001+01:002017-06-27T00:16:02.635+01:00C'mon lads, move over! Join the 50/50 by 2020 campaign!
Read the full article in Issue 56 - Winter 2016/’17 of ‘Changing Ireland’!
Flick through the pages or download the PDF here: http://bit.ly/CI-Iss56-Winter2016-17
WOMEN (NOT) IN POLITICS - THE 50/50 BY 2020 CAMPAIGN
Gender still a glaring issue and women now campaigning locally and nationally
The boards of national sports organisations 'Changing Ireland' magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00709934228667871907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031185365641346626.post-15646868237218337852017-06-26T20:57:00.004+01:002017-06-27T00:16:25.154+01:00WHAT SUPPORTS ARE THERE FOR RURAL UNEMPLOYED MEN?
Read the full article in Issue 56 - Winter 2016/’17 of ‘Changing Ireland’!
Flick through the pages or download the PDF here: http://bit.ly/CI-Iss56-Winter2016-17
RURAL NEGLECT V. POTENTIAL
WHAT SUPPORTS ARE THERE FOR RURAL UNEMPLOYED MEN?
Long-term unemployment can lead to “a lack of motivation and borderline depression”
BY CIAN'Changing Ireland' magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00709934228667871907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031185365641346626.post-90255389821502170322017-06-26T20:57:00.001+01:002017-06-27T00:16:49.862+01:00SOLA: FOCUS ON ‘QUALITY’ TO ENSURE GREATER EQUALITY
Read the full article in Issue 56 - Winter 2016/’17 of ‘Changing Ireland’!
Flick through the pages or download the PDF here: http://bit.ly/CI-Iss56-Winter2016-17
GOVERNANCE
FOCUS ON ‘QUALITY’ TO ENSURE GREATER EQUALITY
The private sector is breathing down the neck of projects operating in the community sector and disability activists from around the 'Changing Ireland' magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00709934228667871907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031185365641346626.post-76909692032603243832017-06-26T20:56:00.003+01:002017-06-27T00:20:51.282+01:00
SURFING + COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Read Cian's full article in Issue 56 - Winter 2016/’17 of ‘Changing Ireland’!
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SURFING FOR A LIVING
IN SIERRA LEONE
BY CIAN MATTHEW KEARNS
Sustainability is key in community development. Projects that last are ones 'Changing Ireland' magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00709934228667871907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031185365641346626.post-34956943430160618582017-06-26T20:56:00.001+01:002017-06-27T00:34:47.346+01:00NO ‘DARKNESS INTO LIGHT’ WITHOUT GOOD SYSTEMS
Read more in Issue 56 - Winter 2016/’17 of ‘Changing Ireland’!
Flick through the pages or download the PDF here: http://bit.ly/CI-Iss56-Winter2016-17
NO ‘DARKNESS INTO LIGHT’ WITHOUT GOOD SYSTEMS,
By Eamon Stack
When an NGO grows, it needs to have systems in place to rates at appointments.
handle growth. Witness Pieta House’s ‘Darkness into 'Changing Ireland' magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00709934228667871907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031185365641346626.post-72310872468978521112016-05-13T15:36:00.001+01:002016-05-13T16:14:14.688+01:00"We’ll never forget what’s her name"<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Compare how different your life would have been had you lived in 1955
- Monaghan County Council’s booklet takes an unique approach to demonstrating how people’s struggle for social justice and equality has reaped many rewards. Anyone in Ireland today would find it useful to give them perspective in the struggle for equality.
Click here to download the 2 page spread!
Last year’s 'Changing Ireland' magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00709934228667871907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031185365641346626.post-67559867221585014922016-04-13T14:47:00.001+01:002016-04-13T15:29:26.409+01:00NEW EVIDENCE PROVES EARLY CHILDHOOD SUPPORT WORKS
- NO LONGER A HUNCH, BUT A CERTAINTY
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social inclusion and community development news you won't read anywhere else:
LEAD STORY: Early childhood intervention works, according to
newly published evidence from Dublin.
MEASURING POVERTY: Ever wondered how poverty is measured and how
who 'Changing Ireland' magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00709934228667871907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031185365641346626.post-57337418736561933202015-11-23T15:04:00.000+00:002015-11-23T15:09:43.221+00:00Students "Stand Up!" to homophobic bullying
by Mark Quinn
The 7th annual “Stand Up!” week was launched this morning in St Nessan’s Community College, Limerick by the Minister for Education and Skills Jan O’Sullivan.
The campaign runs until Friday 27th November and aims to address homophobic and transphobic bullying in schools and youth services by encouraging friendship and a positive understanding of LGBT young people.
“'Changing Ireland' magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00709934228667871907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031185365641346626.post-14144603735616531922015-10-05T18:05:00.002+01:002015-10-06T19:26:00.402+01:00UCC conference on assertive communities set for Oct 21 - organised by Co-op Studies & Civil Society researchers
Brian Harvey, Anna Lee, Mary Fogarty and Marian Harkin
are among the guest speakers lined up for a conference on local and community
development to be held on Wednesday, October 21st, in University College Cork.
Dr Carol Power
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Filmed over 12 months,
the producers called it an “honest portrayal of Darndale’s residents’ lives” as
they followed the day-to-day struggles of a former career criminal, a 'Changing Ireland' magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00709934228667871907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031185365641346626.post-91280982581059237712015-06-03T11:22:00.000+01:002015-06-03T11:22:27.721+01:00Editorial: Ciara's calling & Roscrea stands up!<!--StartFragment-->
By Allen Meagher, ‘Changing Ireland’.
In
preparation for the publication of this our 48th edition of ‘Changing Ireland’,
we considered the need for the board, editorial team and other volunteers to
head off for a 3-month strategic think-in on an atoll in the Pacific.
There’s
a lot going on in terms of State funding and what it will fund in communities
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'Changing Ireland' magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00709934228667871907noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031185365641346626.post-28079720339412213572014-02-26T22:00:00.002+00:002014-02-26T22:03:52.989+00:00Young, unemployed, angry and calling for action - one person's experience
Vivien Whelan
- VIVIEN WHELAN SPEAKS OUT
Vivien Whelan from Wexford is angry about being long-term unemployed, yet remains positive about the future - once people realise they must take action.
If you've an interest in seeing this country facing up to long-term youth unemployment, Vivien's article gets to the heart of the challenge at a personal and societal level and comes highly recommended'Changing Ireland' magazinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00709934228667871907noreply@blogger.com0