Community Work: Protecting and Enhancing Democracy and Rights

Mark McClatchey, our Projects Coordinator, attended yesterday’s event in Dublin organised by the All Ireland Endorsement Body for Community Work Education & Training and Community Work Ireland.

The programme had a line-up of great guest speakers including Manus Maguire from Cliftonville Community Regeneration Forum who spoke on the importance of relationship building in the community.

Plus Marie Louise Byrne of Wexford Local Development, Balume Armstrong Dube of Donegal Intercultural Platform, Professor Jennie Stephens of Maynooth University and Lynsey and Martin from Pavee Point.

The theme was “Community Work: Protecting and Enhancing Democracy and Rights for a Socially Inclusive Ireland and Europe” and it was an associated event of the Irish Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2026.