Just an acknowledgement to The Reco and BRYR for facilitating the anticipated Christmas Fair back in December 2024 – 04th & 05th December. This event ran for two nights and was a massive success, reaching over 800 people in the community to come in and engage within the service, experiencing Santa, The Grinch, Facepainting/Art, Recreational […]

As part of addressing Mental Health and supporting young people through adverse experiences, we engaged with an artist in our 13+ Open Tuesday space in 2024. Young people engaged in very meaningful conversations alongside the artist to express what mental health means to them and how they could capture this in a Mural. This particular

Collaborating alongside other youth services- Finglas Youth Resource Centre, Poppintree Youth Project, Cabra for Youth, Kilmore West Youth Project CLG, Sphere17 and Bradóg youth service. In 2024 we came together to engage young people aged 13+ in the Transforming Hate Programme, tackling discriminatory language and potentially harmful ideologies. As part of this young people engaged

As part of engaging with the community of Ballymun, BRYR helped facilitate and support the Ballymun Running Festival in support and collaboration with Trinity Comprehensive. This event engaged over 1300 participants, from all over the community who had a chance to engage in this fitness based programme and initiative. There was so much support on

This piece of work was undertaken by a group of young women aged 15+ who engaged previously in a young leadership programme. As part of the Northern Youth South Forum initiative, BRYR collaborated with Youth Work Ireland Dundalk, Galway and the Northern Ireland Youth Forum Belfast group. Together young people met in 2023 and again

As part of Better Ballymun in 2024, young people engaged in gardening based initiatives locally to the area as part of taking pride within their own community. Young people had opportunity to connect with nature and with themselves, exploring mental health and keeping healthy as part of the wider Better Ballymun initiative. This was a

The DNYS came together back in early 2023 to highlight and challenge issues within communities and young people. Through this initiative staff received training – Transforming Hate from the NYCI and delivered the program to Young People back in September 2023. As part of this program and initiative we had young people from 6 other

The second annual Josh Dunne memorial football tournament took place on Saturday the 8th of July from 11am in Coultry Park. See the pre-training video on our Facebook page by clicking the link! https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=227239363595472 The Josh Dunne all stars have been training hard now for the last numbers of weeks and hope to retain the

Special thank you to Ballymun_united_fc for hosting the event. Thank you to all the players who took part making it such a memorable day and also to the referees for keeping it running smoothly. Thank you @dnwpartnership FAI Sláintecare @trinitycomp1 @ballymun_communications SuperValu, Ballymun DublinCity Council which all had a huge part to play in the

Another huge day Saturday for the young people of BRYR with the very first showing of BROGA !! This short film was written by the script writing group and performed by another group of young people from BRYR. It was amazing to see yet another film on the big screen and we are extremely proud