Urgent Response Network

In today's 24/7 media environment news stories move quickly, so we need to be able to respond quickly and effectively when a story breaks. Republic's Urgent Response Network has been set up to support our media and lobbying activities when a story requires a rapid and wide-reaching response.

By signing up to the Urgent Response Network you can help strengthen our media presence - sending emails or texts to news programmes, calling radio phone-in debates or writing to the press. With some issues additional parliamentary lobbying can also be important, to quickly reinforce our message to MPs and ministers.

Urgent Response Actions may include:

• Sending a letter to your local or national newspaper
• Responding to radio phone-ins
• Sending emails to news programmes, supporting the republican point of view
• Writing to your MP, asking for their view on a particular issue
• Responding to particular articles online or in national newspapers

By signing up to the Network you will receive:

• All our press releases, as they are sent to the press
• Urgent requests for you to email TV or radio programmes, or to participate in radio phone-in debates
• Notification of online polls and debates, so you can log on and put across the republican point of view
• Requests to write to your MP or to a minister, helping with our crucial lobbying work
• Info, facts and arguments which will help you get the most out of the Network