By signing this petition, you are lending support to help with some challenges our local soccer club, Sporting Greystones Football Club, is currently facing. Sporting Greystones FC is a young, community-focused grassroots football club that provides local children with the opportunity to learn and play football. Despite having over 300 playing members and 40 active volunteers, we are facing significant challenges due to limited resources and facilities: 1. Overcapacity and Waiting Lists: We have over 100 children on waiting lists because our current facilities cannot accommodate everyone. 2. Insufficient Access to Local Facilities:   PITCHES - We have a long term leased grass pitch at Dr Ryan Park that is not of sufficient size to accommodate 11 a side football and we have to travel to Kilmacanogue to hire private pitches.    TRAINING  - We are restricted to only 2 hours of evening use on the council-owned astro turf pitch at Dr Ryan Park. Extending access by just 1 hour (until 9pm) would allow additional training slots at no extra cost. 3. Logistical and Financial Burden: We are forced to train in 5 different locations and play home games in two, which is unsustainable environmentally (adding to our carbon footprint) and economically by skyrocketing the costs for a volunteer-led club. 4. Urgent Facility Upgrades Needed: • Secure storage for equipment and goalposts. • Provision of sufficient LOCAL facilities so that we don't have to leave the area to train or play HOME matches  • Proper floodlights at Dr Ryan (currently relying on inadequate battery-operated lights). • General upkeep and modernisation of existing facilities. 5. Call for Support from Politicians and Council:  We need elected representatives to advocate for increased facility access, improved infrastructure, and long-term planning for community needs We are calling on Wicklow County Council and local representatives to prioritise community-focused solutions so we can continue to serve our young players. We want to work with the community to achieve this - Please sign this petition to show your support for Sporting Greystones FC and help us secure the resources and facilities our club and community desperately need!  Together, we can ensure every child has the opportunity to participate in football in OUR community. If you are in any way able to support us further on this, please contact [email protected] Kind Regards, The greater Sporting Greystones FC community

The development of all weather Astro turf pitch  is an essential and badly needed sporting infrastructure in the locality and will serve our growing and diverse community. https://www.pleanala.ie/en-ie/case/320912

The roads in Ardee are not adequate to handle the volumes of traffic passing through the town. This causes serious congestion and severe delays, environmental pollution and increased risk of accidents. 

Installing a pedestrian crossing/traffic lights would improve safety for pedestrians of all ages, including children, seniors, and individuals with disabilities, when crossing the busy roads in Kilmuckridge. Drivers are more likely to pay attention to and yield to pedestrians at a designated crossing.  Advocating for this would help encourage a culture of mutual respect among pedestrians and drivers, so we can all contribute to a safer community for residents and visitors in Kilmuckridge, Co. Wexford. 

Basketball is a highly engaging and an active sport that encourages cardiovascular fitness, strength, and coordination. By advocating for new courts, community members can help improve public health, especially among children and young adults who might otherwise lack access to safe and convenient places for exercise. Many communities face challenges with youth not having safe or productive places to spend their time. Additional basketball courts will provide a constructive outlet for young people to channel their energy, helping to reduce crime rates, vandalism, or other negative activities. Public sports facilities bring people together. Whether it's through pick-up games, organized leagues, or just casual play, basketball courts serve as hubs for social interaction. By joining this campaign, people can contribute to creating a space where neighbors can meet, connect, and form lasting relationships, building a stronger sense of community. By coming together for this campaign, the community can work to create a more active, engaged, and united future.

We have found out that our community youth  space is about to be closed because the council won't continue to fund it.  The Factory Youth Space in Limerick City is a space for all the community. Every week hundreds of people use if for youth groups, dance classes, sports and disability groups. The place is hopping! Yet the council just couldn’t be bothered to guarantee funding to keep this essential space open. We are calling on John Moran, the Newly Elected Mayor of Limerick to use his new position to make a real difference to the people of Limerick and save our youth space. By Christmas the youth and sports groups will be made homeless as there are no other community spaces to be found. Even Scrooge wouldn’t kick young people with out into the cold.  We won’t go quietly and are going to kick up a stink. If enough of us shout loud enough together, they can’t pretend not to hear us. We are calling on Mayor John Moran to act on behalf of the people he is supposed to be serving.  Sign the petition to help make our voice loud enough that the Mayor can’t pretend not to hear us.   Limerick Youth Voices

Since May Waterways Ireland has erected steel fences all along the Grand Canal. Waterways Ireland's antisocial management of our canals, and the government's inhumane treatment of Dublin's homeless and homeless asylum seekers must be opposed. The erection of steel fencing along the Grand Canal this year is an escalation in a long-term policy of Waterways Ireland to prioritise anti-homeless action and infrastructure over their role in restoring, developing, and pinoting Ireland's waterways. These fences are more than physical barriers; they represent the deliberate exclusion of certain groups from public spaces and, by extension, from society. This exclusion is part of a broader pattern within our economic and political system that prioritises the interests of capital over those of ordinary citizens. The current actions of Waterways Ireland, including the erection of these barriers, disproportionately affect vulnerable groups such as asylum seekers, the homeless population, and working-class people. Public spaces are meant to be inclusive areas that foster community and provide safe havens for all, However, the recent actions by Waterways Ireland have turned these spaces into sites of exclusion and hostility. The fences have an estimated cost of €30,000 a week and its maintenance assumed to continue up to October could cost as much as €390,000. This money could be better spent addressing the housing crisis by providing real solutions and support for those in need. These barriers are tools of division and exclusion. They are being used to weaponize the immigration issue in Ireland, particularly to divide working-class communities that are already suffering from the deliberate degradation of social services, including public housing, healthcare, and education. Instead of listening to our calls for a humane and constructive solution to this disgraceful situation Waterways Ireland has instead referred to it as not ideal' and has called for 'restraint’. They have refused to engage in dialogue while simultaneously claiming a commitment to “actively involving communities in the stewardship of these vital resources”. The lack of communication, transparency and accountability can go on no longer. We as residents are speaking up.  We demand 1. Remove fencing on the Grand Canal 2. No more hostile architecture  3. Stop evicting refugees and Irish people  4. Secure accommodation, tenancy rights and right to union representation through the Community Action Tenants Union for everyone homeless, in temporary, IPAS and emergency accommodation

The benefits of a calisthenics park extend beyond physical fitness. It would encourage social interaction, promote mental well-being, and inspire healthy lifestyle choices among residents. Moreover, with the rise in popularity of bodyweight training, a calisthenics park would attract visitors from neighboring areas, boosting local engagement I urge the council to consider this proposal and explore the potential for funding and partnerships to bring this vision to life. Thank you for your time and consideration. I look forward to your positive response and hope to see a calisthenics park in Blackwater Park soon. Yours sincerely, Robert Maher

We think if other communities can help us in this campaign we could return the favour to support them in their campaign. 

Cork City Council already once denied planning permission back in June for proposals by a casino to expand into Ballincollig after receiving almost 50 objections from local residents and businesses. Locals in Ballincollig rally against the proposal, as another casino in town provides no benefits, encourages gambling and can lead to all sorts of negative behaviours.  SAY NO TO ANOTHER CASINO IN Ballincollig

The residents of Bluebell Woods in Oranmore kindly request that the Carnmore test route no longer use this residential estate as part of the official route. Since the Carnmore test centre opened in 2021, our estate and the front green in particular has been used on a continuous basis both by the official RSA testers and by learners practicing the 'reverse around the corner' manoeuvre. While the tests themselves take place during weekday working hours, the learners are liable to practice at this location at all times of the evening and at weekends. We oppose the use of our estate for this test activity. The front green in particular is an unsafe location for the reverse around the corner, due to the frequent use of the green by children at play, and the poor visibility due to trees and shrubs at the corner. There is a risk to safety here, not only because a learner driver cannot have full and unrestricted visibility, but any pedestrians trying to cross the road at this intersection may not notice a car reversing until it is too late. Several of our residents have witnessed dangerous reversing and submitted complaints directly to the RSA, but have had either no response at all or the responses have been unsatisfactory. Therefore, we are gathering signatures to make this request as a community, with the safety of our children and residents in mind. We call upon the RSA in Galway to find an alternative route for the driving test. Note: Header image shows a snippet of the Carnmore driving test route from the Test Routes app. 

The money is there. The Council needs to ask for it so they can urgently hire the necessary number of park rangers for Tallaght parks and the equipment they need to do the job.