Homeless crisis in need of urgent actionLandlords are raising rents and cutting off housing options to familiesSat Apr 26 2014 - 01:00
Mother and her three young children forced to live in carSabrina McMahon (36), who has spent a week in a car in Tallaght, feels ‘like a hopeless parent’Fri Apr 25 2014 - 09:03
Media mattersThe exclusion of children’s voices from the media ‘is a pity’ as they have a much clearer insight into issues affecting them than the adults who speak for them, one of Europe’s leading human rights champions claimsFri Apr 25 2014 - 01:00
Obama strategist gives tips to women candidates on communications skillsSeminar hears some male candidates not targeting women voters at allThu Apr 24 2014 - 01:01
Protections needed for tenants ‘caught in the crossfire’ between landlords and banksHousing charity Threshold calls for legislative changes to protect such householdsTue Apr 22 2014 - 01:01
Government urged to address poverty as economy improvesSocial Justice Ireland says Ireland is in danger of repeating 'boom and bust' scenarioTue Apr 22 2014 - 01:00
Dublin Simon event to discuss ‘almost impossible’ task of finding a place to rentRent allowance and controls to be among topics at homeless charity’s ‘speak out’Tue Apr 22 2014 - 01:00
List of victims who died in Northern Ireland Troubles read outNames of more than 3,500 people read carefully and patiently in event at Unitarian Church in DublinSat Apr 19 2014 - 00:59
Broad welcome from Traveller and human rights groups to recommendationTD Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, who has campaigned for Traveller ethnic recognition, said it was rare that he came into Leinster House really proud of the work done thereFri Apr 18 2014 - 02:12
Ethnic recognition would help do away with the ‘shame’ of being a TravellerAnalysis: A positive Government statement could lead to a realignment between settled and Traveller communitiesFri Apr 18 2014 - 01:42
Traveller ethnicity should be recognised, report saysEthnic status could create ‘mutual respect’ between Travellers and settled communitiesThu Apr 17 2014 - 10:18
Concern voiced over UK hospital restrictionsNumbers of Irish travelling for abortion for medical reasons ‘has risen steadily’Thu Apr 17 2014 - 01:00
FG candidates accused of playing ‘Traveller card’Councillor ‘delighted’ Traveller housing scheme she voted for is cancelledFri Apr 11 2014 - 01:01
Review of Dublin’s ambulance service will proceed, insists Health Service ExecutiveStatement rejects Siptu claims that review ’suspended’Wed Apr 09 2014 - 01:00
Review of Dublin ambulance service not suspended, HSE saysReview proceeding as planned ‘contrary’ to Siptu statements, Executive saysTue Apr 08 2014 - 12:24
Fire brigade protests over ambulance planMarchers told city manager ‘suspended’ review of service on foot of their campaignTue Apr 08 2014 - 01:00
Ambulance ‘takeover’ not on HSE agendaHSE service ‘outclasses’ one provided by Dublin Fire Brigade, says O’BrienFri Apr 04 2014 - 01:00
Boyd Barrett warns of ‘looming crisis’ for tenantsTD says thousands or even tens of thousands of families could be evictedFri Mar 28 2014 - 01:00
Many HSE paramedics lack Garda clearanceInpection reports find clinical records stored in open on shelves and in basketsThu Mar 27 2014 - 01:01
Senior ambulance official to meet Donegal family following mother’s deathMaura Porter (70) had to wait 50 minutes for ambulance to arrive in CarndonaghTue Mar 25 2014 - 01:00
Review of governance structures at University Hospital Galway under way in wake of Savita’s deathReport says recommendations being addressed including early warning score system across hospitalMon Mar 24 2014 - 01:00
Activist Margaretta D’Arcy released from prisonAosdána member served nine-and-a-half weeks of three month termSat Mar 22 2014 - 17:28
Hiqa publishes terms of Portlaoise hospital investigationAmbulance service under the spotlightSat Mar 22 2014 - 01:00
Man shot in the head outside crèche in north Dublin‘It is just shocking . . . it’s terrifying to think what could have happened’Fri Mar 21 2014 - 19:25
Council rejects HSE ambulance plan for DublinHead of ambulance service to be called before city council to explain ‘intentions’Fri Mar 21 2014 - 01:00
Calls to end ‘charade of a review’ of Dublin ambulancesThe joint HSE-Dublin City Council review of the service to examine patient care and value for money was announced last monthThu Mar 20 2014 - 07:24
HSE plan to take ambulance duty from Dublin Fire Brigade criticised by TDsProposal seen as ‘utterly wrong’ and existing service defended as best optionWed Mar 19 2014 - 06:43
Dublin Fire Brigade to lose ambulance duty in planConfidential HSE plan says arrangements to be phased in by end of 2015Tue Mar 18 2014 - 01:00
‘Waiting for the ambulance was the most helpless I’ve ever felt’Family of Maura Porter (70), from Carndonagh, Co Donegal, tell of 40-minute wait for help after she was hit by a carTue Mar 18 2014 - 01:00
Tensions over funding of Dublin ambulance serviceEmails show city council accused HSE of ‘short-changing’ Dublin Fire Brigade over €10m arrearsTue Mar 18 2014 - 01:00
‘The outcome could have been very different’Michael Riordain’s wife died after choking on foodMon Mar 17 2014 - 01:00
Ambulances routinely held up for an hour or more at A&E departmentsThe HSE’s target turnaround for ambulances is 20 minutesMon Mar 17 2014 - 01:00
Ambulances often delayed at A&E as patients transferredCrews forced to wait for ambulance trolleys to be returnedMon Mar 17 2014 - 01:00
Ambulances missing HSE response time targetsCrews in some areas reach fewer than half of life-threatening cases within target timesSat Mar 15 2014 - 07:42
999: ambulance emergencyToo many emergency vehicles arrive too late, and when they do, people can die. Can anything be done to improve this underfunded service?Sat Mar 15 2014 - 01:00
A parent’s pain: ‘I still have his number in my phone’Ahead of a three-part series on the ambulance service Kitty Holland talks to the parents of Wayne McQuillanFri Mar 14 2014 - 15:00
Number of women experiencing deprivation doublesMost vulnerable to poverty are lone parents and their children, according to Unite trade union documentThu Mar 06 2014 - 01:00
State repeatedly failing children in care, in same ways, says ombudsman’s officeReport calls on new agency to finally sort out ongoing problemsWed Mar 05 2014 - 01:00
Strategic review of Dublin ambulance service orderedPatient care and value for money to be key factors assessed in studyFri Feb 28 2014 - 01:00
Ambulances waiting up to 16 hours at Dublin hospitalsOireachtas Committee calls for capacity review of National Ambulance ServiceWed Feb 26 2014 - 11:03
Ordinary people tell of poverty due to years of austerityParents going hungry to feed their children, and people unable to heat their homesWed Feb 26 2014 - 01:00
Convention votes to protect economic, social, cultural rightsFormer minister for Justice Michael McDowell says such rights diminish politicsSun Feb 23 2014 - 14:24
Plan to protect Dublin homeless sleeping in binsDublin City Council to call in recycling companies after man narrowly escapes being crushedSat Feb 22 2014 - 01:01
Man sleeping in bin narrowly escapes being crushed in truckHomeless charity says incident highlights the vulnerability of rough-sleepers in the capitalFri Feb 21 2014 - 16:04
HSE report finds child safety still a cause for concern in creches and pre-schoolsNew legislation, providing for fines and creche closures, to come into force in MayThu Feb 20 2014 - 18:33
Middle-aged men are at greatest risk of suicideUnemployment, relationship breakdown, alcohol make men over 40 vulnerableThu Feb 20 2014 - 01:00
Families of Stardust victims say vital evidence was not made publicOn 33rd anniversary of disaster, researcher says cause of fire is ‘absolutely identifiable’Sat Feb 15 2014 - 01:00
Invalidity Pension appeal process ‘stressful and humiliating’‘I felt like I was stripped bare having to tell them all my problems again. You feel humiliated’Wed Feb 12 2014 - 06:18
More than 70% of invalidity pension appeals upheldPatrick Nulty says high number of refusals reversed on appeal indicate need for ‘complete overhaul’ of processWed Feb 12 2014 - 06:18
Garda investigation into allegations of Stardust perjuryInquiry triggered after complaint by researcher working with bereaved familiesTue Feb 11 2014 - 06:16
