Stardust preliminary inquest hearing a ‘momentous step’ in path to justiceFamilies of 1981 fire victims have to now ‘been met with obstacle after obstacle’, solicitor saysWed Oct 14 2020 - 17:45
Budget 2021: Inequality will increase, poor will be left behind – think-tankSocial Justice Ireland expresses ‘regret’ that core social welfare rates remain unchangedWed Oct 14 2020 - 15:42
Budget 2021: Fuel and living alone allowances rise, PUP to be reviewedPandemic payment stays at lower rate but those on it for four months will get Christmas bonusTue Oct 13 2020 - 20:44
Dublin Airport workers accuse daa of ‘threatening behaviour’ over pay cutsEssential maintenance staff say airport authority plans will end secure jobs in sectorMon Oct 12 2020 - 18:10
Social welfare ‘chaos’ experienced by airline staffPay-cut Aer Lingus employees complain of forms with errors and inconsistent outcomesFri Oct 09 2020 - 20:10
Limerick disability centre’s service ‘unacceptable’ due to funding shortfallPre-Covid Ian Carmody (24) attended St Vincent’s full-time, now he has just five hoursFri Oct 09 2020 - 01:00
Warning over lack of resources for people with disabilitiesFuture generations will hang their heads in shame, warns committee chairmanFri Oct 09 2020 - 01:00
Travellers feel ‘left behind’ by representative organisations, activists say‘We have the haves and the have-nots and that’s creating the divide in our community’Wed Oct 07 2020 - 18:55
Youth feel ‘unfairly scapegoated’ for Covid spikesHow’s your Head pandemic survey from Department of Children and Spunout.ieMon Oct 05 2020 - 00:17
Lone parents who lost work should continue to get PUP, report saysMany families already experience high rates of poverty and have lost access to childcare provided by relativesFri Oct 02 2020 - 01:00
Calls on domestic violence to free legal advice centres ‘rise almost a quarter’ in 2019Flac annual report says workplace bullying calls increase by 36 per cent compared with 2018Thu Oct 01 2020 - 07:06
Food bank in Dublin’s working-class Bluebell feeding hungry hundredsCommunity endeavour delivering 2.4 tonnes weekly, but in growing need of State supportThu Oct 01 2020 - 02:43
Levels of food poverty since pandemic ‘tragic’, single parent body says‘Before Covid everything had been masked by schools - breakfast clubs, school meals’Tue Sept 29 2020 - 21:17
‘The top of my finger was gone’: Fireworks a clear and present danger in Halloween run-upLocal residents report areas as being ‘like a war zone’ amid use of fireworksSat Sept 26 2020 - 03:45
High rent costs driving rise in number of homeless single adultsWhile homeless total overall fell by 26 last month, single adult homelessness is risingFri Sept 25 2020 - 17:47
Aer Lingus staff say they are living in ‘near poverty’ and unable to cover rentAirline insists it has acted in accordance with official guidance on Covid-19 wage schemeFri Sept 25 2020 - 03:11
Traveller poverty, work and discrimination focus of EU reportIrish Travellers participate relatively highly in school but do less well in wider societyWed Sept 23 2020 - 00:01
Replacement wards of court system to be delayed without Budget fundingDecision Support Service has yet to begin operating due to ongoing funding shortfallsMon Sept 21 2020 - 01:46
Mercy Law Resource Centre provides free legal advice to 500 homeless familiesGroup’s annual report says emergency accommodation conditions violating rights accounts for 28% of casesMon Sept 21 2020 - 00:01
Government told it should end ‘help-to-buy’ scheme and tackle povertySocial Justice Ireland says Budget 2021 needs to focus on social housing and tax increasesMon Sept 21 2020 - 00:01
Martin ‘seriously concerned’ at Covid complacency amid pressure over church eventsArchbishop says he is worried about parishes taking initiatives to ‘get First Communions done’Sun Sept 20 2020 - 10:20
‘It will be hard for people . . . they’ll miss it’: Dublin’s religious once again close their doorsDublin’s religious to re-embrace online ceremonies as capital moves to Level 3 restrictionsFri Sept 18 2020 - 21:44
More than half of young people ‘confused’ about sexual consent - reportRepurcussions and fear of saying ‘no’ was mentioned by some of those surveyedFri Sept 18 2020 - 01:07
‘I felt like I was just an incubator for Tusla’Advocacy group highlights ‘inconsistent’ rates of children taken into care around StateFri Sept 18 2020 - 01:00
Ex-Aramark staff mount unofficial picket after receiving week’s notice of job lossCatering staff say they were ‘dumped after years of loyalty’, call on former employer AIB for supportWed Sept 16 2020 - 19:05
Residents ‘distressed’ over St Mary’s nursing home closureHealth watchdog surveys 19 residents of Dublin care home set for closureWed Sept 16 2020 - 00:36
Sale of sex rises since Covid-19 restrictions lifted, advocacy group saysRuhama calls on Government for better enforcement of legislation on purchasing sexMon Sept 14 2020 - 01:00
Homeless in the pandemic: Meet Ciara and Shane, Darragh and GaryThe number sleeping rough in Dublin fell to just 25 in March, but is now over 100 a night. With many services closed by the pandemic, their plight is severeSat Sept 12 2020 - 06:00
Coronavirus: All direct provision residents and staff to be offered Covid-19 testingGovernment and HSE confirm rollout of voluntary and free testing for asylum seekersFri Sept 11 2020 - 18:25
Report calls for law on purchasing sex to be repealedMaynooth university report warns sex workers feel less safe since law introducedThu Sept 10 2020 - 21:48
Quotas for young people in politics suggested to attract themTasc online forum heard from young people involved in activism, media and OireachtasThu Sept 10 2020 - 19:33
National Maternity Hospital Covid-19 restrictions may be eased this weekHope partners may be soon be allowed accompany women to 20-week scanMon Sept 07 2020 - 20:35
Rape Crisis Centre records 10% increase in callsChief executive echoes ‘fervent calls’ for reform of the criminal justice systemMon Sept 07 2020 - 01:00
Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin contacted by UCD president with personal apologyLecturer and broadcaster had earlier received no direct communication from college headSun Sept 06 2020 - 21:42
Footfall in State’s main cities remains far below usual levelsPedestrian numbers in Limerick, Dublin, Cork and Galway fell up to 90% in lockdownThu Sept 03 2020 - 01:19
Working-class neighbourhoods menaced by fireworks‘Nothing is cancelling out the noise. I wear headphones ... it’s explosion after explosion’Wed Sept 02 2020 - 16:16
Dublin nursing home residents ‘terrified and angry’ over its threatened closureResidents of St Mary’s facility face uncertain future amid liquidation processMon Aug 31 2020 - 01:00
Number of homeless people rises for first time since pandemic beganIncrease linked to single adults having to use emergency accommodation due to problems finding homesFri Aug 28 2020 - 17:32
Caranua urged to show ‘flexibility’ with closing dateBody set up to improve lives of survivors of abuse at religious institutions said it will shutFri Aug 28 2020 - 01:21
Residents’ families and staff call on HSE to take nursing home into State ownership‘Residents are very frightened. We will fight tooth and nail to save their homes and protect them’Wed Aug 26 2020 - 19:07
Drinking coffee during pregnancy puts unborn child at risk, study findsResearch suggests there is no ‘safe’ level of caffeine consumption for pregnant womenTue Aug 25 2020 - 11:39
Gardaí called to over 27,000 domestic violence incidents during pandemicDistrict Court president says applications for barring and protection orders up 17%Thu Aug 20 2020 - 17:08
Domestic violence calls rose by almost half during lockdownDearth of refuge capacity exacerbated by Covid-19 crisis, according to Women’s AidThu Aug 20 2020 - 00:01
Over 70s are still not being consulted on Covid-19, groups sayAdvocacy organisations respond to new restrictions announced by TaoiseachTue Aug 18 2020 - 22:25
Social worker overcomes poverty to graduate with master’s degreeKerry native lauds commitment of one social worker, mother’s love and youth workersTue Aug 04 2020 - 02:23
Ireland ‘in denial’ about human trafficking, says global expertSr Kathleen Bryant says State has continuously failed to meet key international targets to combat the problemThu Jul 30 2020 - 01:00
New ‘essential’ legal service for Travellers launchesService aims to ‘improve outcomes in housing, education and equality by enforcing their rights’Mon Jul 27 2020 - 00:46
Moving domestic violence brief from Justice a ‘downgrade’Talks ongoing between two departments about which should drive national strategySat Jul 25 2020 - 03:23
Two thirds of heavy drinkers in denial about their alcohol consumption, study findsHRB finds women who drink harmfully particularly likely to think drinking is moderateThu Jul 23 2020 - 19:03
Most children at Oberstown were not engaged in education before being sent thereAlmost a third of youths in the north Co Dublin children’s detention centre had lost one or both of their parentsThu Jul 23 2020 - 17:30
