Homelessness in Ireland hits record high of 14,760 people
Child homelessness rises 17% in last year, Department of Housing data shows
Salvation Army
Salvation Army seeks €3.75m for former Dublin city homeless hostel
Proceeds from sale of Lefroy House to be used to expand church and charity’s homeless services in the capital
Workers group occupying Eden Quay property to defy court order
Revolutionary Workers Union plans takeover of empty buildings to expose destitution
Record donations to Dublin ‘Black Santa’ Christmas appeal at Christmas
All monies raised go direct to city charities, including those dealing with homelessness
Annual Black Santa appeal launched in Dublin
The popular annual fundraiser has generated more than €700k for charities
Vulnerable, older prisoners ‘sabotaging’ parole to stay in jail
Outgoing Parole Board chief says timely rethink needed concerning mentally-ill prisoners
Girl sexually assaulted by father says she felt like her ‘soul was ripped out’
Dublin man (48) jailed for two-and-a-half years over abuse of teenage daughter
Salvation Army homeless vaccinated with J&J vaccine
Long-term residents of York Street hostel avail of one-shot vaccine
Tributes paid to ‘fantastic entrepreneur’ Galen Weston
Brown Thomas Arnotts owner Weston died on Tuesday
George Floyd’s girlfriend gives tearful testimony about addiction struggle
Former police officer Derek Chauvin on trial for murder of Floyd in Minneapolis last year
Hundreds of babies from church-run homes in NI were moved across Border
Research shows some babies were adopted in Republic or moved to homes or institutions
Independent inquiry to examine North’s mother and baby homes
Foster acknowledges pain caused to thousands as survivors seek public inquiry
Report into NI mother and baby homes to highlight ‘appalling suffering’
Questions over infant mortality rates and forced adoption expected to be raised by report
Congestion eases at UK border after thousands of drivers tested
Transport secretary says backlog cleared at Kent site allowing lorries head for France
Annual Dublin ‘Black Santa’ charity appeal launched in Dublin
Christmas Music concert recorded in aid of the appeal is now available online
Funding standoff to see Dublin city emergency hostel for minors close
Staff told closure of Salvation Army service due to ‘significant shortfalls’ in budget
‘Minnesota needs Trump’: President sees rural path to election victory
State encapsulates demographic, social divides driving political polarisation in the US
St John Ambulance child sex abuse: ‘I remember not being believed’
Tusla investigation finds former senior figure in voluntary body abused children
Injustice of low-wage poverty exposed by Covid-19
Value of cleaners, and supermarket and shop workers now glaringly obvious
Churches urge faithful to exert pressure on politicians over housing
‘The State built 8,500 social houses in 1975, but was able to build only 750 two years ago’
Aung San Suu Kyi asks UN court not to undermine ‘reconciliation’
Myanmar’s leader subjected to scathing crriticism over treatment of Rohingya minority
Aung San Suu Kyi rejects ‘misleading’ genocide claims at UN court
Rohingya supporters shout ‘shame on you!’ as Myanmar’s civilian leader leaves court in The Hague
Dublin businesses seek to stop 155-bed homeless hostel
Avalon House on Aungier Street would be State’s largest facility for rough sleepers
Homeless crisis: Murphy defends family hubs as better than hotels
Critical report should be ‘seared into brain of every policy influencer’, says Fianna Fáil TD
The US city that shifted from exemplar to post-industrial ruin
Once a booming automotive centre, Flint is ravaged by drugs, bad water and joblessness
He died in New York in 1989. Now Ferg Griffin is coming home
For three decades the young Irishman's family has agonised over his disappearance
Church of Ireland will be ‘caught’ if hard border introduced, says Archbishop
Archbishop of Dublin Michael Jackson highlights ‘church of the whole island’
First Titanic, then Empress: an Irish man’s lucky escapes
Quebec Letter: Canadian luxury transatlantic liner sank in icy waters in 1914
Refugee left homeless after closure of direct provision centre
Ibrahim Musa (64) is currently living in a shelter despite risk to his kidney transplant
Roads to recovery: How the North handles homelessness
‘I am in good shape compared to the way I was,’ says former Belfast rough sleeper
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi condemns abuses in Rakhine but rights groups sceptical
Remarks came in her first address to the nation since attacks by Rohingya Muslim insurgents
Myanmar faces mounting pressure over Rohingya refugee exodus
Bangladesh calls for creation of safe zones as number fleeing rises to 370,000
Myanmar dismisses ceasefire declared by Muslim Rohingya insurgents
UN workers estimate that 294,000 Rohingya have arrived in Bangladesh over 15 days
90,000 Rohingya refugees flee Myanmar in wave of violence
Increasing pressure on Aung San Suu Kyi to intervene on behalf of Muslim minority
Rohingya flee Myanmar as thousands of homes burned down
Almost 60,000 head for Bangladesh while UK calls for Aung San Suu Kyi to intervene
Entertainer and comedian whose success spanned multiple generations
Bruce Forsyth obituary: born February 22nd, 1928; died August 18th, 2017
Flood damage: ‘We got the TV upstairs, then we had to abandon’
Residents in Eglington are trying to pick up the pieces after Tuesday nights flooding
Sex robots: perverted or practical in fight against sex trafficking?
Artificial intelligence is shaking up the global sex market – but also raising complex issues
America whispers, “Leave,” and I understand
We are ready to move on. Our roots wouldn’t latch on, wouldn’t take to the soil
Warning issued about deaths of 'illegitimate' children in 1945
Committee member expressed concern that ‘children are allowed to die’
Bargaintown building to be converted into housing for homeless families
Nine facilities across Dublin to be used as ‘family hub’ emergency accommodation
Number of homeless families in Dublin hotels to be nearly halved
Nine ‘family hubs’ to take 380 families from hotels under mover by Simon Coveney
Why the Lib Dems have failed to attract the anti-Brexit vote
London Letter: Fewer than half who voted Remain have the appetite to resist Brexit
Reference to blasphemy in the Constitution is largely obsolete, say all Churches
God ‘is big enough to look after Himself without needing any assistance from gardaí’
PSNI’s disgust at sexual abuse of vulnerable woman
Victim, now 53, was held prisoner in Co Armagh house for eight years
Damages sought over Dublin hostel boiling water attack
Court hears victim spent over two weeks in hospital after incident with homeless man
New homeless shelters ‘lack privacy’, says Peter McVerry
Campaigner calls for move away from dormitory-style hostels as two new facilities open
Proposed Dublin 8 homeless hostel challenged by residents
Court told locals very angry over decision to change use of former community centre
Catholic leader apologises for church’s role in forced adoptions
Eamon Martin expresses regret over treatment of mothers ahead of ITV documentary
Catholic church apologises for role in ‘forced adoptions’
Women in England and Wales pressured to hand over babies between 1950s and 1970s
When it comes to women’s fitness, is ‘strong’ just ‘skinny’ rebranded?
Sport and exercise should not chain us into a lifetime of butt-taming burpees
Irish charity sector is being drained by duplication
Agencies are funded mainly by the State, but expanding payrolls are burning up that money
Businessmen consider buying cruise ship to house homeless
Auckland charities say hundreds are sleeping rough in the city every night
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