Gearóid Ofoighil sent ECI this update from the Cloughjordan Community Development Committee:
The Mellow Tones Female Voices Choir continues to grow from strength to strength. The choir caters for up to 40 women from the wider community of Cloughjordan and are based in the Methodist Chapel on Main Street.
At the National Biodiversity Conference in Dublin Castle, the community supported conservation efforts with the raised bog restoration LIFE Project at Scohaboy Bog SAC were showcased as part of a documentary celebrating conservation success stories. The Cloughjordan Community Development Committee are the local partners in this award winning conservation project with Coillte Forest and the 
NPWS. The Scohaboy project also demonstrates a powerful community response to affecting the UN Sustainable Development Goals, in particular those of of Health and Well-Being and Climate Action.
Under the CCDC mantle, a workshop was held in the Thomas MacDonagh Museum to explore what makes communities successful in their initiatives. Taking the Scohaboy project as an eco-system example, the workshop was part of series of case studies funded by the EPA and delivered by Dr. Craig Bullock from UCD to be incorporated into a new handbook for communities for conservation success within the Community Wetlands Forum.
