Free school meals for all primary school children by 2028, promises Government‘This is a priority for me,’ says Minister for Social ProtectionThu Mar 30 2023 - 17:51
Women in addiction: ‘He got me in on the coke and the MDMA. ... I ended up in the heights of prostitution’ Landmark UCD study draws on in-depth interviews with women aged between 25 and 60Thu Mar 30 2023 - 08:01
All Deis pupils to get free hot meals from September Minister for Social Protection will announce expansion on Thursday following overwhelmingly positive evaluation of school meals programmeThu Mar 30 2023 - 05:00
More than half of eviction notices ‘invalid’, says housing charityThreshold warns thousands of households could enter homelessness unnecessarily from next monthMon Mar 27 2023 - 05:00
Hundreds of households facing eviction on April 1st contact Dublin homeless serviceExpert warns number of renters who opt to stay in homes after notice-to-quit date comes into force will riseFri Mar 24 2023 - 05:00
Racial profiling by gardaí ‘probably does happen’, Varadkar saysTaoiseach says ‘a lot a racism isn’t malicious’ as first national action plan to combat issue for 15 years publishedTue Mar 21 2023 - 20:13
National action plan against racism likely to face resistance from some groupsPlan provides ‘framework for tackling racism at a systemic and institutional level’, according to policy leadersTue Mar 21 2023 - 19:00
End to Garda ‘ethnic profiling’ sought in Government racism action planFirst national plan in over a decade will also tackle discrimination in rental sector, and promote inclusion of minoritiesTue Mar 21 2023 - 11:55
Tusla contacts parents whose children were seen by psychologist allegedly using ‘fake’ qualificationsThe agency is at the ‘early stage’ of a review of its use of private psychologists, it saysMon Mar 20 2023 - 00:01
Victims of abuse at Dublin centre for adults with intellectual disabilities still living with alleged attacker‘Incredible’ that vulnerable adults still being subjected to abuse in State-funded settings, says chairwoman of Safeguarding IrelandThu Mar 16 2023 - 04:30
Adults with intellectual disabilities ‘punched, kicked and hit’ at Dublin centreHiqa report finds Liffey Services, operated by St John of God community services, failed to protect residentsWed Mar 15 2023 - 10:01
Post-it notes left at a ‘shrine’ to Savita Halappanavar photographed and archivedAbout 1,200 small notes were posted around a mural of Ms Halappanavar on hoarding by the Bernard Shaw pub in Portobello in the days after the referendumMon Mar 13 2023 - 15:40
Only 13 homes bought by Dublin local authorities under tenant purchase schemeGovernment hopes 1,500 homes will be bought under ‘tenant-in-situ’ scheme this yearFri Mar 10 2023 - 05:00
Homeless executive denies families sent to Garda stations due to lack of emergency optionsDublin Region Homeless Executive, which runs family evening placement, said it has not run out of emergency accommodationThu Mar 09 2023 - 19:04
Up to three gender equality referendums possible to address ‘discriminatory’ language‘Tight timeline’ for vote, Varadkar says, with wording to be published within months and ballot in NovemberWed Mar 08 2023 - 15:00
Eviction ban: ‘Mam, are we going to have a home?’Lisa and her three children cannot find a home to move to, while Helen plans to live in her car when she is evicted next monthWed Mar 08 2023 - 05:00
Social housing built in era of Dublin slums to get new lease of lifePeter McVerry Trust to renovate flats on Townsend Street which have been empty since 2011Mon Mar 06 2023 - 05:00
Pessimism about future driving anti-immigrant sentiment, ESRI report findsMigrant integration study finds attitudes toward migrants are more favourable in Republic than in Northern IrelandMon Mar 06 2023 - 00:01
Tusla allowed abusive father to decide who protected children and their mother, report findsNational Review Panel report says ‘tragic deaths of the children’ could not have been predicted by servicesThu Mar 02 2023 - 19:15
Do locals in Dublin’s north inner city see signs of hope for the next Barry Keoghans? Drugs and State neglect hold back youths from inner city home turfSat Feb 25 2023 - 06:00
Homelessness in Ireland hits record peak of more than 11,700Call for extension to eviction ban as numbers in emergency accommodation in Dublin up 31% since January 2022Fri Feb 24 2023 - 14:27
Traveller community: ‘I know of three suicides in the last week – one a 14-year-old boy’My grandfather and uncle died by suicide. I’ve lost cousins, nieces, nephews and friends says Traveller Margaret WallWed Feb 22 2023 - 05:00
Discrimination key factor in Traveller suicides, study findsSuicide rate among Travellers is six times higher than the general population.Wed Feb 22 2023 - 05:00
Residential care charities threatened with 20% funding cut unless service level agreements are signedCharities have held off signing amid ongoing efforts to persuade Tusla to review funding arrangementsTue Feb 21 2023 - 12:00
One in 10 nine-years olds live in cold, damp or overcrowded housingAlmost 20% of young children live in ’disorderly’ neighbourhoods, ESRI report findsMon Feb 20 2023 - 08:48
Reports for family law courts on ‘best interests’ of children are inconsistent, unregulatedBriefing note for Minister for Justice says ‘future use and application’ of reports must be reviewedMon Feb 20 2023 - 03:08
Andrew McGinley: ‘I know every detail about how my children died, but I still don’t understand why’Three years after his children died at the hands of their mentally ill mother, father is raising funds for one of the charities set up in their honourFri Feb 17 2023 - 19:00
‘Traumatising’ and ‘harmful’ conversion therapy to be banned under new laws Report by TCD details practices including administering electro-shock treatment to a 12-year-old victimFri Feb 17 2023 - 00:00
Youth mental health services could be scaled back in some areas to reduce risks to children - HSEOireachtas subcommittee told of need to ‘take a hard look’ at Camhs care model given issues identified in recent Mental Health Commission reportTue Feb 14 2023 - 21:14
Charlie Bird says kindness of strangers has helped him overcome fear of deathThe former RTÉ News chief correspondent was diagnosed with motor neuron disease two years agoTue Feb 07 2023 - 19:41
Ashtown camp allegedly threatened by ‘four men’ hours before attack, migrants sayNumber of Irish men, with dogs and sticks, entered camp, shouted at migrants to leave and allegedly assaulted two of them last SaturdaySat Feb 04 2023 - 06:00
Far right in Ireland ‘gaining a foothold like never before’Seminar hears how communities being targeted by anti-immigration elements are ‘on a knife-edge’Fri Feb 03 2023 - 05:00
Gardaí investigate alleged assault at migrant camp in AshtownHomeless men moved from Dublin 15 site after camp raidedTue Jan 31 2023 - 18:32
‘This is serious. They mean business’: Migrants living in fear as ‘violent atmosphere’ brewing in Dublin Gardaí investigating after attack involving dogs and baseball bat on migrant camp, while groups report increasing ‘vocalisation’ of racismMon Jan 30 2023 - 05:00
Men with dogs, sticks and baseball bat attack Dublin migrant campThreats circulated on social media in recent days concerning camp where up to eight men have lived in tents since AugustSat Jan 28 2023 - 18:32
Number of homeless people hits new record high, as homelessness rises by 30% in a yearDecember figures show there were 8,190 adults and 3,442 children in emergency accommodationFri Jan 27 2023 - 15:20
Child mental health services ‘may worsen’ up to 2030 due to staff shortages, experts say‘Root and branch reform’ needed to make Camhs an attractive workplace for child psychiatry graduatesTue Jan 24 2023 - 05:00
Camhs case study: ‘Every appointment was rushed. Staff were stressed’Five years on from her first Camhs appointment, Jane has had ‘nothing that deals in a substantive way with [her] difficulties’, says her motherMon Jan 23 2023 - 00:01
Immediate regulation of Camhs must be a priority, warns mental health inspectorReport calls for clinical review of cases where a child has not been seen by the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services for six months or moreMon Jan 23 2023 - 00:01
Camhs left more than 100 children without care for up to two years, report finds Mental Health Commission identifies serious risk to the safety and wellbeing of children accessing the Child and Adolescent Mental Health ServiceMon Jan 23 2023 - 00:01
‘How is it possible to be in a mental health service that makes your mental health worse?’Psychiatrists and parents ‘frustrated and disappointed’ with youth mental health serviceSat Jan 21 2023 - 03:00
Government Minister speaks of her ‘immense’ pride in transgender sonMary Butler says her son experienced bullying as he transitioned, but his school has been very supportiveFri Jan 20 2023 - 19:00
Housing campaigner suggests ‘safe zones’ to keep protesters away from asylum-seeker accommodation centres Fr Peter McVerry does not believe protests outside refugee or asylum seeker centres are representative of the Ballymun communitySat Jan 14 2023 - 02:00
Anti-immigration protesters block traffic in Dublin and Cork‘They are free to protest but no need for the racist words,’ says resident of Travelodge in BallymunThu Jan 12 2023 - 16:41
Single adults entering emergency accommodation at seven times the rate they are exiting homelessnessFamilies presenting to homeless services in Dublin at twice the rate they are leaving, data showsTue Jan 10 2023 - 17:20
Methadone should be prescribed by nurses to cut long wait times, says addiction expertHeroin users outside Dublin must wait up to three months to access opiate substitution therapySun Jan 08 2023 - 19:27
Three mental health units, including one for children, less safe for patients last yearReport identifies several issues including visible ligature points, lack of care plans and illegible recordsTue Jan 03 2023 - 16:09
Large families and single people increasingly unable to exit homelessnessLatest figures underline collapse of Housing Assistance Payment (Hap) scheme as a way out of homelessness, say agenciesTue Jan 03 2023 - 05:00
Stuck homeless: ‘As soon as you mention Hap, landlords don’t want it’Two women share their experiences of homelessness and explain how hard it is to escapeTue Jan 03 2023 - 05:00
Play therapy case study: ‘If he hadn’t got the help, where would he be now?’A mother explains how therapy helped both her and her son to overcome difficultiesTue Jan 03 2023 - 05:00
