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IRISH PRESIDENCY of the EU a Youth Perspective IRISH PRESIDENCY OF THE EU A Youth Perspective European Movement Ireland November 2013 Youth Media and the Irish Presidency i First published in November 2013 by: © European Movement Ireland 2013 Designed by: Kaz Productions Printed by: Walsh Colour Print Photograpy: European Movement Ireland, YMIP journalists, Paul Sherwood Cartoons: Eoin Kelleher, YMIP TABLE OF CONTENTS FOREWORD 2 INTRODUCTION 3 Overview and Background 4 Youth in Action 4 THE JOURNALISTS 5 Who are they and where are they now? 6 THE EXPERIENCE 13 Timeline 14 Highlights of the YMIP Programme 15 Support and Training 17 Media Coverage 19 THE REPORTING 21 THE OUTCOMES 49 Achievements 50 Learning 51 THE PARTNERSHIP 53 Meet the Partners 54 Hear from the Partners 56 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 59 Youth Media and the Irish Presidency 1 FOREWORD Welcome to this Report on Digital Agenda Assembly and the European Movement Ireland’s 2013 EU Youth Conference; our reporters Programme, Youth Media and were there, covering developments, the Irish Presidency (YMIP). EM interviewing high-profile delegates Ireland was delighted to have been and speakers, and representing successful in applying to Léargas Ireland’s young generation. for funding for YMIP in 2012 under the European Commission’s Youth I would like to take this opportunity in Action programme. Since its to congratulate the 25 young launch in January 2013, YMIP has citizen journalists from around the grown and developed beyond all island of Ireland who took part our expectations, evolving into a in YMIP and who, through their huge achievement for everyone hard work, talent and enthusiasm, involved – the 25 young journalist made the Programme such a participants, the team here at success. In the following pages, EM Ireland and our partner you will see a selection of their organisations. work. A snapshot of the YMIP coverage of the Presidency can also This year is a unique and important be found and explored at www. one in Irish-EU relations. The europeanmovement.ie/ymip and seventh Irish Presidency, which ran its range and quality are a tribute from January to June, coincided to the work and talent of the with the fortieth anniversary of journalists. I have no doubt that all Ireland’s accession to the EU (then 25 participants will succeed and go European Economic Community). far in their future careers, and I look 2013 was also designated European forward to tracking their progress Year of Citizens by the European over the coming years. Commission, with the aim of encouraging citizen participation YMIP would not have been “Tying in with in the EU and creating a dialogue possible without the support and between EU citizens and European important contributions of our the aims of the representatives. Tying in with partner organisations – Community the aims of the European Year of Relations in Schools (CRIS), European Year Citizens, YMIP came about through European Movement Northern EM Ireland’s desire to see a seventh Ireland, SpunOut.ie, and Youth of Citizens, YMIP Irish Presidency which would fully Advocate Programmes (YAP) Ireland engage with and involve Ireland’s – and YMIP’s Media Consultant, came about young people. Marion Creely. My sincere thanks also to Léargas, the Irish Presidency through EM With YMIP, we set out to bring team and the Department of the a fresh youth perspective to Taoiseach. Finally, I would like to Ireland’s desire coverage of the Irish Presidency, pay tribute to the work of the EM and so our team of 25 citizen Ireland team, in particular Ruth, and to see a seventh journalists attended and reported also Billie and Neale, whose efforts on some of the biggest and most ensured the smooth running of Irish Presidency important events of the Presidency. YMIP from start to finish. which would fully From the launch of the European Year of Citizens 2013 in January engage with and by President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, Noelle O Connell involve Ireland’s Taoiseach Enda Kenny TD and Executive Director Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore TD; to the European Movement Ireland young people.” 2 Youth Media and the Irish Presidency INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION OVERVIEW AND BACKGROUND Youth Media and the Irish Presidency (YMIP) is an all-Ireland initiative developed in autumn 2012 by European Movement Ireland, in YOUTH IN ACTION collaboration with a number of partner organisations north and south of the border – Community Relations in Schools (CRIS), European Movement YMIP is funded under Youth in Northern Ireland, SpunOut.ie and Youth Advocate Programmes (YAP) Action, the EU’s mobility and Ireland – and Marion Creely, the programme’s Media Consultant. The aim non-formal education programme of YMIP was to open up the Irish Presidency of the Council of the European targeting young people aged Union, which took place from 1 January 2013 to 30 June 2013, to the between 13 and 30. Youth in young people of Ireland by recruiting a team of 25 young citizen journalists Action aims to inspire a sense to report on both the Presidency and broader European affairs in the first of active European citizenship, six months of the year. solidarity and tolerance among young Europeans and to involve Recruited from across the island of Ireland, our journalists were aged them in shaping the future of between 18 and 25 and all enthusiastic communicators, innovators and the EU. It promotes mobility changemakers. EM Ireland worked with our partner organisations to recruit within and beyond the EU’s participants from schools, colleges and youth clubs across the Republic of borders, non-formal learning Ireland and Northern Ireland. The YMIP team was then brought together and intercultural dialogue, and in Dublin for training and their first assignment – coverage of the launch of encourages the inclusion of the European Year of Citizens 2013 and a Citizens’ Dialogue in Dublin City all young people, regardless Hall – on 9 and 10 January 2013. of their educational, social and cultural background. In From then until the end of the Irish Presidency in June, our team of Ireland, Youth in Action funding journalists were present at all the major Presidency events, attending is administered by Léargas, a and covering Informal Meetings of Ministers, press conferences, the visit not-for-profit organisation which to Ireland of Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International manages European, national Monetary Fund, international conferences and more. Their presence at, and international exchange and and coverage of, these events brought a new perspective to Presidency cooperation programmes in proceedings – that of Irish and European young people. Not only were education, training and youth and they raising awareness of the Presidency among their peers and in their community work. local areas throughout the island of Ireland, they were also promoting young people and their levels of engagement and interest to the politicians Further information about Youth and other groups at these events. in Action can be found at eacea. ec.europa.eu/youth. This Report catalogues the work and findings of YMIP, and introduces the people involved in the initiative – the 25 young citizen journalists and EM Read more about the work of Ireland’s partner organisations. Léargas at www.leargas.ie. “Being tasked with covering official events during Ireland’s Presidency of the Council of the EU was both an exciting and daunting task. It was great to have access to places and people that the general public did not. As citizen journalists, we had to provide material that would be accessible and interesting to as many people as possible.” Órla Ryan 4 Youth Media and the Irish Presidency THE JOURNALISTS THE JOURNALISTS YMIP kicked off with a call from EM Ireland and our YMIP partner organisations to Ireland’s young people, looking for individuals who wanted to see the concerns and opinions of Ireland’s young citizens represented in coverage of the Irish Presidency. We received a huge number of applications from all corners of the island, leaving us with the unenviable task of whittling down the hugely talented group of applicants to just 25 participants. In the following pages our journalists, who are divided into five regions on the basis of European Parliament constituencies, introduce themselves to you in their own words. WHO ARE THEY AND WHERE ARE THEY NOW? DUBLIN Tarisai May Chidawanyika Eoin Kelleher (@EoinKr) (@TarieMay) Eoin is a student of medicine at Before joining YMIP, May was a the Royal College of Surgeons first-year Law student in University in Ireland. He grew up and went College Dublin. After six months to school in Dublin, and has in the role of YMIP journalist, maintained an active interest she has come to see journalism in both politics and art from as a way to speak for those who a young age. He has been cannot speak for themselves and reduced to the ‘lesser’ art she is now considering an MA form of cartoons at this stage, in Journalism. She is currently however. Eoin contributes considering becoming a journalist for the UN given her political cartoons to The Phoenix and University Law background. May particularly enjoyed accrediting Times, as well as various RCSI publications. He is for and attending important events because her also currently the chief editor of the RCSI Student media badges gave her a sense of pride and a feeling Medical Journal. of achievement. The highlight of YMIP for May was the field trip to a farm in County Meath as part of the Informal Meeting of Agriculture Ministers as she got Laura Mc Loughlin (@90_laura) an opportunity to experience Irish identity and culture. Laura is in her final year of Today, May is an ambitious young woman who hopes to her English Studies degree at one day become one of the EU leaders who inspired her Trinity College Dublin.
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