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
Homelessness: ‘I never thought it could happen to me, and so fast’Baker Ian Cleary (42) found himself on the streets when his rented flat was repossessedMon Nov 09 2015 - 01:00
Landlords warned not to raise rents ahead of new lawTenants express concern over price increases in advance of two-year fixed rent legislationSat Nov 07 2015 - 01:00
Senior Dublin official says public housing should be open to allMany people ‘badly hurt by the Celtic Tiger hangover’, says Dick BradyFri Nov 06 2015 - 21:48
Travellers at Kilbarry: ‘We’re hardly even existing here’Families in Waterford housing scheme have to deal with cold, mould and cramped conditionsFri Nov 06 2015 - 01:00
Traveller representatives walk out of housing meetingGroups stage ‘peaceful protest’ at conference against system that is ‘failing’ communityTue Nov 03 2015 - 18:54
Injection rooms for addicts to open next year in drug law change, says MinisterAodhán Ó Ríordáin says Misuse of Drugs Bill set to unblock legislative obstaclesMon Nov 02 2015 - 15:40
Alan Kelly's rent control plan backed by economic groupNational Economic and Social Council critical of ‘surprising’ data in DKM reportMon Nov 02 2015 - 01:00
People Before Profit splits with Anti-Austerity Alliance on pactRight2Change briefing reveals discord between election partners on left-wing allianceSat Oct 31 2015 - 19:13
Carrickmines fatalities: Anger distilled from shock and griefPeople have traumatised but that shock is turning to outrage, writes Kitty HollandSat Oct 24 2015 - 01:00
Carrickmines funeral: ‘All my family was gone, in one go’A happy day spent together, with the children playing in the garden, before tragedyThu Oct 22 2015 - 21:44
Traveller deaths must be watershed moment, funeral hearsThomas, Sylvia and children Jim, Christie and Mary Connors to be buried in WexfordThu Oct 22 2015 - 17:54
Babies among families sleeping rough in summer - reportRough-sleeper outreach team verifies 13 families as having slept in cars or tentsThu Oct 22 2015 - 11:51
Carrickmines fire survivors to be housed in car parkCouncil says decision not to house families on Rockville Drive taken with ‘great reluctance’Wed Oct 21 2015 - 17:54
500 modular housing units approved for homeless in DublinOnly 22 units, which will be emergency housing, will be in place before ChristmasWed Oct 21 2015 - 13:46
Domestic violence statistics a ‘stark’ illustrationAlmost 800 people, including 301 children, received support on one day last yearWed Oct 21 2015 - 11:32
Rockville Drive residents to meet council officials for seventh timeSurvivors have to leave accommodation they have been staying in since tragedyWed Oct 21 2015 - 01:00
Pope offers sympathy at Carrickmines funeralsBray church full to capacity at funerals of five of the ten victims killed on halting siteTue Oct 20 2015 - 13:55
Report links homeless families to private rented sectorDocument analyses why 78 Dublin families became homeless for first time in AugustMon Oct 19 2015 - 09:15
Number of homeless children in Dublin doubles in a yearRecovering economy would be the ‘engine’ to help solve homelessness crisis - KennySun Oct 18 2015 - 12:52
Funeral details of victims of Carrickmines fire releasedTalks on emergency site for surviving Connors family adjourn without resolutionSun Oct 18 2015 - 09:42
Baby cannot go home as Cork hospital has no bedsClayton O’Donovan’s parents have to make a 10-hour round trip once a week to see himSat Oct 17 2015 - 01:00
Will Carrickmines be a turning point in treatment of Travellers?The national soul searching after tragedy was quickly replaced by familiar attitudesSat Oct 17 2015 - 01:00
Funerals of 10 who died in fire to take place next weekTalks over proposed emergency halting site for those left homeless continueFri Oct 16 2015 - 19:44
Opposition to Traveller accommodation runs deepHostility towards Travellers poses many problems for county councilsWed Oct 14 2015 - 23:52
Residents and council fail to agree on Rockville siteMeeting over proposed home for survivors of Carrickmines fire to reconvene on ThursdayWed Oct 14 2015 - 16:54
High-earning families could net €2,000 per yearFamilies better off after extension of free pre-school education and child benefit riseWed Oct 14 2015 - 07:49
Improvements for families and children but legacy of cuts persistsBudget 2016 analysis: Social welfareTue Oct 13 2015 - 23:00
Objections to site chosen to house Carrickmines fire survivorsRockville Drive residents stop diggers entering council-owned site next to their homesTue Oct 13 2015 - 20:17
Welfare: 75% restoration of Christmas bonus for long-term recipients€3 increase in weekly pension for pensioners and carers aged over 65Tue Oct 13 2015 - 17:12
Lone parents will not have to seek work until child is 14 under BudgetUp to 60,000 low income families will benefit from changes to be announcedTue Oct 13 2015 - 16:14
Hindu family fails to get place for child in local schoolDismayed parents of girl (4) ‘so disheartened we even thought about leaving Ireland’Tue Oct 13 2015 - 01:00
Kitty Holland: Flak at the school gate from stay-at-home mums | BroadsideMy friend is going back to college. How depressing it is that the supportive actors in her scenario have been the menMon Oct 12 2015 - 11:57
Many Travellers are ‘at risk’ due to fire safety issuesCampaigners warn of dangers after Carrickmines blaze which killed 10 peopleMon Oct 12 2015 - 07:04
Analysis: Councils must do more for Travellers after fireLocal politicians have fought hard to to oppose the provision of Traveller homesMon Oct 12 2015 - 01:00
Taoiseach requests flags to fly at half mast for Dublin fire victimsFive children and five adults die in halting site blazeSun Oct 11 2015 - 19:12
Books of condolence to open in memory of Carrickmines deadNine people died at the halting site on the Glenamuck Road and a baby later in hospitalSat Oct 10 2015 - 19:41
Ending homelessness ‘not rocket science’, says PresidentResolution to crisis must happen in ‘in the short term’, says Higgins at centenary eventFri Oct 09 2015 - 16:01
Rent allowance not enough to cover over 90% of rental propertiesStudy highlights widening gap between rent supplement and market rents – Simon groupThu Oct 08 2015 - 19:38
‘Hard to reach’ youth to benefit from €600,000 spendMinister says dormant accounts windfall to help those at high risk of unemploymentThu Oct 08 2015 - 19:19
New jobs strategy will target marginalised young peopleDr James Reilly to announce employment plan as part of National Youth StrategyThu Oct 08 2015 - 06:00
Inquiry into way public funds used to pay third-level chaplainsMinister orders review into employment of clerics, some of whom earn €50,000 a yearThu Oct 08 2015 - 01:00
Family who moved from Dublin to Clare has no regretsMother and children made transition to rural life after facing ongoing housing problemsMon Oct 05 2015 - 01:00
Housing: Kelly says emergency legislation could be introducedPeter McVerry says Minister for Environment can’t solve problem on his ownSun Oct 04 2015 - 13:19
Emily’s story: An illegal abortion in IrelandAn increasing number of women are opting to terminate pregnancies in Ireland itselfSat Oct 03 2015 - 01:00
Tallaght women’s refuge expected to close by ChristmasCuan Álainn facility has not received funding required from Tusla in order to stay openThu Oct 01 2015 - 01:00
First 150 modular housing units for homeless to be fast-trackedHousing could be in place in four months under Alan Kelly’s new procurement processWed Sept 30 2015 - 08:13
Homeless crisis: Nine live in two-bedroom Ballyfermot houseAngela Coughlan felt she had no choice but to take in her daughter and six grandchildrenMon Sept 28 2015 - 01:00
Review of homeless and housing services orderedMinister for the Community Alan Kelly orders action out of concern at overlap, duplicationMon Sept 28 2015 - 01:00
