Limerick City Youth Forum - Bullying

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Limerick City Youth Forum (Comhairle na nÓg) meets weekly in Limerick Youth Service (LYS) on Lower Glenworth Street. They organise events, campaigns and programmes and discuss key issues of concern to young people in the city. To ensure that the group is as broadly representative of young peoples' views, LYS issue invitations to young people through all city secondary schools, youth clubs, groups and projects. Every year the forum organise an annual Comhairle and the National Youth Forum, Daíl na nÓg decide which topics will be discussed at this annual event. This year the forum was held at Thomond Park and the topic was mental health so the Limerick forum put the focus on bullying and its effects on young people.

Limerick Youth Service facilitated the youth forum with achieving their vision for the event and their management of the day. They discussed the types of bullying being experienced, the most prevalent types of bullying, anti-bullying policies in schools and sources of support. We asked Éamonn Ó Briain, a youth who facilitated the event if young people were bullied because they were different and he told us "It's alright to be different, it is better to be your own person rather than being what other people want you to be." We had an incredible day at the event and it was great to see the youth of Limerick given a voice.

Category:

Education

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• bullying
• youth
• homophobia
• mental health
• thomond park
• youth forum
• youth group
• youth club
• Daíl na nÓg
• richanthon
• richard lynch
• i love limerick
• ilovelimerick
• ireland