24 refugees arrive at former hotel in KildareHotel to serve as ‘orientation centre’ to accommodate 520 refugees by end of next yearTue Sept 15 2015 - 19:10
Modular houses offered as solution to homeless crisisDublin councils review ‘cellular’ homes which can be assembled on-site within a dayTue Sept 15 2015 - 10:01
Raising low pay must be key to Budget 2016 - women’s councilFull review of changes to One Parent Family Payment also critical, insists NWCIMon Sept 14 2015 - 16:39
Kitty Holland: Efforts to house refugees may help homeless Irish families tooThe predictable chorus that we ‘must look after our own first’ is depressingSat Sept 12 2015 - 05:00
Direct provision plan for new arrivals inhumane, say NGOsRefugee council ‘deeply concerned’ about the 4,000 people already in the centres, some of who have been there for a decadeThu Sept 10 2015 - 19:59
Dublin homeless services biased against non-Irish - reportDublin City Council’s central placement service ‘refused’ services to non-nationalsWed Sept 09 2015 - 01:00
Migrants’ housing rights highlighted in unpublished reportDublin Region Homeless Executive turning away migrants for ‘questionable reasons’Wed Sept 09 2015 - 01:00
Sex work law should decriminalise prostitution, says expertSwedish detective inspector says legislation should have gender-equality perspectiveTue Sept 08 2015 - 16:35
Protest hears calls for Government action on refugee crisisHundreds gather in Dublin to express solidarity with people seeking refuge in EuropeSun Sept 06 2015 - 23:11
Hazel Hotel in Kildare to be first refuge for 500 SyriansRefugees to get orientation programme before transfer to other parts of countrySat Sept 05 2015 - 01:00
UN criticises EU over response to migration crisisBloc urged to accept up to 200,000 extra refugees as states divided on how to actSat Sept 05 2015 - 01:00
Irish website gets more than 1,000 pledges to house refugeesUplift calls for people to ‘pledge a bed’ to help the thousands fleeing conflict and povertyFri Sept 04 2015 - 01:00
Taoiseach says ‘not realistic’ to set figure for refugeesKenny says he instucted Minister Fitzgerald to attend crisis meeting with ‘flexible mind’Thu Sept 03 2015 - 20:37
Funds secure for Dublin homeless service, pledges MinisterCommitment to fund refurbishment of empty council houses and flatsThu Sept 03 2015 - 01:00
Reduced social housing quota set to encourage buildingRequirement to set aside 20% for social houses halved in bid to drive homebuildingThu Sept 03 2015 - 01:00
More than 3,000 adults accessing homeless servicesDublin Region Homeless Executive report shows situation is getting worseThu Aug 27 2015 - 01:00
Educate Together says plans for new schools face disruptionOrganisation claims Government has still not revealed where schools will be locatedWed Aug 26 2015 - 01:01
Asylum seekers may receive funding for collegeHigher Education Authority says it will ‘look sympathetically’ on paying third-level costsWed Aug 26 2015 - 01:00
‘I would have loved to stay in one place for my education’Immanuel Chirwa (18) is one of 22 asylum seekers who sat this year’s Leaving CertWed Aug 26 2015 - 01:00
Educate Together principals seek change to admissions policySchool bosses say that enrolment practice at new institution has ‘no basis in Irish law’Wed Aug 26 2015 - 01:00
Government and Educate Together clash over enrolmentTensions over Department directive that schools prioritise children from local areasTue Aug 25 2015 - 01:00
Case Study: Search for a school place started before Avery (2) was bornAthiest parents would prefer an Educate Together school but fear catchment rulingTue Aug 25 2015 - 01:00
Greater co-operation required on homelessness, says MinisterKelly calls on departments of Social Protection, Children and Health to focus on issueMon Aug 24 2015 - 15:51
Banks may face duty of care over evictions in buy-to-letsConcern mounts over role of repossessions in contributing to advancing homeless crisisMon Aug 24 2015 - 11:30
M&S to pay €40,000 to ex-employee for discriminationEquality Tribunal says retailer’s Irish arm took ‘callous approach’ with sales adviserSat Aug 22 2015 - 17:46
Give Me a Crash Course in . . . homelessnessThe number of families becoming homeless, especially in Dublin, has been going up since last summerSat Aug 22 2015 - 01:00
Rural regions have their own housing issues, chair warnsHousing boss says local authorities will help Dublin homeless but face existing pressuresFri Aug 21 2015 - 01:00
Dublin homeless may be housed in rural areasGovernment will consider scheme to relocate families to vacant homes across the countryThu Aug 20 2015 - 08:15
Use of B&Bs to house homeless families rises sharplyISPCC calls for urgent construction of hundreds of prefabricated housing unitsMon Aug 17 2015 - 21:22
Figures for homeless children in Dublin double in a yearCharities say family homelessness crisis must be treated as ‘national emergency’Sat Aug 15 2015 - 01:00
‘My children have experienced things they shouldn’t’Case Study: Tawa Awonbinpe, originally from Nigeria, was given notice to quitFri Aug 14 2015 - 01:00
Analysis: Sharp response required to tackle homeless crisisFamily homelessness predicament is spiralling out of controlFri Aug 14 2015 - 01:00
Focus Ireland calls for laws to ensure no child sleeps roughCall comes after family with three children under six sleep on the street for three nightsWed Aug 12 2015 - 01:01
Amnesty votes to decriminalise sex work and prostitutionUp to 500 delegates pass resolution at International Council Meeting in DublinTue Aug 11 2015 - 18:38
Family with three children sleeping rough in DublinThe family, with children aged 5, 4 and 2, were sleeping around Mountjoy SquareTue Aug 11 2015 - 14:00
Mortgage-to-rent applications in limbo with local authoritiesHousing Agency data shows seven areas in which not one case has been processedMon Aug 10 2015 - 14:33
Mortgage-to-rent scheme faces ‘cultural resistance’Group says opposition from local authorities and lenders is causing project to ‘struggle’Mon Aug 10 2015 - 01:00
All regions of State bar one see rise in child homelessnessProblem outside Dublin increasing at almost three times the rate in capitalSat Aug 08 2015 - 19:35
PTSB role on tracker mortgages needs investigation - McGrathDenial of option of moving to tracker rate linked to repossession of 22 homesSat Aug 08 2015 - 15:30
Michael D Higgins: EU response to migrant crisis is ‘shameful’President says Europe’s reaction to events in Mediterranean is ‘grossly inadequate’Sat Aug 08 2015 - 10:40
Full text of Michael D Higgins speech to Amnesty councilSpeech entitled ‘Campaigning for Human Rights in the Contemporary World’Fri Aug 07 2015 - 17:57
EU response on migrant crisis ‘shameful’, says Higgins‘We are sleepwalking into a great alienation of our European publics,’ President saysFri Aug 07 2015 - 16:43
Amnesty to call for decriminalisation of prostitutionUp to 500 members of human rights organisation to meet in Dublin this weekendFri Aug 07 2015 - 01:00
Family left homeless because council credit card had ‘maxed out’Dublin woman and her three children could not access emergency accommodationThu Aug 06 2015 - 20:06
Irish MEP calls on Government to do more for Ibrahim HalawaTrial of Dubliner was adjourned for a 10th time last weekendThu Aug 06 2015 - 17:26
Home repossessions accelerate to 60 each weekCork Circuit Court registers the highest number of repossession orders – clocking 123Thu Aug 06 2015 - 01:00
Up to 12 additional direct provision centres to openFormer centre in Longford, recently a guesthouse, houses asylum seekers againThu Aug 06 2015 - 01:00
Mixed Race Irish: ‘We were the dust to be swept away’Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation urged to confront the racism endured by children taken into care and abused because they had a non-white parentSat Jul 18 2015 - 01:00
‘Would my mother’s life have been different if she’d had white children?’The Mixed Race Irish group is calling for the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation to confront the racism endured by children born to Irish mothersSat Jul 18 2015 - 01:00
