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The team and friends of ATD Ireland are delighted to welcome 3 new team members who have just arrived in Ireland. Dann Kenningham from Yorkshire and London Town, who arrives with his family, is a member of the International Volunteer Corps of ATD Fourth World and has worked previously with ATD in the Philippines, Belgium, France and the UK. Stewart and Mary McMurchie from Scotland, and also members of the International Volunteers Corps, have worked with ATD in France, Canada and the UK. We wish them all the best with their new mission in Ireland and we greatly value their many years of experience…

Read all about it! The Irish Sunday Times features ATD's campaign to have socioeconomic discrimination adopted as a ground in Irish equality legislation.Click here to read article.#themissing10th

To read a message from the International leadership team with regards to the current pandemic please click here. We are encouraging people to keep connected through the net. You can follow our updates on Twitter and Facebook.  Sending positive energy and virtual hugs to you all.

15 community & voluntary organisations jointly write to the political parties seeking inclusion in the new Programme for Government of the #10thground of #SocEcoDiscimination in Irish Equality Legislation. Read our letter here: https://bit.ly/2u6WXiA

As always on the 17th of October, ATD alongside the 17 October committee launched our annual event at the Human Rights and Poverty Stone, Dublin, to mark the UN International Eradication of Poverty Day. This years chosen international theme was “Acting together to empower children, their families and communities to end poverty”. In relation to this, we chose a sub-theme of ‘footsteps for a better future’ and so we placed hundreds of colored footprints of peoples dreams (many of those written by children) that we had collected over the past months as well as on the day, from the famine statues to the…

A fantastic adventure organised by ATD Quart Monde! 475km from Dublin to Paris over 6 days as part of the international week of action and awareness for the Sustainable Development Goals (#Act4SDGs). A team of eight Irish cyclists took the boat from Dublin Port to Cherbourg and were joined by a number of French cyclists, including some local authorities, along the way. The purpose of the trip was to raise awareness for SDGs Week, to highlight the strong alliance between Ireland and France in SDG implementation, and to promote France's recent adoption of a new Roadmap for the 2030 Agenda. The route…

We are happy to share with you the National Programme 2019, produced by the 17 October committee, which provides information on events by national and local groups around the country for the International UN End Poverty Day on 17 October. Please click here to view!

The report, ''Does It Only Happen to Me? Living in the shadows of Socio-Economic Discrimination'' was launched on Wednesday 18th September by Senator Lynn Ruane at an event prepared by All Together in Dignity Ireland. The 19 recommendations from the report were discussed by academics, elected representatives, civil society organisations and people with direct experience of discrimination gathered in the Auditorium of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC). The report calls on the Government and the Oireachtas to speed up the passage of the Private Members Bill introducing the recognition of a tenth ground of discrimination in the Irish…