‘Disgraceful’ that just 20 per cent of those with sight-loss have jobs – charity headCompanies urged to step up and see beyond a person’s disabilityWed Aug 28 2019 - 20:38
Better-off parents slower to vaccinate childrenUptake of MMR vaccine in several wealthy areas slides, according to official figuresTue Aug 27 2019 - 02:31
‘Reduced timetable’ system may breach children’s constitutional rightsTraveller cross-party group says audit needed on schools’ use of limited hoursMon Aug 26 2019 - 01:03
Boy with autism ‘regressed’ due to refusal of school-bus placeAutism advocacy charity says move ‘breaches spirit of Act’ aimed at protecting boyMon Aug 26 2019 - 01:02
Delays in dealing with ‘high priority’ abuse cases criticisedReview of south Dublin services found Tusla lacks ‘concrete plan to address risk in a timely way’Wed Aug 21 2019 - 17:29
The most common student rental scams: warning over deposits and keysTry out the key and view property in person before transferring money, students toldTue Aug 20 2019 - 20:37
Call for contraceptive coil and bar to be fully State-fundedGrowing demand for long-acting reversible contraception, says Alison BegasTue Aug 20 2019 - 18:08
Calls for fully accessible train platforms across rail networkWheelchair users upset and exhausted by constant breakdown of lifts at train stationsThu Jul 25 2019 - 02:46
More than 1,200 vulnerable people ‘at risk’ unless residences regulatedInspector finds ‘continuing breaches of human rights’ including lack of privacyThu Jul 25 2019 - 00:01
Settled residents should lose right to object to Traveller accommodation, experts sayGroup calls for councils to use emergency powers to force through housing plansWed Jul 24 2019 - 02:50
Bereft Dublin locality pulls together in wake of suicidesShe ‘always appeared bubbly and happy but it was a front . . . she was broken inside’Wed Jul 24 2019 - 02:08
Dublin homeless families to get free public transport access for AugustLeap Cards to be provided on a ‘once off basis’, spokesman for Eoghan Murphy saysMon Jul 22 2019 - 23:00
Rape victims should be allowed give evidence by video-link, say barristersBar Council calls for ‘rape myths’ to be combated in its submission to review bodyMon Jul 22 2019 - 07:02
Homeless in summer: ‘To have one or two days out to look forward to would be huge’For a mother of young children, not being able to take them anywhere is ‘draining’Mon Jul 22 2019 - 02:50
Homeless families under ‘huge additional stress’ in summerCharity highlights burden of keeping children occupied in straitened circumstancesMon Jul 22 2019 - 02:24
Greens urged not to waste support surge by propping up Fine Gael or Fianna FáilBoyd Barrett calls for ‘massive shift to public transport’ at People Before Profit agmSun Jul 21 2019 - 20:41
One of Ireland’s last tinsmiths wonders who will carry on the tradition after himJames Collins still makes billy-cans, pails and mugs from stainless steel in his Finglas workshopThu Jul 18 2019 - 20:32
Ruling marks an end to ‘forced separation’ of couplesJudgment should not delay reforms on refugee family reunification, advocates warnWed Jul 17 2019 - 18:46
Go-Ahead to be fined for not delivering adequate bus serviceCompany says its targets are more ambitious than those of Dublin Bus and Bus ÉireannTue Jul 16 2019 - 21:50
Women seeking post-abortion counselling doubles in CorkSteady increase in demand for crisis pregnancy counselling, annual report statesTue Jul 16 2019 - 20:16
Suicides of young women ‘must give concern’, mourners toldFr Joe McDonald says the loss of a number of young people in Dublin ‘raises questions’Fri Jul 12 2019 - 17:36
Dalkey development will exclude ‘ordinary working people’, residents sayState should buy site of planned Bulloch Harbour development, campaigners sayFri Jul 12 2019 - 12:22
‘I received letters, phone calls that were absolutely derogatory’Traveller activist and playwright Rosaleen McDonagh describes ‘hostile’ reaction to her candidacyTue Jul 09 2019 - 18:57
Committee asks for free summer travel for homeless childrenAnn Rabbitte asks for free access to 10,000 OPW heritage sites for homeless familiesTue Jul 09 2019 - 17:03
Reporting of inquest into mother’s death ‘extremely important’Karen McEvoy (24) died on Christmas Day last year one week after giving birthMon Jul 08 2019 - 21:40
‘I’m here because I am human’: Voices from the Trans Pride march‘Days like today are so important because people need to be out and visible’Sat Jul 06 2019 - 20:42
Hundreds take part in Trans Pride parade in DublinEvent organised over concerns about delays for trans people to access treatmentSat Jul 06 2019 - 17:34
Minister says welfare system ‘not working’ for many and needs to be changedDoherty signals intention to end traditional across-the-board welfare increases on budget daySat Jul 06 2019 - 01:00
All State pensions should not be equal, says MinisterRegina Doherty wants to reform welfare payments to help those ‘who are most at risk’Sat Jul 06 2019 - 01:00
Deaths of six children known to Tusla associated with ‘substance misuse’Review says in some cases social workers ‘overly optimistic’ about parents’ competencyFri Jul 05 2019 - 06:17
Specialist midwives ‘urgently needed’ to help parents with addictionsSix very young children, known to Tusla, died in 2018 whose mothers had addiction issuesFri Jul 05 2019 - 01:00
Parents of child (3) who died had drug addiction issuesChild dies in accident while in care of his father who had substances in system at timeFri Jul 05 2019 - 01:00
School imposing reduced timetables in a way that is ‘not solely child centred’Warning from the Oireachtas Committee on Education contained in first statutory report on the issueThu Jul 04 2019 - 22:22
Up to a third of poorer families' income goes on food - studyWelfare recipients with teenagers and in rural areas struggle most with nutritious dietTue Jul 02 2019 - 09:32
Nowhere for poorest households to rent in Galway and Waterford cities, survey findsSimon Communities reports ‘alarming’ lack of housing for those dependent on HAPTue Jul 02 2019 - 00:00
Temporary house found for homeless family forced to move repeatedlyPeter McVerry Trust finds temporary house in Co Offaly for couple with seven childrenFri Jun 28 2019 - 21:25
Homeless family of nine placed in three hotels in three countiesTullamore parents Michelle and Patrick O’Brien have seven children under 14Fri Jun 28 2019 - 11:39
‘It’s very stressful minding my boys. We’re feeling quite hopeless’Offaly Traveller Movement and Tusla seeking to help family housed in multiple hotelsFri Jun 28 2019 - 01:18
Councils’ compliance with human rights of Travellers investigatedIHREC takes action amid ‘persistent discrimination’ by local authorities against TravellersFri Jun 28 2019 - 00:21
Dublin plan branded ‘unwise’, uncosted and beyond competence of councillorsCouncil chief estimates cost of implementing ‘ambitious’ agreement as ‘very significant’Thu Jun 27 2019 - 01:55
Domestic violence support centre in Donegal faces closureLifeline Inishowen, based in Carndonagh, delivers petition to Minister for ChildrenWed Jun 26 2019 - 20:40
Government has exacerbated housing crisis, says commissionerEmily Logan describes housing assistance payment as ‘not fit for purpose’Mon Jun 24 2019 - 18:33
Lives may be at risk over closure of Donegal domestic violence serviceLifeline Inishowen to hand 1,000-signature petition to Dáil in search for urgent fundingMon Jun 24 2019 - 02:38
Landlords discriminating against benefit recipients, report findsIrish Human Rights and Equality Commission also notes unfairness to asylum seekersMon Jun 24 2019 - 02:31
Ballsbridge tenants facing homelessness appeal to Eoghan MurphyRemaining renters say people who already left homes did so on foot of invalid noticesMon Jun 24 2019 - 02:23
Ireland needs ‘good story to tell’ from home on climate policyReport found 94% of migrants in Brussels slept rough, and 73% did not get enough to eat every dayWed Jun 19 2019 - 18:10
Migrant crisis requires inequality to be tackled, EU expert saysStefano Manservisi highlights ‘mismatch’ between precarious work and welfare statesTue Jun 18 2019 - 21:01
Child homelessness in midlands more than triples in two yearsNumber of homeless families in midlands reached 45 towards end of AprilMon Jun 17 2019 - 03:00
Dublin evictions: ‘These new owners, they don’t see us as people’Tenants in Dublin 6 and 8 are resisting eviction attempts under two linked firmsFri Jun 14 2019 - 03:00
Landlords unwilling to accept housing assistance payment, say homeless familiesFocus Ireland study finds families in private rented accommodation ‘bear brunt of crisis’Thu Jun 13 2019 - 15:02
