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Last year Brian O’ Mahony visited Uganda for seven weeks. Packing his gear Brian travelled alone, meeting fellow kayakers along the way. He kayaked almost 50 days in a row and described his adventure ‘as probably the most life-changing experience of my life.’ Brian is currently in the final stages of completing his Gold Award
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Annie Carr is a student at Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT), is the current President of the college’s Gaisce society and is working toward her Gold Award. “As part of the role of President I’d be charged with getting students to sign up to Gaisce. Organising fundraisers, organising trips and making sure the residential project
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Dave Sheridan is a youth worker based in the Ballymun Regional Youth Resource (RECO) and has been a PAL with Gaisce for the past year, “It is not something that is new to BRYR. I took over as a PAL as our previous PAL had left her role and moved on.” Since Dave’s inception as
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Sinead Finnerty and Darragh O’Brien are co-workers at the Daughters of Charity Oakridge children’s services which is based on the Navan Road in Dublin, a school for teenagers with learning difficulties. Over the last two years they have facilitated Gaisce participants with volunteering at the centre, Sinead says, “Some of our students would not have
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Amy Barrett, through getting involved with Gaisce, recently released her first single title ‘Emilio’. Amy chose recording as part of her skill and found Gaisce to be the perfect fit in terms of progressing her music. “I’d always been writing songs since I was about seven but I never really advanced as much as I
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Kate Kelly is a Gaisce Ambassador who last summer represented Gaisce at the international Gold Event, she says, “I got to go to the international awards in Prague. I got involved with a load of charity events there and worked in an orphanage too.” Kate is currently studying law at University College Cork and explains
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Evelyn Dore is from Tralee and is a Gaisce Gold Awardee who recently set up her own volunteer project called ‘Memory Boxes’. “The project started off as wanting to source pictures for older people in the community. Pictures that would bring back memories.” Evelyn found that the project quickly evolved in to a ‘memory box’
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Saoirse Hughes is doing her Gaisce Silver Award and has almost completed her journey. As part of her Silver Award Saoirse took up first-aid in her school at Trinity Comprehensive, Ballymun. “The course lasted three weeks. I wanted to learn more about helping other people.” As part of the course Saoirse learned various techniques and
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Eimear Quinn is currently working towards her Gaisce Gold Award and is a third year nursing student studying at DCU. “I wouldn’t be in nursing without having got involved with the Gaisce programme. The community involvement activities have stayed with me from my Bronze Award in school right up until now and have helped me
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