ActionAid Ireland is calling for young people aged 14 to 18 to write a five-minute speech for the ActionTalks national speech writing competition. The top prize for the national winner is a €500 voucher.   The competition, now in its ninth year, is an opportunity for young people to explore the root causes of local and.....

We must take much more radical action on climate change and challenge austerity globally to deliver women’s rights. ActionAid Ireland welcomes the increase of the overseas aid budget of €177 million, bringing the budget to €1.2 billion in Budget 2023. This is an important milestone in Ireland’s commitment to reach 0.7% of its Gross National.....

Transforming Education Summit For the first time ever, global leaders are gathering in New York for a summit focused only on education. The UN’s Transforming Education Summit is a recognition both of the scale of the global crisis in education. It shows the urgent need to transform public education systems in the face of a.....