Alan Kelly tells property developers to lower expectationsMinister says housing should no longer be considered a source of ‘massive profits’Mon Jan 04 2016 - 01:00
Clonmel residents leave homes as river levels continue to riseIncreased risk of flooding along Liffey, more than 200 homes uninhabitable nationwideSat Jan 02 2016 - 21:30
Investigation into HSE plan for ending role in care homeResidents’ families say no consultation on proposal to ‘commission out’ managementThu Dec 31 2015 - 01:00
Annus horribilis for travelling communityTravellers: Carrickmines tragedy highlights appalling conditions in which some must liveMon Dec 28 2015 - 11:40
Three-fifths of children in homeless shelter under eightMore than 1,000 under-eights will spend Christmas in emergency accommodationTue Dec 22 2015 - 01:00
State to treble payments to children in direct provisionGovernment moves on child rights ahead of UN committee hearing in JanuaryMon Dec 21 2015 - 01:00
Kitty Holland: Too many Irish children will have a poor ChristmasBroadside: The rights of these children, set out in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, are not being upheldMon Dec 21 2015 - 00:00
Labour will tackle private rented sector if re-elected, Kelly saysMinister promises new government strategy for sector if party is returned to powerThu Dec 17 2015 - 16:01
Response to homelessness offers few solutions, says SimonCharity recored 20 per cent increase in number of people seeking serviceThu Dec 17 2015 - 12:47
Lobby groups accuse Ireland of failing to vindicate basic rightsReport of Irish Council for Civil Liberties submitted to UN committeeTue Dec 15 2015 - 19:40
Court grants repossession orders on seven family homesStays of 12 months ordered to let Wicklow families find accommodationTue Dec 15 2015 - 01:02
Numbers of destitute children double in 12 monthsMajority of these families are losing private rented homes but unable to find alternativeMon Dec 14 2015 - 01:00
Case study: ‘Last year was bad. It didn’t feel like Christmas’Jacinta: ‘That B&B was no good because it was not like home. We were all in one room’Mon Dec 14 2015 - 01:00
Report calls for fire brigade to run all Dublin ambulancesFunding of service should switch from HSE to Department of Environment, says studyMon Dec 14 2015 - 01:00
700,000 will have no heating over Christmas, union claims‘Enforced coldness’ due to fuel poverty is problem for 16% of populationSun Dec 13 2015 - 23:34
‘Bogus’ use of Constitution allows religious bias in schoolsArguments citing ‘constitutional barriers to reform’ on religion in schools are ‘overstated’Sat Dec 12 2015 - 14:58
Scrapping religion rule ‘largely symbolic’Minister’s spokesman says faith schools may continue to teach religion dailyFri Dec 11 2015 - 01:00
Religion in school: ‘She feels excluded and different’Valentine Doyle (6) sits at back of her class for 30 minutes each day when subject is taughtFri Dec 11 2015 - 01:00
Fewer rough sleepers in Dublin, but more need emergency bedsNinety-one people sleeping rough on November 30th for annual winter countThu Dec 10 2015 - 20:38
Law Society points out family barriers in asylum BillLetter to TDs says group is concerned about protections for vulnerable childrenWed Dec 09 2015 - 21:58
Residents say Traveller housing scheme unfit for habitationFamily of 11, driven to live in cramped caravans, claims damp making children sickMon Dec 07 2015 - 01:00
Confusion over repossession rulings ‘must be resolved’Conflicting High Court judgments result in cases being adjourned as banks seek claritySat Dec 05 2015 - 01:00
Law covering private rented sector comes into forcePeople renting in commuter counties and those in Dublin and Cork set to benefit mostFri Dec 04 2015 - 19:14
Court rulings delay cases to repossess homesHigh Court judges differ on power of Circuit Court to hear bank applicationsFri Dec 04 2015 - 01:00
Report urges suitable supports for vulnerable parentsCheif Justice says voice of child must be heard, reiterates call for dedicated courtTue Dec 01 2015 - 01:00
Case on Irish abortion law ‘possible’ after Belfast rulingBacik says one could ‘absolutely draw the conclusion’ Republic’s laws breach rightsMon Nov 30 2015 - 20:44
About 30% of children in care cases come from minoritiesParental substance abuse and disability most common reasons for State interventionMon Nov 30 2015 - 01:00
Children’s deaths ‘not related’ to quality of Tusla’s careReport finds 26 children died while known to protection services last year, a five-year highSun Nov 29 2015 - 16:43
Single-parent families suffer worst rate of povertyEU income survey says proportion at risk of poverty has grown since 2013, from 15.2% to 16.3% last yearFri Nov 27 2015 - 01:02
‘Wage theft’ should be made a crime, ICTU boss saysUnion president wants to ensure employers who do not pay workers are held accountableFri Nov 27 2015 - 01:00
Travellers at Ballyfermot site speak on hazardous conditions‘We’re all on top of each other here and there’s nowhere safe to let children out’Fri Nov 27 2015 - 01:00
Nearly 140,000 children living in consistent povertyCSO income survey shows one-parent families twice as likely to be poorThu Nov 26 2015 - 18:23
Dublin soup run tackles food poverty in the suburbsVolunteers in Ballyfermot say demand for service ‘shows how desperate people are’Mon Nov 23 2015 - 01:00
NI firm with deal for modular homes subject to fire safety auditTyrone company Western Building Systems to provide first 22 houses at site in BallymunSat Nov 21 2015 - 01:00
Number of asylum seekers given leave to stay up by 60%Figures show an increase in the number of deportation orders being quashedFri Nov 20 2015 - 01:00
Demand for Amen support to male domestic abuse victims up2014 report shows demand up for counselling, helpline and one-to-one support sessionsThu Nov 19 2015 - 18:33
Alan Kelly orders ‘early’ call on house openingsMinister for the Environment wants to know about announcements in advanceThu Nov 19 2015 - 01:05
Black people suffer the most racism in Ireland, report findsVictims of attacks do not believe gardaí will treat their experiences seriously, survey saysThu Nov 19 2015 - 01:00
Father who lost relatives in Carrickmines fire fears further lossJohn Lynch frets over safety of children and grandchildren at three-bedroom Bray homeTue Nov 17 2015 - 07:40
Minister promises 10 times more social houses by year endMore than 300 beds will be available over the Christmas, Kelly tells homeless forumMon Nov 16 2015 - 19:38
Kitty Holland: The religious bias of our national schools is beyond beliefBroadside: Many non-Catholic parents struggle to get a primary school place for their children – that can’t continueMon Nov 16 2015 - 01:00
Focus Ireland launches Christmas appeal for homeless familiesLatest figures show nearly 5,000 people in emergency accommodation across StateMon Nov 16 2015 - 01:00
Archbishop Martin calls for prayers for Paris victimsRefugees are ‘fleeing from exactly the kind of thing that happened in Paris’, says Dublin ArchbishopSat Nov 14 2015 - 13:58
Dublin child homelessness figure doubles to 1,400Charities call for State measures to curb trend as tenants squeezed out by rising rentsSat Nov 14 2015 - 01:00
Bank’s error could delay repossessions by yearJudge blocks three Bank of Ireland actions as it got its name wrong on legal paperworkFri Nov 13 2015 - 01:00
Abbey Theatre urged to play role in seeking equality in artsWaking the Feminists meeting hears call for equal advancement of women artistsThu Nov 12 2015 - 17:41
Banks seek to repossess nearly 4,500 homes, new figures showMore than 7,000 dwellings targeted by lenders up to 2015, says Courts ServiceThu Nov 12 2015 - 01:00
Analysis: Banks may be backing off as fewer repossession cases initiatedBiggest increases in urban centres outside Dublin and in adjacent commuter countiesThu Nov 12 2015 - 01:00
Guarded welcome for rent controls from housing charitiesThreshold and Simon Communities: rents should be linked to consumer price indexTue Nov 10 2015 - 20:34
Charities warn ‘cold weather’ beds likely here to stayNo let up in demand for emergency accommodation as flow into homelessness continuesMon Nov 09 2015 - 01:00
