The National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI) is a representative body for Irish youth organisations, a role that is recognised in the 2001 Youth Work Act. Currently there are 43 national youth organisations who are full member of the NYCI, another 10 organisations have corresponding or observer status. 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. NYCI is a member of the European apex organisation for youth organisations and councils called the

European Youth Forum The European Youth Forum (from french: Youth Forum Jeunesse, YFJ) is an international non-profit association and serves as a platform and advocacy group of the national youth councils and international non-governmental youth organisations in Euro ...

YFJ. The NYCI publish a newsletter called Clár na nÓg on a monthly basis.

Board

The board consists of a president, vice president, treasurer and 15 ordinary board members. They are: *James O'Leary - National Association of Traveller Centres - President *Michelle Carew - National Association for Youth Drama - Vice President *David Owens -

An Óige An Óige (; meaning "Youth"), or the Irish Youth Hostel Association (IYHA), is a non-profit organisation providing youth hostel accommodation across the Republic of Ireland. An Óige is a member of Hostelling International. Background An Óige ...

- Treasurer *Patricia McKenna -

Macra na Feirme Macra na Feirme (; officially meaning "Stalwarts of the land") is an Irish voluntary rural youth organisation. The organisation provides a social outlet for members in sport, travel, public speaking, performing arts, community involvement and agr ...

*Elaine Nevin - ECO-Unesco *Mike Randall -

Scouting Ireland Scouting Ireland ( ga, Gasóga na hÉireann) is one of the largest youth movements on the island of Ireland, a voluntary educational movement for young people with over 45,000 members, including over 11,000 adult volunteers . Of the 750,000 peo ...

*Aileen Mulligan - Crosscare - Catholic Youth Care *Denis O'Brien - Foroige *Sean Finan -

*Paul Gralton - Youth Work Ireland *Gregory Moroney -

Ógra Fianna Fáil Ógra Fianna Fáil(; meaning "Youth of Fianna Fáil") is the youth wing of Fianna Fáil. The organisation was founded in 1975 by party leader Jack Lynch under the guidance of party general secretary, Séamus Brennan. It is active on an all-Ir ...

*Mary T Hally -

Irish Girl Guides The Irish Girl Guides ( ga, Treoracha Cailíní na hÉireann) is a Girl Guides organisation in the Republic of Ireland. Together with the Catholic Guides of Ireland, it forms the Council of Irish Guiding Associations. Whereas the Catholic Gui ...

*Ian Power -

Spunout SpunOut.ie is an Irish non-governmental organisation focused on providing online youth information. Its tagline is “by young people, for young people”. The organisation's stated mission is to “help create an Ireland where young people aged ...

*Nicola Toughey -

Catholic Guides of Ireland The Catholic Guides of Ireland ( ga, Banóglaigh Catoilicí na hÉireann) is one of the two Guiding organisations in the Republic of Ireland. It has members in both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Catholic Guides of Ireland began i ...

*Dale McDermott -

Young Fine Gael Young Fine Gael (YFG) is the autonomous youth wing of Fine Gael, one of Ireland’s major centre-right political parties. It offers its members scope to assist in formulation of political policy, and the day-to-day running of the senior party. ...

Member Organisations

Organisations in Membership

AIESEC AIESEC is an international youth-run, non-governmental and not-for-profit organization that provides young people with leadership development, cross-cultural internships, and global volunteer exchange experiences. The organization focuses on emp ...

BeLonG To BeLonG To is an LGBT youth organisation in Ireland which caters for young people aged between 14–23 years. It is a registered charity and is supported by the Irish Department of Education. The service was set up in March 2003. The group rece ...

* Catholic Youth Care * Church of Ireland Youth Department * Comhchoiste Náisiúnta na gColáistí Samhraidh * Confederation of Peace Corps * DYCW - The Methodist Church in Ireland * EIL - Intercultural Learning * Environmental Conservation Organisation *

Community Games Aldi Community Games is an Irish independent voluntary organisation and National Governing Body providing opportunities for children and young people to grow and develop in a positive and healthy way while experiencing a wide range of sporting and ...

* Exchange House * Feachtas *

Foróige Foróige is an Irish organisation whose purpose is "to enable young people to involve themselves consciously and actively in their development and in the development of society". Macra na Tuaithe, the youth branch of Macra na Feirme, was formed o ...

Gael Linn Gael Linn (, "Gael-with-us") is a non-profit and non-governmental organisation focused on the promotion of the Irish language and the arts. The organisation's funding includes government and lottery sources. History Gael Linn was founded in Ma ...

* Girls' Brigade Ireland *

Girls' Friendly Society The Girls' Friendly Society In England And Wales (or just GFS) is a charitable organisation that empowers girls and young women aged 5 to 25, encouraging them to develop their full potential through programs that provide training, confidence bu ...

* ICTU Youth Committee * Irish Second-Level Students' Union *

* Irish Red Cross Youth * Junior Chamber Ireland *

Labour Youth Labour Youth is the youth wing of the Labour Party of Ireland. Membership is open to those aged from 16 to 30 years old. History 1979–2000 Labour Youth succeeded the Young Labour League as a full section of the Party in 1979, under Party L ...

* National Association for Traveller Centres * National Association for Youth Drama * National Committee for Diocesan Youth Directors * National Forum for Local Voluntary Youth Councils * National Youth Federation * No Name Clubs * Ógra Chorcaí *

Ógra Shinn Féin Ógra Shinn Féin (colloquially known as Republican Youth, , and formerly, officially known as Sinn Féin Republican Youth, ga, Sinn Féin Óige Phoblachtach, from 2012 to March 2018) is the youth wing of the Politics of Ireland, Irish politica ...

* Ógras * Order of Malta Cadets *

Pavee Point Pavee Point (PP) is a government-funded non-governmental organisation based in Dublin, Ireland that was formed to improve the human rights of Irish Travellers and to bridge the economic and social inequalities between Travellers and settled peopl ...

* Presbyterian Youth Board *

* SVP Youth Clubs Council *

Union of Students in Ireland The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) ( ga, Aontas na Mac Léinn in Éirinn) is the national representative body for third-level students' unions in Ireland. Founded in 1959, USI represents more than 374,000 students in over forty colleges acr ...

* Voluntary Service International * YMCA Ireland *

Young Christian Workers The Young Christian Workers (YCW; french: Jeunesse ouvrière chrétienne) is an international organization founded by Rev. Joseph Cardijn in Belgium as the Young Trade Unionists; the organization adopted its present name in 1924. Its French acronym ...

* YWCA of Ireland

Organisations with Observer Status

* Coiste na nIarchimí * Muintearas na nOilean *

Young Greens (Ireland) Young Greens ( ga, Óige Ghlas) is a youth political organisation in Ireland that acts as the youth branch of the Green Party and the Green Party in Northern Ireland. As a youth party they focus on issues that affect young people including edu ...

Organisations with Corresponding Status

* Blakestown and Mountview Youth Inititiative *

Enable Ireland Enable Ireland is a non-profit state-funded organisation that provides free services to children and adults with disabilities and their families in Ireland. The core of its funding comes from the HSE, the Republic of Ireland's public health sect ...

* Glencree Youth Group * IntroArt *

Irish Family Planning Association The Irish Family Planning Association (IFPA) is an Irish charity working to enable people to make informed choices about sexuality and reproduction. The organisation promotes the right of all people to sexual and reproductive health information as ...

Irish Wheelchair Association The Irish Wheelchair Association (IWA) is a charity in Ireland that has been working with people with physical disabilities since its foundation in 1960. It has 2,000 registered volunteers across its 32 volunteer branches. The IWA’s objectives ...

External links

NYCI Website
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