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The most important question you’ve ever been asked by us! Dear Readers, ‘Changing Ireland’ would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your superb support and contributions to our publications past, present and future. If you appreciate getting ‘Changing Ireland’ we ask only one thing of you - contact us if you would like to continue receiving ‘Changing Ireland’ by post! To confirm your contact details, email us (admin@changingireland.ie), phone (061-458090) or if it’s easier text us today (086-8591676): ESSENTIAL Name: Organisation name (voluntary or paid): Address: Email: APPRECIATED Work phone number: Website: Twitter name: In true Troika-era style, readers who put off the job of resubmitting their details risk being dropped from our mailing list!! And if you would prefer to receive the magazine by email, just say the word. As always we welcome your ideas, suggestions and stories. Email, phone or text us today! Yours Sincerely, Allen Meagher Editor ‘Changing Ireland’
‘Changing Ireland’ on the telly, twice! RTE’s Winning Streak on Saturday night, April 6th, featured ‘Changing Ireland’, managing to showcase 13 years of work in 2.5 minutes. Here’s the link: http://bit.ly/145cX08 In featuring us, the programme also highlighted the business acumen of LCDP beneficiary, Martin Conroy who with his wife Deborah set up the ‘Exploration Dome’. The story featured on the front cover of ‘Changing Ireland’ recently and has been republished by others since. ‘Changing Ireland’ then featured on RTE’s Dragon’s Den the following evening when one of the aspiring entrepreneurs used our front cover cartoon to try and prise €30,000 from the dragons (Link: http://bit.ly/YGwAHF). It was our muckiest cover yet and featured a cartoon version of Tina Reid shovelling horse manure into a money-making machine. Although Tina didn’t get funding from the dragons, she told us afterwards she was delighted with the positive feedback that followed her appearance. In the meantime, Tina has secured paid work once again while continuing to follow her dream. * The National Lottery part-funds ‘Changing Ireland’ through the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. – Alice Walker, US community activist.
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Changing Ireland June / July 2013