Social Affairs

The Government is “very concerned” about the risks associated with asylum seekers having to sleep rough in freezing conditions, the Tánaiste has said. Video: PA

Study harvests data for more than 7,000 children from the Growing Up in Ireland 2008 birth group

Members of migrant communities fearful of further attacks since Dublin riot, councillors tell meeting

Department of Equality accepts ‘discrepancy’ in how different groups of refugees are being treated

New monument in Dublin’s Phoenix Park remembers those affected by the virus

Caio Benício’s family remains in Brazil but whatever the future holds he wants to hold on to his connection to Ireland

Mary McGee’s ‘legal equivalent of the moon landing’ gets first formal recognition after 50 years

Saturday

Week beginning Saturday, December 2nd, 2023

‘Severe shortage’ of housing options means some new arrivals may not be offered emergency accommodation

‘What I witnessed last Thursday is something I never thought would happen in Ireland’

Netwatch Family Carer of the Year 2023 shines a light on invaluable work of family carers, many of whom receive little or no assistance or financial support

Their trade union representative Michael Kerrigan of Fórsa, said the workers had been ‘effectively removed’ from their jobs and put on ‘an unauthorised and illegal suspension’

‘We have every reason to hope that this is an isolated incident,’ says country’s ambassador

Edmund Garvey had launched judicial review following councillors vote to rescind Freedom of Drogheda award

Simon Coveney says ‘we do need to try to listen to what people are saying’ as the State faces pressure to provide accommodation for refugees

Covid-19 recovery, labour shortages and the Russian invasion of Ukraine were all factors

A study found a wide range of people were affected, but the problem was most acute among those with low incomes

Figures from Rape Crisis Network Ireland show number of contacts and appointments down but referrals to counselling at record high

People born in Northern Ireland after 1989 show largest recent declines in optimism, ESRI paper finds

Large crowd gathers on O’Connell Street to reject anti-immigrant violence.

An ICTU rally has shown solidarity for the victims of the recent attacks in Parnell Square and support for the workers caught up in the riots that followed.

Eder Santos (39) and Caio Benício (43) thanked by Taoiseach for intervening in Parnell Square stabbing

It is unacceptable that living standards for workers fell when Government revenue was ‘buoyant’, union representative says

Carers, people living alone and families of 370,000 qualified children due to get lump sum

It’s not Dalkey. British anthropologist Daniel Miller calls it ‘Cuan’ but you know it by another name

Contractor involved in repair works for homelessness charity run by brother of trust’s long-serving auditor

Among problems are ‘chronic lack of social workers’ and foster carers, says expert focused on childcare court cases

First Irish outbreak of mycoplasma pneumoniae in a number of years occurred in October, Health Protection Surveillance Centre warns

Items which featured in The Banshees of Inisherin, My Left Foot, Normal People and Father Ted will be up for grabs in an online auction

‘The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up … and with force and harshness you have ruled them’

New Government proposals allow people who have fled war in Ukraine to travel back for festive season without risk of losing their State-funded accommodation

‘Horrific’ and ‘disgraceful’ were how north inner-city residents described Thursday night’s violence, though one local said the destruction was ‘one hundred per cent’ acceptable

Firefighers wearing breathing equipment rescued a security guard from blaze in Finglas

Most families accessing emergency accommodation are single-parent families

Record number of children in emergency accommodation

Tánaiste says Irish society must hold true to its real values

Week beginning Saturday, November 25th, 2023

Irish organisation of Nigerian immigrants files legal case in bid to block rival group being formed

Tusla dealing with growing ‘crisis’ of children in care placed in unregulated emergency accommodation