Jack Mulvey a Leaving Certificate Politics student at Loreto CS Milford has put a great effort into his LC Citizenship Project which saw him tasked with organising a school-based event to highlight the problem of social media fuelled political polarisation. As a part of his Politics and Society course, he had to complete a citizenship project under one of four headings, and he chose : Investigate if the changing nature of contemporary media is driving political polarisation in society today. Plan and deliver an event in your school to share your findings. He chose to focus his project on the migration issue in Ireland. HIs goal was to compare how the media portrayed the Irish when they migrated abroad in the past during and following the Famine, and how Irish people in the media today are treating migrants coming into Ireland. He put together an exhibition in his school displaying different forms of right-wing media from the past and the present regarding Irish migrants and migration into Ireland. He gave a slideshow presentation with some of his findings to an audience following the exhibition.
