Programme for government aims for ‘step change’ in disability services
Views are mixed among disabled people and their allies as to whether the programme promises progress, with some critical of ‘regressive’ tone
Over 100 people use supervised Merchants Quay Ireland drug-injection facility within first month
Chief executive Eddie Mullins says opening marks ‘momentous shift in policy in how we treat some of our most marginalised and stigmatised people’
Poorest children in North live in lower-income homes but less deprived than those in poverty in Republic
Better public services, more widely available benefits and lower housing costs in Northern Ireland provide better protection to children in poverty, ESRI report indicates
Hundreds of public housing units ‘lost due to regeneration delays’
Communities in once-vibrant Dublin 8 flat complexes left without long-promised homes, seminar to be told
‘Poverty has no mercy’: Sleeping rough in Dublin in sub-zero temperatures
Outreach teams and soup kitchens provide much-needed food, cold-weather packs and community on the capital’s freezing streets
Homeless fathers ‘not seen as fathers’ by services, pushing them farther from children - report
Many men categorised as ‘single adults without dependents’ are fathers may or may not share custody of children
Number of homeless people passes 15,000 for first time since records began
Some 4,658 children are in emergency accommodation as Darragh O’Brien says addressing crisis is ‘an absolute priority’
Breakfast clubs in Deis primary schools: ‘If it wasn’t here and you’d had no breakfast you’d be on the yard hungry’
Calls increasing for expansion of breakfast clubs to all Deis primary schools amid rising deprivation
More than one million Irish passports issued during 2024
Current indications are that upwards of 940,000 passports will be sought and issued this year
Leinster House usher killed while cycling was ‘a proud Cabra man’ dedicated to his family, funeral told
Derek Doyle, a former Defence Forces member who served overseas, described as a true friend who ‘poured his heart into everything he did’
Capuchin vouchers: ‘I have four kids and two grandkids - this is for St Stephen’s Day dinner’
Queue for €50 grocery vouchers began before 4am with over 2,500 distributed by 8.30am
Concerns raised about community mental health care following death of ‘vulnerable’ young woman
Caoimhe Ni Dhuibhinn, of Swords Co Dublin, was giving evidence at the inquest into the death of Siobhán Casey-Ni Dhuibhinn (26) at Beaumont Hospital on 8th November 2023.
Proportion of children who are ‘happy with the way they are’ falls ‘substantially’
Government report shows school absenteeism more than doubled at primary level
Opening of first medically supervised injection facility marks ‘momentous shift in policy’
Merchants Quay Ireland CEO says facility will save lives, reduce harm and decrease drug-related litter
‘I have never really had sex not for money’: Woman hopes new injecting facility can allow some dignity
‘Amber’ believes the new medically supervised injecting facility at Merchants Quay will ‘change her life’