The GAA needs to end its title partnership with German insurance provider Allianz. Allianz is the largest insurer of Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit systems, who have been the manufacturer for the weapons used in Israel's genocide in Gaza, in which up to 300,000 people have been murdererd by Israel, and its illegal occupation in the West Bank in Palestine and the Golan Heights in Syria.  Allianz claims that it cares about the children of Ireland, and their involvement in sport. However, Israel has killed over 400 athletes and at least 18,000 children (probably way more according to Lancet figures). It is for this reason that the GAA is complicit in the genocide in Gaza by allowing the partnership with Allianz to go ahead. This is a blatant act of sportswashing which needs calling out and dealing with.  I ask anyone sharing this petition to tag your local clubs, your county board, the GAA itself, and anyone you know with an audience, so this can be seen by as many people as possible.  Saoirse don Phalaistín.

Access to conduct a survey of the area. Access for the public as a public amenity Protect the wildlife under the Wildlife Act 1976

Ensure that there are no further delays to the schedule for building the badly needed Secondary School in Monasterevin, Co. Kildare

End the expansionist agenda in Irish agriculture.

We would like the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council to give us the permission to garden a section of public land and create a community garden.

Keep Ireland LNG Free - No new fossil fuel infrastructure in a Climate Crisis.  The Government of Ireland must refuse the construction of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminals in Ireland.

In the wake of the cervical smear crisis that are continuing to emerge, only now is a mandatory legal requirement for doctors to be more open after such an adverse health care event. Now, the Civil Liability (Amendment) Act 2017 which has not even commenced, supposedly introduces a VOLUNTARY requirement for health service providers to be open with patients who are involved in such horrendous incidents as the cervical smear crisis. How can a patient develop an environment of trust if the proposed legislation is to facilitate an apology if in the correct form cannot be used as evidence in any subsequent legal or professional proceedings ? The supposed rationale behind this legislation is to normalise “saying sorry” and to build trust between the doctor and patient, and reduce litigation. The real problem is that the HSE at present are hugely more accountable to the High Court than to a patient, who could be any one of us. Accountability is what is searingly lacking. The concept of open disclosure has been bandied about in Ireland before. The Medical Council ethical guidelines states that patients are entitled to honest, open and prompt communication about adverse incidents that have caused harm and that doctors “should” acknowledge the event, explain how it happened, apologise if appropriate, and assure the patient and family that the cause should be investigated. These are only guide lines and use the word “should” instead of “must”. Which means that open disclosure is not an absolute professional duty and doctors who have already misdiagnosed or have played a part in an adverse incident can now use their own judgement in relation to communication of about misdiagnosis or anything else that went wrong during treatment. Self regulation, again I fear. The HSE also introduced guidelines on open disclosure in 2013. This Act defines an apology as an “expression of sympathy or regret”. Apologies in a prescribed format will be considered as inadmissible in any proceedings. The form of the apology is not set out in the legislation. This I fear could facilitate doctors who confident of the legal status of their apology offer the “I'm sorry you feel that way” non apology. The UK statutory Duty of Candour makes the disclosure of a patient safety incident and the requirement to offer an apology a MANDATORY legal obligation and a failure to comply is a criminal offence and is punishable by a fine for the relevant organisation. Ireland should introduce a mandatory duty of candour but also greater openness by engendering a cultural shift by way of education, training, focused support for the overworked doctors and nurses who are dedicated and committed but under resourced to manage a a highly overloaded health care system. Any legislation must provide clarity of process for mandatory disclosure. This must elucidate what is required by patients and practitioners. Also, there must be a willingness to at a political and organisational level to ensure that any process of disclosure is not treated as a box ticking exercise to simply meet the legislative requirements. This can only be accomplished if the relevant support is provided for medical practitioners through continuous education and training on open disclosure. It is in all our interest to have a more accountable health service in Ireland. Doctors differ unfortunately.

We are asking our government to support rural regeneration by introducing a scheme that allows people to live sustainably by building low-impact homes in the countryside. The One Planet Development scheme in Wales is a good model to base this on. At the moment in Ireland people are not permitted to build homes on agricultural land, but now we ask that the government permits planning for low-impact homes to the many people who are waking up to the climate crisis and feel compelled to work with nature rather than against it. There is a drive to plant trees, to regenerate the soil and promote biodiversity, to grow healthy organic food, to treat animals with respect and to create significantly less waste. The Dept of Communications, Climate Action and Environment and local planning offices need to recognise this as a valid and valuable form of rural development that needs specific planning guidelines and government support. What we are asking for is not difficult; it's just different, and requires our leaders to show pioneering spirit and to think outside the box.

MARCH 2025 UPDATE: Those who have signed the petition still have no confidence in the Consultative Forum that was held. The Government now says that 'modifying the Triple Lock was a recommendation of the Consultative Forum process' – no wonder! A majority of the invited speakers had vested interests as advocates of Irish and EU militarisation, and propagandists for moves that will actually undermine Irish neutrality. There were very few representatives of the 75% of Irish electorate who respect a meaningful active pro-peace neutrality. Any move to abolish the Triple Lock guarantee, which is recognised by the EU in the Seville Declaration, would be anti-democratic. This guarantee was made to the Irish people by the Fianna Fail Governments under Bertie Ahern and Brian Cowen at the time of the 2002 Nice Treaty2 and the 2008 Lisbon Treaty2 referendums respectively to secure a YES vote in each referendum. The full democratic process must be adhered to if the Government wants to remove or change it. ORIGINAL TEXT BELOW We, the undersigned, have no confidence in the Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin’s “Consultative Forum on International Security” .  We need a genuine public forum for the people of Ireland to engage in, with representation of the breadth of views that exist available to be discussed, debated, and decided by the people of this land. Outside of a referendum a citizen’s assembly is the appropriate forum for public consultation and debate. We must heed Article 29 of the Constitution Bunreacht na hÉireann:  “Ireland affirms its adherence to the principle of the pacific settlement of international disputes.”  In the interests of the Irish people, we call for no changes to be made with regards to Ireland’s current neutrality criteria of the Triple Lock safeguard [1], and no further commitments to join new EU/NATO defence alliances without holding a Citizen’s Assembly or a referendum on Irish Neutrality. https://www.uplift.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Screenshot-2023-06-23-at-16.17.36.png

I would like everyone considering using AirBNB to boycott this company until they reverse their ban on listing illegal Israeli settlements in WestBank. They are currently complicit in invasion, theft, ethnic cleansing and apartheid. AirBNB continue to use the area to profit, despite countless sanctions passed by the UN in respect of the Zionist occupation of the West Bank area. [1]