Over 95% of women who sought abortions at family planning service went ahead with decisionIFPA says enforced three-day waiting period before abortion care âunjustifiable and patronisingâWed Apr 19 2023 - 11:25
âEveryone was delighted...Heâs a lovely, lovely manâ : Dublin inner city residents on Hutch verdictPeople say they are pleased for âvery, very well-likedâ former neighbour who supported local boxing club and ran parties for âold folksâWed 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 Ăireann as a stand-alone utilityMon Apr 17 2023 - 05:00
Suggestion that abortion services could collapse âover the topâ and âunhelpfulâ, doctors saySociologist Dr Deidre Duffy, who was appointed to examine cliniciansâ experience of providing abortion services, earlier said âthe service could collapse because it is just not sustainable in its current formâSun Apr 09 2023 - 08:09
âYou are never going to be one of usâ: Dublinâs Roma face pressure to hide ethnicityRoma women in Dublin describe racism in public and problems accessing servicesSat Apr 08 2023 - 05:00
âRenting property is Russian rouletteâ: readers have their say on eviction banâs 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, Alzheimerâs Society of Ireland research showsTue Apr 04 2023 - 16:16
Former Defence Forces member describes rape by senior NCO on first tourRoslyn OâCallagher told RTĂâs Upfront programme the man was fined less than ÂŁ200 and given a reprimand over lesser chargesMon Apr 03 2023 - 23:30
Man paralysed when mechanical claw lifted his tent in Dublin feels âlucky to be aliveâElias Adane (33) came to Ireland as an unaccompanied minor in the early 2000sMon Apr 03 2023 - 05:00
âInaccurateâ social media posts could provoke aggression towards gardaĂ, Minister to sayGarda sergeantsâ body criticises Sinn FĂ©in TD Ă 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 âmodest traffic disruptionâ as An Garda SĂochĂĄna and airport police âcarefully managedâ 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 ânightmareâ; Minister for Housing said it was âthe responsible move to makeâSat Apr 01 2023 - 05:00
Number of homeless single adults in State hits record highHomelessness numbers in State drop by 12 to 11,742 â but Dublin figure risesFri Mar 31 2023 - 14:00
Free school meals for all primary school children by 2028, promises GovernmentâThis is a priority for me,â says Minister for Social ProtectionThu Mar 30 2023 - 17:51
Women in addiction: âHe got me in on the coke and the MDMA. ... I ended up in the heights of prostitutionâ 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 âinvalidâ, 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 gardaĂ âprobably does happenâ, Varadkar saysTaoiseach says âa lot a racism isnât maliciousâ 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 âframework for tackling racism at a systemic and institutional levelâ, according to policy leadersTue Mar 21 2023 - 19:00
End to Garda âethnic profilingâ 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 âfakeâ qualificationsThe agency is at the âearly stageâ 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 attackerâIncredibleâ 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 âpunched, kicked and hitâ 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 âshrineâ 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 âtenant-in-situâ 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 âdiscriminatoryâ languageâTight timelineâ for vote, Varadkar says, with wording to be published within months and ballot in NovemberWed Mar 08 2023 - 15:00
Eviction ban: âMam, are we going to have a home?âLisa 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 âtragic deaths of the childrenâ could not have been predicted by servicesThu Mar 02 2023 - 19:15
Do locals in Dublinâs 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: âI know of three suicides in the last week â one a 14-year-old boyâMy grandfather and uncle died by suicide. Iâve 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 âdisorderlyâ neighbourhoods, ESRI report findsMon Feb 20 2023 - 08:48
Reports for family law courts on âbest interestsâ of children are inconsistent, unregulatedBriefing note for Minister for Justice says âfuture use and applicationâ of reports must be reviewedMon Feb 20 2023 - 03:08
Andrew McGinley: âI know every detail about how my children died, but I still donât understand whyâThree 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
âTraumatisingâ and âharmfulâ 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 âtake a hard lookâ 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 RTĂ News chief correspondent was diagnosed with motor neuron disease two years agoTue Feb 07 2023 - 19:41
Ashtown camp allegedly threatened by âfour menâ 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 âgaining a foothold like never beforeâSeminar hears how communities being targeted by anti-immigration elements are âon a knife-edgeâFri Feb 03 2023 - 05:00
GardaĂ investigate alleged assault at migrant camp in AshtownHomeless men moved from Dublin 15 site after camp raidedTue Jan 31 2023 - 18:32
âThis is serious. They mean businessâ: Migrants living in fear as âviolent atmosphereâ brewing in Dublin GardaĂ investigating after attack involving dogs and baseball bat on migrant camp, while groups report increasing âvocalisationâ 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 âmay worsenâ up to 2030 due to staff shortages, experts sayâRoot and branch reformâ needed to make Camhs an attractive workplace for child psychiatry graduatesTue Jan 24 2023 - 05:00
