Join parkrun’s Gaisce Challenge Weekend!
Gaisce – The President’s Award is celebrating Lá Gaisce with our Challenge Partner parkrun this October bank holiday weekend (Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th October) with a special Gaisce parkrun Challenge Weekend. We’re encouraging any Gaisce participant who is volunteering at parkrun as part of their Community Involvement challenge, or anyone who is participating in parkrun as part of their Physical Recreation challenge, to go out to your local parkrun to celebrate Lá Gaisce. Many of our Gaisce participants are using parkrun events as one of their Challenge activities and have been participating in parkrun’s #VolunteerWalkConnect initiative. Through the initiative,
Avril Ryan Appointed CEO of Gaisce – The President’s Award
Gaisce – Gradam an Uachtaráin – The President’s Award, Ireland's national non-formal education youth award, has announced the appointment of Avril Ryan as the new Chief Executive Officer for the organisation. Avril joined Gaisce in 2017 as Operations and Development Manager before taking on the role of Head of Operations and Development in 2020. Welcoming the appointment of the new CEO, Minister O’Gorman stated: “I am delighted to announce the appointment by Gaisce – The President’s Award of Avril Ryan as its new Chief Executive Officer. Participation in the Gaisce President’s Award programme has been a transformative experience for
Gaisce Spring E-Zine Out Now!
Gaisce Spring E-Zine - March 2023 Message from the CEO It's great to see Award participation levels bouncing back after a challenging couple of years and we're hearing lots of exciting Award stories as we begin to see more Award completions coming in. We're delighted to spotlight some of the stories in our Spring e-zine, sharing ideas of different ways to complete the Adventure Journey. Now is also a great time to encourage those finishing their Bronze or Silver Award to progress to the next level. Keep an eye on our website for Gold and Silver Award progression info
European Parliament Competition Winners – Terence MacSwiney Community College
Video Submission Gaisce, in partnership with the European Parliament Liaison Office in Ireland is delighted to announce that Terence MacSwiney Community College in Knocknaheeney in Cork were the deserving winners of the trip to Strasbourg for Euroscola, which will take place on March 30th. Euroscola brings together 16–18-year-old students from all 27 EU Member States and allows them to get together, debate, take sides, negotiate, amend, vote and finally adopt resolutions on real European issues. The TY students in Terence MacSwiney CC fought off stiff competition from schools around the country who demonstrated how their schools are playing their
European Parliament Competition 2023
WIN A TRIP TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT IN STRASBOURG WITH YOUR PARTICIPANTS! Gaisce, in partnership with the European Parliament Liaison Office in Ireland is offering Gaisce participants a fantastic opportunity to travel to the European Parliament in Strasbourg to take part in Euroscola in March 2023 and experience what it’s like to be an MEP for a day. Euroscola brings together students between 16–18 years old from all 27 EU Member States, applicant countries and former Member States and allows students to get together, debate, take sides, negotiate, amend, vote and finally adopt resolutions on real European issues. We
A message from outgoing Gaisce Award CEO, Yvonne McKenna
Gaisce - The President’s Award wish to sincerely thank Yvonne McKenna for her tenure as CEO over the last 8 years with the organisation. A message directly from Yvonne: Today is my last day with Gaisce – The President’s Award. After eight fabulous years, it’s time to move on and try something new. But what an eight years it has been. I only became properly aware of Gaisce a few months before the role of CEO opened up. Gaisce was established not only to recognise initiative, achievement and voluntary commitment by young people, but encourage it. Intrinsic to its
Gaisce Award now available to 2nd Year Secondary School Students!
Do Gaisce in 2nd Year! Gaisce -The President’s Award is now firmly recognised as an integral part of senior cycle education. What may be lesser known is that Gaisce is now available to students in their second year of post primary. The rationale behind introducing Gaisce to younger students is that second year is widely acknowledged as a flash point when some young people disengage from formal education and extra-curricular activities. Enabling younger students to develop in the areas of self-motivation, resilience, and target setting, which the Gaisce programme does, cultivates personal growth and maturity and compliments wellbeing in
Eight Young People Awarded Gaisce Medals at Limerick’s Hunt Museum
29th August 2022 - Gaisce – The President’s Award celebrated 8 special young people achieving their Award at a ceremony held in the Hunt Museum in Limerick. Congratulations to Fatema, Rokaya, Aya, Mahmoud, Ammar and Basima, Areej, and Aliza! Cllr. Olivia O’Sullivan, Cathaoirleach of the Metropolitan District of Limerick, opened the ceremony by welcoming awardees to Limerick and the Hunt Museum. She spoke proudly to the awardees for completing the Gaisce challenge, set by the President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins. Cllr. Olivia O’Sullivan's opening speech to Gaisce Awardees and PALs “It cannot have been easy for many of
Generation Change: Careers after Conviction
A dialogue on self development and employment post-conviction About This Event Facilitated by 'The Two Norries' James Leonard and Timmy Long are both from the northside of Cork city and their popular podcast covers themes across the social and health sphere with a particular focus on addiction, drug use, crime and recovery. Guests include people’s personal stories of overcoming adversity as well as professionals’ perspective on issues discussed in the podcast. The podcast is designed to be informative, sensitive and educational while having a laugh in the process. Tough issues are spoken about and explained with sensitivity and humour
Gaisce Online (GO) is live!
We're proud to announce the launch of our new online system, Gaisce Online (GO). Thank you for your patience while we changed systems and apologise for any inconvenience caused. We're currently rolling out the system in phases to ensure we can handle the traffic and queries and make sure everything is running smoothly. You should receive an email from us shortly if you haven't yet. We've created a "Gaisce Online: Help & FAQ" page, which will assist you on getting started and navigation: https://www.gaisce.ie/gaisce-online-help-faq/ We would love to hear feedback on your experience using the system. When you've had a
