Give Me a Crash Course in . . . homelessnessThe number of families becoming homeless, especially in Dublin, has been going up since last summerSat Aug 22 2015 - 01:00
Rural regions have their own housing issues, chair warnsHousing boss says local authorities will help Dublin homeless but face existing pressuresFri Aug 21 2015 - 01:00
Dublin homeless may be housed in rural areasGovernment will consider scheme to relocate families to vacant homes across the countryThu Aug 20 2015 - 08:15
Use of B&Bs to house homeless families rises sharplyISPCC calls for urgent construction of hundreds of prefabricated housing unitsMon Aug 17 2015 - 21:22
Figures for homeless children in Dublin double in a yearCharities say family homelessness crisis must be treated as ‘national emergency’Sat Aug 15 2015 - 01:00
Analysis: Sharp response required to tackle homeless crisisFamily homelessness predicament is spiralling out of controlFri Aug 14 2015 - 01:00
‘My children have experienced things they shouldn’t’Case Study: Tawa Awonbinpe, originally from Nigeria, was given notice to quitFri Aug 14 2015 - 01:00
Focus Ireland calls for laws to ensure no child sleeps roughCall comes after family with three children under six sleep on the street for three nightsWed Aug 12 2015 - 01:01
Amnesty votes to decriminalise sex work and prostitutionUp to 500 delegates pass resolution at International Council Meeting in DublinTue Aug 11 2015 - 18:38
Family with three children sleeping rough in DublinThe family, with children aged 5, 4 and 2, were sleeping around Mountjoy SquareTue Aug 11 2015 - 14:00
Mortgage-to-rent applications in limbo with local authoritiesHousing Agency data shows seven areas in which not one case has been processedMon Aug 10 2015 - 14:33
Mortgage-to-rent scheme faces ‘cultural resistance’Group says opposition from local authorities and lenders is causing project to ‘struggle’Mon Aug 10 2015 - 01:00
All regions of State bar one see rise in child homelessnessProblem outside Dublin increasing at almost three times the rate in capitalSat Aug 08 2015 - 19:35
PTSB role on tracker mortgages needs investigation - McGrathDenial of option of moving to tracker rate linked to repossession of 22 homesSat Aug 08 2015 - 15:30
Michael D Higgins: EU response to migrant crisis is ‘shameful’President says Europe’s reaction to events in Mediterranean is ‘grossly inadequate’Sat Aug 08 2015 - 10:40
Full text of Michael D Higgins speech to Amnesty councilSpeech entitled ‘Campaigning for Human Rights in the Contemporary World’Fri Aug 07 2015 - 17:57
EU response on migrant crisis ‘shameful’, says Higgins‘We are sleepwalking into a great alienation of our European publics,’ President saysFri Aug 07 2015 - 16:43
Amnesty to call for decriminalisation of prostitutionUp to 500 members of human rights organisation to meet in Dublin this weekendFri Aug 07 2015 - 01:00
Family left homeless because council credit card had ‘maxed out’Dublin woman and her three children could not access emergency accommodationThu Aug 06 2015 - 20:06
Irish MEP calls on Government to do more for Ibrahim HalawaTrial of Dubliner was adjourned for a 10th time last weekendThu Aug 06 2015 - 17:26
Home repossessions accelerate to 60 each weekCork Circuit Court registers the highest number of repossession orders – clocking 123Thu Aug 06 2015 - 01:00
Up to 12 additional direct provision centres to openFormer centre in Longford, recently a guesthouse, houses asylum seekers againThu Aug 06 2015 - 01:00
Mixed Race Irish: ‘We were the dust to be swept away’Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation urged to confront the racism endured by children taken into care and abused because they had a non-white parentSat Jul 18 2015 - 01:00
‘Would my mother’s life have been different if she’d had white children?’The Mixed Race Irish group is calling for the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation to confront the racism endured by children born to Irish mothersSat Jul 18 2015 - 01:00
New laws could see people prosecuted over hate crimesIrish Council for Civil Liberties says such attacks are currently not fully acknowledgedMon Jul 13 2015 - 01:00
Ireland had highest population increase in EU last yearIreland’s birthrate at 14.4 per 1,000 people was highest in 28 countries of EUSat Jul 11 2015 - 01:00
‘Modular’ housing for homeless families to go on displayExhibition aims to promote its usefulness as a temporary form of quality accommodationFri Jul 10 2015 - 01:00
Abortion poll finds two-thirds favour decriminalisationPoll for Amnesty says 10% know women face a 14-year term for an unlawful abortionWed Jul 08 2015 - 12:16
Activists reclaim vacant Dublin building to house homelessIrish Housing Network says direct action needed when so many Nama buildings emptyWed Jul 08 2015 - 01:00
Better language skills at age 3 if young minded by relatives - studyYoung looked after in creches develop better motor-skills by same age, says Túsla researchTue Jul 07 2015 - 13:29
Analysis: Early childhood care scheme too little, too lateAccess to childcare outside ECCE hours dependent on parents’ income and educationTue Jul 07 2015 - 01:00
Queries about housing rights to advice group Flac up 82%‘Binding laws’ urged to replace bank codes of conduct on dealing with people in serious debtMon Jul 06 2015 - 01:00
Poorer children taking food home from school, pre-budget forum toldTánaiste challenged over child poverty, homelessness and jobseekers ratesSat Jul 04 2015 - 01:00
Why are there more than 1,000 homeless children in Dublin?Rents have spiralled while current rent caps are so low as to be untenableSat Jul 04 2015 - 01:00
Child protection services for north Dublin criticised in reportHiqa found a failure to notify suspected abuse cases to gardaí in a timely mannerFri Jul 03 2015 - 16:38
Risk of ‘all forms of abuse’ at Cheeverstown, Hiqa saysInspectors find serious shortcomings at Dublin centre for intellectual disabilitiesWed Jul 01 2015 - 20:23
Action on ‘unsafe practices’ not taken at Sligo centre - HiqaHSE-run facility for people with intellectual disabilities had ‘insufficient’ governanceWed Jul 01 2015 - 15:40
Asylum seekers should get decision within 12 monthsReport says asylum seekers should be allowed work after nine months in systemWed Jul 01 2015 - 11:08
Report on asylum reform a missed opportunity, says NGOFine Gael TD John Deasy says ‘unwise’ to act without clearer picture of African migrationWed Jul 01 2015 - 01:00
Recommended improvements to asylum system will cost €135.4mGovernment report predicts savings of over €195m if recommendations are implementedMon Jun 29 2015 - 01:02
Direct provision: children share their hopes and dreams‘I want my mum to cook for me always, and I want a puppy’ writes one child in working group reportMon Jun 29 2015 - 01:00
Dublin explodes with colour as thousands come out for PrideOrganisers say 2015 parade twice as big in wake of same-sex marriage referendumSat Jun 27 2015 - 18:47
‘It feels like everyone is gay in Dublin today’Thousands celebrate Gay Pride just weeks after Ireland voted for same-sex marriageSat Jun 27 2015 - 16:08
Educate Together takes legal advice on admissionsBody says the enrolment policy exemption for older schools ‘could be discriminatory’Sat Jun 27 2015 - 10:08
More than 1,000 children now homeless in DublinGroup says families with children presenting to rough sleeper services for the first timeSat Jun 27 2015 - 01:02
Atheist Ireland criticises RTÉ’s Angelus revampRTÉ plans to make Angelus slot accessible to ‘all faiths and none’Wed Jun 24 2015 - 20:53
Rights group divided over Halawa caseIrish Human Rights Commission was split over whether to call for teenager’s releaseTue Jun 23 2015 - 01:00
UN committee seeks Irish abortion voteEconomic, social and cultural rights panel also calls for referendum on position of women in societyMon Jun 22 2015 - 21:46
