Updates from the PPN
A night of participation, progress and possibility! Plenary highlights from the Mansion House on 22 May 2025 here. Access to all the lovely photographs from the night here.
PPN/DCU Summer School highlights, videos, slides and other assets on the Resources Section of the PPN Website here. Photos from the Closing Ceremony and Networking Lunch to come…
Events and General Information
The Sanctuary invite you to come to one of their many June events in person and online, and you can access their full calendar for the month of June here. The Sanctuary offers yoga, meditation, breath work, and more. You can try some of their taster classes at the Stoneybatter Festival on Friday 13 June and Saturday 14 June and you can read more information here.
Trinity College Dublin (TCD) invite you to celebrate Creative Brain Week through music, performance, visual art exhibitions, interventions and installations to demonstrate the brain in action! You can read their full programme of activities here.
Community Climate Action Fund Information Session on 12 June at the Northside Civic Centre from 6.30pm – 8.00pm. Community groups and organisations are invited to come along to this information session to learn about the scheme, how to apply, eligible projects and what supports are available. Refreshments provided! Please fill out the registration form here. Communities are encouraged to act under the following themes: community energy, travel, food and waste, shopping and recycling, local climate and environmental action.
The Takemusu Aikido Society invite men from the PPN to attend the FREE Aikido classes for men, to mark Men’s Health Week on Monday 09 June and Wednesday 11 June at Ringsend and Irishtown Community Centre. You can find out more about the classes here. Aikido is a modern Japanese martial art, rooted in traditional kenjutsu and jujutsu styles, which emphasises throws, pins, and joint locks with a few striking techniques.
Age Friendly have extended their closing date for applications for this year’s National Age Friendly Recognition and Achievement Awards 2025. The closing date is now Friday 06 June and you can complete the application form here.
The 5th O’Czytani Literary Festival will take place in Dublin from 06 – 08 June, and aims to celebrate Polish-Irish culture, through literature, creativity and connection. The festival includes sessions on publishing, creative writing, author talks, outdoor photography workshops, a book fair and a tango show! The festival closes with a concert to showcase Polish-Irish vocal talents. Almost all the events are free, and you can register with Eventbrite here.
Updates from the PPN Representatives and the PPN Secretariat
The Public Participation Network (PPN) is a network of groups and organisations interested in local authority decision making. It is a network of groups and organisations, who share information and access capacity building training, but the core work of the PPN is the committee and sub-committee work with Dublin City Council.
If you belong to a member group and are interested in learning more about the core work of the network, you can learn most by watching the committee meetings in practice. Each committee has PPN representatives, who represent you – the member groups.
You can access the meetings live or from the archives here.
You can access your full list of Representatives here
The PPN pillar working groups are places where the PPN representatives will feed back to the wider PPN, and feed forward any concerns, comments or questions you have about policy issues and development, within the SPC areas. You can contact your representative through the pillar working groups, and we hope these hubs will support and invigorate our representatives.
Please follow the Dublin City PPN on our social media channels of Facebook and LinkedIn and you can find us at @dublincityppn
