Social Entrepreneurs Ireland (SEI) has announced the addition of a €40,000 seed fund its 2020 Ideas Academy programme. The Ideas Academy is aimed at people with early-stage innovative ideas to solve social problems and provides training and support to move from idea to action. Participants will have the opportunity to […]
A new four-part podcast series showing inside the Arts for Health programme has just been released. Arts for Health is a partnership programme based in West Cork, which integrates the arts programmes into the culture and practice of healthcare settings for older people. It takes place in five community hospitals […]
With strict restrictions now in place in maternity hospitals nationwide, new mothers are becoming increasing worried about the prospect of giving birth without the birth plan and the support team they would have wanted. “The situation is changing rapidly and mothers are contacting me in a frenzy, worried they will […]
John Shade writes from Finland on how ‘the world’s happiest country’ is dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. Spring is usually the time for Finns to come out of hibernation. This Spring we emerged, only to be ordered back into isolation. Measures here have followed a common pattern seen around the […]

