Welcome to Youth for Unity Ireland!

We are boys and girls from all over Ireland. We are from different races and religions. But together we live the Golden Rule to “Treat others the way we would like to be treated”.

By living this in our families, schools and with our friends we colour the grey corners of our lives.

Our next Big Event is called RUN4UNITY International Eucharistic Congress RDS Dublin.

Parliament Buildings, Belfast hosted the Irish stage of the 3rd international Run4Unity on May 12th. That "Run4Unity was a youth relay race with a difference. The baton - a virtual one was passed around the world from one time zone to the next via an internet link.

Belfast received the baton from Luxembourg and then passed it on to a youth group in Iceland. That event was a symbolic way of connecting young people throughout the world. The aim was to unite people on that day and to express a common desire to work for peace and unity across the globe. All of it was streamed live via internet.

Young people from all over Ireland came to Belfast. As part of the afternoon’s programme there was a 5km Fun run - in the wonderful setting of the Stormont Estate grounds.

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RTE 2 news2day reports on RUN4UNITY

Events

Run4Unity IEC

HALL 6, RDS

Main Complex

DUBLIN

Saturday, 16^th June 2012

2 – 3.15 p.m.

PRESS RELEASE

13^th May 2012

World’s eyes on Stormont as Run4unity crosses the globe

400 young people, an MLA, a Church of Ireland dean and a bishop took part in the Irish leg of an International fun run promoting peace and universal brotherhood at Stormont Estate on Saturday. This unique event ties in with the 50th International Eucharistic Congress (Dublin, 10th-17th June) where Saturday 16th will see a celebratory event in the RDS for all those who have taken part in the Run4Unity either in Stormont or locally around north and south of Ireland.

Overall 100,000 young people took part in the virtual relay race through all the time zones of the world. Among the runners at Stormont were Bishop Donal McKeown, Auxilliary Bishop of Down and Connor, Canon Rev. John Mann from Belfast Cathedral and MLA Conall McDevitt from the SDLP party, who came 2^nd in the adult section of the 5km run around the Stormont Estate.

Speaking at the Youth Festival in the Great Hall of Stormont, Alban Maginness MLA (SDLP), spoke of how the Great Hall had become a symbol of “partnership to built peace and stability”. “It is the same as what you are doing, running for unity: bringing peace and unity in this world.”

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News

Friday 11th May 2012

Sacred Heart School Newry

Welcomes Aidan Kelly of

RTE 2’s News2day

RTE Cameras

follow the Sacred Heart School Run

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Politicians, Bishops and teenagers

from the 4 corners of Ireland

RUN 4 UNITY, on 12^th May

from Parliament Buildings

Stormont Estate!

Bishop Donal Mc Keown the Auxiliary Bishop of Down and Connor who intends to run with us on 12th May at Stormont. He has his T shirt!

Bishop John McAreavey of the Dromore Diocese with Post Primary Diocesan Advisor Elizabeth McNiece visiting the stand, at Banbridge John Paul II Awards.

Fifty students from Coláiste na hInse, Bettystown Co Meath

braved the unseasonal weather for a sponsored run as a CSPE (civic social and political education) project on Bettystown /Laytown beach on Friday 27th April.
The Bettystown young people were among many from schools around the country holding a local IEC Run4Unity events this week in advance of the Irish stage of the 3rd international Run4Unity at Government Buildings and the Stormont estate on Saturday 12th May.