“WE ARE SERIOUS AS A DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITIES”
Community groups and interests can work outside the formal structures or within those structures and in many cases they are obliged to do the latter. In practice, many do both:
BY ALLEN MEAGHER
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Community groups and interests can work outside the formal structures or within those structures and in many cases they are obliged to do the latter. In practice, many do both:
“We are serious as a Department of Communities,” Minister Simon Coveney
assured people attending a ‘National Forum’ meeting for ‘Our Communities’, held in
November, in the great hall at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham. Answering the call,
community reps gathered to see about turning policy into practice that will work on the
ground and deliver community-driven, bottom-up social inclusion.
