Information
PPN re-registration: the PPN is required to re-register its member groups, to ensure data is up-to-date and reliable. Dublin City PPN will be starting a re-registration process within the next few days. The primary contacts of member groups will be sent an email, about re-registration, and we ask that the primary contacts please follow the instructions in this email. Thank you for your help with this.
PPN Member Group, the Liberties Community Project were delighted to submit to the Clean Air Strategy 2025 public consultation. They said, “our submission is grounded in the lived experience of residents of Dublin 8, informed by local research, community-led data collection, and national and international evidence. It highlights the close connection between air quality, housing conditions, traffic exposure, access to green space and health inequality in inner-city communities. Communities like the Liberties often experience a disproportionate environmental burden, despite contributing least to the causes of air pollution. We hope our contribution supports the development of a Clean Air Strategy that is equitable, place-based and responsive to these realities. We would welcome further engagement, discussion or participation in pilot initiatives arising from the Strategy — particularly those focused on hyper-local air-quality monitoring, community-led greening, improved housing quality and clean-mobility measures. Thank you to all involved for the opportunity to contribute to this important process.”
New PPN member group, the 1916 Relatives Association held their Annual Easter Rising Commemoration in the Garden of Remembrance on 04 April and would like to share some video footage of the event. You can access the YouTube video here.
Applications for the 2026 Community Safety Fund now open: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration, Jim O’Callaghan opened this year’s nationwide funding call for applications to the 2026 Community Safety Fund. Applications are open from 13 April until 5.00pm on 18 May. Further information about the application process here.
The Dublin Learning City Festival is a wonderful opportunity for individuals, organisations, and groups to showcase their passion for lifelong learning and contribute to the vibrant learning community in Dublin. The festival will take place from Wednesday, 22nd to Saturday, 25th April 2026. If you would like to host an event or have one already planned, please submit your application online byWednesday, 15th April 2026, at 5.00pm and the submission form is here.
Lord Mayor of Dublin, Cllr Ray McAdam, launched a NearFM literacy series, called, Mad About Media recently. NearFM worked with students, who challenged themselves to limiting their screen time, using their screens in black and white, and substituting Smart Phones for brick phones, NearFM invite PPN members to listen to the podcast here.
The Lord Mayor of Dublin invites PPN member groups, to nominate individuals from their groups, for a Lord Mayor’s Award. The nominations can be of people who “go the extra mile”. Those people who are the unsung heroes in the clubs, schools, among the communities and within our homes. The Lord Mayor’s Award wishes to celebrate the local horoes, the people who are the first to turn up, who stay until the end, who get things started and keep them going. These are the people who make lives better, because of what they do for others. You can nominate people or a Lord Mayor’s Award here.
Save the Dates
The next PPN Plenary will be held on Thursday 21 May from 6.30pm – 8.30pm Details and registration for this hybrid event will open soon.
Capacity Building Training
The 2026 PPN/DCU Summer School will be held at the DCU Glasnevin Campus, and online, from Monday 25 May to Thursday 28 May. The excellent sessions will be delivered by the lecturers and staff of DCU, and there will be plenty of time for networking with other member groups from all four Dublin PPNs: Dublin City, Dún Laoghaire Rathdown, South Dublin County and Fingal. Registration for your FREE places will open soon.
Technology University Dublin (TU), would like to share information about its Social Economy and Development course details with PPN member groups. The closing date for applications is 04 July and you can contact Dr Gerard Doyle for further information. Further information about the course and application process here.
Updates from PPN Representatives and Secretariat
The PPN Secretariat meet online for monthly meetings, and at the April meeting they agreed minutes from March and February, which you can access here. They also agreed the 2026 workplan summary of Q1, which you can read online here. The next Secretariat meeting will be held on the second Tuesday of May, please email PPN staff if you have any issues you would like the Secretariat to discuss.
The PPN Disability Thematic Group (DTG) will be marking #MakeWayDay on 29 May. If you would like to work with the DTG to organise an event for #MakeWayDay please get in touch with Mick Keegan and Martin Hoey. The DTG meet on the second Tuesday of the month (online), and all PPN member groups, connected to disability issues are welcome.
The PPN has almost one-thousand-member groups in the network, and it’s from these groups that 20 PPN Representatives are nominated and elected to sit on Dublin City Council Committees. You can subscribe to the Strategic Policy Committee (SPC) meetings you are interested in (for example, housing, planning, mobility and the public realm, economic development, finance, climate or culture) and you will be sent a reminder when the next meeting takes place. You watch the meetings live or from the archive here.
