Michael D Higgins and Ireland's Youth at the Being Young & Irish launchThis weekend is going to be an eventful one for me Not only are my home country of Donegal playing in their first All-Ireland since before I received my first holy communion, but it's also the northern leg of President Higgins' series of Being Young & Irish seminars, with Monaghan following on from Dublin and Cork So what have been young people's priorities so far?On a daily basis the Being Young & Irish Facebook page post submissions made by young people all over the country and they range from impassioned ideas on how to improve mental health awareness and facility, equality and preserving cultural identity, but on both seminar days so far some large themes came to the foreOne of the striking areas where ideas and interest was high was in education, where there was a near unanimous wish for wholesale reform of the educational system Read more
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