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A final, gentle reminder that you are more than welcome to register for the PPN Summer Networking Event tomorrow (Thursday 21 May, 6.30pm – 8.30pm). It’s at the Deanery Mews, behind St Patrick’s Cathedral, or online. You are also still welcome to register for the PPN/DCU Summer School next week! Come along to in-person sessions in the mornings or online sessions in the evenings, to find out more about the PPN, network with other member groups, and have some fun!
All details are on the Events Section of our website here.
The PPN Disability Thematic Group (DTG) invite you to come along to their event on Friday 29 May to mark #makewayday The event is from 9.30am – 12.30pm at Finglas Youth Resource Centre and refreshments will be provided. This event is part of Dublin City’s “A thriving city of all festival 2026”, which pays particular focus to those who may face barriers to social inclusion, including young people, older people, people living with disabilities, members of the Traveller Community, migrants and other communities across the city. You can find out more about “A Thriving City for all Festival 2026” here.
Sensing Climate is placing disabled people at the forefront of the climate crisis. Sensing Climate is aiming to develop disability-inclusive climate adaptation. Sensing Climate seeks to create safe, enabling and caring spaces to support human exchange and connection. They are bringing people together to explore opportunities to make life better and more socially inclusive, through responses to the climate crisis, rather than deepening or creating new forms of inequality and injustice. Find out more about Sensing Climate here.
Updates from the PPN Representatives and Secretariat
There’s no better way to find out what the PPN Representatives do, than to watch one of the SPC meetings on the Dublin City public i-tv webcast live here.
Below please note a short list of the nearest up-and-coming SPC meetings, with the names of your PPN Representatives on those committees.
Please email if you would like to talk to your PPN Representatives about issues on the agendas, at these meetings.
Wednesday 20 May Climate Action and Urban Resilience SPC
Ann Canning, Donore Project Consultative Forum
Áine Wellard, Terenure Community Support and Integration.
Thursday 21 May Finance SPC
Susan Whelan from Greenfield Park Residents Association
Siobhán Guyatt from Ballymun Community Law Centre
Monday 25 May Community, Gaelige, Sport, Arts and Culture SPC
Brian Greene from Dublin Community TV
Sorcha Keane from Axis Ballymun
Wednesday 27 May Mobility and Public Realm SPC
Dr Robbie Sinnott from Voice of Vision Impairment
Zoe Baker from Our Street
You can access the meetings live or from the archive here.
And finally…
Susan Whelan, from the Finance SPC is trying to talk to people who might have had challenging experiences using the soft wear SPACEHIVE. If you have had difficulties with this platform, please email the PPN staff, and we will forward your mail to Susan, or speak to her at the Summer Networking Event (plenary) tomorrow night.
