Local sports clubs are at the heart of every Irish town and village. They keep kids active, teach discipline, and foster community spirit. These clubs are the social and cultural heartbeat of local communities, for all age groups and all genders.   By allowing IMAC to enforce a strict single-entity monopoly, the Irish government is effectively penalising thousands of families who pay taxes but receive zero support in return, while a chosen few, specifically ITA clubs receive thousands in funding. It is vital that there is Fair Play, Equal Funding, and Democratic Inclusion for every Taekwon-Do student in Ireland!

Our estate has a large number of children and young families who currently have no safe, localized play facilities. A dedicated play area within the estate keeps children safely away from traffic, encourages active outdoor play, and builds a stronger community.

Children do not choose where they are born, flee war or the immigration status under which they enter a country. A child who has spent formative years in Ireland may have deep linguistic, educational, social and cultural connections to the country. Yet their years here do not count towards the ordinary naturalisation residence requirement, leaving their future tied to their parents’ immigration status. They are effectively held hostage to circumstances they never chose and cannot control. Their childhood in Ireland should count. They deserve a fair pathway to citizenship in the country they have grown up calling home. What we are asking for We call on the Government of Ireland and the Houses of the Oireachtas to: 1. Establish a clear pathway to Irish citizenship for children who arrived in Ireland under Temporary Protection and have spent a substantial part of their childhood living here. 2. Recognise childhood residence in Ireland when determining eligibility, including residence undertaken while the child was living under Temporary Protection. 3. Introduce proportionate and accessible eligibility criteria that take account of the child’s age on arrival, length of residence, education and established connections to Irish society. 4. Consider the best interests of the child when developing citizenship policy for children displaced by war, with appropriate safeguards against unnecessary or prolonged uncertainty. 5. Address this issue explicitly in future citizenship legislation and policy reforms, rather than leaving these children without a clear understanding of their route to citizenship. Our request We are asking for a fair and transparent pathway to citizenship that recognises the reality of children’s lives. Children who have spent a substantial part of their childhood in Ireland should have a meaningful opportunity to become Irish citizens, regardless of the fact that they were born elsewhere and arrived as a result of war. Their connection to Ireland should not be measured solely by their birthplace or their parents’ immigration category. The years they have spent growing up, learning and participating in Irish society should count. We call on the Irish Government to ensure that children displaced by war who grow up in Ireland are given a fair opportunity to belong to the country they call home.

We hope to get as much support as possible as this will affect everyone even in the future for other generations. The town will struggle more as it does not have the larger amount  of service's needed and these should be implemented before any housing comes in We hope to achieve as many as signatures as possible.  Open to individual residents to sign (Meaning: more than 1 person living in a household can sign as it affects all of us individually) 

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Commercial rates are placing many riding schools and equestrian centres under severe financial pressure. Some are considering ending riding lessons or closing completely. Riding centres require large arenas, stables, storage areas and car parks for safety and animal welfare. Large premises do not mean large profits. Car parks and other essential areas are being included in rateable valuations, increasing bills despite producing little or no direct income. Local riding centres are the grassroots foundation of Ireland’s equestrian industry. Without them, riding becomes accessible mainly to families who can afford their own horses. These centres provide healthy outdoor activity for children, particularly girls, while also supporting children with additional needs and disadvantaged young people. Equestrian properties reportedly contribute only about €1.7 million annually, representing less than 0.1% of national commercial-rates income. Removing or substantially reducing these charges would have minimal national impact but could protect an entire network of grassroots facilities. The campaign is calling for fair national legislation that recognises the unique nature and limited earning capacity of equestrian centres. Other TDs, councillors, MEPs and equestrian organisations should now support Ryan O’Meara and help bring the issue before Government. “If we allow local riding centres to disappear, we will lose the grassroots foundation of Irish equestrian sport. Please share this and ask your local representatives to support fair rates relief for equestrian centres.”

In recent months, anti-social behaviour in and around the park has been escalating, including bonfires, intimidation, litter and fireworks being aimed at people and property.  Many residents and park users no longer feel safe, and parents are worried about their children using the park, particularly as Halloween approaches, when problems have been at their worst in previous years. In response, the Dr Ryan Community Group has been formed by Residents Associations and Neighbourhood Watch groups from neighbouring estates, along with St Laurence's National School and Sporting Greystones FC.  We can't solve this alone. We're asking the Council, our local councillors and An Garda Síochána to work with us NOW, so that Dr Ryan Park stays a safe, welcoming space for everyone. Please sign and share to show your support.

We call on the Board of the National St. Patrick's Festival to name musician Ben Haggerty — known worldwide as Macklemore — as Grand Marshal of the 2027 St. Patrick's Day Parade in Dublin. Macklemore has spoken proudly and publicly about his Irish heritage, connecting his family's story to the broader story of the Irish diaspora. He has used his platform not just to celebrate that identity, but to live out values many in Ireland hold dear: solidarity with the oppressed and a willingness to speak plainly about injustice, even when it's unpopular. Since October 2023, Macklemore has been one of the most visible artists in the world willing to speak out on the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. He released "Hind's Hall," donated proceeds to humanitarian relief, and has consistently used interviews and performances to draw attention to the human cost of the conflict — actions that cost him commercially and professionally at points in his career. Ireland has a long history of solidarity with Palestine, rooted in its own experience of colonisation and partition. Naming Macklemore as Grand Marshal would be a fitting way to honour an artist whose Irish-American identity and moral courage reflect values central to Irish identity itself: standing with the powerless against the powerful. We ask the Board to recognise this by naming Macklemore Grand Marshal of the 2027 Dublin St. Patrick's Day Parade.

Children spend a huge proportion of their lives in classrooms. They should not have to breathe poorly ventilated, unfiltered, rebreathed air for six hours a day when practical solutions exist. COVID has not disappeared. Reinfections continue, and a proportion of children and adults (16% according HSE FADA report, 15-53% according to HIQA's review of international evidence, 16% according to Mass General Brigham study, 2026, 27% of healthcare workers according to NHS REACH-OUT study, 2026) develop Long COVID — sometimes with disabling symptoms. Due to the lack of information on long Covid in Ireland, much of this harm is going undiagnosed or is not attributed to the real cause, COVID-19 infection. The WHO, the CDC, the OECD and other international organizations continue to warn about Long COVID, including its impact on children, yet public awareness in Ireland remains remarkably low. Clean indoor air is one of the few interventions that can protect everyone without requiring individual behaviour. Good ventilation and appropriately sized HEPA filtration reduce exposure to airborne infectious particles while also helping to reduce pollutants, allergens and particulate matter. Other places are already acting. Schools in London, parts of the United States, Canada, Australia and elsewhere have introduced filtration, air-quality monitoring or wider clean-air programmes. Ireland announced €62 million for school ventilation improvements and HEPA filtration in December 2021, yet HEPA filtration is still not standard in Irish classrooms. This is also about the right to honest public-health information. Parents should be given clear, current information about airborne transmission, Long COVID, women and girls being at greater risk of Long COVID, reinfection and the potential longer-term consequences of infection so that they can make informed decisions for their families. The information vacuum on the reality of Long COVID and the huge burden it puts on the healthcare system is being filled by racist, antivax conspiracy theorists. Clean Indoor Air will save lives and improve the health and wellbeing of children today and for generations to come. The infrastructure we put in place now will protect pupils and teachers from COVID, influenza and many other airborne infections, while improving the everyday quality of the air they breathe.  Ireland entered the pandemic with the 4th highest rate of asthma in the world with 1 in 5 children suffering and as an outlier in the EU with rising deaths from asthma. It is an abomination that the government decided against making HEPA filters standard in classrooms when faced with COVID-19, and we feel it is an insult to our intelligence and an exercise in gaslighting when politicians and media discuss issues such as "alarming rates of absenteeism" and "record breaking hospital overcrowding", while completely ignoring the reality of long COVID. We know how to make indoor air cleaner. We know how to reduce airborne transmission. Parents deserve accurate information about the risks. What is missing is the political will to act. Please join us in asking the Government to make clean air and honest public-health information a basic standard for every child in Ireland.

Protecting our children from harm is the most basic responsibility and instinct of being a parent. The devastation we have seen across Europe this summer - thousands dying, including infants and young people, as a consequence of extreme heat; Irish tourists running for their lives from wildfires; children fainting and having seizures at school; nature and wildlife destroyed - is a sign of a fast worsening climate and biodiversity emergency which puts the future of all our kids and grandkids at risk.  Instead of the emergency response we need to protect children from the worst of climate harms, their Government has been back-tracking on their obligations to them. There is so much more we can do to protect our kids and give them a better chance for their future. And children and young people need it to happen now. Please join with other parents, care-givers and grandparents, and call on Taoiseach Mícháel Martin to step up for kids and future generations as he promised, and take emergency action to help protect them and their future.

Sixmilebridge has the largest growing population base in Co. Clare and students finishing primary school face uncertainty about their education, applying to over-subscribed secondary schools in Shannon and Limerick.    Our national school is one of the largest in Clare and given the current exceptional growth of the town, with hundreds of new houses being built, a school for the town is a matter of urgency. We need somewhere for our children to continue their education, locally. There is a long list of advantages to planning and building a secondary school in the town, not least of all: ·       Student wellbeing ·       Traffic reduction ·       Benefits to the environment, meeting local climate change targets ·       Local employment ·       Advantages for the local economy ·       Strengthening our community  ·       The development of our town on the whole ·       Reducing the pressure on school and services in other towns like Shannon. Clare TDs have all come out to strongly support this petition. We need the Department of Education and Clare County Council to take action.

Other people should join me in this campaigne because there has been many issues lately with the tullamore skate scene as the park is an unsafe place and the skatepark no longer feels like a fun place to learn to skate there is many skaters in tullamore and only one skatepark is no longer enough