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Focus: Green New Deal, Just Transition and Covid 19

Todays guests are Lorna King, Conor McCabe and Sean McCabe. What are the kinds of things we need to think about and act on to realise a New Green Deal and Just Transition in the time of COVID19. Economies across the world…

Focus: Social Justice and Radical Hope in a Global Pandemic

Three Comhlámh staff members, Sive Bresnihan, Caoimhe Butterly and Mark Malone asked if it were possible to have radical hope and show solidarity with social justice issues during a global pandemic, when people are experiencing such challenging feelings. Mark Malone, who is…

Focus: Visiting Achill Island, global health and growing inequality

We headed to Achill island for the the second International Health and Development Training for Healthcare Workers. Organised for people interested in volunteering or working in healthcare in less developed countries, this two day residential workshop of the west coast of Ireland…

Focus: The Cambodia-Ireland Changemaker Network 

Focus dropped into Donabate-Portrane Educate Together National School (DPETNS) and PEPY Empowering Youth during an exchange visit to speak about the work of the Cambodia Ireland Changemaker Network. The network has developed from 2013, when four young Irish teachers from Dublin travelled…

Focus: Eilish Dillon on rethinking the divide between community and international development

Focus has a chat with Dr Eilish Dillon, exploring some of the ideas, assumptions and practices underpinning much of the work of the international development sector in Ireland and elsewhere. We explore the problematic and artificial divide between community and international development…

Focus: Extinction Rebellion, Civil Disobedience and Social Change

This episode is an edit of an panel discussion on “Civil Disobedience and Social Change” that took place in the Teacher Club in Dublin a few weeks ago. While the discussion looks at civil disobedience in the general sense, a lot of…

Focus: Children First, Ending Volunteering In Orphanages

It is estimated that around 80% of children and young people living in orphanages and other institutional settings, have at least one parent alive. It is known now that institutional living is really damaging for children and young people. They are more…

Focus: Ethical Living and Social Change

In the time of late capitalism, growing inequality and increasing awareness of causes and impacts of climate crisis, what does it mean to live ethically? Our social media is saturated with perspectives around plastic use and ecological degradation, around industrialised agriculture and…

Focus: Conor McCabe talks about his book ‘Money’

In this episode Conor McCabe chats to Eilish Dillon, head of The Department of International Development Maynooth to discuss latest book ‘Money’. Money exists in an opaque space, with its own language and gatekeepers to knowledge. As citizens we are required to…