Results List
-
Atlantic Philanthropies Gives €138m Grant to Tackle Dementia
Source: The Irish Times
By Carl O'Brien Atlantic Philanthropies is to give €138 million – its largest grant to date – to Trinity College Dublin and University of California San Francisco to help tackle the looming dementia epidemic. Almost 50,000 people are living with dementia in Ireland, a number which is projected…
Resource type: News
-
New Research Project Brings Hope to 8 Million Children in the World's Orphanages
Source: Lumos
A new research partnership between J.K. Rowling’s international children’s organisation Lumos and a world-renowned Irish university will increase global momentum to transform the lives of children living separated from their families in orphanages. An estimated eight million children worldwide live in institutions and so-called orphanages,…
Resource type: News
-
€30 Million Funding Boost for Dementia Care
Source: The Irish Times
Philanthropist Charles F. “Chuck “ Feeney being conferred an Honorary Degree jointly by the Universities of Ireland North and South at a ceremony in Dublin Castle. Mr Feeney’s Atlantic Philanthropies is making grants totalling €14.7 million to improve the wellbeing of people with dementia in…
Resource type: News
-
Children's Rights Alliance Report Card 2014: System Change Started But Many Children Still Out In the Cold
Source: Children's Rights Alliance
The Children’s Rights Alliance today published the sixth in their annual series of Report Cards. The Report Card grades Government’s performance on issues and policies affecting children against their own stated commitments in the Programme for Government 2011-2016. The Government receives an overall C grade this year, reflecting…
Resource type: News
-
Children's Rights Alliance Report Card 2013: Is the Irish Government Keeping Its Promises to Children?
Source: Children's Rights Alliance
The Fine Gael/Labour Coalition Government has been awarded an overall C grade today (18 February) in the Children’s Rights Alliance’s Report Card 2013 – a slight drop in grade from last year’s C+ grade. In a year that saw a Children’s Rights Referendum and key…
Resource type: News
-
Vital YES vote in Children's Referendum Welcomed by Alliance
Source: Children's Rights Alliance
Photo: Children's Rights AllianceIn an unprecedented step, Ireland has voted by referendum to change its Constitution to strengthen children's rights and better protect children. After nearly 20 years of vigorous campaigning for constitutional reform, the Children's Rights Alliance is delighted to finally welcome the passing…
Resource type: News
-
Dublin’s Joint Policing Committee Opens Its Door to Migrants
Source: TheJournal.ie
Zephyrin Ngaliema Mukoko, the first migrant to be given a reserved place on the joint policing committee. (Image: Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)A representative of the migrant community in Ireland, Zéphyrin Ngaliema Mukoko, today joined Dublin’s Joint Policing Committee, a move that is part of a plan…
Resource type: News
-
Kinsale Pilot Project Hoping to Reform Dementia Services
Source: Irish Times
By Barry Roche, Southern CorrespondentA €4.3 MILLION pilot project catering for more than 2,000 people with dementia has the potential to divert thousands of people with the condition away from institutional care and allow them to continuing living in their communities.According to the founding director…
Resource type: News
-
New Thinking Needed to Promote Active Ageing
Source: Irish Times
By Anne Connolly Opinion: In Ireland and throughout the developed world, people are living longer and healthier lives.Every decade, life expectancy is increasing by 2.5 years. At least half of the babies born today in Ireland are likely to live to be 100. The Central Statistics Office…
Resource type: News
-
Constitutional Review Body Must Prioritise Inclusivity
Source: The Irish Times
By Michele BrandtOPINION: The Taoiseach has announced that Ireland is going to have a “constitutional convention”, which will examine the options for reform on a range of issues: review of the electoral system; reducing the presidential term to five years and aligning it with local and…
Resource type: News