Communications & Fundraising Coordinator Catherine Coote undertakes communications and media work and pursues funding opportunities. Lead Co-Ordinator Paul O'Donnell was a founding member of An Mheitheal Rothar and set up the bike recycling program at Dublin’s ReDiscovery Centre. Volunteer coordinators Felipé Loughran-Ponce & Conor Cahill ensure these DIY workshops run smoothly. They also run an award winning circular economy initiative called ReCycle Your Cycle.Īs a social enterprise, An Mheitheal Rothar benefit from their meitheal of very dedicated volunteers, such as their volunteer bike mechanics who come in and teach people how to fix their bikes. Since their official launch, An Mheitheal Rothar has engaged extensively with their community, running the 'Youth in Action Project' in 2013, and working with the Youth Advocate Programme (YAP), Galway Community Circus, Street Feast Galway, the GRETB (Galway – Roscommon Education and Training Board), the NUI Galway University of Sanctuary Program and more.Īfter a period of rapid growth from 2018 onwards, An Mheitheal Rothar now includes their bike shop, in which you can get your bike repaired or purchase a recycled bike, and DIY workshops, in which you can learn how to repair your own bike. This simple idea would eventually become An Mheitheal Rothar – and went on to win the NUIG Students Union Enterprise Award. One of the ideas suggested was to establish an autonomous space where students could come and repair their bicycles in an environment which encouraged peer to peer learning, civic and environmental responsibility and empowered people in their own abilities.
She's gone.’ I waited tensely for those calls.An Mheitheal Rothar is a social sustainable enterprise focused on teaching repair skills and promoting cycling in Galway City.Īt a 2010 meeting of the NUI Galway Ecology Society, the simple question ‘what fun initiatives could we pursue in the coming year which would have a positive impact for the local environment?’ was asked. I spent the whole time wondering what you'd think when I didn't pick up the phone. I sat and sipped politely in a cafe for an hour.
It was one of those awkward, ‘everyone standing here is going so we can't not invite you’ things. ‘I was having coffee!’ I'd been invited along after school with some acquaintances. ‘I get worried.’ ‘I'm not gonna die.’ I shifted position-oh, how subtle I was!-so that you were forced to re-locate your hand further down my leg. ‘You always call me when I come home,’ I commented. We sat coiled on the couch, watching the evening news. I used the fact, once or twice, for emotional mileage. They unfailingly came ten or fifteen minutes after I walked in the door, suggesting that you watched the clock over your desk, waiting for me to finish school.
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