shOUT!

All shOUT! events take place on Saturday from 3:30* until 5:30pm* in the Youth Work Ireland offices, 41-43 Prospect Hill, Galway.

Contact the group at the email address (shout@youthworkgalway.ie) or mobile number (087 773 8529) if you would like to meet someone before joining the group.

* note: the times were recently changed, and the group now meets half an hour earlier than previously

The job that you are doing is about the business of creating a better world. An open world, a world free of homophobic bullying and bias. A world where people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, at whatever time of their lives they discover that about themselves that they can feel, ‘So what? So what? That’s the world. I live in a world where that’s everyday. Where nobody passes a remark on it. Nobody comments. This is how life is.’ I feel very strongly that what you are doing is such an important step by step by step growth, helping not just yourselves but actually at a much bigger level, helping all of us as community, as society, as Mums, dads, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, cousins, friends, colleagues to one another to be a loving caring community. You’re helping us to grow and to go that journey.

So, thank you for your courage and thank you for going that journey and thank you in particular for growing that journey. Go raibh mile maith agat.

- President Mary McAleese. October 2008