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🙋‍♀️ How can young people lead this transformation?
Come find out—and help shape it.

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📧 Fr Niall Leahy SJ – nleahy@jcfj.ie

#EoF2025 #EconomyOfFrancesco #YouthForChange #Sustainability

🌍 The Economy of Francesco Global Event 2025
Nov 28–30 | Castel Gandolfo (Rome) 🇮🇹

For too long, the economy has run on exhaustion of people, time, and the planet. Join young changemakers building a just, inclusive, sustainable future.

💶 €120 incl. meals (travel/lodging separate)

Campaigners heap pressure on government to rollout 30km speed limit The Love30 campaign is stepping up the pressure - calling on the government to stop delaying and deliver a default 30km speed limit in towns and cities.

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This is not acceptable! Lives matter, safe journeys to schools and work matters.

Minister Canny’s U-turn on safer urban speeds risks lives and life-changing injuries. It cannot be let stand.

We were proud to visit the Dáil today at the invitation of Ciaran Ahern TD
to send the Minister our simple message: No delays. No excuses. Implement the law now.

For the 10th anniversary of Laudato Si there is a Raising hope conference online for the next three days. With speakers celebrating and reflecting the impact Laudato Si has made!

🗓️ OCT 1ST POPE LEO XIV

On Oct, 2nd-3rd the conference continues.

Sign up online below🔽

raisinghope.earth/conference/

Lower speed limits will help Ireland reduce road deaths Wales cut road casualties by 28% after reducing speed limits. Yet only one of the new lower speed limits introduced in Ireland's Road Traffic Act 2024 has been implemented

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Every week, 10 people are killed, injured or seriously injured across Ireland due to road traffic accidents. Join us this Thursday to defend the 30km/h speed limits!

IPRT Event - Panel Discussion 24 September 2025 YouTube video by Irish Penal Reform Trust

Join us this afternoon as experts reflect on the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) report following its official visit to Ireland. Watch live:
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#CPTReport #CPTIreland2025

Join us with Love 30 at the Dáil to defend 30km/h speed limits!

⭕️ Stop the U-turn on safer speeds
📍 Outside Dáil, Kildare Street D2
📆 2 October
⏰ 10.30am - 11.30am

30km/h limits SAVE LIVES. We need to stop this U-turn and YOU can help on Oct 2.

www.love30.ie/saving-lives...

How I went from an e-bike hater to a believer It’s okay to do something just because it’s fun.

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A positive story to start the weekend, sometimes trying something new can be the first step to something great!

Slower speeds mean safer roads! On October 2nd, the #love30 campaign is presenting to interested TDs and Senators in the Oireachtas. If you want to show your support, please join them from 10:10 to 10:30 outside the Dáil Chamber on Kildare Street!

www.love30.ie/saving-lives...

“Do not take advantage of the poor just because you can” …except students, that’s fine: how digs are sticking students with high prices and low rewards. - Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice in Irelan... In August, my colleague Kevin Hargaden posted a blog on the scramble for student accommodation and dignity in housing, drawing important attention on how we see quality housing contributing to the “co...

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Students and young adults are regularly disregarded when it comes to enforcing tenant rights and are deemed 'lucky' enough to have a place to stay during the school year, even if it's only Monday-Thursday. But shouldn't they also be granted housing protections?

Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year Helsinki has completed 12 months without a single traffic fatality, a milestone credited to lower speed limits, safer infrastructure, and years of consistent planning, officials say.

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Something Ireland should be striving for!

Today, Sophie presented our research on faith-based communities in the NEIC at Dublin City Inter-Faith Forums' annual conference. Acknowledging the importance of the work these communities do for immigrants and the larger community in the area!

Keep an eye out as we will share more on this soon!

Call for a binding international treaty on business and human rights - Christian Aid Christian Aid and its partners call for a binding international treaty on business and human rights.

www.christianaid.org.uk/news/policy/...

'As faith leaders, entrusted with the care of our communities and creation, we witness with deep concern the growing harm caused by irresponsible business practices'

Can we push for real change? Keep an eye on this next wave of negotiations

Never Trust a Conservative Who Isn’t an Environmentalist - Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice in Ireland Once upon a time, long ago, I found myself sitting in a hotel bar having coffee with a prominent writer who self consciously presents themselves as a defender of the best of conservative political the...

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If you base your arguments on tradition, shouldn't you fight to protect the seasons!

More than 900 people are on waitlists for addiction supports in Ireland’s prisons The longest queue is in Dublin’s Mountjoy, where more than 240 people languish on the waitlist for counselling for substance addiction.

"These figures indicate the deterioration of the person within an overcrowded prison. Many may not have arrived in prison with mental ill-health or addiction, but the environment has ... resulted in widespread conditions associated with despair."

@keithadams.bsky.social JCFJ Penal Policy Advocate

JCFJ Has a New Director - Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice in Ireland The Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice is delighted to announce the appointment of Fr Niall Leahy SJ as its new Director. The appointment marks a further investment by the Irish Jesuits in the missio...

We are excited to welcome @nlsj.bsky.social as JCFJ's new director. His experience in the Church, Community & knowledge of social justice issues will be an excellent guide in the coming years!

More here: www.jcfj.ie/2025/09/04/j

Children Aged 5–8 to Travel Free with New TFI Child Leap Card The National Transport Authority (NTA) has today launched the new Child 5–8 Leap Card, giving children aged 5 to 8 free access to public transport across the TFI network. Around 263,000 children acros...

Some more good news for the day!

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Starting a rainy day with a bit of good news!

A small step but imagine if it keeps growing above it or if active mobility is prioritised!

The Importance of a Healthy Ecology of Protest - Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice in Ireland A rich – in terms of wellbeing and opportunity – and stable community that is both diverse and harmonious, is what we all seek. As Christians, I think we would see such a community as one that echoes ...

To read more on the importance of peaceful protest, check out Judith Russenberger's Working Notes 98 Article!

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Why Are Peaceful Protestors Treated as Such a Threat? - Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice in Ireland In October 2022, two young people from the environmental activist group, Just Stop Oil, walked into the National Gallery in London carrying tins of soup. They opened one tin and hurled it over the gla...

'If protest is part of democracy’s healthy ecology, then punishing protestors so severely is like pouring poison into a river to silence the frogs.'

Why is everyone so afraid of peaceful protesters?!

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Migration and Irish identity—in the era of Trump deportations Just about no one in Ireland would say that Irish citizens living in the U.S. are being treated as badly as immigrant residents from Latin America or Africa. But consternation is on the rise about esc...

What does being Irish have to do with the immigration issues going on in the Trump era deportations?

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Housing, Students, and the Common Good - Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice in Ireland Every August and September, the housing shortage shows up on campus. First year students move across the country without certainty about where they will sleep. Returning students juggle long commutes,...

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Every year, university students struggle to find accommodation. And often the ones available are €700 plus to share a room with 2 or more people. What does this yearly ritual say about society, and how do we demand a change?

Just another example of the many things continuing to feed our housing crisis

CMAT, the Celtic Tiger, and Christianity: what an unlikely trio can teach us about Irish housing - Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice in Ireland Irish country-pop singer, CMAT, recently released a new song “Euro-Country” in which she depicts life in Ireland since the Celtic Tiger and the Crash. The song is beautiful and haunting, reminding us ...

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What can CMAT's most recent single teach us about the housing Crisis in Ireland? How have the decisions made by past governments influenced our current situation?

Check out our new Housing Advocate, Alexia O'Brien's first blog!

#euro-country

Despite overcrowding, prison officials told to exclude immigration detainees from temporary release The Irish Prison Service had asked the government to revisit the policy, given more serious high-risk offenders had to be released early to make the space.

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Overcrowding is a horrific issue, and yet the Department of Justice has asked the IPS to exclude immigrant detainees from temporary release.' Choosing to stick with their policy decision to detain people for up to a year if they arrive without proper documents

Politicians want to ‘look tough’ on crime, but locking people up in dysfunctional prisons is not the answer There is something very problematic about the current political approach to crime, repeatedly cramming more into prisons

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What has 'being tough on crime' meant for Ireland in the last 40 years? And what did we ignore from the Whitaker report that could have changed what's going on in prisons today?

What makes Amsterdam a ‘cycling paradise’ compared with the ‘absolutely horrible’ experience of Dublin? Greater uptake of cycling in the Netherlands and Denmark where infrastructure caters better for those on two wheels

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Dublin is one of the scariest places to cycle, especially if you're new to it.

Maybe we can learn a few things from Amsterdam?