Attendees at the recent dinner organised by the Pro Life Campaign ChaiBrady and Madison Duddy
The Pro Life Campaign is working on programmes aimed to “empower young people” to be future leaders in the pro-life movement in Ireland in order to sustain the fight for life.
Inés Lonergan, a pro-life student, told this paper the group are currently working on programmes to engage youth to be pro-life politicians, activists and communicators “who can spread the message in a really effective way in the coming few years”.
“We’re building on the political activism that we saw in young people in the campaign coming up to the referendum on the Eighth Amendment,” she said.
One of their initiatives is the Future Leaders programme, which will be an entry programme that runs three times a year, which Ms Lonergan says will be “very intensive”.
“The goal would be for young people to get an understanding of the legal and medical realities surrounding the protection of life in Ireland and in all of the EU. Also, how political systems work here in our country and in the EU and how we as groups and individuals can influence them.”
There’s also a media and communications programme which has already begun and includes interview training and “how to get your point across in an effective way whether that’s in print media or on the radio or television”.