Mohill Foróige Club are the winners of the Foróige Youth Citizenship Awards 2015 in partnership with Aldi Ireland!

1,600 young people, volunteers and staff attended the Foróige Youth Citizenship Awards in partnership with Aldi Ireland on Saturday 24th October at the RDS. The event was a celebration of over 100 #citizenshipchallenge projects carried out by young people throughout Ireland and attendees got to participate in special FX makeup demonstrations, a human-powered scalextrix track, a silent disco, make makey and 3D printing demonstrations, and to have their photo taken with a 7ft dancing robot! The Awards show was MC'd by RTÉ 2FM DJ Ruth Scott. 

The judges were overawed by the magnificent projects carried out nationally, and the creativity, leadership and determination of all of the young people in attendance. It just goes to show that our Youth Citizenship programme really does work to empower young people to make remarkable things happen. Congratulations to all of our participants - we are extremely proud of you.

A hearty congratulations to the outright winners, Mohill Foróige Club from Co. Leitrim, who carried out a memorial citizenship project to commemorate Mohill’s sole Titanic victim, farm labourer Matthew Sadlier (19). The 18 club members were presented with the Michael B. Cleary Memorial Trophy, named after the former director of Foróige who served at the helm of the organisation for 36 years.

 

When the local newspaper ran a story about the young man who died in the Titanic tragedy, it spurred the young people to do something special so that he could be remembered. They carried out research, held a memorial weekend, held fundraisers and then erected a bench and plaque in his memory. As a result of the project they learned a great deal about the history of their community and also had a positive experience of working together as a team.