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New Irish citizens will have to swear oath of fidelity
This Irish Times article gives an overview of key changes that were recently made to improve the citizenship application procedure. Several Atlantic grantees have been advocating for these improvements for many years, including the Immigrant Council of Ireland, which recently published Living in Limbo, a report on…
Author: The Irish Times
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Coming to a TV Screen Near You
A very exciting development for the Citizenship Programme and the thousands of young people who participate in the programme every year, is that, for the first time ever, the extraordinary work that young people undertake in the community as part of the permanent tsb Foróige Youth…
Author: Foróige
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Study to examine cross-border care
The Centre for Cross Border Studies is an Atlantic grantee. A new cross-border study will revisit the controversial Teamwork report that recommended just one public hospital in the northeast with 24/7 clinical services. As staff in the region are digesting the news that emergency services,…
Author: Irish Medical Times
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The Centre for Cross Border Studies Yearbook - Year 6
The Centre for Cross Border Studies, now in its 6th Year of operation, has had another busy and productive twelve months. Under the leadership of director Andy Pollak, the Centre’s expanded team has taken on a range of new challenges. These range from a major…
Author: The Centre for Cross Border Studies
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Call to improve care for elderly
Doctors throughout Ireland and the North have called on the Government and Stormont to dramatically improve standards of care for older people. The British Medical Association Northern Ireland and the Irish Medical Organisation yesterday set out recommendations which, they say, would have a significant impact…
Author: Irish Times
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Introducing Atlantic Currents
Since the announcement a few months ago of my appointment as President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, I’ve had an unusual opportunity to hear what many people know – and don’t know – about us. Some only know that we were once the “anonymous…
Author: Gara LaMarche
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Call to give child benefit to asylum seekers
Payment of child benefit should be restored for children of asylum seekers to ensure families can have a basic standard of living, the head of the State’s advisory body on racism said yesterday. Philip Watt, of the National Consultative Committee on Racism and Interculturalism, said…
Author: The Irish Times
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Can Philanthropy Work Effectively With Government?
By Richard Boyle Head of Research, Publishing and Corporate Relations, Institute of Public Administration There is a growing interest in how government and philanthropic organisations can work together to achieve social goals. Working together is not a straightforward task. Governments and philanthropies have different perspectives…
Author: European Foundation Centre
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What Chuck Feeney’s Fistful of Dollars Did for Education
By 2016 philanthropist Chuck Feeney will have given €1.5 billion to education projects in Ireland. A weighty new photographic book illustrates his generosity here and abroad. Schoolchildren in Cape Town visit Robben Island; the island’s visitor centre is funded by Atlantic Philanthropies. Photograph by Magnum…
Author: The Irish Times
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Making the Most of Our Final Years – An Update
We are now squarely on the trajectory that our founder, Chuck Feeney, and Atlantic’s Board of Directors established for us in 2002: to conclude all of our grantmaking by 2016. The objective was, and continues to be, to solve urgent and major problems – with…
Author: Christopher G. Oechsli, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies
