The National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI) is a representative body for Irish youth organisations, [1] a role that is recognised in the 2001 Youth Work Act. [2] Currently there are 45 national youth organisations who are full member of the NYCI. [3]
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. [3]
NYCI is a member of the European apex organisation for youth organisations and councils called the European Youth Forum YFJ. [4]
The NYCI publish a newsletter called Clár na nÓg on a monthly basis. [5]
The website for the NYCI is youth.ie.
The board consists of a president, vice president, treasurer and 15 ordinary board members. They are:
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NYCI new website, social media, and monthly e-zine Clár na nÓg provides news and information our member organisations, youth workers, volunteers semi state and not for profit organisations, government bodies, politicians and the media.