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Rebekah McCabe/ Ríobcha Ní Cába
@rebekahmccabe.bsky.social
Head of Northern Ireland for Involve. All about democracy, cities, wild places, and people.
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🗣️ 'The future won’t be built by recreating the flawed institutions of the past.'

With talk of reviving the Civic Forum, our Head of Northern Ireland, @rebekahmccabe.bsky.social‬, argues for something deeper: a democracy designed *with* citizens.

📖 Read here 👇
www.newsletter.co.uk/news/opinion...
Letter: We need a reformed Northern Ireland Civic Forum that involves ordinary citizens
A letter from Rebekah McCabe:
www.newsletter.co.uk
July 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
We desperately need more transparent, democratic processes for Lough Neagh’s future. We started the conversation on how that might look in March of this year, and we think there’s a clear path forward.

Check out the video from ‘Who Speaks for the Lough’ and sign up for updates 👇🏻
🗣️ Putting the public at the heart of decisions about Lough Neagh’s future

💡 In March we brought people together to explore how we can make conversations about Lough Neagh more democratic...

Read more and get involved 🧵👇
July 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Reposted by Rebekah McCabe/ Ríobcha Ní Cába
"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order."

Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
March 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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🌊 Who speaks for Lough Neagh?🌿

More than a lake—Lough Neagh is a lifeline, a habitat, a heritage. Pollution & political deadlock threaten its future.

Could deliberative democracy offer a way forward? 🗣️

📖 Read more: www.involve.org.uk/news-opinion...

🎫 and then join us 21 March 👉 lu.ma/pgdsvlwf
Who speaks for the Lough? An All-Island Better Democracy Network and Involve event
www.involve.org.uk
March 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Reposted by Rebekah McCabe/ Ríobcha Ní Cába
There needs to be greater transparency in responses to the ongoing crisis at Lough Neagh, a new report argues
www.irishnews.com/news/norther...
Report urges greater transparency over Lough Neagh response
Report finds that democratic “gaps” in responses to lough crisis “undermining public confidence in proposed solutions”
www.irishnews.com
February 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM