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Call to End Direct Provision Shelter for Victims of Trafficking
Report urges shelving ‘unsuitable’ accommodation for vulnerable refugee group Chief executive of the Immigrant Council of Ireland Denise Charlton said direct provision was not an appreciated place for trafficking victims. Photograph: The Irish Times By Pamela Duncan The practice of placing victims of trafficking in…
Author: The Irish Times
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RTÉ.ie Video: Irish welcome does not always extend to migrants
RTE.ie news interviewed the Immigrant Council of Ireland’s Catherine Cosgrave, Senior Solicitor and Nusha Yonkova, Anti-Trafficking Project Coordinator and others on the launch of MIPEX in Ireland. The Migrant Integration Policy Index (MIPEX) research measures the commitment of governments to integration and monitors its…
Author: RTE.ie News
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Pensioners given the voice to fight against fuel poverty
Original Source Age Sector Platform is an Atlantic grantee. Photo: CAMPAIGN: Bill Carson, Alison McElhinney and Phil Evans at the age sector platform PICTURE: Hugh Russell FIFTY-ONE per cent of all households experiencing fuel poverty in Northern Ireland are pensioner households. In Northern Ireland almost…
Author: Irish News
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Chuck Feeney donates €15 million to fight child poverty
In keeping with Atlantic Founding Chairman Charles F. Feeney’s Giving While Living approach to philanthropy, Atlantic will conclude its grantmaking by 2016 with the objective of addressing big urgent problems– with maximum impact – in a limited timeframe. This article looks at an example of…
Author: The Irish Times
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Intergenerational Bond Keeping Families Afloat During the Recession – New Report Finds
NUI Galway’s Professor Thomas Scharf; TCD Professor Virpi Timonen; Author, Roisin Ingle; Dr Catherine Conlon, and Gemma Carney, NUI Galway Family networks and a strong bond between young and old are keeping many Irish people afloat during the recession, according to new research on the…
Author: NUI Galway
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TASC Report: "Courage vital if we are to build flourishing and decent society"
Fergus O’Ferrall OPINION: Those who have power to change have not the will and those with the desire remain powerless ‘Irish society is being challenged to little less than to remould itself.” This was stated by President Michael D Higgins when launching a book of essays…
Author: The Irish Times
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SpunOut.ie Launches ‘Super Hero Grants’ Youth Civic Grants Scheme
Ireland needs some super-heroes to save the day and the pioneering web driven youth organisation SpunOut.ie is today starting a quest to find them. SpunOut.ie, which provides information, support and opportunities to over 500,000 young people each year, is launching a unique new micro-grant scheme…
Author: SpunOut.ie
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Saving Childhood Ryan - Eight Irish Organisations Fighting for Children Together
Barnardos, CRA, IAYPIC and ISPCC join forces in Ireland today to fight for children. Dublin, Ireland, 20 May 2010 – Eight organisations concerned with child protection have united to launch the Saving Childhood Ryan campaign on the first anniversary of the Ryan Report today. One…
Author: Saving Childhood Ryan
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Secret diaries reveal the real Bertie
A WORKAHOLIC, devout Catholic, sports obsessive who seldom went in front of the cameras without his make-up on. This is just part of the picture painted by the, until now, secret diaries of Bertie Ahern. The former Taoiseach‘s official appointments diaries, released for the first…
Author: Irish Independent
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The Irish-American Billionaire Who Gave Away His Fortune
Chuck Feeney with Ed Walsh, then president of University of Limerick, and Frank Rhodes, president of Cornell, meeting in Plessy House, Limerick, in 1988 at the beginning of a process that would translate into hundreds of millions for higher education in Ireland. Chuck Feeney, ‘the…
Author: The Irish Times