Almost 5,000 children referred to Tusla had no social worker by DecemberAgency’s annual report shows 48 young adults who had left care were homelessThu Jul 19 2018 - 14:23
‘Ask Facebook to leave Ireland if it won’t control content’Dr Mary Aiken says asking company to self-regulate like asking drink drivers to award themselves penalty pointsThu Jul 19 2018 - 11:54
Government may fine firms over standards of decency onlineVaradkar raises prospect of penalties after revelationsThu Jul 19 2018 - 00:00
Naughten set for Facebook meeting over violent materialMinister for Communications to hold talks with social network over ‘Dispatches’ exposéWed Jul 18 2018 - 16:48
Council to consider construction of log cabin homes in gardensDublin couple have been ordered by Bord Pleanála to take down log cabin they call homeMon Jul 16 2018 - 01:00
Meghan Markle is far from a feminist iconOpinion: 'Suits' actor quit her career to marry into one of the world’s most patriarchal institutionsSat Jul 14 2018 - 06:00
Older people cannot find smaller homes to move to, report findsAlone report says over 120,000 homes for older people needed between now and 2031Thu Jul 12 2018 - 20:43
Homeless crisis ‘damaging fabric of society’ – Focus IrelandSr Stan says society invited to see homeless people as ‘other’ and ‘undeserving’Thu Jul 12 2018 - 17:19
Varadkar says tech firms ‘very attuned’ to child safety issuesTaoiseach thought it unnecessary to put legal onus on service providers in online safety planWed Jul 11 2018 - 18:12
Online proposals have no sanctions against service providersChild safety plans set out 25 ‘targets’ around five ‘goals’Wed Jul 11 2018 - 18:11
Traveller halting site gets approval from Fingal councillorsCoolquay village residents ‘very disappointed’ at decision to facilitate new DAA runwayMon Jul 09 2018 - 22:22
Row over proposed Traveller halting site in north DublinCoolquay locals say site is ‘highly unsuitable’ as it is a flood plainMon Jul 09 2018 - 02:00
Private rented sector needs ‘serious reform’ to solve homelessnessReport says families describe getting a rapid-build home like ‘winning the Lotto’Mon Jul 09 2018 - 00:01
Teenager rescued from sea at SuttonHelicopter and lifeboat crew save boy who got into trouble swimming at Burrow BeachSun Jul 08 2018 - 20:43
Dublin’s true social divide is revealed by housing mapNew interactive resource shows the city’s social and economic divisions in stark detailSat Jul 07 2018 - 05:00
New housing data map could ‘revolutionise’ public understandingData brings together sales prices, rents, locations, social housing and private rented levelsSat Jul 07 2018 - 05:00
Lone parents forced into work by policy changes lost incomeAbout 99% of recipients of the One Parent Family payment are womenThu Jul 05 2018 - 00:02
Call for Oireachtas group to consider ‘reparations’ for TravellersNew cross-party Oireachtas group to look at improving life for TravellersTue Jul 03 2018 - 21:38
Homeless families reluctant to accept HAP tenanciesFamilies could later apply for council house, Minister for Housing insistsTue Jul 03 2018 - 19:25
After the Eighth: A fatal foetal diagnosis, but too sick to travel‘It was awful ... I was wanting something bad to happen to me so they’d induce me’Mon Jul 02 2018 - 00:16
Homeless families: ‘Often they have nowhere to go after 5pm’Focus Ireland opens Dublin service for those unsure where they will sleep until late at nightSat Jun 30 2018 - 09:48
Young LGBT people keen on more gender neutrality, strategy states‘No-one in this country should feel isolated, discriminated against or bullied’Fri Jun 29 2018 - 19:03
Three more strike days planned at Lloyd’s pharmacies over payOver 200 of the company’s mainly female staff will strike for three hours on FridayThu Jun 28 2018 - 21:27
15 abortions carried out in Irish hospitals in 2017Number fell markedly compared with the previous three years of the operation of the Protection of Life During Pregnancy ActThu Jun 28 2018 - 18:54
International report highlights use of videos in Jobstown trialInternational Network of Civil Liberties Organisations report published in GenevaWed Jun 27 2018 - 22:02
Residents vow to resist eviction order over fire safety issueHouseholders in Leeside apartments in Cork say repairs could be done with tenants in situTue Jun 26 2018 - 19:53
Ireland’s asylum system: ‘A two-tier system has clearly emerged’State failing commitment to give sanctuary to 4,000 people fleeing war, poverty – reportMon Jun 25 2018 - 01:35
Hundreds with intellectual disabilities still in institutions despite pledgeHSE commitment failing, as just over 650 of 2,370 adults moved from group homesMon Jun 25 2018 - 01:29
Almost 75% of drugs offences last year were ‘possession for personal use’Group says State resources could be used better helping drug-users and tackling serious drug crimeSun Jun 24 2018 - 20:10
Staff strike over pay and conditions at 34 Lloyd’s pharmacy branches‘I’m on €11 an hour and I haven’t had a raise in five years,’ says one strikerFri Jun 22 2018 - 18:12
‘Mistreatment of survivors’ of institutional abuse a ‘greater national shame’‘Caranua failed. As a former board member I can state this with the utmost truth and confidence’Thu Jun 21 2018 - 19:22
Tusla cannot eliminate all risk to children: it needs our supportHelping vulnerable families starts with tackling disadvantage in societyThu Jun 21 2018 - 02:00
Homeless families refuse tenancies in private sector, report findsMany stay in emergency accommodation until they can secure a local authority homeWed Jun 20 2018 - 05:00
Failings at Tusla leave children at risk of sex abuseDamning health watchdog report calls for urgent action at child protection agencyWed Jun 20 2018 - 00:10
Tusla ‘does not always learn from mistakes,’ chief executive admitsFred McBride says a repeat of Sgt Maurice McCabe errors ‘highly unlikely’Tue Jun 19 2018 - 20:06
‘Why are young mothers taking their own lives?’Women in some of the poorest parts of Dublin are taking their lives in the same numbers as men for the first timeSun Jun 17 2018 - 19:42
Safety concerns delay improvement works at St Mary’s halting siteFourteen families face rodent problems and issues with water and electricitySat Jun 16 2018 - 01:00
Traveller family accuses Dublin City Council of destroying homeAnn and Michael Connors say they were alerted while in a mediation meetingThu Jun 14 2018 - 21:31
Children being failed on mental health and housing – ombudsmanReports highlights problems with suicide prevention, direct provision, Tusla and HSEWed Jun 13 2018 - 00:01
Housing Assistance Payments bands ‘need to be changed’Homeless families in Dublin willing to move county are missing out on propertiesMon Jun 11 2018 - 01:00
Young people with disabilities are ‘being trapped in nursing homes’Disability Federation of Ireland warns of human rights violations over PA shortageMon Jun 11 2018 - 00:52
Most tenants rent ‘as they cannot get mortgage or social housing’Almost half of renters feel insecure in their tenancy, according to Threshold surveyMon Jun 11 2018 - 00:00
Inquiries under way into alleged assaults at nursing homeRape and assault claims in northeast care facility trigger three seperate investigationsSat Jun 09 2018 - 02:00
Housing crisis: ‘The system has totally failed me’A Dublin woman and her daughter face homelessness for second time in two yearsFri Jun 08 2018 - 01:01
Almost one-third of newly homeless families are non-nationalsReport highlights services’ reliance on private-rented sector and HHAP to house peopleThu Jun 07 2018 - 19:12
Asylum seekers now waiting longer to move through initial stage of processWaiting times have increased to an average of 18 to 20 months compared with about 11 weeks in 2015Wed Jun 06 2018 - 00:01
Child protection cases taking several years to be dealt withLack of co-operation between gardaí and social workers and inadequate supports for many district courts are contributing factorsTue Jun 05 2018 - 19:34
Lone parents speak out: 'Mothers have had such an ordeal'Single parents hopeful shift in opinion evidenced by Yes vote will bring positive changeTue Jun 05 2018 - 01:00
Adoption controversy: ‘My son was stolen and illegally adopted’‘I screamed and roared at his disappearance, and a nun slapped me right across the face’Sat Jun 02 2018 - 03:00
Tusla says it cannot investigate all of its adoption recordsAgency says it does not have the ‘remit’ for such an audit amid birth registration scandalThu May 31 2018 - 23:46
