Age Friendly Ireland | Newsletter Thursday 15th August
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New EnergyCloud Age Friendly project launched for Cork City
This week, Jerry Buttimer, Minister of State for Charities, Gaeltacht and the Islands & Rural Transport launched a new EnergyCloud pilot project in Cork City. A collaboration between not-for-profit EnergyCloud …
Age Friendly Ireland & Meath County Council visit to Norway
Age Friendly Ireland and Meath County Council were delighted to visit Oslo recently and present at their national housing conference (Boligpulsen 2025) organised by Husbanken, the Norwegian state housing bank. …
Age-Friendly AI: Ireland’s : National Artificial Intelligence Literacy Initiative
TU Dublin, in partnership with the Research Ireland ADAPT Centre, is proud to launch Age-Friendly AI: A National Conversation on Artificial Intelligence!Funded by Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland under the …
Bowel Cancer Awareness Month 2025
From 1 April 2025, BowelScreen will be available to everyone aged 59 to 70. Just one test can help reduce the risk of developing bowel cancer over your lifetime. This …
Age Friendly Roscommon Updates
Tackling Climate Change is Not Just for the Young An excellent six step Climate Action Course aimed at the over 60’s in Roscommon has just finished. The course facilitator, Jacinta …
Major Age Friendly Ireland Health & Wellbeing Festival on ATU Campus
On March 28th, 2025, more than 250 older people from Sligo, Leitrim and across the region attended the first-ever Age Friendly Health and Wellbeing Festival at ATU Sligo. The event was a resounding success, providing attendees …
Global Campaign to Combat Ageism
Age is one of the first things we notice about other people. Ageism arises when age is used to categorize and divide people in ways that lead to harm, disadvantage …