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PPN Bulletin

A big thank you to Dr Rory Hearne for being the guest speaker at last night’s *Last Thursday of the Month Members’ Meet-Up: all about housing*.  Thanks also to our housing reps, Áine Wellard and Dr Kevin Bryne for contributing to the evening, and as always, thanks to Rachel Rooney for facilitating. 

The next Last Thursday is Thursday 28 April and further details to follow. 

The Last Thursday of May will be held in St Patrick’s Cathedral, for our Plenary.

Dublin Learning City Festival 04 – 06 April

This year’s Dublin Learning City Festival takes place from 4 – 6 April and the festival will include a diverse number of FREE in person and online activities for all ages and interests.  Further information here.

Dublin City Council Open Consultations

For a full list of the open Dublin City Council consultations, please go here.

Ideally, people will be completing consultations as individuals, in groups and then within PPN linkage groups and via SPC reps.  If you would like to bring attention to a specific open consultation, please email Ruth, and ask her to circulate the link.

Strategic Policy Committee (SPC) meetings

If you would like to see your elected representatives in action and would like to learn more about what goes on in the SPC meetings, you can watch the meetings live or recorded here: 

You can see a full list of your Dublin City PPN representatives here.

PPN Communications

Please follow Dublin City PPN on Facebook and Twitter if you can, and feel free to browse through our website. 

Dublin City PPN is hosted by Dublin City Volunteer Centre, and you can find out more about their work and activities here.

Please contact Ruth on or Beatriz on if you have any questions, comments, thoughts or suggestions.

Strength in using a common structure.

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