Traditional hand art celebrating Eid Al-Adha at Croke Park this year, during what was described as Ireland's largest Muslim gathering. Photograph: Dan Dennison
In Dublin’s northeast inner city, where tricolours flutter amid belligerent signs claiming Ireland is full, you might think that no resource that could help with integration and community building would be overlooked. You would be wrong.
Recent research entitled Faith-Based Communities in the North East Inner City, a collaboration between the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice, Aids Care Education and Training Ireland, and the Dublin City Interfaith Forum, identifies nearly 50 small faith-based communities quietly at work across the area. It finds that these faith-based networks, although providing vital social support, remain largely invisible to officialdom.
For many arriving in Dublin, long before they connect with official State servi
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