The Destruction of the Community Development Sector in Ireland

An interesting paper was published this month by Patricia Kelleher  and Cathleen O’Neill examines the social and political forces that have lead to the undermining of “a vibrant state-funded community development, anti-poverty and equality sector which built on community and citizen involvement of the 1960s and 1970s”

 

Entitled ” The Systematic Destruction of the Community Development, Anti-Poverty and Equality Movement (2002-2015)”  you can read or download it in full here.

 

9 Paper on the Destruction of Community Development