'Like the cooperatives and Muintir na Tíre in the 20th century, Dingle Hub operates today on what could be described as principles of subsidiarity—empowering the community at its most local level to pursue the common good' www.jcfj.ie/2026/07/10/t...

We are thrilled to see this new post - North-East Inner-City Faith Liaison Officer - being recruited. It follows publication of 'Faith in the North-East Inner-City' - a collaboration by JCFJ, ACET Ireland and DCIF - where a faith liaison officer was a key recommendation👇 www.jcfj.ie/wp-content/u...

🚨New job alert🚨 ACET Ireland and Dublin City Interfaith Forum are seeking to employ a North-East Inner-City Faith Liaison Officer, responsible for building connections between and across c.50 faith-based communities in NEIC with other community supports. Details 👇 www.activelink.ie/vacancies/co...

www.rte.ie/news/ireland... 'Homeless service providers have repeatedly called on the Government to pause the passage of the legislation through the Oireachtas to allow more consideration.' and they are still rapidly pushing this bill ahead

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett... 'Were I to bump into someone while jaywalking, that would be rude. Were I to crash my bike into someone while breaking a red, we both would end up bruised. Were I to crash my car into someone, the risk of (their) death becomes probable.'

"If Cork prison was a hospital, and had the same record of curing people where patients were left with more illnesses than they went in with, how long would it last?” More coverage on Stop Cork Prison Expansion campaign, talking with residents and local reps. www.echolive.ie/corknews/ari...

Organised by @nhna.bsky.social and @stopclimatechaos.bsky.social Political parties from across the opposition and environmental organizations have been making their voice heard in opposition to LNG (Liquified Natural Gas)

'Data centre lobbyists recognise that the current heat wave engulfing Europe at the minute – which has already led to deaths – will only get worse if we pursue AI. The thing is, they think that the suffering of others is worth it if AI companies can profit.' www.jcfj.ie/2026/06/25/e...

We are looking forward to having Tom over, if you haven't seen his work. Be sure to check him out before he comes! www.instagram.com/p/DULjLoJEeD...

On Saturday, @nlsj.bsky.social and @keithadams.bsky.social joined a small gathering with Sr Helen Prejean CSJ, prison chaplains, and legal scholars. It was an inspiring conversation. Sr Helen is an American religious sister and death penalty abolitionist, www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOLu...

New blog by @nlsj.bsky.social inspired by James Rebanks's English Pastoral when slow travelling over Welsh and English countryside. "His father was still under financial pressure and the bank manager was no longer advising him to modernise, but to sell. Progress indeed!" www.jcfj.ie/2026/06/19/a...

After the riots in Belfast last week, I took the unusual journalistic route of talking to people who do the opposite kind of thing in that city, then I wrote about it for America Magazine (I didn't write the headline): www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

In April, we hosted an Education in Prison workshop to coincide with new Council of Europe Recommendation on prison education. We had 4 sessions on new standards, current services, Inside/Out education, and family support. The full report and slides are now available 👇 www.jcfj.ie/our-research...

If you missed today, there are three more Irish screenings: Belfast - June 18th @2pm, shorturl.at/ZS3mV Belfast - June 19th @7pm, Docs Ireland Film Festival, lnkd.in/genMgYAT Cork - June 20th @5pm, shorturl.at/7Y5X6 /3

Today, the first international screening of The Strike was held in Dublin. It is an Emmy Award winning documentary of the men who endured solitary confinement in the Californian prison system and, through incredible solidarity, launched the largest hunger strike in US history to force change. 1/

www.jcfj.ie/2026/06/11/c... A beautiful way to celebrate Laudato Si' week!

If you need more convincing, here is a great piece by @eoinglackin.bsky.social in conversation with the filmmakers, JoeBill Muñoz and Lucas Guilkey www.dublininquirer.com/a-documentar...

Tickets still available for screenings of The Strike in Dublin (17th), Belfast (18th), and Cork (20th). See flyer for deets. Book your ticket/s: Dublin - shorturl.at/L3y4y Belfast - shorturl.at/ZS3mV Cork - shorturl.at/7Y5X6 Organised by Irish Penal Abolition Network, with UU, UCC, UCU, and TCD.

'In an event at the prison's auditorium and in front of 80 inmates, the pontiff delivered a speech emphasizing that "life's mistakes do not determine a person's identity''' www.mundoamerica.com/british/2026...

www.jcfj.ie/2026/06/05/d... 'It should come as no shock to anyone living in Ireland or those who have left Ireland that a recent fact-finding mission by the European Parliament’s housing committee found Ireland’s housing crisis to be one of the “most severe” and “most complicated” in Europe.'

www.dublininquirer.com/a-documentar... This film will be shown in a couple of weeks! Get your tickets now! www.eventbrite.com/e/the-strike...

www.eventbrite.com/e/the-strike... The Strike is a feature documentary that tells the story of a generation of California men who endured decades of solitary confinement and, against all odds, launched the largest hunger strike in U.S. history. Register above!

focolareireland.org/2026/05/31/t... Our own Sophie Manaeva wrote for Focolare Ireland on her Economy of Francesco trip to Assisi.

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026... 'Part of the problem is political because although every councillor will want to make our roads safer, many will baulk when it comes to making unpopular changes to do that. In our car-dependent culture, taking space away from the car is politically problematic.'

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026... 'Pope Leo XIV insists we reject the tempting framing of these technologies as “neutral”, where each individual would just decide for themselves what appropriate use could mean.'

www.jcfj.ie/2026/05/28/p... 'It really is calling you to be someone who carefully chooses the bricks out of which you're going to build your life, as opposed to letting some expert somewhere design it for you, because that's efficient' Check out our brief video/audio rundown of the new encyclical

The north inner city was “under-resourced” and under pressure to integrate migrants, with an overconcentration of emergency accommodation centres. The Jesuit centre and other faith communities have been working to improve integration in the absence of State bodies doing so.' bit.ly/3PjB7SQ

Niamh McCormack spoke on Morning Ireland on the report of Mr D, who died in custody in 2021. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

'We only have to consider that the last ring road built around Galway – which opened in the late 80s – has culminated in the decades of chaos that we see now. ' www.jcfj.ie/2026/05/21/w...

www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026... 'Just when smart cities all over the world are moving away from the car, Galway is going all in, becoming more like a Texan city, wrapped in a shawl of roadside retail parks, paved parking lots and long-distance commutes'

www.jcfj.ie/2026/05/15/t... 'Community Wealth Building is an economic model that generates, circulates, and retains wealth in communities...providing a community with local, stable jobs and a democratic economy that directly benefits them rather than distant shareholders'

'A condition imposed by An Coimisiún Pleanála in the grant of planning permission requires the developers to confine the sale of new homes to individual buyers, with a ban on any units being sold to corporate buyers or approved housing bodies.' www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...

'We must have the audacity to question self-serving narratives'. Our President challenged the normalisation of war, the emissions caused by ongoing conflicts, and the obscene profits being made on large-scale death and suffering. #DCUClimate2026

www.dublininquirer.com/a-new-bohemi... “We can’t rely on being saved by some external forces,” said Howard. “We’ve got to do the work to become independent and stand on our own.”

The Economy of Francesco Conference this year is around the Roots of Economic Ethics, keynote lectures from Sr Helen Alford, Luigino Bruni, and Giacomo Todeschini. JCFJ presented at a session on Social Economy, Cooperation and Development on the Bohemian Cooperatives and Community Wealth Building.

tinyurl.com/y4mtsc4j The European Affordable Housing Plan is based on 4 pillars: boosting Supply, mobilising Investment, enabling immediate support while driving reforms, and supporting the most affected. But how does this apply to Ireland? Read @alexiacobrien.bsky.social summary now🏘️

At the risk of getting piled on by techbros who think you should make electricity in the most *macho* way possible, I wrote for @jcfjustice.bsky.social about why nuclear power remains a dead-end in practical and ethical terms for Ireland: www.jcfj.ie/2026/05/06/t...

www.jcfj.ie/2026/05/06/t... 'Nuclear power plants are always more expensive than they say they’ll be. They are never as reliable as they say they’ll be. [And] they never deliver electricity as cheaply as they say they will. '

This has been shared on Linkedin: In today's Irish Times, IPRT Executive Director, Saoirse Brady responds to recent comments from the Minister for Justice on prison overcrowding and prison capacity. Read the full letter here: bit.ly/3QUykQi

After presenting on Thursday, we had the pleasure of coming back on Friday the focus of the day was galvanising support for the community wealth building among civil society. President Catherine Connolly addressed the group and expressed her support, adding that “this gives me hope”

Faith communities have infrastructure that can facilitate the spreading of new social initiatives. In the 20th Century, Parish systems helped expand the Irish Credit Union movement. With its community Network, it could still help today! - Building community wealth with the Bohemian Co-operative

the Cork chapter of the Irish Penal Abolition Network is door-knocking in the Glen on Wednesday evening to raise awareness of the new prison. if you are interested, DM me and I will link you with some sound people. Plus the flyers are not too shabby

"What we are dealing with here is not the invasion of the global public square with fervent religiosity but the appropriation of religious concepts and images for the sake of a political agenda." www.jcfj.ie/2026/04/24/t...

On Earth Day, the JCFJ joined many other civil society organisations and political parties outside Leinster House, calling on the government to take fairer and faster climate action. The energy crisis is the climate crisis.

Next with St.Stephens Green Trust we saw that restrictions on education in prisons enforces the lack of value we put on human life when they are out of sight, out of mind. Ultimately though we left asking, why is it people have to wait till they're in prison to receive this chance at education

Our thoughtful contributors included: Anne Costelloe, Helen Nichols, Kevin Warner, Robert Cullen, Katharina Swirak, and Pieter De Witte. This event was only possible with the generous funding and support of the St. Stephen's Green Trust. /2

Today, we held our "Lessons Never Learned" Education in Prison Workshop with topics on the Council of Europe's revised standards, the current "climate for education" in Irish prisons, the transformative education offered by Inside Out programmes, and the ripple effects to family relationships. /1

"For we know not what we do" our 5th annual lecture started our week of drawing attention to the penal system in Ireland. We cannot just ignore people once they are behind bars. If you missed the lecture, don't worry we have a recording coming soon 🎥

Thank you for all your interest in our Lecture on Tuesday! Unfortunately, we have reached our venue's capacity and can't accept any more booking requests. Looking forward to seeing you all there!

'The fuel protests last week could be viewed as a large-scale ecological experiment to test the resilience of our economic and societal ecosystem.... The results are in – and they are not reassuring.' www.jcfj.ie/2026/04/15/w...