Kitty Holland

Kitty Holland

Social Affairs Correspondent

Kitty Holland is Social Affairs Correspondent of The Irish Times.

‘Emergency response’ to homeless crisis, including possible no-fault evictions ban, needed, says committee

More than 17,500 people, including 5,604 children, were in emergency accommodation in April, latest figures show

Oberstown child detention campus refused further admissions due to being at capacity

Documents show Minister for Children Norma Foley pushed through an instruction to the facility to take more boys

Thousands of vulnerable children’s records ‘may be destroyed’ in coming weeks

Concerns mounting for contents that could include children’s letters, poems or accounts of personal events

‘I am terrified about the winter coming’: One in seven now behind on electricity bills

Almost 319,000 homes in arrears with electricity bills by the end of March, says energy regulator

‘I saw grown men cry’: Charlie O’Leary, kitman in Jack Charlton era, recalls the highs of Irish soccer

The 102-year-old Dubliner is being honoured for his services to football at a presentation hosted by the city’s Lord Mayor

Tusla seeks special care orders for teenage boys who suffered sexual exploitation

Staffing crisis ‘going backwards’ at largest special care unit in Ireland, court hears

Rise in Irish exemptions denies children part of their identity, report says

Spiralling exemptions are being driven by increased diagnosis of learning disabilities such as dyslexia, says report

‘It’s devastating’: Families left homeless after fire severely damages Dublin apartment complex

Former residents say owner-manager of Castleknock complex has treated them ‘very poorly’ since blaze last month

Qayyum Balogun, killed just off Grafton Street: ‘My phone is running down. I am coming soon’

‘He died a miserable death. He was quiet, he didn’t like trouble ... The pain and the hurt is very, very deep,’ says mother

Former monastery should be bought to secure Dublin Gaelcholáiste’s future, say campaigners

Christian Brothers building on market for €3.75m next to Synge Street campus where transition to Irish is beginning

Tusla effort to declare Somali an adult days before 18th birthday ‘farcical’, says judge

Barrister for person accused of murdering Ukrainian teen questions ‘purpose’ of continuing age inquiry

New HSE autism assessments may ‘harm children’ and lengthen wait lists, groups say

Updated protocol, which will introduce three-tiered approach, likely to come into force mid-2027

Psychiatrists’ body ‘cannot endorse’ new State autism protocol

Approach will ‘streamline’ access to autism diagnoses, HSE says

School holidays ‘highly challenging’ for thousands of homeless children as rates rise again

Weekly snapshot does not consider overcrowded housing, refuges, couch-surfing, sleeping rough or IPAS

‘Absolutely traumatising’: Ireland sees surge in arson attacks on council homes

‘New epidemic’ affecting communities while costing local authorities millions of euro

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