Children with disabilities left confined to bedrooms for weeks due to broken lift, Hiqa finds Woodbrook Lodge, Co Monaghan, provider failed to meet needs of the residents, inspection report saysMon May 08 2023 - 10:00
Families ‘furious’ over plans to close disability facility at centre of ‘Brandon’ abuse reportHSE says closure of the seven-bungalow campus is in the residents’ best interestsMon May 08 2023 - 04:30
Mary Kenny (19), Coolock - ‘She was very happy going out the door that night’Read by her sister AngelaFri May 05 2023 - 14:34
Marie Kennedy (17), Kilbarrack – ‘Her love of music and dancing was the reason she was in the Stardust on that night’Read by her sister MichelleFri May 05 2023 - 12:34
Robert Kelly (17), Coolock - ‘He had lots of hobbies and one of his favourites was embroidery’Read by friend Antoinette KeeganThu May 04 2023 - 15:31
Mary Keegan (19), Coolock - ‘I would sit on the doorstep every day waiting for Mary to come home’ Read by her brother Damien KeeganThu May 04 2023 - 13:15
‘The last Valentine’: Martina Keegan (16) brought a card with her to Stardust to give to her boyfriendRead by her sister Lorraine KeeganThu May 04 2023 - 13:00
Robert ‘Bobby’ Hillick (20), Belfast - ‘I still don’t think I will ever get over my brother’s death’ Read on behalf of his late brother Bill by Charlie BirdThu May 04 2023 - 12:26
Harris warns on Garda non-prosecutions of barring order breaches in domestic violence cases Minister for Justice to raise ‘extraordinarily serious’ issue with the forceWed May 03 2023 - 20:40
Christy Moore hopes for ‘peace of mind’ for Stardust families as he reads tribute to victimSinger says the ‘terrible loss’ 45 families had suffered in 1981 had been compounded by the way they had been treated sinceWed May 03 2023 - 17:59
Michael Griffiths (18), Kilmore – ‘With his first pay cheque, he took us all to the cinema’Read by his friend Jimmy Fitzpatrick on behalf of his brother, Paul GriffithsWed May 03 2023 - 15:02
Eugene ‘Hughie’ Hogan (24), Artane - ‘He had a beautiful voice and loved to sing everything from Bowie to Bob Marley’Read by his nephew Mark HobanWed May 03 2023 - 14:39
Brian Hobbs (21), Whitehall – ‘He had grown into a fine young man, full of charm and the chat’Read by his sister Pat DunneWed May 03 2023 - 13:33
Richard Bennett (17), Coolock – ‘He was the father figure to his younger brother and sister’Read by singer Christy Moore on behalf of his mother HelenWed May 03 2023 - 12:02
Domestic Violence: Women and children left in ‘life-threatening’ situations due to failures by courts, gardaí and TuslaReport finds courts, gardaí and Tusla are failing women and children and leaving them exposed to danger at homeWed May 03 2023 - 00:01
Domestic violence victims ‘undermined and blamed’ by social workers - reportReport finds victims characterised as abusers in family law courts and others not taken seriously by gardaíWed May 03 2023 - 00:01
Susan Morgan (19), Derry – ‘She was full of life ... so bubbly ... so funny ... thoughtful too’Read by her friend Yvonne GrahamTue May 02 2023 - 15:52
Josephine Glen (16), Coolock – ‘A happy, kind, loving and sociable person’Read by her sisters Sheena and AlisonTue May 02 2023 - 13:26
Thelma Frazer (20), Ringsend – ‘A smile so broad and a laugh filled with spring’Read by her siblings Barbara, Maurice and EricTue May 02 2023 - 13:04
Michael Ffrench (18), Coolock - ‘His dream was to make life a bit easier for Mam’Read by his sister Caroline FfrenchFri Apr 28 2023 - 15:28
Michael Farrell (26), Coolock - ‘He loved pay-day. He made sure our Mam always got her wages’ Read by his niece Lynn Sheppard on behalf of his sister Monica D’Arcy who died last yearFri Apr 28 2023 - 14:01
David Flood (18), Beaumont - ‘He loved going to the disco. He was a bit of a rocker, mad into the Rolling Stones’Read by his nephew Ciaran FloodFri Apr 28 2023 - 13:43
Liam Dunne (18), Coolock - ‘Our family had so much hope he would pull through’Read by his sister Siobhán KearneyThu Apr 27 2023 - 19:00
Jacqueline Croker (18), Kilmore West - ‘She loved Dolly Parton, Johnny Logan, John Lennon, Diana Ross’Read by her sister AlisonThu Apr 27 2023 - 19:00
John Colgan (21), Swords - ‘He was full of life, always upbeat’Read by his sister Susan BehanThu Apr 27 2023 - 13:07
Stardust: How the Northern Ireland inquest model provides template for families seeking justiceCoronial process was used for Hillsborough and Ballymurphy inquestsThu Apr 27 2023 - 05:00
Caroline Carey (17), Kilmore West - ‘Our beautiful, bubbly, witty Caroline is gone’Read by her sister MariaWed Apr 26 2023 - 18:13
Paula Byrne (19), Coolock – ‘She was the peacemaker in our house’Read by her sister Maria FarrenWed Apr 26 2023 - 13:28
Jimmy Buckley (23), Donnycarney - ‘My father figure, brother, my hero’Read by his brother Errol BuckleyWed Apr 26 2023 - 13:18
More than 40 years after Stardust nightclub tragedy families welcome moment of truthAfter more than four decades, families of 48 see inquests into deaths beginTue Apr 25 2023 - 21:26
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
