Children at Dublin creche given medication without parents’ signed consentInspection at Crumlin Childcare Centre found children in cold and dirty conditionsWed Jan 22 2025 - 18:42
A fifth of homelessness budget should be spent on prevention measures, Threshold saysCharity says landlords are taking advantage of the rent pressure zones systemWed Jan 22 2025 - 06:00
‘Tonight we had 470 meals, they all went’: Dublin soup kitchen offers essential help but faces uncertain future Soup kitchen run by Muslim Sisters of Éire among estimated 24 voluntary on-street facilities targeted for regulation under controversial planSun Jan 19 2025 - 17:35
Programme for government aims for ‘step change’ in disability servicesViews are mixed among disabled people and their allies as to whether the programme promises progress, with some critical of ‘regressive’ toneFri Jan 17 2025 - 06:00
Over 100 people use supervised Merchants Quay Ireland drug-injection facility within first monthChief executive Eddie Mullins says opening marks ‘momentous shift in policy in how we treat some of our most marginalised and stigmatised people’Thu Jan 16 2025 - 19:06
Poorest children in North live in lower-income homes but less deprived than those in poverty in RepublicBetter public services, more widely available benefits and lower housing costs in Northern Ireland provide better protection to children in poverty, ESRI report indicatesThu Jan 16 2025 - 06:00
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 toldTue Jan 14 2025 - 20:00
‘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 streetsFri Jan 10 2025 - 06:00
Homeless fathers ‘not seen as fathers’ by services, pushing them farther from children - reportMany men categorised as ‘single adults without dependents’ are fathers may or may not share custody of childrenMon Jan 06 2025 - 06:00
Number of homeless people passes 15,000 for first time since records beganSome 4,658 children are in emergency accommodation as Darragh O’Brien says addressing crisis is ‘an absolute priority’Fri Jan 03 2025 - 16:32
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 deprivationWed Jan 01 2025 - 01:00
More than one million Irish passports issued during 2024Current indications are that upwards of 940,000 passports will be sought and issued this yearWed Jan 01 2025 - 00:00
Leinster House usher killed while cycling was ‘a proud Cabra man’ dedicated to his family, funeral toldDerek Doyle, a former Defence Forces member who served overseas, described as a true friend who ‘poured his heart into everything he did’Tue Dec 31 2024 - 13:17
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 8.30amFri Dec 20 2024 - 10:38
Concerns raised about community mental health care following death of ‘vulnerable’ young womanCaoimhe 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.Thu Dec 19 2024 - 19:29
Proportion of children who are ‘happy with the way they are’ falls ‘substantially’Government report shows school absenteeism more than doubled at primary levelThu Dec 19 2024 - 06:30
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 litterTue Dec 17 2024 - 06:00
‘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’Tue Dec 17 2024 - 06:00
Attitudes to Traveller and Roma people more negative among middle class than working class - studyResidents of affluent areas less comfortable with having Travellers as neighbours, ESRI reports findsTue Dec 17 2024 - 00:01
Those who missed out on Capuchin Christmas food hampers will be ‘looked after’, says chief executiveDonations increase to charity which provides assistance to those in need in Dublin after staff ran out of food parcels and hamper tickets on WednesdayThu Dec 12 2024 - 19:00
‘We have never run out this early’: People ‘distraught’ after missing out on Capuchin Christmas food parcel ticketsPeople ‘distraught’ on missing out after all 3,000 parcels are distributed by shortly after 9.30amWed Dec 11 2024 - 12:55
Traveller sites in south Dublin removed from plan due to ‘biodiversity considerations’Sites earmarked for Traveller accommodation are set to be removed from the forthcoming Traveller Accommodation PlanMon Dec 09 2024 - 06:00
'It’s a new beginning': How Stardust nightclub has been reimagined as artists' studiosArtists’ studios where ‘new, beautiful things’ will be created are opening at the site of a blaze that claimed 48 livesSun Dec 08 2024 - 06:00
Homeless asylum seekers camped near Dáil offered accommodation after standoff with gardaíSome 50 tents pitched at Kildare Place on Thursday after men told to leave ‘cold weather’ beds in CitywestThu Dec 05 2024 - 17:10
Dublin Mid-West: Shane Moynihan (FF)Former secretary of local GAA club serves on a number of school boardsTue Dec 03 2024 - 12:27
Dublin Mid-West: Paul Gogarty (Ind)Palmerstown native will be always remembered for Dáil outburstMon Dec 02 2024 - 15:30
Dublin Mid-West: the story of the countPeople Before Profit’s Gino Kenny loses seat after being squeezed by crowded left and emergence of anti-immigrant candidatesMon Dec 02 2024 - 15:16
Dublin Mid-West: Emer Higgins (FG) Fine Gael Minister of State was first elected to the Dáil in 2020Sun Dec 01 2024 - 18:31
Dublin Mid-West: Mark Ward (SF)Sinn Féin’s spokesman on mental health secures seatSun Dec 01 2024 - 15:01
Dublin Mid-West: Eoin Ó Broin (SF) Sinn Fein’s housing spokesman eases back into DáilSat Nov 30 2024 - 19:17
‘It’s 100% tough at the moment’: How will tourism businesses vote as sector struggles?Election 2024: Hospitality business owners in Sligo warn costs of energy, wages and VAT are damaging the sector and will influence their voteThu Nov 28 2024 - 06:00
Asylum centre failed to protect four children who went missing, Hiqa inspection findsAnother centre had a large number of insects in the kitchen, while another with a high proportion of children had a staff member without Garda vettingWed Nov 27 2024 - 17:03
‘Housing? I have to admit to being comfortable and it’s not affecting me’: Polarised views in south and west DublinThe housing crisis is mentioned in both south county and west Dublin, but it and the cost of living preoccupy more minds in the latterMon Nov 25 2024 - 06:00
Volunteers supporting homeless asylum seekers say gardaí often ‘increase the risk of violence’ Report by Irish Refugee Council says Government has ‘reneged on its obligations under Irish and European Union law’ in not providing their basic needsMon Nov 25 2024 - 06:00
Dublin riots left north inner city youth ‘traumatised’ by the stigma of violenceMany young people remain on edge and feel unfairly blamed for the violence, while local youth workers question a system that ‘allows people to be born into poverty’Sat Nov 23 2024 - 01:00
‘Not far right, not anti-immigration’: Independent candidates Gavin Pepper and Philip Sutcliffe seek to clarify what they stand for in DublinAs one runs in Dublin North-West and the other in Dublin South-Central, the general election candidates reject ‘far right’ and ‘anti-immigration’ labels and say why they are asking people to vote for themThu Nov 21 2024 - 15:00
‘Mum is always happy. She only cries sometimes’: Voices of children in emergency accommodationThere are 4,561 children across Ireland who tonight will go to sleep in beds they don’t call their ownSun Nov 10 2024 - 06:00
Pregnant women enduring domestic violence are afraid to report it, study findsFear that children will be taken into care cited as a key reason for not telling maternity hospitals about abuseThu Nov 07 2024 - 00:01
A Wicklow village is still divided, six months after anti-asylum seeker protests As a general election looms, Newtownmountkennedy residents remain ‘traumatised’ and ‘divided’ and speak sadly of authorities’ poor management of the issueMon Nov 04 2024 - 06:00
Locals stall opening of Thornton Hall for up to 1,000 asylum seekersA group of local residents has made an application to the courts to halt the project in north Co DublinMon Nov 04 2024 - 06:00
Man (30s) arrested following alleged assault on Roderic O’Gorman while on election canvassMinister for Children said to be ‘shaken’ by the alleged incident which occurred while going door-to-door in DublinSun Nov 03 2024 - 16:28
Medics must be trained to recognise signs of human trafficking, conference toldUS ambassador says lack of training leads to neglect of the most vulnerable in societyWed Oct 30 2024 - 20:05
Dublin authorities make 400 extra beds available for homeless this winterMore than 10,000 emergency beds were already occupied by homeless people in Dublin last monthTue Oct 29 2024 - 16:50
Almost 9,000 children in direct provision not eligible for double child benefit paymentChildren’s Rights Alliance calls for urgent delivery of the International Protection Child Payment to address poverty sTue Oct 29 2024 - 06:00
Thirty-seven children reported as missing from Tusla care so far this yearThirty-one of those missing are separated children seeking asylum, while six went missing from residential settings, figures showMon Oct 28 2024 - 06:00
Kyran Durnin case: How can a child go missing for two years?Locals in Dundalk express bafflement and shock at disappearance of boy in 2022, when he was aged sixSat Oct 26 2024 - 06:00
Homelessness in Ireland hits record high of 14,760 peopleChild homelessness rises 17% in last year, Department of Housing data showsFri Oct 25 2024 - 14:29
People aged 18 to 24 more optimistic about their future than those aged 25 to 34National Youth Council of Ireland report says almost half of under-24s say access to youth work services is poorTue Oct 22 2024 - 16:54
Fishamble theatre company appeals for return of stolen Olivier awardAward stolen during break-in at Dublin premises over weekendTue Oct 22 2024 - 09:57
‘He bate the f**k out of you - every day’: victims of corporal punishment on violence in the classroomSurvivors of physical abuse over decades in Irish schools want an apology for what they suffered at the hands of teachersSat Oct 19 2024 - 06:00
