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A children's rights bill, the Twenty-Eighth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2007, was introduced by the Fianna Fáil–PD government. The bill sought to replace section 5 of Article 42 with a new Article 42A, which had five sections; the first four broadly matched the amendment eventually enacted in 2015, while the fifth was: [11]
The Connolly Youth Movement (CYM) was founded in 1963 by young people who were influenced by the Communist Party during the Dublin Housing Action struggle. [4] In 1970, with the merger of the Irish Workers' Party and Communist Party of Northern Ireland , to form the Communist Party of Ireland (CPI), [ 5 ] the Northern Ireland Young Communist ...
Currie had brought their grievance to the local council and to Stormont, but had been told to leave. The incident invigorated the civil rights movement. [89] A monument to Northern Ireland's first civil rights march. On 24 August 1968, the civil rights movement held its first civil rights march from Coalisland to Dungannon. Many more marches ...
The National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI) is a representative body for Irish youth organisations, [1] a role that is recognised in the 2001 Youth Work Act. [2] Currently there are 45 national youth organisations who are full member of the NYCI. [3] The National Youth Council of Ireland is a nominating body for elections to Seanad Éireann. [4]
Eight of the strikers travelled to South Africa in 1985, but were not permitted to enter the country. Their deportation from South Africa received extensive news coverage in Ireland. [3] The strike lasted until April 1987 when the Irish government banned the import of South African goods. The ban came about as a result of public pressure in ...
The loyalists intended to bring down the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, Terence O'Neill, who had promised some concessions to the civil rights movement. To this end, Members of the loyalist UVF and UPV bombed water and electricity installations in Northern Ireland, in deceitful false flag attacks, blaming them ...
Young Greens (Irish: Óige Ghlas) is a youth political organisation in Ireland that acts as the youth branch of the Green Party and the Green Party in Northern Ireland.As a youth party they focus on issues that affect young people including access to education, affordable housing, drug policy, LGBTQI+ rights and reproductive rights.The Young Greens believe in social and economic justice for ...
In 2015, Labour Youth released a policy paper on ending Zero Hour contracts and stated that Ireland was leading the way in LGBTQ+ rights. [20] [21] In February 2015, Chairperson Jack Eustace stated that more companies 'should follow Eircom's lead' in job creation. [22] In 2016, it released a document opposing homophobia, transphobia and sexism ...