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National Youth Council of Ireland

National Youth Council of Ireland

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The National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI) is a representative body for Irish youth organisations,[1] a role that is recognised in the 2001 Youth Work Act.[2] Currently there are 45 national youth organisations who are full member of the NYCI.[3] The National Youth Council of Ireland is a nominating body for elections to Seanad Éireann.[4]

The member organisations include a wide variety of youth organisations active at a national level and include youth club organisations, Scouting and Guiding or similar uniformed youth organisations, youth wings of political parties, Irish language youth organisations, and various other single issue and specialist youth groups.[3]

NYCI is a member of the European apex organisation for youth organisations and councils called the European Youth Forum YFJ.[5]

The NYCI publish a newsletter called Clár na nÓg on a monthly basis.[6]

The website for the NYCI is youth.ie.

Board

The board consists of a president, vice president, treasurer and 15 ordinary board members. They are:

Simon Harris served on the board of the NYCI in 2005.[10] Dan Boyle is a former vice-president of the NYCI.[11]

Member Organisations

Organisations in Membership

References

  1. [1]
    "Home". National Youth Council of Ireland. Retrieved 7 February 2024. NYCI is the representative body for voluntary youth organisations in Ireland.
  2. [2]
    "EN_ACT_2001_0042.pdf" (PDF). Law Reform Commission. 4 June 2014. Retrieved 7 February 2024. The body known as the National Youth Council of Ireland is deemed to be prescribed as the first Prescribed National Representative Youth Work Organisation for the period of 3 years after the commencement of this provision.
  3. [3]
    "Members". National Youth Council of Ireland. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
  4. [4]
    Register of Nominating Bodies. (2015).
  5. [5]
    "NYCI Representative to the European Youth Forum". National Youth Council of Ireland. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
  6. [6]
    "NYCI-Final-Signed-Financial-Statements-2019.pdf" (PDF). youth.ie. 31 December 2019. Retrieved 7 February 2024. NYCI new website, social media, and monthly e-zine Clár na nÓg provides news and information our member organisations, youth workers, volunteers semi state and not for profit organisations, government bodies, politicians and the media.
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    "About Us - National Youth Council of Ireland". National Youth Council of Ireland. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
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    "Iarla Flynn | LinkedIn". LinkedIn. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
  9. [9]
    "Connor Kirwan | LinkedIn". LinkedIn. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
  10. [10]
    "Greystones teenager joins national council". Irish Independent. 30 March 2005. Retrieved 25 April 2024.
  11. [11]
    50 Voices from the Last 50 Years. (2017).
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