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Campaign For Children – Cork Meeting Wednesday 25th

January 24, 2012
By Stephen
Campaign For Children – Cork Meeting Wednesday 25th

The Campaign for Children will be holding a public meeting tomorrow, Wednesday 25th, at 6pm in the Geogrpahy Lecture Hall in UCC. It is part of a series of public meetings to inform people about the work of the campaign. The Campaign is chaired by Former Supreme Court Justice Catherine McGuinness. Its board also contains some influential people, including Fergus Finlay of Barnardos and Olivia O’Leary. The Campaign raises very important issues and more importantly has suggestions to how they should be solved....

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Wave Change Cork

November 22, 2011
By Stephen
Wave Change Participants

Over the 12th and 13th of November I spent time in the Cork School Music on the Wave Change  programme from Social Entrepreneurs Ireland which I blogged about here. Over the two days there were speakers, such as Bill Liao and Myles McCorry of Bike Pure. We also had workshops on online and offline communication as well as some activities to get us thinking and learning about our skills. There was also a great opportunity to brain storm our ideas and help...

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Wave Change

October 13, 2011
By Stephen
Wave Change

Are you aged between 18-25? Do want to see Social Change in Ireland? Do  you want to change something in Irish Society? Check out Wave Change. Wave Change is a new programme being launched by Social Entrepreneurs Ireland for 18-25 year-olds who believe that they have a role to play in building the Ireland we all want to live in and who want to have a stronger voice in society.  The programme provides training, development, seed funding and networking opportunities...

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Public Consultation on Universal Periodic Review

May 4, 2011
By Stephen
Public Consultation on Universal Periodic Review

I got this via email, and for those interested in the UN Human Right Council or Human Rights in Ireland should definitely attend these  meetings. I am going to try and attend the Cork meeting and will try and tweet from it. The Minister for Justice and Equality, Alan Shatter T.D. and the Minister of State for Disability, Equality and Mental Health, Kathleen Lynch T.D. are inviting members of the public and organisations to take part in public consultation meetings to...

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We The Citizens

April 12, 2011
By Stephen
We The Citizens

We The Citizens launched today. Its an interesting idea that is trying to get people to stand up and get involved to change Ireland. They plan to hold a National Citizens Assembly in June following events in n Kilkenny, Cork, Galway, Athlone, Letterkenny and Dublin. I shall be attending the event in Cork. We The Citizens plans on keeping the pressure on politicians to reform our country for the better and ensure that they keep their promises. It will be an interesting...

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Funny Posters

February 21, 2011
By Stephen
Vote for that shower?

I noticed  on the way to work a number of interesting posters that have made an appearance! So today I decided to take my camera with me on the way to work. Here are the pictures that I took! Some people have a great sense of humour! Know of more funny posters? Leave a link in comments!

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Irish Examiner\Red C – Cork South Central Poll

February 16, 2011
By Stephen
Irish Examiner\Red C – Cork South Central Poll

The 2nd constituency in Cork to polled this week after Cork North Central’s poll on Monday for the Irish Times. The Irish Examiner commissioned a phone survey of 500 voters in Cork South Central. The results are as follows: Simon Coveney (FG) 19%; Micheál Martin (FF) 18%; Ciarán Lynch (Lab) 14%; Michael McGrath (FF) 9%; Jerry Buttimer (FG) 9%; Deirdre Clune (FG) 8%; Chris O’Leary (SF) 8%; Paula Desmond (Lab) 5%; Michael Finn (Ind) 5%; Dan Boyle (GP) 3%;...

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Crash at Cork Airport

February 10, 2011
By Stephen
Crash at Cork Airport

A crash happened this morning before 10am at Cork Airport. Manx2 Flight NM7100 from Belfast to Cork crashed in fog on its third attempt to land. 6 people have been confirmed dead. 12 people were on board the plane. The Airport is currently closed. All arriving  flights have been diverted to Shannon, all departing flights have been cancelled. Ryanair’s flights will be operating to and from Shannon. All travellers are advised to check with their airline before making alternative arrangements. All...

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ABC v Ireland (European Court of Human Rights)

December 16, 2010
By Stephen
ABC v Ireland (European Court of Human Rights)

Image via Wikipedia Today the European Court of Human Rights (not an EU body!) handed down its judgement on the case of ABC v Ireland on the issue of provision of Abortion in Ireland. As kind of expected the court declared A and B inadmissible as the existing prohibition on abortion in Ireland struck a fair balance between the right of the first and second applicants to respect of their private lives and the rights invoked on behalf of...

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Voting Rights for the Irish Diaspora?

October 5, 2010
By Stephen
Voting Rights for the Irish Diaspora?

Image via Wikipedia The Irish Left Review picked up on an EU survey by GlobalIrish.ie on emigrant voting rights. Ireland is the only country in the 20 surveyed to have to voting rights for Diaspora or plans to bring it in. Greece is being forced to bring it in after a ruling by the ECHR. Will an Irish emigrant bring a case to try and force Ireland to change? Shouldn’t we change anyway? European Country – Vote at national...

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