We want everyone in Ireland to have access to high quality, locally produced food. We also want farmers to earn a fair living from providing that food into their communities. What are we asking for? 1. Formal recognition of Local Food Farmers in Irish agricultural policy 2. A Basic Income of €350 a week for Local Food Farmers who meet the criteria, at a net cost of about €8.3m, roughly 0.4% of the Department of Agriculture's current annual expenditure. What does our current food system look like? Ireland has a highly productive agricultural sector, but our current food system is heavily shaped by export markets: • We import as much as 83% of our fruit and vegetables • We produce around 7x more beef than we consume yet, import over 40,000t of beef each year • 90% of Irish dairy production is exported • >50% of the average diet in Ireland is ultra-processed Our current model disconnects what we produce from what we eat, and shifts value away from farmers and local economies. Why invest in Local Food Farms? Local Food Farms generate multiple social, economic and environmental benefits. Increasing domestic food production reduces reliance on imports, strengthens resilience to supply-chain disruption and keeps more value circulating locally. There is significant potential to grow this sector while reconnecting land, people and communities. Why a Basic Income? If we want thriving local food systems, we need to guarantee a fair income for Local Food Farmers, but many Local Food Farms are overlooked by the current subsidy system. As voiced by farmers in our research, a Basic Income for Local Food Farmers would: • Provide income stability • Enable long-term planning and investment • Increase production and market reach • Drive on-farm innovation • Facilitate agroecological land stewardship • Improve farmers’ overall wellbeing • Support essential caregiving responsibilities • Create opportunities for on-farm educational programmes & community engagement What is a Local Food Farm? Talamh Beo have developed robust criteria to assess the eligibility of candidates for this Basic Income proposal. A summary is as follows: 1. Primary food production - the farm is actively engaged in the rearing or growing of primary food products 2. Local market oriented - at least 70% of food produced is sold via Short Food Supply Chains 3. Agroecological production - prioritising biodiversity and the long-term health of soils and ecosystems, through Organic Certification or in-conversion status 4. Commercial activity - able to demonstrate a minimum annual production value of €8,000

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

The beloved Silk Road Café at the Chester Beatty, Dublin Castle, is being forced to close for six months to facilitate the EU Presidency, with no compensation. Instead of celebrating the café's 25th anniversary in July, owner Abraham Phelan will have to let go his loyal staff of many years. The least our public representatives and bodies can do is to compensate the workers, or offer an alternative premises so the café can continue to provide delicious food to Dubliners and visitors.  They should also ensure that any other workers who are suffering job losses for the same reason are compensated.

The Axis Café is a vital community space in the heart of Ballymun. Older people meet there every day. Disabled young people use it as a social outlet and a place to build independence. Local groups and services rely on it as a welcoming, accessible meeting place. The staff know people by name and have served this community for years. Losing it would be a devastating blow on top of years of disappointments and neglect - from the failure to deliver on regeneration promises like the shopping centre to struggles with the housing crisis and social disadvantage. Losing it would mean isolation and disconnection for so many. It would mean job losses for staff and a further fraying of the social fabric of our community. The café has been hit by rising costs and the cost of living crisis. But it should not be left to sink or swim. It is vital community infrastructure in an area that faces more challenges than most and it should be funded. Save the Axis Café!

Because every child deserves Magic at Christmas, even children who are employed in slave labour in the cocoa industry who supply Cadbury's. " Mondelēz International — the food giant behind Oreos, Cadbury, and Toblerone — has spent years cultivating an image as a sustainability leader, earning high environmental scores and pledging to eliminate deforestation and human rights abuses from its supply chains. Investigative reporting, however, reveals a starkly different reality: of a company that appears more focused on protecting its reputation than preventing harm to vulnerable people and the planet. For decades, Mondelēz has faced scrutiny over its cocoa sourcing in West Africa, where child and forced labor are widely documented and an estimated 1.56 million children work on cocoa farms. In 2022, a Channel 4 investigation reported that children as young as ten were using machetes to harvest cocoa pods on a Ghanaian farm allegedly linked to Mondelēz. Mondelēz has emphasized that such practices violate its policies and has pointed to its child labor monitoring system. But that system does not cover all the farms in its supply chain, and the company lacks full traceability for its cocoa — meaning it cannot determine whether child labor is involved in some of the cocoa it uses." Source: https://www.ran.org/the-understory/mondelez-has-built-a-reputation-on-sustainability-we-call-it-deception/

The ongoing crisis in the Middle East has demonstrated that the objective of affordable, secure and decarbonised energy cannot be met through importation of fossil fuels which are carbon intensive and subject to rapid price shocks. Climate change and its consequences are and will continue to have profound effects on human health and the wellbeing of future generations. In confronting the fact that 29% of Irish households are in energy poverty, we must ensure that in moving to a net-zero Ireland we adhere to the principles of a Just Transition, and must reach those furthest behind first. Energy crises disproportionately impact the most marginalised, including one parent families, carers, disabled people, and older people, and are driven by an energy system that is too reliant on expensive imported fossil fuels. The Government has been backtracking on climate action in recent months; Government Ministers have suggested in the media that they won't meet our legally binding climate targets, and several pieces of legislation undermining the Climate Act have been published, including one that proposes to build an LNG terminal in Ireland, which will lock us into importing unreliable and dirty fossil fuels.

There should be a public consultation on this plan opening soon but lets gather signatures to show that up and down the west coast, thousands of people don't want our seaweed rights given away to corporations.

To address climate change and its devastating effects. Climate change causes widespread, rapid, and intensifying impacts, including extreme weather (heatwaves, droughts, floods), rising sea levels, ocean acidification, and severe biodiversity loss. These changes disrupt ecosystems, threaten human health, destroy infrastructure, and endanger food supplies, with significant risks to coastal communities and vulnerable populations. 

The air we breathe, the food we eat and the jobs in our communities are at serious risk because of this deal.  This trade deal between the EU and Mercosur would allow beef, soy, and other food commodities to be fast-tracked into Europe, fattening corporate pockets on both sides at the expense of people, communities, and nature. There's a lot to reject in this deal; Irish farmers’ livelihoods would be decimated as cheap beef is fast-tracked into Europe from South America, large scale sugar and tobacco imports landing on our shelves, poorer quality food standards, and the levelling of rainforests. Join us in showing the Irish government that the public is against this dodgy trade deal by signing your name and sharing with your family and friends.

Calves are separated and transported too young and without proper feeding systems. Pregnant sows are confined to extreme metal-barred crates. Broiler chickens being grown at rates where they can't support their own weight, packed into overcrowded sheds.

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Some students don’t need more motivation. They just need a meal. Right now across Ireland, too many students are studying hungry, skipping meals to pay rent or travel to class. Hunger isn’t just physical. It drains focus, energy, and hope. When we feed students, we’re not just helping them survive college. We’re helping them show up fully, to learn, lead, and become who they’re meant to be. This is why we’re building Crave Christi Student Sponsorship, to make sure no student is left behind because of an empty plate. Join us in turning compassion into action. Together, we can make student hunger impossible to ignore. Because hunger shouldn’t be part of the college experience. Not here. Not now.