 | YSI Students on RTEs The John Murray ShowListen to YSI projects being interviewed on RTÉ‘s The John Murray Show Thursday 10th May 2012 11 May 2012 |
| Coverage of Annual Showcase 2012View some of the recent online coverage of the YSI Annual Showcase 2012 10 May 2012 |
| Students impress DragonsStudents from Loreto Secondary School in Letterkenny received €800 in funding following the pitch of their social innovation idea to several business entrepreneurs in a Dragon-type Den on Thursday last. 27 Apr 2012 |
| Students seek to put Braille on the menuRestaurateur Derry Clarke and the Restaurant Association of Ireland are backing students are campaigning to encourage restaurants to provide Braille versions of their menus for visually impaired customers. |
| Students from Navan Youthreach raise €1,000 for River Rescue fundStudents and staff from Youthreach Foundation in Navan raised an impressive €1,000 for the Meath River Rescue Sponsor A Brick campaign over last weekend. 27 Mar 2012 |
| Scrap Transition Year to help the elderly?Calls have been made suggesting that Transition Year be scrapped, and branding it an “indulgent luxury”. |
| Top marks for Forget Me Not!Forget Me Not - the project being undertaken by students from the young social innovators group in Davis College Mallow has been raising awareness for missing persons with noted success. The group are lobbying for a national Missing Person’s Day and will be making a trip to the Dáil later in March with this in mind. |
| Young Social Innovators team members present research at Leinster HouseTransition-year pupils of Coláiste Muire, who have made it their mission to make Ennis an age-friendly town, have taken their plans to the Government this week. 10 Feb 2012 |
| Students give thumbs down to flouride in our drinking waterOscar Wilde claimed that ’ youth was wasted on the young.’ Not so with the Transition Year Students from Mounthawk School in Tralee. At a meeting last Wednesday of Transition Town Tralee, the students and their teacher, Martha Brassil, informed those present about their YSI project and why they strongly believe that fluroide should not be put through our drinking water. 01 Feb 2012 |
| Coláiste Muire, Ennis pupils moot age-friendly planSignage making motorists in Ennis aware of elderly pedestrians, reduced prices for pensioners and a lengthening of traffic light times. These are just some of the innovative ideas being put forward by Coláiste Muire pupils who believe that the town has the potential to become an Age Friendly Town. 20 Jan 2012 |
| Cafe ‘Boomerang’ to be opened for the Summer!It is hoped the long-awaited youth cafe for Drogheda now named the Boomerang Cafe will be open to young people by summer of this year. 18 Jan 2012 |
| Pobalscoil Chorea Dhuibhne’s teachers get a lesson in uniformity!Anyone visiting Dingle’s Pobalscoil Chorea Dhuibhne last Monday might have been rather confused to find the teachers wearing school uniforms and the students in ‘civvies’. |
| YSI students of Loreto Secondary School, Fermoy aim to combat regional homelessness this year.The project entitled ‘Homeless Not Helpless’, focuses on giving a helping hand to those on the streets. Inspired by the recent harsh winters, the project attempts to raise awareness, reduce stereotypes and help the homeless survive the difficult winter months. 16 Jan 2012 |
| YSI students in Desmond College aim to build civic prideWith a remix of hit single and a twist on a popular TV show, transition year students at Desmond College in Newcastle West are hoping to provide a boost to a number of charities and community projects in West Limerick. 08 Dec 2011 |
| TV girls gather support for change in prostitution lawA petition calling for prostitution to be made illegal in Ireland garnered the support of members of the public when Transition Year students in St Mary’s Secondary School took to the streets of New Ross last week seeking signatures. 29 Dec 2011 |
| Sacred Heart School, YSI team will organise another Teen Aware ConcertDue to the enormous success of the 2011 Teen Aware concert, the organisation of the second annual Teen Aware event is already underway. It will take place on Good Friday, the 6th April, 2012. The 2012 Teen Aware looks set to be even bigger and better than the 2011 event that saw over 700 teenagers attend.. 08 Dec 2011 |
| YSI students raising awareness of homelessnessTHE Transition Year students in Colaiste Chiarain in Leixlip are raising awareness of homelessness through a Young Social Innovator project which includes having a ‘Sleep- Out’ outside the school on Thursday, 8th December. 03 Dec 2011 |
| Students launch initiative to save vital counselling serviceA GROUP of fourth year students from Pobalscoil Chorea Dhuibhne are lighting to save a counselling service that offers vital support to young people up to the age of 25 in the West Kerry area. 23 Nov 2011 |
| YSI Advocates Fuel CollectionYSI Advocates from the Scoil Mhuire, Strokestown Centre of Social Innovators have organised a fuel collection from Monday 12th December to Thursday 15th December for local members of their community who experience financial difficulties at this time of year. 06 Dec 2011 |
| Boomerang - Drogheda’s new Youth CafePlans are progressing well for Boomerang - Drogheda’s new Youth Cafe, with a new logo and website designed and a number of fundraising events planned for the coming months. 30 Nov 2011 |
| YSI team ‘Flouride Fighters’ from Mercy Mounthawk to tackle water issueTY students from Mercy Secondary School, Mounthawk , Tralee are voicing their concerns about the potential dangers of flouride in water. 24 Nov 2011 |
| YSI featured on Newstalk’s Global VillageYSI’s CEO Rachel Collier, along with former YSI participant Oisin McHugh from Presentation College, Carlow speak with Global Village host Dil Wickremasinghe, explaining what YSI is about and how social innovation contributes to a more inclusive Ireland. 17 Nov 2011 |
| Mallow students’ campaign praisedThe mother of Ireland’s longest missing person paid an emotional tribute yesterday to Cork students who have launched a nationwide awareness campaign for missing people. 30 Sep 2011 |
| YSI project team take action against the planned cutbacks to the local ambulance serviceMembers of the YSI project team from Mercy Heights Secondary School, Skibbereen were present at a recent public meeting in Skibbereen town to give their support to the town councils proposals to take action against the planned cutbacks to the local ambulance service. 08 Oct 2011 |
| Tuam Young Social Innovators are getting busy!This week the students of Presentation College, Tuam have been focussing on their projects for Young Social Innovators 2011/ 2012. 03 Nov 2011 |
| Young Social Innovators Winners featured in HSE’s ‘Health Matters’ National Magazine‘Health Matters’, the HSE Magazine featured winning projects from the 2010/ 2011 YSI Showcase highlighting the strong links between YSI and the HSE. 30 Sep 2011 |
| Ursuline TY Students say ‘Don’t Diss…ability’YSI students seek to raise awareness of lack of faciltities for wheelchair users in Thurles. 24 Feb 2011 |
| Changing attitudes towards teenagersFingal students tackle negative attitudes of adults and elderly towards teenagers. 22 Feb 2011 |
| Should you be allowed to vote at 16?YSI project explores possiblity of younger voting age. 21 Feb 2011 |
| Davis College YSI students hold Missing Persons workshopYSI students host workshop to give insight into the lives of people working to help support families of missing people in Ireland. 17 Feb 2011 |
| YSI TY Students in Kilkenny are taking to the streetsKilkenny YSI students petition to save children’s services at the Fr. Mc Grath Centre 11 Feb 2011 |
| Sacred Heart Students raise awareness for Teen LineAs part of their 2011 YSI initiative, Sacred Heart students enlisted the help of their brave teachers to raise funds and awareness of Teen Line, a free-phone service for teenagers to promote mental health. 25 Feb 2011 |
| Teachers rise to the YSI challenge in TullamoreBrave teachers in Sacred Heart School, Tullamore, volunteered to take part in a range of sponsored challenges to help raise money for Teenline Ireland as part of a YSI project in the school which aims to raise awareness of suicide. 10 Feb 2011 |