What is the seminar about…? The European Anti Poverty Network Ireland, with the support of the Department of Foreign Affairs, will hold a lunchtime resource seminar on Tuesday February 8th 2011 on applying for EU funding opportunities. Many community and voluntary groups have expressed concern about the difficulties of understanding and availing of sometimes complex [...]
Cairde encourages women from ethnic minorities to take free smear tests as a part of CervicalCheck programme for women between 25-60 years old. Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women under 44 worldwide. Each year, 500,000 new cases of invasive cervical cancer are diagnosed globally and more than 250,000 women die from [...]
The Minister for Community, Equality, and Gaeltacht Affairs, Pat Carey T.D., today (21 January, 2011) urged voluntary organisations which provide family counselling services to apply now to the Family Support Agency for funding under their 2011 scheme of grants. Speaking today, Minister Carey said “this funding is used to help people deal with difficulties they [...]
The Minister for Equality, Integration and Human Rights, Mary White TD, today, January 18th, chaired a meeting of the Inter-Departmental Group on Integration. The meeting was convened to discuss the output of the inaugural meetings of the Ministerial Council on Integration. Representatives from nine Departments/offices were present at the meeting. Commenting on the meeting, Minister [...]
Cinema North West warmly invites you to the New Roots film festival in the Dock Arts Centre, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co Leitrim. The festival will be launched by Hans Wieland who moved to the North West of Ireland with his family in 1985 and established Neantóg Farmhouse Cheeses. He has been a teacher and worker at The [...]
Migrant Writers Association Ireland (MWAI) in association with the MPhil in Race, Ethnicity, Conflict programme of the School of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin is organising a meeting to discuss MWAI’s inauguration Date: Monday, 31 January, 2011 Time: 6pm – 7:30pm Venue: Swift Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin To confirm your attendance, please contact: [...]
Information note on the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination – upcoming examination of Ireland. The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) is the body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination by its State parties. Under [...]
The Migrant Writers Association Ireland (MWAI) is a new highly professional not- for-profit network bringing together both established and budding migrant writers in Ireland to provide another voice to contemporary Irish literary landscape. The association provides a forum for migrant writers to articulate their experiences by encouraging high-rate creative productions in a positive and dynamic [...]
Lord Mayor’s Award Who should get the Lord Mayor’s Award this year? Since 1989 the Lord Mayor’s Awards have honoured individuals and groups who have made a special contribution to Dublin and its citizens either at a local or city wide level. These Awards are Dublin city’s way of acknowledging and congratulating the extraordinary work [...]
The Minister for Equality, Integration and Human Rights, Mary White, has today announced details of a new migrant media internship programme for local or regional newspapers which is to be funded by the Office of the Minister for Integration. The new programme will see the Office of the Minister for Integration fund two six month [...]
