Join us this afternoon as experts reflect on the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) report following its official visit to Ireland. Watch live: www.youtube.com/live/5BOo_YO... #CPTReport #CPTIreland2025

Join us with Love 30 at the Dáil to defend 30km/h speed limits! ⭕️ Stop the U-turn on safer speeds 📍 Outside Dáil, Kildare Street D2 📆 2 October ⏰ 10.30am - 11.30am 30km/h limits SAVE LIVES. We need to stop this U-turn and YOU can help on Oct 2. www.love30.ie/saving-lives...

www.theverge.com/transportati... A positive story to start the weekend, sometimes trying something new can be the first step to something great!

Slower speeds mean safer roads! On October 2nd, the #love30 campaign is presenting to interested TDs and Senators in the Oireachtas. If you want to show your support, please join them from 10:10 to 10:30 outside the Dáil Chamber on Kildare Street! www.love30.ie/saving-lives...

www.jcfj.ie/2025/09/18/d... Students and young adults are regularly disregarded when it comes to enforcing tenant rights and are deemed 'lucky' enough to have a place to stay during the school year, even if it's only Monday-Thursday. But shouldn't they also be granted housing protections?

www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finl... Something Ireland should be striving for!

Today, Sophie presented our research on faith-based communities in the NEIC at Dublin City Inter-Faith Forums' annual conference. Acknowledging the importance of the work these communities do for immigrants and the larger community in the area! Keep an eye out as we will share more on this soon!

www.christianaid.org.uk/news/policy/... 'As faith leaders, entrusted with the care of our communities and creation, we witness with deep concern the growing harm caused by irresponsible business practices' Can we push for real change? Keep an eye on this next wave of negotiations

www.jcfj.ie/2025/09/11/n... If you base your arguments on tradition, shouldn't you fight to protect the seasons!

"These figures indicate the deterioration of the person within an overcrowded prison. Many may not have arrived in prison with mental ill-health or addiction, but the environment has ... resulted in widespread conditions associated with despair." @keithadams.bsky.social JCFJ Penal Policy Advocate

We are excited to welcome @nlsj.bsky.social as JCFJ's new director. His experience in the Church, Community & knowledge of social justice issues will be an excellent guide in the coming years! More here: www.jcfj.ie/2025/09/04/j

Some more good news for the day! www.nationaltransport.ie/news/childre...

Starting a rainy day with a bit of good news! A small step but imagine if it keeps growing above it or if active mobility is prioritised!

'If protest is part of democracy’s healthy ecology, then punishing protestors so severely is like pouring poison into a river to silence the frogs.' Why is everyone so afraid of peaceful protesters?! www.jcfj.ie/2025/08/28/w...

Using systems like this and reporting on how they work can be the start of change we want to see in road safety. If you've used it fill out the form below 👇

Did you know Studies is on Instagram and LinkedIn? Connect with us there for updates on future events and upcoming editions! 🔴 Find us on Instagram: @studiesirishreview 🔵 Find us on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/stud...

What does being Irish have to do with the immigration issues going on in the Trump era deportations? www.americamagazine.org/dispatches/2...

www.jcfj.ie/2025/08/22/h... Every year, university students struggle to find accommodation. And often the ones available are €700 plus to share a room with 2 or more people. What does this yearly ritual say about society, and how do we demand a change?

Just another example of the many things continuing to feed our housing crisis

www.jcfj.ie/2025/08/14/c... What can CMAT's most recent single teach us about the housing Crisis in Ireland? How have the decisions made by past governments influenced our current situation? Check out our new Housing Advocate, Alexia O'Brien's first blog! #euro-country

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025... What has 'being tough on crime' meant for Ireland in the last 40 years? And what did we ignore from the Whitaker report that could have changed what's going on in prisons today?

www.irishtimes.com/transport/20... Dublin is one of the scariest places to cycle, especially if you're new to it. Maybe we can learn a few things from Amsterdam?

Road safety should be the top priority on our roads! And moving rural roads to 60km is a great start. However, phase two, reducing urban areas to 30 km/h, is being decided upon by each local authority. Creating bureaucratic delays and barriers to increased road safety 🚸 www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

www.jcfj.ie/2025/08/07/p... @nlsj.bsky.social helps us explore what localism looks like in his 3rd in the three part blog series on localism different parts of society, encouraging us to challenge what we see as normal:

Let us introduce you to Daniel O’Connell, the Liberator. A🧵 Born on this day 250 years ago, he won Catholic emancipation in 1829 without violence, proving that mass political mobilisation could change British policy in Ireland. /1

With crowds of people attending events all around the city, it was hard not to be affected by the energy. In our Faith and Politics session, a participant asked question of us. "How do we maintain hope in the face of the social and economic discouragements we see in our work?" 1/2

Faith and Politics has begun. Join us tomorrow from 12-13:30 in Ipogego del Gesú. For a taster of what our week long event is like next year

www.jcfj.ie/2025/07/27/t... It's important we remember our history. 'The first bike was born out of crisis. In the wake of Mount Tambora’s eruption, old routines were no longer sustainable. Karl von Drais responded not by retreating into nostalgia but by inventing a new way of moving forward.'

“As much as you educate your children on road safety you can’wexford-principals-desperate-plea #VisionZero #Love30 www.independent.ie/regionals/we...

'The most obvious difference between doughnut economies and modern economies is the voluntary acceptance of a limit to production and consumption.' The second in a three-part blog series introducing localsism by @nlsj.bsky.social l www.jcfj.ie/2025/07/11/t...

It's been 10 years since Pope Francis published Laudato Si' and three months since his passing.⁠ ⁠ WN98 98 serves to reflect on the past 10 years and remind us of the incredible work he did.⁠ www.jcfj.ie/working-note... ⁠ #faith #Laudatosi #10years

Irish Penal Abolition Network seeks to push the case for abolishing prisons in Ireland, along with a new understanding of what a just society looks like. www.dublininquirer.com/a-group-seek...

www.thejournal.ie/kevin-crowle... We are saddened to hear of the passing of Brother Kevin Crowley. Founder of the Capuchin Day Centre, which provides 1000 hot meals each day and has been feeding the homeless since 1969. A true example of living by faith for the common good.

In the latest issue of 'Search', the theological journal of the Church of Ireland, our Social Theologian, Kevin Hargaden, considers how local churches can pursue justice and compassion.

'While I often leave these events acutely aware of how much more I have to learn, that feeling is usually outweighed by the energy and hope I drew from the imagination, expertise, and determination of the people I meet.' ~ A short reflection by our colleague Siobhan www.jcfj.ie/2025/06/23/c...

Ignatius Social Thinking Week 🌿 A week filled with reflections and motivations for the future /1 with @europeanjesuit.bsky.social @centreavec.bsky.social @ceras-dse.bsky.social @cijusticia.bsky.social @entreculturas.bsky.social

Day 3 of IST Week 🌿 After final workshops on community gardens in Dublin and advocacy for the "Future Generations" from Brussels, we welcomed "Le Sappel" (sappel.info) who shared their striking inclusive art & ecology projects. Minds and hearts stretched together.

Day 2 of IST Week 🌿 From learning how to dialogue with protesting farmers to engaging with college students on political involvement, this morning served up a rich array of reflections on integral ecology. This afternoon we dived into eco-spirituality with Xavier de Bénazé SJ, nourishing our souls

Day 1 of Ignatian Social Thinking Week 10 social centres were able to come together meet and reflect. The Irish have a word, Meitheal - to come together and share in the labour💪 That's what we began today.

We're off to Lyon!! A 🧵 Le Châtelard - eco-spiritual centre🌿 A time to gather and reflect with other Jesuit centres across Europe on 10 years of implementing Laudato sí and discussing a strategy for the years ahead around the ecological crisis. /1 #slowtravel #Irishferries #IrelandtoFrance

🚨New issue of Studies next week🚨

"Only two things are certain beyond death and taxes: the private sector will not solve our housing problems and, barring global mayhem, rents are not coming down any time soon." www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

"As we accelerate towards climate chaos, more and more people are looking to ramp off the globalist superhighway and make their way through life more slowly and simply on winding localist trails" First in 3-part series by Niall Leahy SJ, entitled “Who are the Localists?” www.jcfj.ie/2025/06/10/t...

On Thursday, we joined Richard Carson for his 2nd walking tour of history of NEIC - 'The fire next time.' It is a fascinating account of four historical fires on Marlborough St, telling stories of arrival of Methodism, 1973 loyalist car bombs, Protestant laundries, Irish civil war, and 2023 riots.

"The principal of a school that was attended by two of the children who were deported to Nigeria last night has said that staff and pupils have been left 'devastated'."

Our friends @trocaire.bsky.social are hiring a part-time youth officer! If you want to be part of their outreach program, read more below. apply.workable.com/trocaire/j/8...

www.catholicbishops.ie/2025/05/26/i... Tomorrow the Irish Bishops are calling for a day of prayer and fasting for Gaza. Enough is enough, we have seen the horrible images of death and communal destruction in Gaza.

Slowness means Dublin City’s active travel network might only be delivered in 2050 or 2070, says councillors Two councillors have said Dublin City Council's active travel network, based on the current rate of delivery, will take many decades to be built. Last week, this website covered how, while…

Hidden with these plans is the effective doubling of prison capacity for women with an additional 150 spaces. www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41...

One of the most overlooked threats to democracy today is not ideological extremism or political corruption but the slow corrosion of our moral attention, brought about by the very digital technologies that mediate our political lives. www.jcfj.ie/2025/05/30/f...