Foróige Leadership for Life Conference 2024
General News Youth Leadership
6 August 2024 / 14 February 2025 by Padraig
The sun was shining on the 250 young Leaders gathering in Maynooth University for Foróige’s annual Leadership for Life Conference last week! Our annual Leadership conference brought young people from around Ireland and the world to learn the skills and confidence to become leaders in their own lives and communities, as well as make lots […]
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General News
2 August 2024 / 14 February 2025 by Padraig
Four teams of budding engineers from Foróige Youth Projects in Monaghan, Cavan, Dublin, and Longford have piloted the FIRST® LEGO® League Explore Programme for the first time within Foróige. The pilot concluded with a gathering at the new Monaghan Peace Campus on Wednesday, July 24, where these young talents presented their FIRST® LEGO® League MASTERPIECE℠ […]
9 July 2024 / 14 February 2025 by Padraig
This past weekend Foróige’s Amplified festival raised the roof off Knockmore GAA grounds in Ballina, Co. Mayo, with 3,000 young people in attendance from all over Ireland. This is the third year for Foróige Amplified, Ireland’s largest underage music festival. After the sun set over Lough Conn the bops kept coming and there were dance […]
Best Practice Computer Clubhouse General News Youth Projects & Services
31 May 2024 / 14 February 2025 by Padraig
A two-day exchange programme in Dublin, at the end of May brought together youth work professionals from Humak University of Applied Sciences, Finland to explore Foróige’s Go Digital Youth Work programmes aimed at enhancing youth work provision to young people who are marginalised and isolated. The exchange took place in Foróige Christchurch and Foróige Blanchardstown. […]
Foroige Clubs General News Youth Citizenship Youth Projects & Services
30 May 2024 / 14 February 2025 by Padraig
In every corner of the land the Foróige Citizenship Programme is helping to change the lives of young people and communities – and it’s time to celebrate! Regional Showcases of Foróige Citizenship projects are taking place throughout May and we’ve had some recent dispatches from the Foróige team helping shine a light on these fun and vibrant events. Find […]
General News Youth Entrepreneurship
9 May 2024 / 14 February 2025 by Padraig
‘Stick It’, a sports stick bag holder from Annamai Condon (16) and Clodagh Desmond (16), from Loreto Secondary School, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary were announced as the overall winner of the Foróige NFTE Youth Entrepreneur of the Year Awards 2024 at a ceremony held at Richmond Barracks, Dublin this week. ‘Stick It’ won the title after […]
General News Youth Projects & Services
17 April 2024 / 14 February 2025 by Padraig
Minister James Browne launched Foróige’s newly opened flagship premises in Christchurch, Dublin 8 on April 16th. Foróige Dublin City South brings together five youth work projects for young people aged from 8 to 24 in the area. The youth service is home to a dynamic range of needs-based programmes for young people, namely Dublin City […]
Foroige Clubs General News Volunteers
8 April 2024 / 14 February 2025 by Padraig
At a glittering event in Kilkenny’s Ormonde Hotel on April 5th, we celebrated John Sullivan for six incredible decades of unfaltering service as a Foróige volunteer who has been a stalwart support to the young people of Kilkenny. We also celebrated 60 years of Cuffesgrange Foróige Club. Over 200 guests joined us on the night […]
General News Volunteers
12 March 2024 / 14 February 2025 by Padraig
We’re over the moon to announce that Foróige Amplified, one of our favourite events of the year, is back for 2024! Foróige Amplified is an outdoor music festival held in Knockmore GAA Grounds, Ballina, Co. Mayo – with live DJs spinning all the hits alongside professional lighting, deadly sound setup and amazing visual effects. This […]
1 March 2024 / 14 February 2025 by Padraig
Foróige and leading children’s advocacy organisations across Ireland joined together on 28th Feb to mark the launch of Building Children’s Future’s: Using Children’s Rights to Recover from the Global Pandemic. The newly published report explores how key decisions made in Ireland during the Covid-19 pandemic impacted children’s and young people’s lives. The research, conducted in part […]
