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Students Daragh Ó Laoire and Seamus Queally lending a hand to bookshop manager Paul Gathecha at the St. Vincent de Paul shop in Ennis where they were raising awareness of acute poverty while collecting funds for local charities.
Photograph by Eugene McCafferty
Gaelcholáiste An Chláir win social innovator award by highlighting poverty through SVP shop initiative
May 26, 2021
AN Ennis school was honoured at the Young Social Innovators of the Year Ireland (YSI) Awards for its positive impact in helping to create a more equal, fair and sustainable world.
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Social media messages among teenagers can reflect toxic relationships. A group of socially conscious Mercy Secondary School transition year (TY) students in Mounthawk, Tralee, Co Kerry, calling themselves Red Flags, set out to #BreaktheSilence around toxic relationships, under the slogan âDetect to Protectâ. They won the top prize this month in Young Social Innovators of the Year awards, which celebrate young people, and their educators, who contribute to their communities creatively.
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A Tipperary secondary school has been honoured at the Young Social Innovators of the Year Ireland Awards.
A team from The Abbey School in Tipp Town has picked up the Silver Award for their ‘Use Your Head Use Your Helmet’ project.
It aims to raise awareness of acquired brain injury in young Irish people focusing on the lack of helmet wearing by young cyclists.
This was done through multiple initiatives including by creating a prototype device to remind cyclists to wear a helmet when sitting on their bike.
The team has received a prize bursary of 1,000 euro which can be put towards developing their idea.
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Mercy Mounthawk Secondary School in Tralee has been crowned overall winner at the Young Social Innovators of the Year Awards 2021.
The school won the gold award for their ground-breaking Red Flags ‘Break the Silence
’ project, which tackles the issue of toxic relationships.
Killarney Community College won the YSI Social Media Award, for their project to raise awareness about the false perception of Autism, ADHD/ADD, Dyslexia and Dyspraxia.
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Now in its 20
th year, YSI helps young people to develop and implement ideas to create a fairer, more equal and sustainable world.