http://www.ogra.ie en Copyright 2013 2013-04-25T15:40:10+00:00 http://www.ogra.ie/blog/entry/national-council-agm-23rd-march-2013/ http://www.ogra.ie/blog/entry/national-council-agm-23rd-march-2013/ The Ógra Fianna Fáil National Council AGM will be held at 11am on Saturday 23rd March 2013 in the Camden Court Hotel 2013. This AGM will elect the National Council Chair and Secretary for the year ahead. Delegate registration now closed.{/description> 2013-03-13T14:37:20+00:00 http://www.ogra.ie/blog/entry/volunteer-to-help-the-campaign-in-meath-east/ http://www.ogra.ie/blog/entry/volunteer-to-help-the-campaign-in-meath-east/ The Meath East By-Election will be held on Wednesday 27th March 2013. You can sign up to the Ógra Fianna Fáil campaign to volunteer in Meath East here.{/description> 2013-03-06T08:58:36+00:00 http://www.ogra.ie/blog/entry/national-youth-conference-motions-and-results-2013/ http://www.ogra.ie/blog/entry/national-youth-conference-motions-and-results-2013/ The Fianna Fáil National Youth Conference debated and voted on over 152 motions in Sligo in February. You can view the motions and results here.{/description> 2013-03-05T13:16:09+00:00 http://www.ogra.ie/blog/entry/motions-to-the-national-youth-conference-2013/ http://www.ogra.ie/blog/entry/motions-to-the-national-youth-conference-2013/ All motions to the Fianna Fáil National Youth Conference 2013 have now been validated and published by the NYC Motions Steering Committee. All registered delegates to the Conference can speak and vote on the motions proposed. {/description> 2013-02-19T10:01:55+00:00 http://www.ogra.ie/blog/entry/candi/ http://www.ogra.ie/blog/entry/candi/ All validly nominated candidates contesting positions for the Central Officer Board at the Fianna Fáil National Youth Conference in Sligo have now been announced. Voting will take place in the Radisson Blu Hotel, Sligo on Saturday 23rd February 2013 from 8.00am to 10.00am.{/description> 2013-01-24T10:23:44+00:00 http://www.ogra.ie/blog/entry/national-youth-conference-gala-banquet/ http://www.ogra.ie/blog/entry/national-youth-conference-gala-banquet/ CONFERENCE GALA BANQUET 2013 Tickets now on sale! 2013-01-23T15:40:44+00:00 http://www.ogra.ie/blog/entry/the-attack-on-graduates-must-be-stopped/ http://www.ogra.ie/blog/entry/the-attack-on-graduates-must-be-stopped/ Minister for Health Dr. James Reilly (who earns €169,275), was quoted in the Sunday Business Post as saying; “Nursing & midwifery graduates that aren't happy with a reduced €22k per annum salary can emigrate or work in fast food outlets.” Upon first reading, it is quite difficult to comprehend that an elected official, notwithstanding a Government Minister, would make a statement fuelled with such disheartening sentimode} 2013-01-21T08:42:21+00:00 http://www.ogra.ie/blog/entry/be-a-delegate-at-nyc-2013-register-here/ http://www.ogra.ie/blog/entry/be-a-delegate-at-nyc-2013-register-here/ The Fianna Fáil National Youth Conference will be held from 22nd to 23rd of February 2013 in the Radisson Blu Hotel, Sligo. Elections will be held for all positions of the Ógra Fianna Fáil Central Officer Board and motion workshops will discuss the challenges facing young people in Ireland today. All registered members of Ógra Fianna Fáil are entitled to attend as delegates. Sign up here!{/exscription> 2013-01-04T09:05:55+00:00 http://www.ogra.ie/blog/entry/nomination-forms-for-central-officer-board-positions-2013/ http://www.ogra.ie/blog/entry/nomination-forms-for-central-officer-board-positions-2013/ Elections for all positions on the Central Officer Board of Ógra Fianna Fáil will take place at this year's National Youth Conference in Sligo from 22nd to 23rd February. Nomination forms for all positions can be found here. {/description> 2013-01-03T14:56:22+00:00 http://www.ogra.ie/blog/entry/gobnait-oconnell-award-2013/ http://www.ogra.ie/blog/entry/gobnait-oconnell-award-2013/ The Gobnait O’Connell Memorial Award was first announced at the National Youth Conference 2000 in Westport, Co. Mayo. The award is named after Gobnait O’Connell, Youth and Membership Development Officer of Fianna Fáil from 1997 to 2000 who was tragically killed in a car accident in September 2000. During her time working for Fianna Fáil her passion and support for Ógra was widely recognised among members. The prize will be awarded to the Best Ógra of each year and a perpetual trophy and a cash prize will be presented at each Youth Conference. {/description> 2013-01-03T10:43:24+00:00 http://www.ogra.ie/blog/entry/national-youth-conference-2013-important-information-and-deadlines/ http://www.ogra.ie/blog/entry/national-youth-conference-2013-important-information-and-deadlines/ The National Youth Conference is one of the largest annual gatherings of young people in Ireland. This year the NYC will be held in Sligo from the 22nd to 23rd of February. Ógra members meet to debate wide ranging issues in Education, Welfare, Healthcare, Justice and many other areas. Elections form part of the National Youth Conference, with positions being filled for the incoming Central O­fficer Board of Ógra Fianna Fáil. {/description> 2012-12-18T18:21:16+00:00 http://www.ogra.ie/blog/entry/you-cant-eat-a-flag/ http://www.ogra.ie/blog/entry/you-cant-eat-a-flag/ Isn’t it great that we in the North can just step away from the big issues? Like the recession, unchanging unemployment, an underdeveloped private sector, lack of investment, the euro crisis, the upcoming Westminster and Dáil budgets and regular partisan gridlock in Stormont? {/description> 2012-12-05T10:21:56+00:00 http://www.ogra.ie/blog/entry/cautious-welcome-for-latest-poll/ http://www.ogra.ie/blog/entry/cautious-welcome-for-latest-poll/ Uachtarán Ógra, Eamon Quinlan, has welcomed the latest The Sunday Times/Behaviour & Attitudes polling statistics showing increases in satisfaction for Fianna Fáil and also showing the party leader, Micheál Martin, to be the most popular amongst those surveyed. However...{/eescription> 2012-11-18T14:58:10+00:00 http://www.ogra.ie/blog/entry/welcome-on-the-mat-in-waterford/ http://www.ogra.ie/blog/entry/welcome-on-the-mat-in-waterford/ The newly elected committee and expanded membership of Waterford Ógra took to the doorsteps last week and were pleasantly surprised by the warm welcome laid out for them by the public.{/description> 2012-11-16T22:24:40+00:00 http://www.ogra.ie/blog/entry/council-to-vote-on-lymec-observer-status/ http://www.ogra.ie/blog/entry/council-to-vote-on-lymec-observer-status/ National Council will decide at its next meeting whether Ógra is to proceed with an application for observer status at LYMEC (Liberal and Radical Youth Movement in the European Community). Lymec was founded in 1976 and is the youth organisation of the ELDR{/description> 2012-08-25T18:11:29+00:00 http://www.ogra.ie/blog/entry/a-coalition-that-has-failed-to-deliver/ http://www.ogra.ie/blog/entry/a-coalition-that-has-failed-to-deliver/ The current government was elected with a strong mandate for reform yet it has shirked every opportunity to achieve major change. 2012-07-24T13:36:04+00:00 http://www.ogra.ie/blog/entry/educating-for-better-minds/ http://www.ogra.ie/blog/entry/educating-for-better-minds/ Our education system promotes an unhealthy obsession with academic achievement and leaves little room for personal growth. 2012-07-12T08:26:20+00:00 http://www.ogra.ie/blog/entry/in-the-wake-of-rio20/ http://www.ogra.ie/blog/entry/in-the-wake-of-rio20/ In the wake of the UN’s disappointing Rio+20 Conference, what is next for environmental policy} 2012-07-04T09:38:06+00:00 http://www.ogra.ie/blog/entry/expenses-abuse-exposed-again/ http://www.ogra.ie/blog/entry/expenses-abuse-exposed-again/ Ógra Fianna Fáil Dún Laoghaire have reacted to the admissions of Clare Daly TD (ULA) and Peter Matthews TD (FG) on last night's Vincent Browne Show that the travel and accommodation allowances claimed by them were used to fund trips abroad and political campaigns which is against the rules governing the Travel and Accommodation Allowance (TAA). {/eescription> 2012-06-27T12:26:25+00:00