Dublin Mid-West: Shane Moynihan (FF)Former secretary of local GAA club serves on a number of school boardsTue Dec 03 2024 - 12:27
Dublin Mid-West: Paul Gogarty (Ind)Palmerstown native will be always remembered for Dáil outburstMon Dec 02 2024 - 15:30
Dublin Mid-West: the story of the countPeople Before Profit’s Gino Kenny loses seat after being squeezed by crowded left and emergence of anti-immigrant candidatesMon Dec 02 2024 - 15:16
Dublin Mid-West: Emer Higgins (FG) Fine Gael Minister of State was first elected to the Dáil in 2020Sun Dec 01 2024 - 18:31
Dublin Mid-West: Mark Ward (SF)Sinn Féin’s spokesman on mental health secures seatSun Dec 01 2024 - 15:01
Dublin Mid-West: Eoin Ó Broin (SF) Sinn Fein’s housing spokesman eases back into DáilSat Nov 30 2024 - 19:17
‘It’s 100% tough at the moment’: How will tourism businesses vote as sector struggles?Election 2024: Hospitality business owners in Sligo warn costs of energy, wages and VAT are damaging the sector and will influence their voteThu Nov 28 2024 - 06:00
Asylum centre failed to protect four children who went missing, Hiqa inspection findsAnother centre had a large number of insects in the kitchen, while another with a high proportion of children had a staff member without Garda vettingWed Nov 27 2024 - 17:03
Volunteers supporting homeless asylum seekers say gardaí often ‘increase the risk of violence’ Report by Irish Refugee Council says Government has ‘reneged on its obligations under Irish and European Union law’ in not providing their basic needsMon Nov 25 2024 - 06:00
‘Housing? I have to admit to being comfortable and it’s not affecting me’: Polarised views in south and west DublinThe housing crisis is mentioned in both south county and west Dublin, but it and the cost of living preoccupy more minds in the latterMon Nov 25 2024 - 06:00
Dublin riots left north inner city youth ‘traumatised’ by the stigma of violenceMany young people remain on edge and feel unfairly blamed for the violence, while local youth workers question a system that ‘allows people to be born into poverty’Sat Nov 23 2024 - 01:00
‘Not far right, not anti-immigration’: Independent candidates Gavin Pepper and Philip Sutcliffe seek to clarify what they stand for in DublinAs one runs in Dublin North-West and the other in Dublin South-Central, the general election candidates reject ‘far right’ and ‘anti-immigration’ labels and say why they are asking people to vote for themThu Nov 21 2024 - 15:00
‘Mum is always happy. She only cries sometimes’: Voices of children in emergency accommodationThere are 4,561 children across Ireland who tonight will go to sleep in beds they don’t call their ownSun Nov 10 2024 - 06:00
Pregnant women enduring domestic violence are afraid to report it, study findsFear that children will be taken into care cited as a key reason for not telling maternity hospitals about abuseThu Nov 07 2024 - 00:01
A Wicklow village is still divided, six months after anti-asylum seeker protests As a general election looms, Newtownmountkennedy residents remain ‘traumatised’ and ‘divided’ and speak sadly of authorities’ poor management of the issueMon Nov 04 2024 - 06:00
Locals stall opening of Thornton Hall for up to 1,000 asylum seekersA group of local residents has made an application to the courts to halt the project in north Co DublinMon Nov 04 2024 - 06:00
Man (30s) arrested following alleged assault on Roderic O’Gorman while on election canvassMinister for Children said to be ‘shaken’ by the alleged incident which occurred while going door-to-door in DublinSun Nov 03 2024 - 16:28
Medics must be trained to recognise signs of human trafficking, conference toldUS ambassador says lack of training leads to neglect of the most vulnerable in societyWed Oct 30 2024 - 20:05
Dublin authorities make 400 extra beds available for homeless this winterMore than 10,000 emergency beds were already occupied by homeless people in Dublin last monthTue Oct 29 2024 - 16:50
Almost 9,000 children in direct provision not eligible for double child benefit paymentChildren’s Rights Alliance calls for urgent delivery of the International Protection Child Payment to address poverty sTue Oct 29 2024 - 06:00
Thirty-seven children reported as missing from Tusla care so far this yearThirty-one of those missing are separated children seeking asylum, while six went missing from residential settings, figures showMon Oct 28 2024 - 06:00
Kyran Durnin case: How can a child go missing for two years?Locals in Dundalk express bafflement and shock at disappearance of boy in 2022, when he was aged sixSat Oct 26 2024 - 06:00
Homelessness in Ireland hits record high of 14,760 peopleChild homelessness rises 17% in last year, Department of Housing data showsFri Oct 25 2024 - 14:29
People aged 18 to 24 more optimistic about their future than those aged 25 to 34National Youth Council of Ireland report says almost half of under-24s say access to youth work services is poorTue Oct 22 2024 - 16:54
Fishamble theatre company appeals for return of stolen Olivier awardAward stolen during break-in at Dublin premises over weekendTue Oct 22 2024 - 09:57
‘He bate the f**k out of you - every day’: victims of corporal punishment on violence in the classroomSurvivors of physical abuse over decades in Irish schools want an apology for what they suffered at the hands of teachersSat Oct 19 2024 - 06:00
Families of Stardust fire victims ‘let down by the State’, says Michael D HigginsPresident hosted majority of relatives and friends of 48 people who died in fire, thanking them for ‘tenacity’ in their fight for truthWed Oct 16 2024 - 18:52
New law will make it a criminal offence to destroy records of survivors of institutional abuseOrganisations or individuals holding ‘relevant records’ must preserve them under fast-tracked legislationTue Oct 15 2024 - 18:59
Dublin Rape Crisis Centre launches billboard campaign to raise awarenessSigns of Hope campaign contains messages from eight survivors who have benefited from the centre’s servicesMon Oct 14 2024 - 06:00
Israel Defence Forces soldiers cross Blue Line into Lebanon and forcibly enter UN position, says UnifilIsraeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu urges UN to evacuate peacekeepers from combat areas in LebanonSun Oct 13 2024 - 15:48
Horse-ownership ‘almost spiritual’ for Travellers and should be accommodated in housingMichael O’Flaherty of the Council of Europe says ‘casual racism’ towards Travellers and Roma is ‘so deep we are not even fully aware of the extent to which it affects how we act’Thu Oct 10 2024 - 20:33
Disabled people, routinely presumed incapable of managing their money, have had bank accounts frozenResearchers found ‘systemic barriers’ faced by people with disabilities trying to accessing their own moneyThu Oct 10 2024 - 19:25
Not enough data being collected on integration of migrants into Irish society, European body saysEuropean Migration Network says ‘clear need for more detailed and better quality data on migrants and their situation’Thu Oct 10 2024 - 16:56
Schools’ rules are discriminatory to autistic pupils, says autism charityAsIAm warns outdated codes of behaviour and lack of understanding of autism is leading to children being physically restrained, suspended and expelledWed Oct 09 2024 - 20:04
Fluent Irish requirement ‘a barrier’ to more working-class young people becoming teachersNineteen-year-old Alex Grogan ‘realised very early I wanted to be a teacher’ and give back to ‘my community’Wed Oct 09 2024 - 07:00
Men fare better than women from budget, notes analysis by National Women’s Council ‘Women continue to have lower incomes, less wealth, fewer resources, all while shouldering the greater share of unpaid care responsibilities’Fri Oct 04 2024 - 17:23
‘Ludicrous, irritating and very wrong’: E-Scooter users on public transport ban from MondayIncidents abroad involving lithium batteries overheating and causing fires on trains and buses have prompted a prohibition from next weekThu Oct 03 2024 - 16:40
Budget 2025 will only increase rich-poor gap, Social Justice Ireland saysBudget measures fail to match the stated ambition of tackling child poverty, says NGOWed Oct 02 2024 - 17:49
Once-off payments will be welcomed but the payback will be modest social welfare increasesBudget 2025: Voters will no doubt feel some warm glow of extra money in their pockets, but it will be short-livedTue Oct 01 2024 - 20:46
Double child benefit and increased welfare payments among record social protection budget Budget 2025: Weekly €12 increase across social welfare payments and double payments of child benefit - of €280 each - among rise in payments to families, pensioners and carersTue Oct 01 2024 - 19:07
We asked a renter, a landlord, a pensioner, a carer and a wheelchair user what they want from Budget 2025‘It was alright before my husband died. But on my own, coming into the winter, I am worried’Mon Sept 30 2024 - 06:00
South African family ‘feel like we are on death row waiting for deportation’ from IrelandNeels Heystek and his family feel they were denied asylum ‘due to the political climate’ in IrelandMon Sept 30 2024 - 06:00
More than 220 charged for arriving into State without passport or failing to produce oneTraffickers telling passengers to destroy fake passports upon arrival in Ireland, says Border Management Unit headSat Sept 28 2024 - 06:00
Have Irish immigration numbers risen ‘too quickly’? How Ireland compares to other European countriesAn analysis of immigration numbers following Leo Varadkar’s remark that people are ‘right’ to believe numbers have risen too quicklyFri Sept 27 2024 - 17:56
Number of homeless people in State rises 14% year-on-year to 14,486 A total of 4,419 children were in homelessness accommodation at the end of the summerFri Sept 27 2024 - 14:13
Varadkar says immigration numbers have risen too quickly in IrelandFormer taoiseach warns against populism and prejudice but concedes immigration a challenge for Irish societyFri Sept 27 2024 - 06:00
Homes hosting Ukrainian refugees quadruples with costs rising to €13m a monthNumber of 4,000 at the start of last year has now risen to more than 16,000Fri Sept 27 2024 - 06:00
Controversial fencing being removed along Dublin’s Grand Canal Move comes two weeks after Waterways Ireland started 24-hour patrols of the canal to stop homeless people erecting tents thereWed Sept 25 2024 - 17:54
Cocaine-related deaths rising but most fatal overdoses involve prescription drugsOverall number of drug-poisoning deaths decreased, according to newly published dataWed Sept 25 2024 - 06:00
People with low health literacy turning to AI for advice, study finds Ability to get, understand and use healthcare information ‘low’ among 40% of Irish people, says Sláintecare reportTue Sept 24 2024 - 20:19
