Joe Little

Religious & Social Affairs Correspondent

The committee heard that almost 20% of homeless people in Dublin are Travellers

100 Dublin Traveller families homeless, committee told

Legislators have been told that over 100 Traveller families are homeless in Dublin alone, while about 600 such households are camped on roadsides where they are at risk of being evicted by the gardaí.

Ireland • 14 Nov 19

The site where significant quantities of human remains were discovered in 2017

Tuam mother and baby survivors meet Archbishop

Representatives of survivors of Tuam's mother and baby home have met local Catholic Archbishop Dr Michael Neary for the first time to discuss the long-running scandal surrounding the facility.

Ireland • 09 Nov 19

Mary McAleese also said women are not full members of the Catholic Church

McAleese says comment on St John Paul II misrepresented

Former president Mary McAleese has told the country's most senior Catholic bishops that she is being wrongly accused of misrepresenting Saint John Paul II's views on sexual relationships.

Ireland • 08 Nov 19

Bishop Alan McGuckian was reacting to the allegations seen on TG4's programme, 'Finné'

Bishop asks gardaí to investigate abuse allegations

The Catholic bishop of Raphoe has offered "every possible co-operation" to a garda investigation he requested following the latest allegations that the diocese concealed widespread child sexual abuse by a priest and a national teacher convicted some 20 years ago.

Religion and Belief • 02 Nov 19

St Ita's Community Hospital in Newcastle West was inspected last July (Pic: Google Maps)

HIQA report critical of Limerick community hospital

A large number of elderly residents of a HSE-run community hospital in Co Limerick were spending the whole day in or beside their beds during a recent HIQA inspection.

Health • 31 Oct 19

Drug-related deaths in Ireland are at record highs, according to the group

Call for improved support for National Drugs Strategy

All nine former ministers who have held responsibility for the National Drugs Strategy have called on the Taoiseach to intervene to restore confidence in its partnership framework and funding to its neighbourhood activities.

Ireland • 30 Oct 19

The sim cards will be distributed through five major homeless charities

An Post to donate €100,000 worth of data to homeless

An Post is to donate sim cards and over €100,000 worth of mobile phone data to homeless people and people living in temporary accommodation.

Ireland • 29 Oct 19

The IRC said people fleeing persecution perceive Europe as a safe destination

Call for 'self-reflection and outrage' over migration

The Irish Refugee Council has urged European countries, including Ireland, to develop more safe and legal pathways to enable people fleeing persecution to find safety in this continent.

Ireland • 24 Oct 19

The report from the HSE's Safeguarding Office is the third since the implementation of the Adult Safeguarding Policy

Claims of institutional abuse of adults up - report

There was a five-fold increase last year in the number of allegations to the HSE of institutional abuse of vulnerable adults, according to the service's National Safeguarding Office.

Ireland • 16 Oct 19

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has rejected criticism of Pope Francis's decision to canonise Cardinal John Henry Newman

Mixed schools produce the best seminarians - Martin

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin has said many of the best seminarians for the Catholic Church here no longer come from traditional all-Catholic schools, but from schools where the young man has already tested and strengthened his faith in a pluralist environment.

World • 11 Oct 19