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Beyond proud to announce our fantastic young people received 2 awards at the annual Garda Youth Awards held tonight in Artane Beaumont Family Recreation Centre for the DMR North region! Our Youth Voices video won 2nd place in the ‘Group’ category and Princess, who we nominated for a ‘special achievement’ award came first place in […]

In 2023, in partnership with PCI College, we developed Listen Up – A Professional Certificate in Child and Adolescent Counselling which provided additional counselling resources (12 counsellors) to allow us to increase the service in 4 existing schools and offer it to 7 new schools in the catchment area for the academic year 2023/24. With

This year Sphere 17 Kilbarrack took part in the Trocaire ‘Game Changers’ programme.   The programme ran from January to May, involving 4 young people aged 10-12 who worked on creating a game that would make climate justice fun! At the end of the programme, the game was submitted as part of Trocaire’s Game Changers nationwide competition. About our game:

Sphere 17 – a place to be you…… We launched this ‘Youth Voices’ video back in January, and we feel it communicates the real lived experience of young people living in direct provision in Ireland in a powerful way.  It is a piece of work we are very proud to have been involved in, and

Sphere 17 Regional Youth Service is a member organisation of The Northside Community Forum.  Together with other organisations and agencies in our community we have signed the below statement. Northside Community Forum Statement The Northside Community Forum is a membership based community network of over 50 local community based organisations and groups operating in Dublin

This year we were very lucky to collaborate with Creative Places Darndale and Cois Ceim Broadreach as part of this years St Patricks Day Festival. Young people from both Sphere 17 Darndale and Bonnybrook along with approx 60 other young people from various youth groups around the city have been working hard rehearsing with our

The annual Get The Message Out ‘Another Way 5k’ is back in Darndale Park on Saturday 27th April 2024 at 11am.  Registrations cost just €10 for adults, €5 for 13-17 year olds and places are limited. Another Way 5k is an event to promote sport in our community.  We encourage everyone to run, walk or

On 21st February, we travelled to St Francis Hospice, Raheny to present them with a cheque for €648.  This money was raised from all the support and generous donations we received at our Christmas Fair in Priorswood back in December. St Francis Hospice provide end of life care to those who have received a terminal

Sphere 17 Regional Youth Service (RYS) welcomed Minister Roderic O Gorman TD (Dept of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth) to launch their Youth Voices video, highlighting the experiences of young people living locally in direct provision.   Sphere 17 RYS were honoured to welcome Minister Roderic O Gorman TD to the Sphere 17 Regional Youth