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Changing Ireland OPINION: They’re Serious, We're Serious: Disband the Army - says Allen Meagher
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NEWS, PROGRAMME MAP, WEBSITE. See the PROGRAMME MAP. Follow our NEWS BLOG. Wednesday, July 17, 2013. They’re Serious, We're Serious: Disband the Army - says Allen Meagher. The Government called in July 2013 for submissions on the future role of the ROI's Defence Forces. Changing Ireland' editor Allen Meagher called for their near-abolition after the Celtic Tiger died and the Community and Voluntary Sector began to take the brunt of the worst budget cuts from 2009 onwards. It doesn't have one. I’m s...
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Changing Ireland OPINION: A Manifesto for My Generation - By Vivien Whelan, Wexford
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NEWS, PROGRAMME MAP, WEBSITE. See the PROGRAMME MAP. Follow our NEWS BLOG. Sunday, February 16, 2014. A Manifesto for My Generation - By Vivien Whelan, Wexford. We're right to be angry. We're young, educated and unemployed. This is a call for action to my generation. Vivien Whelan, author. I am angry that I may have to consider leaving my own country in pursuit of steady employment. I am angry that a large number of my peers are joining the unemployment line. I am angry that the youth is being pu...I am ...
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Changing Ireland OPINION: Making the Programme work on the ground
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NEWS, PROGRAMME MAP, WEBSITE. See the PROGRAMME MAP. Follow our NEWS BLOG. Thursday, December 15, 2011. Making the Programme work on the ground. The Local and Community Development Programme (LCDP) is the main state-funded community development programme in Ireland, with a budget of €63.4million. It has a staff of around 3,000 and a wide range of social actions carried out by 51 Local Development Community. A question of Image. This needs to be used to share learning between projects in different parts o...
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Changing Ireland OPINION: "I PERSONALLY BELIEVE IN COMMUNITY, I REALLY DO!"
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NEWS, PROGRAMME MAP, WEBSITE. See the PROGRAMME MAP. Follow our NEWS BLOG. Wednesday, April 6, 2011. I PERSONALLY BELIEVE IN COMMUNITY, I REALLY DO! INTERVIEW WITH CLARE O'GRADY WALSHE,. Clare O’Grady-Walshe walks the walk. She was part of the first Irish Coffee Brigade when she went in 1988 to Nicaragua in an act of solidarity with the people there who had overthrown a dictatorship. A committed environmentalist, Clare returned from Nicaragua and became director of Greenpeace. 8217;s Spokesperson on Food.
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Changing Ireland OPINION: Community Sector & Trade Unions fear Tus Scheme is 'workfare'
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NEWS, PROGRAMME MAP, WEBSITE. See the PROGRAMME MAP. Follow our NEWS BLOG. Monday, June 20, 2011. Community Sector and Trade Unions fear Tus Scheme is 'workfare'. Thomas Erbsloh in 2010. Photo: Changing Ireland. The two-pager on the proposed Tus-Programme in the last issue of ‘Changing Ireland’ was somewhat one-sided and disappointing. But that`s it – no analysis or rationale for any objection to Tus, but loads of PR, how it will be to the benefit of everyone involved. Our key concerns are as follows :.
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The Merger - A 'Changing Ireland' BLOG about the merger of the CDP and LDSIP: Q 8. Will CDP budgets not simply be absorbed by the partnerships?
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The Merger - A 'Changing Ireland' BLOG about the merger of the CDP and LDSIP. The Minister for Community Affairs in Ireland, John Curran, announced plans on Sept. 18th, 2009, for merging 180 small locally-run Community Development Projects with 55 large city/county-focused social inclusion companies. Will it work on the ground for people in disadvantaged communities? Tuesday, September 22, 2009. Q 8 Will CDP budgets not simply be absorbed by the partnerships? ADD YOUR COMMENTS, JUST CLICK BELOW. Septembe...
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Horace
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One-time community worker and former agony uncle Horace McDermott now lives on Inishbofin. MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: INISHBOFIN CHOSEN TO HOST COUNTRY’S ‘ONE STOP SHOP’. A reliable candidate has been recruited to man the new ‘One-Stop Shop’ for all community needs in the Republic of Ireland. This will end for once and for all the awful duplication going on in publicly-funded community projects across the country. Quangos I call them. This means community representatives from around the country will get six day...
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Archive - back issues of Changing Ireland Magazine
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Click Image to read online. Click here to download as PDF. Hot in Issue 52 - Alternatives to banks. Social Finance in Ireland / Crowdfunding. Social inclusion targets v reality. Ballyfermot's work with early school leavers. Roscrea first with new community action plan. Galway, Offaly and Leitrim's 6-yr plans. Roscrea first with new community action plan. New generation of driven volunteers. Click Image to read online. Click here to download as PDF. Issue 51 - Ireland to Calais. Click Image to read online.
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Produces its own audio and video reports and interviews. In time we hope to have a multimedia library as part of our resource section. RTE's Winning Streak featured a short profile feature on. In April 2013. The 2 minute clip expained the origins, ethos and some of the impact of Changing Ireland and the projects it reports on. Possibilities Conference - Saggart, April 2011. Rita Fagan talks about community struggle - and sings! Shalini Sinha saved by her parents from prescription drugs at age 6. Claiming...
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