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EU membership has brought many benefits to Ireland and to the Irish people. The stories listed below illustrate some of these benefits.

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Irelands Eye: Knitwear eyed by Canada

CETA, the EU-Canada Trade Agreement, is helping Irish knitwear company IrelandsEye to significantly grow its exports to Canada.

Project locations
Ireland

Involve: Working for a more inclusive society

Involve is the main provider of youth work services to young Travellers, and young people from marginalised backgrounds, in Ireland.

Project locations
Ireland, Ireland, Ireland, Ireland

Teaching numeracy through soccer

More Than A Club is an EU-funded programme that aims to promote social inclusion and teach numeracy to young students through soccer

Project locations
Ireland, Ireland, United Kingdom

Journeys lead to better understanding

Thanks to the EU’s PEACE IV programme, students from the border region have been empowered through active learning activities to find common ground

Project locations
Ireland, Ireland, United Kingdom

Mapping the deep blue sea

Irish participants in an EU funded project are shedding light on the darkest depths of the North Atlantic maritime region

Project locations
Ireland

BirdWatch battles to save the Curlew

With EU support, Birdwatch Ireland is using pioneering measures to improve breeding outcomes on both farmland and bogs for the endangered curlew

Project locations
Ireland, Ireland

Bridging the gap in Leitrim

EU funding has helped reconstruct a railway bridge in Leitrim thereby leading to improved rail journey times between Sligo and Dublin.

Project locations
Ireland

European Destinations of Excellence

Find out about Ireland's destinations of sustainable tourism which have been awarded the European Destination of Excellence label

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Ireland