Cross-border attacks increasing as conflict spills across frontiers

Government plans to create jobs and provide training for the country’s unemployed youth should get an unexpected boost with an advance of around €40m from the EU.

Summer camps can be a productive and fun way to help fill the long school holidays. Clodagh O’Donoghue of Consumer Choice looks at the options, costs, and what you need to consider.

The Tánaiste will lead a conference in Dublin today which hopes to work out how the EU's €6bn fund can be used to bring down youth unemployment.

The National Youth Council has warned young people will suffer if the Government continues to focus on austerity.

The Government’s call for young people to further upskill to make themselves more attractive to the jobs market is a tough proposition, writes Stephen Rogers

The first meeting of the convention on the Constitution will gather later this month.

The Government has given itself two months to get the fiscal compact treaty passed after announcing that the referendum will take place on Thursday, May 31.

SPORTS in Ireland could collapse without the lucrative sponsorship of drinks companies, a Government advisory group has warned.

Efforts to secure voting rights for 16-year-olds will continue before an Oireachtas committee today.

There has been more reaction from interest groups around the country.

THE budget will encourage the young and unemployed to get into the jobs market as soon as possible, the Minister for Children has said.

The National Youth Council is calling for more curbs on alcohol advertising in order to protect young people.

The National Youth Council has issued a last-minute appeal to people, especially the young, to check if they are registered to vote in the forthcoming elections.

Almost 30% of young people aged between 18 and 25 are not registered to vote, according to a survey by the National Youth Council.

The National Youth Council is mounting a new campaign calling for teenagers as young as 16 to be allowed vote in the forthcoming local and European elections.

The Budget 2008 has yielded disappointing results in housing, health and income supports for children and young people according to the National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI).

THERE ARE few tragedies that so graphically, so starkly, so very everyday and heartbreaking, that illustrate our society’s catalogue of despair and failure than our growing drugs crisis.

A Saturday election date will be the best polling day for young people, campaigners have reiterated today.

LEARNER drivers who take part in a road safety programme can earn a 10% discount on their insurance premium.

The National Youth Council is mounting a new campaign to warn young adults about the dangers of running up huge debts on credit cards.

Youth activists are calling on the Government to give more support to people buying their first home.

The National Youth Council has accused the Government of putting the interests of the drinks industry before public health.

RECENT statistics and reports show that binge drinking is an increasing problem especially among the young in Ireland.

DESPITE the fact that the Government insists that it is alert to the grave problem, and occurrence, of child sex abuse, it is dangerously lax in providing the resources to reduce the incidence of it.

EDUCATION Minister Mary Hanafin says she won’t intervene to prevent junk food being advertised or sold in schools, despite the growing number of children who are overweight.

MORE than two decades after Ireland’s appalling crisis of suicide came to light, a national office to co-ordinate the fight against this terrible problem is finally being established.

The National Youth Council has criticised the Revenue Commissioners' move to levy stamp duty on first-time buyers who get significant financial help from their parents.

THE decision by the Revenue Commissioners that first-time home buyers whose parents pay some of the price are liable for stamp duty will cause huge hardship, according to the Consumers Association of Ireland.

THE McBrearty family have joined students, civil liberties groups and opposition parties in opposing Justice Minister McDowell’s plans to introduce Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs).

Anti-social Behaviour Orders are a quick-fix solution which will only criminalise young people, it was claimed today.

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell yesterday threw down the gauntlet to the publicans’ lobby, warning if they prevented café bars being introduced, they may also lose the benefits of current licensing arrangements.

New laws are set to crack down on anti-social behaviour, but Cormac O’Keeffe says gardaí already have the powers.

The National Youth Council has called on young people to oppose the Government's plans to introduce controversial anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs).

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern will sit down with a gathering of young people in Dublin later to discuss issues that impact their lives.

The National Youth Council said today that plans by the Minister for Justice, Michael McDowell, to give licences for cafe-style bars, will do nothing to tackle binge drinking.

Groups working with the poor and disadvantaged have accused the Government of doing little to address child poverty in Ireland.

More than €2bn should be earmarked in the next budget to fight the crisis of child poverty, it was claimed today.

The National Youth Council is calling on the Minister for Finance, Brian Cowen, not to cut taxes in the next budget, and instead invest money in youth services.

A YEAR ago today the Government promised to plough €37 million over the next five years into youth development - but not a cent has yet been spent.

THE Government has failed to spend one euro of the €7.12 million promised for the National Youth Work Development Plan launched a year ago today.

The National Youth Council has called on young people to exercise their votes in the upcoming local and European elections.

The National Youth Council has developed a new website to provide information to young people about the upcoming local and European elections.

The National Youth Council is warning that up to 100,000 young people eligible to vote on June 11 may not be able to because they are not registered.