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THE INTERNATIONAL FUND for Ireland has confirmed financial assistance of €5m that it says “will support peace building, integration and reconciliation projects in Northern Ireland and the six southern border counties”.
The fund is an independent international organisation that was established in 1986 by the British and Irish governments. So far it has provided almost €840m to a wide variety of projects and says these projects “focus on promoting social and economic advance and creating the conditions for Unionists and Nationalists to learn, work and live together as part of a peaceful and shared future”.
The international donors to the fund are the European Union and the Governments of the United States of America, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Peace walls
One of the interventions to benefit from the funding is the Peace Walls Programme.
This first tranche of funding totals €1.45m and Dr Adrian Johnston, chairman of the fund, said:
The Peace Walls Programme will allow communities to progress at their own pace and tackle local issues with local solutions. The fund will also liaise with government departments and other funders to help communities to lever additional funding for the physical removal of peace walls and any associated infrastructure and community regeneration needs when the required levels of confidence have been established through the programme.
The latest funding package covers the final allocation of funding through the Integrating Community Organisations Programme of a further €1,346,111. This will see 11 new cross-border/cross-community projects funded.
Additional funding was also approved to extend four existing projects aimed at developing strong relationships in areas where there has been limited cross-community interaction.
Programmes
The Community Based Economic and Social Regeneration Programme will provide €618,285 in additional assistance to extend or enhance five projects.
A further €228,600 has also been provided for additional training and mentoring for groups who participated in the Maximising Community Space Programme.
The Community Leadership Programme will receive up to €779,000 to continue building leadership and management capacity in community-based organisations and networks.
The Leaving a Legacy Programme will receive €417,373. The YMCA Lurgan will receive support towards youth and community relations activity.
Holywell Trust, in conjunction with a number of other community and community relations organisations in Derry, will receive funding to help develop new facilities that support and promote community relations efforts.
Ten pre-schools in counties Cavan and Monaghan will benefit from additional funding of €39,954 for the Respecting Differences Programme, while €180,000 has been committed towards the Community Relations in Schools (CRIS) Programme.
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For legal reasons the following may or may not have happened :) I was once in a Nissan bluebird where an entire under 16 football team was being brought to a match because the bus never turned up. 7 in the back seat sitting on knees, 3 on the front passenger seat and 5 in the boot, two lying down tight to the back seat and 3 sitting across the boot opening, boot was left open. We got there and we won :)
@Pat Maher: Love it Pat. Brilliant!!!
‘Maybe they were making a trunk call’ Ouuu! A real zinger than one! The lads down the station must have been falling around the place laughing.
@Nicky O’Donnell: Now they want to be comedians on top of everything !!
Surely should have been boot-y call
@Nicky O’Donnell: and then it went on social meeja, it was class
I had eight in a starlet once
@P.J. Nolan: Your mother must be so proud !
@Shane Freeney:
Ha ha, maybe I could have worded that better….
When I was in school our PE teacher brought the full U’12 football team to an away match in his Fiat Ritmo.
@Nick Allen:
Many a underage team went through that particular ritual.
Seriously? They posted that on Twitter?!
Keystone cops.
Would expect nothing less from a yaris driver, across the board yaris drivers are the worst drivers on the road.
@Let free speech live: Was this your postgraduate thesis?
@Let free speech live: I’d like a journal fact check on this, please
@Let free speech live: up the yaris!
@Let free speech live: Thank god someone else thinks that, I thought I was the only one. What is it about them?!
@Let free speech live: Not true.
It’s the Nissan Micra drivers that hold that accolade.
@Dave Sherman: same class of driver but more yaris drivers than micra drivers around.
@Neal Ireland Hello.: It was actually and it was very well received.
@Larissa Caroline Nikolaus: I would welcome it, after 10 years on the road as a hgv driver believe me they are consistently the worst. If a yaris driver indicates left there is a strong chance they will turn right.
@Neal Ireland Hello.: Ok so that was the funniest thing I’ve read in a while lol thank you !! Needed a giggle today !!!
They found a right spare in the boot didn’t They!
Obviously someone was dropping their mother in law home.
Reminds me of my childhood back of my das opel rekord with all my cousin and sometimes my gran n aunt on holidays to Wexford. Good times so glad I have dose memory’s something about those days. I think the 2000s is truly the first time things are different.
This droll gombeen in the garda needs to be hauled in for his droll twitter remarks, the Garda line ‘we don’t comment on individual cases’ never applies to him. Who is this droll troll civil servant?
@Tom Phelan: He could easily be your brother or father Tom ‘the bore’ Phelan!
@Joe Conlon: there’s no way any member of my family could be that deadbeat
@Tom Phelan: haha, fair enough
Why was he hidden? Was he ugly??
@WJH: How do you know it was a “he”?
Six of us in a J.C.B. Five of us squeezed round the driver. All was fine until we went over a bump and someone fell on the back acter (spelling?) control.. And 10 in a Volkswagon Variant, an estate car from the 1970s also known as a “deviant.” Two in front, four in back seat, one on the floor (it was rear engined so no transmission tunnel,) and three in the estate part.
Who’s there ??
Dad?
Why is the photo reversed ?
The car is pulled in on the left on the way out of Limerick on the ‘dark road’, sorry Dock road.
No one – they’re never there when you need them !
Knock Knock !
A Garda with a sense of humor ‘ trunk call ‘ . Who would have thought ?
@Mary Mc Carthy: They often crack jokes on Twitter, what of it? Isn’t it an odder thing to do, putting a passenger in the boot?
Knock Knock !
Ok waiting fir the mini driver. Any minute now…
Turns out
It was 15
AND they were women
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