Train passengers differ on experience with safety and anti-social behaviourSome rail travellers witness open drug use and non-compliance with Covid measuresFri Oct 29 2021 - 17:14
Vulnerable adults in care may have experienced ‘significant’ abuse during pandemicNational Safeguarding Office notes 10,216 concerns about abuse reported to the HSEFri Oct 29 2021 - 16:11
ICCL says properly implemented systems could have prevented abuse at Donegal care homeIreland had signed up to UN backed inspection process but never established itThu Oct 28 2021 - 17:47
Years of progress in women’s rights reversed by Covid, report warnsIreland has one of ‘most restrictive abortion laws’, gender equality index showsThu Oct 28 2021 - 16:03
Housing, racism, and jobs are biggest issues facing Travellers, forum hearsImpact of intergenerational exclusion on the community’s young people discusssedThu Oct 28 2021 - 00:33
Building workers to get higher minimum pay from FebruaryWorkers can also expect pay increases of just under 3% in February 2023 under new scalesTue Oct 26 2021 - 00:01
‘Everyone is involved’: Joy as Big Scream Festival returns to Dublin’s inner cityKellie Harrington is on hand to launch event that has become part of local social calendarSun Oct 24 2021 - 22:43
Garda investigation into sexual abuse at Donegal HSE disability centre closesNo prosecution in relation to alleged assaults on 18 intellectually disabled adults – DPPSat Oct 23 2021 - 01:00
Poet Máire Mhac an tSaoi ‘remained engaged with the world outside’ up to the very endBilingual requiem Mass takes place at Our Lady of Dolours church in Glasnevin, DublinFri Oct 22 2021 - 16:36
Many Travellers have first positive school experience in prison, committee hearsAdvocate says legacy issues and exclusion mean minorities account for high proportion of inmates globallyThu Oct 21 2021 - 22:57
Charity’s emergency counselling service cut need for ambulance call-outs by half - report‘Major efforts made by the counsellors to connect with at-risk clients’ highlightedThu Oct 21 2021 - 19:38
Donegal abuse: ‘You’ve got your apology. You can go now, that’s all you’re getting’Investigation reveals sexual abuse in Donegal care home unchecked for yearsSat Oct 16 2021 - 01:00
Taoiseach supports call for publication of Donegal abuse reportProlonged sexual abuse of 18 intellectually disabled patients at care home ‘unforgivable’Fri Oct 15 2021 - 21:07
‘Devastating’ sexual abuse of 18 residents in HSE-run centre in DonegalActs perpetrated with full knowledge of management for about 13 years, inquiry findsFri Oct 15 2021 - 01:01
HSE pushed to reveal alleged sexual assaults in Donegal care home, families claimAssaults on 18 intellectually disabled adults happened over 13-year period, report saysFri Oct 15 2021 - 01:00
Hundreds of schools in disadvantaged areas to be added to Deis schemeSpecial education to account for a quarter of Department of Education spend in 2022Wed Oct 13 2021 - 18:52
My Budget: ‘I don’t know how they expect people to afford homes when there is no housing stock at all’Reactions vary to tax and spending measures outlined in Budget 2022Tue Oct 12 2021 - 18:28
Core social welfare rates to increase by €5 a week from JanuaryBudget 2022: Weekly fuel allowance going up from midnight by €5 a week to €33Tue Oct 12 2021 - 15:08
New fund of more than €17m for struggling third-level studentsFund will help students who can’t meet costs, with mental health funding also announcedMon Oct 11 2021 - 00:01
Budget must demonstrate determination to tackle homelessness, charity saysCrisis will intensify if additional supports not provided according to Focus IrelandSun Oct 10 2021 - 18:22
Most councils not planning properly for Traveller housing – reportJust four of 31 local authorities include maps of Traveller accommodation sites in development plansSun Oct 10 2021 - 17:44
‘I didn’t go through all this for pain for nothing’Four people on their journeys out of homelessness, and the lessons they have for othersSat Oct 09 2021 - 06:00
Residents with disabilities at HSE home at ‘constant risk of abuse’, watchdog findsCo Donegal centre failing to show it has ‘capacity’ to provide a safe serviceFri Oct 08 2021 - 16:57
Minister for Justice apologises to mother of Dara Quigley‘I really want to say I’m sorry, it shouldn’t have happened,’ Heather Humphreys saysWed Oct 06 2021 - 13:07
Dara Quigley’s mother recalls ‘beautiful first-born’ at inquestJournalist’s mental health had deteriorated prior to her death by drowning in 2017Tue Oct 05 2021 - 22:14
Harris apologises for ‘unacceptable breach of trust’ in Dara Quigley caseExtracts from Garda Commissioner’s letter to late journalist’s mother read at inquestTue Oct 05 2021 - 19:02
Assisted dying unlikely to be facilitated, says Irish Hospice FoundationAssisted suicide ‘anathema’ to ethos of palliative care movementMon Oct 04 2021 - 05:00
Traveller children feel ‘unwanted’ in education system, says reportYoung people tell of name calling by peers and sense of being ‘ignored’ by teachersTue Sept 28 2021 - 01:00
Group calls on Minister to widen scheme for undocumented workersPlans to regularise status may see thousands of migrants and their children excludedMon Sept 27 2021 - 00:01
‘Significant policy change’ to help career progression of non-EU doctorsDoctors had been effectively barred from taking up postgraduate training placesSun Sept 26 2021 - 12:31
Delays in accessing abortions in Ireland are violating women’s rights, says expertMajor violations 'embedded' in legislation must be addressed in review, expert statesThu Sept 23 2021 - 01:00
Ireland is no country for disabled people who want to work – ESRI reportJust 36% of working-age disabled people in employment, one of Europe’s lowest ratesWed Sept 22 2021 - 00:01
Bricklayers’ union to hold agm during work day despite members’ protestsWorkers call for meeting to be rescheduled for evening so more can participateTue Sept 21 2021 - 21:09
‘Hidden costs’ of school causing poorer children to miss daysSome pupils who fell behind peers during pandemic have not returned, webinar hearsTue Sept 21 2021 - 17:34
Traveller children encouraged to engage with ‘Steam’ subjects in schoolThose who receive the necessary supports can excel, says educator at project launchFri Sept 17 2021 - 21:30
Commitments to end direct provision ‘already behind schedule’Human rights commissioner criticises delays in areas such as driving licence applicationsThu Sept 16 2021 - 19:14
National day of mourning needed to ‘mark pandemic deaths’Time for sombre occasion to help those who could not attend funerals, says MinisterTue Sept 14 2021 - 17:22
Defence Forces rocked by allegations of sexual assaultCoveney to make ‘full statement’ following RTÉ’s Women of Honour radio documentaryMon Sept 13 2021 - 07:54
Wheelchair user who employs PAs criticises ‘discrimination’ by insurersIndustry ‘must be challenged’ over high premiums and reluctance to quoteMon Sept 13 2021 - 01:00
Insurers criticised by disabled group over hiring of PAsGovernment urged to force firms to quote for employers’ and public liability insuranceMon Sept 13 2021 - 01:00
Government housing strategy ‘not based on reality’Housing for All data fails to reflect scale of challenge, says Social Justice IrelandMon Sept 13 2021 - 00:01
Thousands of State’s poorest children face losing after-school childcare placesChanges to new childcare scheme favours children of working parents, critics saySat Sept 11 2021 - 01:00
Children spent night with mother’s body in homeless accommodation, inquest toldAnne Marie Connors (30) died following overdose in Dublin in 2018Fri Sept 10 2021 - 16:37
More than one-third of under-13s play games online with strangers – studySome 93% of children own a smart device, according to CyberSafeKids researchThu Sept 09 2021 - 01:00
Former Threshold CEO Bob Jordan appointed as Housing Agency chiefMinister for Housing welcomes appointment of former Coveney adviser during ‘critical time’Wed Sept 08 2021 - 17:51
Gender-specific service for women in addiction ‘urgently needed’, says MQIMany women so inhibited from seeking help they never engage, it saysWed Sept 08 2021 - 17:29
Funding for NGOs will be ‘core question’ after Covid pandemic, says Mike RyanWHO health emergencies programme director says NGO sector provides core servicesWed Sept 08 2021 - 14:40
Taoiseach tells left-handed man beatings he got in primary school were ‘wrong’Sisters of Mercy told Gerry Kavanagh he would burn in hell if he wrote with left handWed Sept 08 2021 - 12:25
Reported discrimination by landlords over HAP almost doublesThreshold received 70 reports of landlords refusing to accept HAP in first half of yearTue Sept 07 2021 - 19:28
Recorded suicides in Ireland fall to lowest level in two decadesFigures belie warnings that Covid curbs and concerns would result in surge, scientist saysFri Sept 03 2021 - 21:06
