The first round of this year's Longford Youth Factor took place last Saturday, January 14th.
Organised by Attic House Longford, the annual X Factor style competition has both judges and audience members voting to save contestants.
The event has taken place yearly since 2009, and this year’s final will take place on January 28th.
Caroline Cooke from Foróige was among the speakers on the topic of Sexual Health at recent European Conference in Brussels.
The conference, which was called Young People's Sexual & Reproductive Health, heard from a variety of guest speakers and representatives from all over Europe.
The discussions will feed into a working plan for 2017-2021 to meet the needs of young people right across Europe in relation to sexual health education.
Foróige member Éabha Campbell has made the Irish Times list of '50 people to watch in 2017'.
The 16 year-old was among those profiled for the list, which included people from the worlds of technology, food, activisim, sport, music, fashion and the arts.
The Co. Monaghan teenager won the Foróige National Junior Baking competition for the second year in a row at National Ploughing Championships.
Her winning muffins are now stocked in Aldi stores throughout Ireland became Aldi Ireland's youngest supplier, making her their youngest supplier.
Cuala GAA player Cormac Spain recently wrote an article about his experience of the Dermot Earley Youth Leadership Initiative.
He graduated from the programme earlier this year, and explained how, and why, he got involved in a piece written for the club newsletter.
16 year-old Éabha Campbell recently became Aldi Ireland's youngest supplier, when her 1916 themed muffins were stocked in 128 of their stores nationwide.
The teenager, who is a member of Truagh Foróige Club in Co. Monaghan, was the winner of the National Junior Baking Competition at the National Ploughing Championships on September 22nd.
Éabha baked spiced fruit centenary muffins which are based on a traditional gur cake recipe which was sold on the streets of Dublin in 1916.
Congratulations to Comfy Crutch who won the European NFTE Final in Berlin today!!
The company, which is run by Leah Kelly, Anna Drews and Melissa Cox from Mercy College Sligo, produces padded crutch handle covers to ease hand discomfort caused by crutch use.
