Skip to content

PPN Bulletin – happy new year to all.

The image above is of Dublin city centre. There is a LUAS, the spire and giant letters in blue, spelling out the word Dublin.

Happy New Year to our PPN member groups, our PPN Representatives, our Secretariat, our host (Dublin City Volunteer Centre) and our colleagues in Dublin City Council and the Department of Rural and Community Development.

We hope that you had a restful and enjoyable break and are looking forward to the year ahead.

The PPN has much planned for 2026, and we hope that you will get involved in some of our activities.  We will be developing and delivering some wonderful training programmes, we will be organising two plenaries (in May and November), and we will be supporting our excellent PPN Representatives in their work, on the Strategic Policy Committees (SPCs), within Dublin City Council.

Please do share the bulletins with other people in your networks and groups, and please do come along to our online and in-person meetings and training sessions.

You are always welcome to come along to the “New Members Meet-Up:  an introduction to the PPN on the last Tuesday of the month”, to learn all about the PPN.  It doesn’t matter if you’re new, or not so new – this one hour, online, general introduction session is for member groups that have recently joined the PPN.  But the session is also for people who would like a refresher or reminder about the core work of the PPN.  Our next New Members Meet-Up is on Tuesday 27 January, from 7.00pm – 8.00pm and you can email Siobhán for the zoom link.  ()

All are welcome.

There’s plenty of work to be done, but for the moment, let’s enjoy the beginning of the new year. 

We wish you health, wellness and happiness. 

We hope to see you soon.

Latest News

PPN Bulletin

Information Family Carers Ireland would like to share its report, “Family Carers Cutting Back on Food and Heating as Cost of Caring Deepens” with PPN member groups.  The report captures …

PPN Bulletin

Information Nina Tryhorn and Colm McMann, from the Dublin City Volunteer Centre (DCVC),  met some PPN member groups at the recent PPN Plenary.  They would love a chance to speak …

PPN Bulletin

Information A big, enormous thank you to all those PPN member groups that got involved with activities and events throughout April and May.  Many thanks to the Migrant/Minority Thematic Group …

PPN Bulletin

Information 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 …

PPN Bulletin

Events The PPN staff were once again on the Lifeline radio programme on NearFM, with John Connell, this morning (Wednesday 13 May), promoting the PPN, the work of the PPN …