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
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
Poorer children taking food home from school, pre-budget forum toldTánaiste challenged over child poverty, homelessness and jobseekers ratesSat 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
Cuts unfairly hurt marginalised, says UN committeePanel concerned at increase in numbers at-risk of or living in consistent povertyMon Jun 22 2015 - 21:44
Ireland urged to heed UN’s ‘strong message’ on austerityEmily Logan says response to crisis disproportionately focused on spending cutsMon Jun 22 2015 - 21:22
Trevor Hogan says Ireland should support GreeceFormer rugby player calls on the Government to do more at Dublin rallyMon Jun 22 2015 - 16:52
Tánaiste says workers’ rights must be prioritised over profit-makingJoan Burton describes treatment of Clerys employees as act of ‘predator capitalism’Sat Jun 20 2015 - 01:00
New asylum applications up 40% in first quarter of 2015625 people apply from January to March compared to 455 last October-DecemberThu Jun 18 2015 - 18:13
Asylum seeker payments should be more than doubled – reportWorking group review of allowance paid to adults currently at €19.10 and €9.60 per childThu Jun 18 2015 - 01:00
400 prefabricated houses to be built for Dublin’s homelessMove comes six months after similar plan was cancelled due to political oppositionWed Jun 17 2015 - 11:55
Nash calls on Clerys’ new owners to meet staff after closureStaff protest outside landmark Dublin retailer after loss of 460 jobsSat Jun 13 2015 - 18:54
Right2Water sets out broad policy platform on social issues‘Policy Principles for a Progressive Irish Government’ discussed by 300 activistsSat Jun 13 2015 - 18:46
Statement on Ibrahim Halawa deemed ‘counterproductive’Human rights commission decided against addressing case after Government emailSat Jun 13 2015 - 01:00
UN says Ireland must have vote on abortionCommittee in Geneva tells Government delegation a referendum is essentialWed Jun 10 2015 - 01:00
Abortion regime ‘violates human rights’, says AmnestyReport says death of Savita Halappanavar a consequence of Ireland’s ‘restrictive abortion law’Tue Jun 09 2015 - 12:36
UN committee examines State’s social rights recordGovernment delegation told it has obligations under international covenantTue Jun 09 2015 - 01:00
Implications of austerity ‘disregarded’, UN committee toldLogan says choices made in Ireland led to higher poverty and high youth unemploymentMon Jun 08 2015 - 12:40
Gay couples feel ‘a little safer’ holding hands since referendum‘Changed atmosphere’ for public displays of affection as a result of marriage equality voteMon Jun 08 2015 - 01:00
Vulnerable most affected by economic choices, watchdog saysIrish Human Rights and Equality Commission makes claims in UN submissionFri Jun 05 2015 - 01:00
Law student among winners at Traveller Pride AwardsAodhán Ó Ríordáin says he is ‘determined’ 2015 will be the year of Traveller equalityFri Jun 05 2015 - 01:00
Mortgage arrears case study: Death of wife sparked crisisLife assurance company refuses to pay out, citing non-disclosure of ‘material facts’Fri Jun 05 2015 - 01:00
Mortgage arrears case study: ‘I felt powerless’Brian and Sandra Doyle and their children have been living in a hotel since OctoberThu Jun 04 2015 - 11:45
Rise in mortgage arrears households seeking charity supportIncrease indicates crisis of homelessness for ex-homeowners, says Focus Ireland managerThu Jun 04 2015 - 01:00
‘I’ve nothing to offer the court now next week – I’m at the end’Father-of-three Allan Thomas was assured by his bank, EBS, that the mortgage-to-rent scheme would help him save his home in Co Meath. It hasn’t worked out that wayMon Jun 01 2015 - 01:00
Banks must offer mortgage scheme, say borrowers groupsHousing agency data shows just 96 mortgage-to-rent cases completed out of 2,865Mon Jun 01 2015 - 01:00
Ireland has 200,000 fewer 20-somethings than six years agoCentral Statistics Office figures show almost every other age demographic increasedSat May 30 2015 - 16:21
Silence about Traveller family who were ‘publicly humiliated’Kathleen Sherlock says priest refused family entrance to church over dress-codeSat May 30 2015 - 08:30
Working class areas embracing change faster, campaigners claimIn Jobstown, where the Tánaiste faced the wrath of anti-water charges protestors , the Yes margin was reportedly 87%Sun May 24 2015 - 21:38
Child poverty at ‘unacceptable’ levels, states ombudsman reportChildren’s ombudsman indicates that in region of 138,000 children living in povertyFri May 22 2015 - 09:18
Case study: Rose and her children placed in emergency accommodationYoungest son Keith traumatised by circumstance: ‘I don’t like when people bully me’Fri May 22 2015 - 09:17
Spend of €2.34m on hotels for families so far this yearExpenditure of €750,000 a month on housing families in emergency hotel lodgingsFri May 22 2015 - 01:00
