Stardust: Lives of 48 people who died in fire ‘must be vindicated’, corner says as inquest opensPen portraits will allow families to ‘publicly commemorate’ the young people who died in 1981 disaster, says Dr Myra CullinaneTue Apr 25 2023 - 19:26
Carol Bissett (18), Ringsend - ‘I never stop wondering where would she be in her life today’Read by her mother Betty Bissett, with a poem by her sister Liz BissettTue Apr 25 2023 - 17:59
Michael Barrett (17), Raheny - ‘He was very ambitious and had very clear plans and dreams’Read by his mother Gertrude BarrettTue Apr 25 2023 - 17:59
Peter McVerry Trust appoints Francis Doherty as chief executiveIncoming chief says focus will remain on building housing stock and argues provision of social housing cannot not be left to State aloneMon Apr 24 2023 - 00:01
‘Do not leave people outside in the middle of a war-zone’: Families say Irish citizens locked out of French embassy in KhartoumAbout 150 EU citizens given shelter but about 50 others were left on street ‘because they were full’Sun Apr 23 2023 - 18:49
Defence Forces team being deployed to Sudan to help evacuate Irish citizensMore than 150 Irish citizens in Sudan seek help as evacuation operation in Khartoum at ‘highly sensitive’ stageSun Apr 23 2023 - 18:02
‘Significant’ witness at Stardust inquest unable to attend due to ‘medical reasons’Number of key witnesses at inquest into death of 48 young people in 1981 nightclub fie will not testify due to ill health or because they live outside jurisdictionThu Apr 20 2023 - 17:47
Over 95% of women who sought abortions at family planning service went ahead with decisionIFPA says enforced three-day waiting period before abortion care ‘unjustifiable and patronising’Wed Apr 19 2023 - 11:25
‘Everyone was delighted...He’s a lovely, lovely man’ : Dublin inner city residents on Hutch verdictPeople say they are pleased for ‘very, very well-liked’ former neighbour who supported local boxing club and ran parties for ‘old folks’Wed Apr 19 2023 - 06:36
Balloting of water-services workers employed by local authorities to beginDispute could lead to water outages and derail Government plans to establish Uisce Éireann as a stand-alone utilityMon Apr 17 2023 - 05:00
Suggestion that abortion services could collapse ‘over the top’ and ‘unhelpful’, doctors saySociologist Dr Deidre Duffy, who was appointed to examine clinicians’ experience of providing abortion services, earlier said ‘the service could collapse because it is just not sustainable in its current form’Sun Apr 09 2023 - 08:09
‘You are never going to be one of us’: Dublin’s Roma face pressure to hide ethnicityRoma women in Dublin describe racism in public and problems accessing servicesSat Apr 08 2023 - 05:00
‘Renting property is Russian roulette’: readers have their say on eviction ban’s endTenants and landlords both view current climate negatively as moratorium is liftedThu Apr 06 2023 - 15:16
Half of carers for people with dementia struggling to make ends meet, study findsCost-of-living crisis hits carers hard, Alzheimer’s Society of Ireland research showsTue Apr 04 2023 - 16:16
Former Defence Forces member describes rape by senior NCO on first tourRoslyn O’Callagher told RTÉ’s Upfront programme the man was fined less than £200 and given a reprimand over lesser chargesMon Apr 03 2023 - 23:30
Man paralysed when mechanical claw lifted his tent in Dublin feels ‘lucky to be alive’Elias Adane (33) came to Ireland as an unaccompanied minor in the early 2000sMon Apr 03 2023 - 05:00
‘Inaccurate’ social media posts could provoke aggression towards gardaí, Minister to sayGarda sergeants’ body criticises Sinn Féin TD Ó Broin for sharing montage image of officers at scene of Famine-era evictionMon Apr 03 2023 - 00:01
Roundabout protest at Dublin Airport for second week in a rowDAA says there was ‘modest traffic disruption’ as An Garda Síochána and airport police ‘carefully managed’ the situationSun Apr 02 2023 - 20:41
Eviction ban lapses making thousands of notices to quit go live for tenantsHomelessness campaigner Fr Peter McVerry described move as a ‘nightmare’; Minister for Housing said it was ‘the responsible move to make’Sat Apr 01 2023 - 05:00
Number of homeless single adults in State hits record highHomelessness numbers in State drop by 12 to 11,742 – but Dublin figure risesFri Mar 31 2023 - 14:00
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
