Domestic violence victims ‘undermined and blamed’ by social workers - reportReport finds victims characterised as abusers in family law courts and others not taken seriously by gardaíWed May 03 2023 - 00:01
Susan Morgan (19), Derry – ‘She was full of life ... so bubbly ... so funny ... thoughtful too’Read by her friend Yvonne GrahamTue May 02 2023 - 15:52
Josephine Glen (16), Coolock – ‘A happy, kind, loving and sociable person’Read by her sisters Sheena and AlisonTue May 02 2023 - 13:26
Thelma Frazer (20), Ringsend – ‘A smile so broad and a laugh filled with spring’Read by her siblings Barbara, Maurice and EricTue May 02 2023 - 13:04
Michael Ffrench (18), Coolock - ‘His dream was to make life a bit easier for Mam’Read by his sister Caroline FfrenchFri Apr 28 2023 - 15:28
Michael Farrell (26), Coolock - ‘He loved pay-day. He made sure our Mam always got her wages’ Read by his niece Lynn Sheppard on behalf of his sister Monica D’Arcy who died last yearFri Apr 28 2023 - 14:01
David Flood (18), Beaumont - ‘He loved going to the disco. He was a bit of a rocker, mad into the Rolling Stones’Read by his nephew Ciaran FloodFri Apr 28 2023 - 13:43
Liam Dunne (18), Coolock - ‘Our family had so much hope he would pull through’Read by his sister Siobhán KearneyThu Apr 27 2023 - 19:00
Jacqueline Croker (18), Kilmore West - ‘She loved Dolly Parton, Johnny Logan, John Lennon, Diana Ross’Read by her sister AlisonThu Apr 27 2023 - 19:00
John Colgan (21), Swords - ‘He was full of life, always upbeat’Read by his sister Susan BehanThu Apr 27 2023 - 13:07
Stardust: How the Northern Ireland inquest model provides template for families seeking justiceCoronial process was used for Hillsborough and Ballymurphy inquestsThu Apr 27 2023 - 05:00
Caroline Carey (17), Kilmore West - ‘Our beautiful, bubbly, witty Caroline is gone’Read by her sister MariaWed Apr 26 2023 - 18:13
Paula Byrne (19), Coolock – ‘She was the peacemaker in our house’Read by her sister Maria FarrenWed Apr 26 2023 - 13:28
Jimmy Buckley (23), Donnycarney - ‘My father figure, brother, my hero’Read by his brother Errol BuckleyWed Apr 26 2023 - 13:18
More than 40 years after Stardust nightclub tragedy families welcome moment of truthAfter more than four decades, families of 48 see inquests into deaths beginTue Apr 25 2023 - 21:26
Stardust: Lives of 48 people who died in fire ‘must be vindicated’, corner says as inquest opensPen portraits will allow families to ‘publicly commemorate’ the young people who died in 1981 disaster, says Dr Myra CullinaneTue Apr 25 2023 - 19:26
Carol Bissett (18), Ringsend - ‘I never stop wondering where would she be in her life today’Read by her mother Betty Bissett, with a poem by her sister Liz BissettTue Apr 25 2023 - 17:59
Michael Barrett (17), Raheny - ‘He was very ambitious and had very clear plans and dreams’Read by his mother Gertrude BarrettTue Apr 25 2023 - 17:59
Peter McVerry Trust appoints Francis Doherty as chief executiveIncoming chief says focus will remain on building housing stock and argues provision of social housing cannot not be left to State aloneMon Apr 24 2023 - 00:01
‘Do not leave people outside in the middle of a war-zone’: Families say Irish citizens locked out of French embassy in KhartoumAbout 150 EU citizens given shelter but about 50 others were left on street ‘because they were full’Sun Apr 23 2023 - 18:49
Defence Forces team being deployed to Sudan to help evacuate Irish citizensMore than 150 Irish citizens in Sudan seek help as evacuation operation in Khartoum at ‘highly sensitive’ stageSun Apr 23 2023 - 18:02
‘Significant’ witness at Stardust inquest unable to attend due to ‘medical reasons’Number of key witnesses at inquest into death of 48 young people in 1981 nightclub fie will not testify due to ill health or because they live outside jurisdictionThu Apr 20 2023 - 17:47
Over 95% of women who sought abortions at family planning service went ahead with decisionIFPA says enforced three-day waiting period before abortion care ‘unjustifiable and patronising’Wed Apr 19 2023 - 11:25
‘Everyone was delighted...He’s a lovely, lovely man’ : Dublin inner city residents on Hutch verdictPeople say they are pleased for ‘very, very well-liked’ former neighbour who supported local boxing club and ran parties for ‘old folks’Wed Apr 19 2023 - 06:36
Balloting of water-services workers employed by local authorities to beginDispute could lead to water outages and derail Government plans to establish Uisce Éireann as a stand-alone utilityMon Apr 17 2023 - 05:00
Suggestion that abortion services could collapse ‘over the top’ and ‘unhelpful’, doctors saySociologist Dr Deidre Duffy, who was appointed to examine clinicians’ experience of providing abortion services, earlier said ‘the service could collapse because it is just not sustainable in its current form’Sun Apr 09 2023 - 08:09
‘You are never going to be one of us’: Dublin’s Roma face pressure to hide ethnicityRoma women in Dublin describe racism in public and problems accessing servicesSat Apr 08 2023 - 05:00
‘Renting property is Russian roulette’: readers have their say on eviction ban’s endTenants and landlords both view current climate negatively as moratorium is liftedThu Apr 06 2023 - 15:16
Half of carers for people with dementia struggling to make ends meet, study findsCost-of-living crisis hits carers hard, Alzheimer’s Society of Ireland research showsTue Apr 04 2023 - 16:16
Former Defence Forces member describes rape by senior NCO on first tourRoslyn O’Callagher told RTÉ’s Upfront programme the man was fined less than £200 and given a reprimand over lesser chargesMon Apr 03 2023 - 23:30
Man paralysed when mechanical claw lifted his tent in Dublin feels ‘lucky to be alive’Elias Adane (33) came to Ireland as an unaccompanied minor in the early 2000sMon Apr 03 2023 - 05:00
‘Inaccurate’ social media posts could provoke aggression towards gardaí, Minister to sayGarda sergeants’ body criticises Sinn Féin TD Ó Broin for sharing montage image of officers at scene of Famine-era evictionMon Apr 03 2023 - 00:01
Roundabout protest at Dublin Airport for second week in a rowDAA says there was ‘modest traffic disruption’ as An Garda Síochána and airport police ‘carefully managed’ the situationSun Apr 02 2023 - 20:41
Eviction ban lapses making thousands of notices to quit go live for tenantsHomelessness campaigner Fr Peter McVerry described move as a ‘nightmare’; Minister for Housing said it was ‘the responsible move to make’Sat Apr 01 2023 - 05:00
Number of homeless single adults in State hits record highHomelessness numbers in State drop by 12 to 11,742 – but Dublin figure risesFri Mar 31 2023 - 14:00
Free school meals for all primary school children by 2028, promises Government‘This is a priority for me,’ says Minister for Social ProtectionThu Mar 30 2023 - 17:51
Women in addiction: ‘He got me in on the coke and the MDMA. ... I ended up in the heights of prostitution’ Landmark UCD study draws on in-depth interviews with women aged between 25 and 60Thu Mar 30 2023 - 08:01
All Deis pupils to get free hot meals from September Minister for Social Protection will announce expansion on Thursday following overwhelmingly positive evaluation of school meals programmeThu Mar 30 2023 - 05:00
More than half of eviction notices ‘invalid’, says housing charityThreshold warns thousands of households could enter homelessness unnecessarily from next monthMon Mar 27 2023 - 05:00
Hundreds of households facing eviction on April 1st contact Dublin homeless serviceExpert warns number of renters who opt to stay in homes after notice-to-quit date comes into force will riseFri Mar 24 2023 - 05:00
Racial profiling by gardaí ‘probably does happen’, Varadkar saysTaoiseach says ‘a lot a racism isn’t malicious’ as first national action plan to combat issue for 15 years publishedTue Mar 21 2023 - 20:13
National action plan against racism likely to face resistance from some groupsPlan provides ‘framework for tackling racism at a systemic and institutional level’, according to policy leadersTue Mar 21 2023 - 19:00
End to Garda ‘ethnic profiling’ sought in Government racism action planFirst national plan in over a decade will also tackle discrimination in rental sector, and promote inclusion of minoritiesTue Mar 21 2023 - 11:55
Tusla contacts parents whose children were seen by psychologist allegedly using ‘fake’ qualificationsThe agency is at the ‘early stage’ of a review of its use of private psychologists, it saysMon Mar 20 2023 - 00:01
Victims of abuse at Dublin centre for adults with intellectual disabilities still living with alleged attacker‘Incredible’ that vulnerable adults still being subjected to abuse in State-funded settings, says chairwoman of Safeguarding IrelandThu Mar 16 2023 - 04:30
Adults with intellectual disabilities ‘punched, kicked and hit’ at Dublin centreHiqa report finds Liffey Services, operated by St John of God community services, failed to protect residentsWed Mar 15 2023 - 10:01
Post-it notes left at a ‘shrine’ to Savita Halappanavar photographed and archivedAbout 1,200 small notes were posted around a mural of Ms Halappanavar on hoarding by the Bernard Shaw pub in Portobello in the days after the referendumMon Mar 13 2023 - 15:40
Only 13 homes bought by Dublin local authorities under tenant purchase schemeGovernment hopes 1,500 homes will be bought under ‘tenant-in-situ’ scheme this yearFri Mar 10 2023 - 05:00
Homeless executive denies families sent to Garda stations due to lack of emergency optionsDublin Region Homeless Executive, which runs family evening placement, said it has not run out of emergency accommodationThu Mar 09 2023 - 19:04
Up to three gender equality referendums possible to address ‘discriminatory’ language‘Tight timeline’ for vote, Varadkar says, with wording to be published within months and ballot in NovemberWed Mar 08 2023 - 15:00
