Labour to discuss grant eligibility criteriaCharity says changes would make it more difficult for frail older people to stay at homeFri Jan 10 2014 - 01:00
Taoiseach defends changes to funding scheme for elderlyKenny says funding for grant system was being increasedThu Jan 09 2014 - 16:58
Grant cuts to make it ‘harder’ for elderly to live at homeChanges to housing grants for older and disabled people to take immediate effectThu Jan 09 2014 - 01:00
GP group adds voice to worries about abortion ActDoctors “surprised and concerned” at enactment of abortion legislation without guidelinesSat Jan 04 2014 - 01:00
College tells psychiatrists not to do abortion assessmentsPsychiatrists say implementation of new abortion Act ‘completely unsatisfactory’Fri Jan 03 2014 - 00:25
Seizures of counterfeit alcohol up fourfold‘Jimmy Choo’ and ‘Ugg’ shoes among over €3m worth of fake goods seized by CustomsMon Dec 30 2013 - 01:00
Bootleg alcohol seizures rise dramaticallyRevenue figures suggest fall in smuggled tobacco and cigarette activitySat Dec 28 2013 - 16:57
Drop-in centre for homeless now facing its own funding crisisFocus Ireland’s services under threat next year as CRC scandal takes its tollFri Dec 20 2013 - 01:00
Housing units to be ‘ring-fenced’ for long-term homelessCivil servants will be charged with sourcing up to 2,000 units of accommodationFri Dec 20 2013 - 01:00
€1.2m funding for ‘tracheostomy’ babiesAdvocacy group ‘happy’ with funding streamThu Dec 19 2013 - 01:00
Simon Communities at ‘breaking point’ as numbers seeking help up 24%Charity says cuts being implemented disproportionately across the StateThu Dec 19 2013 - 01:00
Food poverty affects 457,000 people across the State‘Sometimes we eat noodles for dinner, just to make the food last longer in the week’Tue Dec 17 2013 - 01:00
Ireland ready to cast off shackles of bailout, says TaoiseachKenny says tackling child poverty a ‘critical issue’Fri Dec 13 2013 - 01:01
Call for end to religious discrimination by schoolsProtection afforded to denominational education could be protected, says ombudsmanThu Dec 12 2013 - 18:12
For children with no baptismal certificate the school gates seem to be closedOpinion: The State surely has a duty to offer parents access to secular education for their childrenThu Dec 12 2013 - 00:01
Some schools actively discourage children with special needs from enrolingPreference for children of past pupils a ‘significant’ obstacle to Travellers’ educationWed Dec 11 2013 - 21:51
Share of household income from welfare up 50%Report stresses need to target child povertyWed Dec 11 2013 - 07:51
Keeping my baby: the single-parent choiceDocumentary tells of isolation and hatred faced by unmarried Irish women in the not-too-distant pastWed Dec 11 2013 - 01:00
Boy refused school place for almost two yearsChildren’s Ombudsman says it is responsibility of Department of Education to ensure schools in a catchment area can cater for all pupilsTue Dec 10 2013 - 22:11
Condolence book signed for ‘greatest African leader of his time’Book of condolences for Nelson Mandela opened at the South African ambassador’s residenceMon Dec 09 2013 - 17:49
Former Dunnes Stores strikers begin ‘emotional’ journey back to South AfricaWorkers went to South Africa in 1985 when on strike but were denied entryMon Dec 09 2013 - 01:00
Call for Dunnes strikers to attend Mandela funeral‘We were determined we were not going back to work if we had to handle South African goods’Sat Dec 07 2013 - 07:31
Retailers support call to bring back ‘Christmas bonus’ paymentNGOs and TDs say it would boost economy and alleviate poverty at ChristmasThu Dec 05 2013 - 01:01
Atlantic Philanthropies’ $1.1bn is ‘drop in ocean’ next to what State can investVulnerable are being pushed away from central decision-making, says foundation memberThu Dec 05 2013 - 01:00
Family awaits decision from AG on inquest into Sligo deathDhara Kivlehan died of multi-organ failure a week after the birth of her first childWed Dec 04 2013 - 07:21
Women’s prison has ‘lost its way’, says inspectorMassive overcrowding at the root of all problems in management of Dóchas CentreWed Dec 04 2013 - 01:00
Study finds almost 80% of transgender people have considered suicide44 per cent have engaged in some form of self-harm.Mon Dec 02 2013 - 01:01
Lifting the lid on a decade of domestic slavery in Ireland‘Maria’ recently emerged from a 10-year ordeal, the longest case yet discovered in Ireland. Her experience suggests we have poor supports for dealing with such casesSat Nov 30 2013 - 01:00
Minister commits to protocol for timely ‘tracheostomy' dischargesAdvocacy group meets Dr James Reilly over crisisWed Nov 27 2013 - 22:38
Call for local authorities to transfer empty properties to housing associationsFocus Ireland conference hears 3,500 dwellings vacant but too expensive for councils to make habitableWed Nov 27 2013 - 18:05
HSE homecare package ‘falling apart’, say parents of tracheostomy twinsKildare couple fear they will have to bring baby boys back to hospitalWed Nov 27 2013 - 05:29
Tracheostomy Group to meet MinisterGroups seeks implementation of 2008 protocol on babies’ discharge from hospitalWed Nov 27 2013 - 01:00
Traveller protest at ‘total failure’ of accommodation strategyTraveller accommodation committee says more than 1,200 families effectively homeless, more than in 1999Tue Nov 26 2013 - 01:00
Hate letters to mosques referred to gardaíCorrespondence warns of ‘attacks’ on Muslims throughout IrelandMon Nov 25 2013 - 15:55
Rough sleeping trebles in Dublin in one yearDraft action plan on homelessness points to severe challenges delivering national policyMon Nov 25 2013 - 01:00
Familes living without water or electricity in oldest purpose-built Traveller siteNew units have been promised since 1999 for Dublin siteMon Nov 25 2013 - 01:00
Traveller accommodation crisisEvery local authority has to plan its Traveller housing for the next five years. But the programmes’ recent history suggests that few of the proposals will be implementedSat Nov 23 2013 - 01:00
Self-harm over public holidays linked to alcohol, research findsIndustry campaigns on safe drinking deliberately ineffective, says child psychiatristThu Nov 21 2013 - 01:00
Call on Minister to force local authorities to protect tenants’ living conditionsMoney paid as a deposit to be held by a third party under new schemeWed Nov 20 2013 - 16:38
Illegal deposit retention by landlords the biggest cause of concern among tenantsRefusal of landlords to return deposits when tenants leave is illegal in most cases, says ThresholdWed Nov 20 2013 - 10:13
Mental health ‘gathering’ to build self esteem in young peopleProposed event emerges as top recommendation from 2013 Dáil na nÓgFri Nov 15 2013 - 18:03
Party plans for return of Halawa siblings after release in EgyptFate of brother to be known on SaturdayFri Nov 15 2013 - 01:17
Homecare for ‘tracheostomy baby’ after case highlightedBabies still ‘trapped’ in hospital due to lack of home-nursing supports from HSEFri Nov 15 2013 - 01:01
National homecare strategy for children needed ‘urgently’Jack and Jill Foundation tells of 10 more babies ‘trapped’ in hospitalsThu Nov 14 2013 - 01:00
Petition filed to UN on travelling for abortionFirst of three petitions to UN from Irish womenThu Nov 14 2013 - 01:00
Babies ‘trapped’ in hospital over lack of homecareSeven ‘tracheostomy babies’ in Crumlin hospital fit for discharge but cannot leaveWed Nov 13 2013 - 06:41
Two mothers speak of ‘being left to rot’ as their children wait months to go home from hospitalTwo infants are left waiting for homecare before they can leave hospitalWed Nov 13 2013 - 01:02
Three Irish women forced to travel to UK to terminate pregnancies take case to UNWomen allege forced travel in cases of fatal foetal abnormality is ‘cruel and degrading’Mon Nov 11 2013 - 01:00
