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Dublin City PPN welcomes home all the Irish people recently detained for attempting to deliver humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza, including, Sarah Clancy who is the coordinator of the Clare PPN, and Diarmuid MacDubhghlais, who is the former PPN Representative on the Housing SPC, from member group, Meeting Place Club. Welcome home.
On 07 October, the PPN gave a presentation to Ms Kata Tüttő, President of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR), about the PPN and the Leipzig Declaration. You can read a summary of this presentation here. The PPN were also at the SICAP conference in Athlone on 02 October, and you can read a summary of that event here.
Social Justice Ireland (SJI) will offer analysis and critique of Budget 2026 in Buswell’s Hotel from 11.00am 08 October onwards. You can read updates, summaries and comments on the budget on their website here or on the SJI social media channels of X, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn or BlueSky.
The Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment (DCEE), invite PPN member groups to participate in a consultation on Ireland’s Social Climate Plan. The open public consultation was launched on 11 September and will close on 23 October. If you would like to know more about how to write impactful submissions for public consultations, come along to either our in-person or online training session with Clare O’Connor on 23 October. You can find further details here.
Amal Women Ireland invite you to an event called, “The Community Profile of Muslim Women in Ireland and Needs Analysis”, which will present the findings of research, highlight the experiences of Muslim women, and provide a platform for how people can work together to support and empower the community. You can read more about Amal Women in Ireland here. The meeting takes place on Wednesday 15 October, from 10.00am – 2.00pm in the Maldron Hotel, Tallaght.
Love Actually invite you to celebrate the mid-autumn festival as part of China’s 2025 Ministry of Culture and Tourism series, “A Moonmoment to Remember” on Saturday October 11, from 1.00pm – 4.00pm at the National Gallery of Ireland. You can read more about this festival and event here.
Friends of the Elderly invite you to read their recently launched report, “Loneliness among older men in western and eastern Europe”, which you can download here. The PPN plenary on 20 November, will be held at the premises of Friends of the Elderly, and more about that event to come shortly…watch this space!
Mental Health Ireland invites you to celebrate world mental health day on Friday 10 October, at the Complex Venue, to listen to four Dublin choirs sharing songs and stories of recovery, resilience and community. More information here.
Smashing Times are delighted to launch their Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival from 10 October – 19 October and the full brochure can be downloaded here.
All Together in Dignity (ATD), invite you to celebrate the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, on 17 October, from 11.00am – 12.30pm at the Human Rights and Poverty Stone, on Custom House Quay. Refreshments afterwards. #addthe10th
PPN Training and Support Sessions
PPN Member Groups are invited to FREE PPN training sessions this autumn, where you can learn new skills, network with other member groups, and share your own experiences.
Funding and Grant Writing Tips with Evelyn Fitzpatrick
This session is designed for those who are new to writing grant applications or those who would like feedback on applications they are currently completing.
09 October, 7.00pm – 8.30pm online on zoom. Further information here.
13 October, at Carmichael from 10.00am – 12.30pm further information here.
You can access a full list of Community Funding Opportunities including the Funding Point Local Access October – November 2025 listings here.
You can access the full programme of the PPN autumn season of training sessions here.
Updates from PPN Representatives, and Secretariat
The main aims of the PPN are to offer information and capacity building training to member groups, so that they can more actively participate in local authority decision making. To that end, the PPN has 21 representatives on seven Dublin City Council Strategic Policy Committees (SPCs), and the Local Community Development Committee (LCDC).
Each representative comes from a pillar: the community and voluntary pillar or the social inclusion pillar, or the environmental pillar. And these pillars have working groups. Consultant facilitator, Ellenora Lynch is offering support sessions to each of these pillar working groups throughout the autumn.
The Environmental Pillar Working Group meetings are here.
The Community and Voluntary Pillar Working Group meetings are here.
The Social Inclusion Pillar Working Group meetings are (to be confirmed)
The LCDC working group meetings are here.
You can watch the PPN Representatives in their committee meetings on the webTV live, or from the archive here.
All pillar working groups, will be feed back to the Plenary meeting on 20 November, at the Friends of the Elderly offices, on Bolton Street.
