How will welfare changes affect children in poverty, pensioners, single parents?
Budget 2026: Minister will be hoping children in poverty and disabled people will feel the greatest uplift – but will they?
Tackling child poverty and helping people with disabilities priority for Dara Calleary
Raising benefit rates, upping thresholds and removing barriers to work among measures
‘There’s no way I will be able to buy a house’: What people want from Budget 2026
A renter, a landlord, a teacher, a farmer, a pensioner, a business owner share their views
Fire in Carrickmines, 10 years on: ‘Some don’t want to talk, some are angry’
In the early hours of October 10th, 2015, a fire engulfed a mobile home on a Dublin halting site, killing 10 people. A decade on, relatives left behind still struggle with their loss
Human remains discovered during excavation of Tuam site
Five sets of skeletal remains are believed to predate mother and baby home as operation continues
Budget 2026 should raise social welfare payments to cut child poverty, says Dara Calleary
Minister for Social Protection says Ireland’s disabled unemployment rate is ‘just not acceptable’
Children in need of special school place promised ‘clear roadmaps’ by Minister
Anyone in need of a special school place or a special class in a mainstream school in September 2026 will know where they are going before the end of this year
‘We have gone back to basics’: McVerry Trust seeks reset after finance issues and bailout
Organisation unveils newly refurbished housing complex on Townsend Street in Dublin
Tusla funding boost should be top budget priority, say 150 children’s organisations
Children’s Rights Alliance says child protection and welfare services must be prioritised
New 600-metre section of Dodder Greenway opens in Ballsbridge, south Dublin
When complete, 17km greenway will run from Dublin city centre to Bohernabreena
Missing Dublin boy: NRP chair calls on Children’s Ombudsman to retract ‘baffling’ comments
Helen Buckley’s call comes as National Review Panel prepares to review case of missing Dublin boy
Dublin Simon Community in the ‘eye of homeless crisis’ as it expands services
Charity’s annual report cites 25% increase in demand for rough-sleeper outreach team
School phone bans ‘not in best interests of children’, says Ombudsman
Policy needs to ‘move beyond an over-simplistic focus on bans’, says report
How can a child just disappear without the State even noticing?
Search for remains Co Dublin boy – the second child to vanish in a year – raises concerns about welfare of vulnerable children during Covid pandemic
Gardaí believe remains of missing boy assumed dead are buried on lands in north Co Dublin
No response from cadaver dog brought on to search site