Friday, 28 November 2025
Tuesday, 25 November 2025
Monday, 17 November 2025
Check out this amazing cultural event happening on the 22nd of this month at Portobello!
The Community Team invites you a special cultural event in
Portobello Community Hall on Saturday 22nd November from 1-3pm.
Musical Connections: Ireland with Ukraine
Celebrate Irish and Ukrainian culture through a musical
exchange. We will come together with Céad Míle Fáilte for a workshop and learn
a song as Gaeilge and in Ukrainian.
We welcome everyone with any level of Irish at all to
come together and celebrate with music and craic!
This event is part of an amazing Irish language
festival called Fáilte Fite Fuaite , celebrating and encouraging the use the
Irish Language across the South East Area.
Please find attached a programme of Fáilte Fite Fuaite
events that will be taking place from the 19th – 23rd
November.
Can you please share both this Portobello Event details
along with the Digital Brochure of Events for Fáilte Fite Fuaite through your
contacts and social media.
Thursday, 13 November 2025
Monday, 10 November 2025
Thursday, 30 October 2025
Tuesday, 28 October 2025
Check out this very cool and interesting upcoming show from Brokentalkers. I encourage all to check it out!
The show is called The Mirror Stage. It aims to challenge mental health stigma and deepen understanding of, and encourage discussion in society about, what psychosis means to the people who experience it. It is part of this cross-disciplinary research programme: https://psistarstudy.eu/
The show is a
collaboration between people who have experienced psychosis; 6 PhD students
researching psychosis; universities (e.g. RCSI, UCD, Trinity); and a highly
skilled and internationally renowned theatre company called Broken Talkers.
Brokentalkers have a track record of creating accessible, socially urgent
theatre that fosters empathy and promotes advocacy.
Here is a
YouTube video that gives you a taster of the show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IXsGdFc1sA
The show opens
in the Project Arts Centre, in Temple Bar Dublin, at 7.30pm on Friday November
7th. There are previews on 5th and 6th Nov and
subsequent shows until 12th November (with a performance and
Post-Show Talk that I am a part of on 11th November). You can
purchase a ticket using the Book Now button on this link: https://projectartscentre.ie/events/the-mirror-stage/
Help understanding the new buses and changes to keep everyone able to access our project!
TFI New Bus Routes & Changes as of Oct 19th 2025
|
F1 |
Ballymun (IKEA)
– Finglas – City Centre – Tallaght (The Square) (a 24 hour service) |
|
F2 |
Charlestown Shopping
Centre – City Centre – Rossmore (a 24 hour service) |
|
F3 |
Charlestown Shopping
Centre – City Centre – Greenhills |
|
23 |
Charlestown Shopping
Centre – Finglas – Merrion Square |
|
24 |
Dublin Airport –
Botanic Gardens – Merrion Square |
|
73 |
Marino – Thomas
Street – Walkinstown |
|
80 |
Dartry – Usher’s
Quay – Liffey Valley (a 24-hour service) |
|
82 |
Kiltipper – St.
Stephen’s Green - Poolbeg |
Areas Served by the new bus routes:
§ Ballymun
§ Finglas
§ Glasnevin
§ Marino
§ City
Centre
§ Broombridge
§ Kimmage
§ Walkinstown
§ Templeogue
§ Rathmines
§ Palmerstown
§ Tallaght
Bus routes now changed and or discontinued:
§ 9
§ 26
§ 40
§ 40b
§ 49
§ 54a
§ 83
§ 83a
§ 123
§ 140
Diverted Routes:
§ 122
– Divert via Galtymore Road instead of Mourne Road
§ 150
- Divert to Greenhills College, instead of Rossmore. The revised alignment will
operate via Limekiln Road and Limekiln Avenue
Wednesday, 22 October 2025
Gateway is now officially a charity!!!
Check out this link to the Charity's Regulator and you will see us listed there as a registered charity! Well done to all involved. So much work went into achieving this.
Wednesday, 15 October 2025
Monday, 13 October 2025
Friday, 10 October 2025
Members of our Gateway team represented the project at The mental health fair at Jobstown Community Centre in Tallaght earlier today.
Some fantastic organisations were there!
Tuesday, 7 October 2025
Monday, 6 October 2025
Friday, 3 October 2025
Tuesday, 30 September 2025
Friday, 26 September 2025
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Monday, 22 September 2025
Friday, 19 September 2025
Check out this webinar that is due to take place on September 23rd!
Webinar on 23rd September, and
link to register on CDHN's website:
https://www.cdhn.org/event/speaking-my-language
Critical Voices Network Conference
- Call for Abstracts
Final
conference announcement and call for abstracts
‘Supporting
people in distress: critical perspectives on safe spaces and places’
14th
and 15th November 2025
School
of Applied Social Studies
Institute
for Social Science in the 21st century
University
College Cork, Ireland
and
Critical
Voices Ireland Network
Over the last 16 years this
conference has covered many concerns around mental health systems, practices
and provisions. One of these concerns centre around the lack of availability of
safe spaces and places for people experiencing intense distress, a theme
specifically addressed at the 2021 (online) conference. We have heard and
learned from different ways/approaches, outside of the traditional hospital and
community-based systems, of supporting people in distress, such as crisis
houses and therapeutic farms. Sadly, locating safe spaces and places for people
experiencing severe distress and crisis remains difficult. Following on
from last year’s conference on iatrogenic harm we are acutely aware that we
need to turn ‘first do good’ into practice. Therefore, this year’s conference
aims to explore and discuss:
·
What constitutes a safe place/space in mental health practices?
·
Why is it so difficult to develop and sustain safe
places/spaces?
·
Are there examples of good practices from various jurisdictions
providing safe places and spaces?
We hope that this
conference will bring together people with experience and interest in
developing safe spaces projects in Ireland.
Keynote Speakers confirmed to date (in alphabetical
order):
Jess Angland, CEO,
Slí Eile Support Services, Community based Care Farm, Bakery and Supported
living in North Cork.
·
Eamonn Flynn, Dad, music mental
health activist. Looking for humane ways to help people in crisis and their
families, London.
·
‘New Script for Mental Health’ campaign
Activists, Belfast.
·
Ciara Glynn, Manager at Solace
Café, former peer support worker, passionate activist, Dublin.
·
Sinead Pierce, Peer
Support Worker, HSE & Lived Experience Informed Educator, University
College Cork, Cork.
·
Speak Out! Theatre for
Transformation, Creativity and Change project, Munster Technological
University, Cork.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS (oral
presentations/workshops) of 45 minutes’ duration related to the conference
theme and outlining its aims and intentions. Please
email your abstract (in Word- 250 words max) and a brief bio (in Word – 150
words max) to l.sapouna@ucc.ie by 22 September 2025.
Inquiries to h.gijbels@ucc.ie or l.sapouna@ucc.ie.
Registration details will be
circulated in late September 2025.
The Conference organisers
are Lydia Sapouna, School of Applied Social Studies and Harry Gijbels
(retired), School of Nursing and Midwifery, University College Cork, Ireland
and Mad in Ireland.
Thursday, 18 September 2025
Gateway were on TV recently! We are featured in this episode. Please check us out! We are talking about Gateway!
To watch the episode via YouTube, please click the link below:
Monday, 15 September 2025
Gateway published a beautiful collection of creative writing, art and song.
To view this stunning digital book, please click on the link below!
https://issuu.com/silverthread/docs/gateway_ebook_with_cover
Wednesday, 10 September 2025
Monday, 8 September 2025
Friday, 5 September 2025
Tuesday, 2 September 2025
Thursday, 28 August 2025
Wednesday, 27 August 2025
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