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The Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government said progress is being made to move families out of hotels and B&Bs

Number of homeless people in emergency housing rises

Ireland / 05 Aug

A casualty is stretchered off the mountain by medical staff (Pics: Mayo Mountain Rescue)

13 injured during annual Croagh Patrick climb

Ireland / 31 Jul

For nearly 150 years Goldenbridge Cemetery has operated as a closed cemetery, locked and visited by appointment only

Goldenbridge Cemetery reopens to public after 150 years

Ireland / 14 May

Brendan Howlin addressed the Labour Party conference last night

Labour discusses social protection, justice policies

Politics / 23 Apr

The Citizens' Assembly is meeting for the final time this weekend

Assembly votes to amend Eighth Amendment on abortion

Ireland / 22 Apr

Pope Francis has used the period leading up to Easter to stress his vision of service to the neediest

Feel the pain of the poor and immigrants, says pope

Europe / 15 Apr

A watchdog report last week showed the Catholic Church owes money it promised to surviors of institutional abuse

Kenny calls on Catholic Church to 'get on with' redress

Ireland / 13 Mar

In his homily, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin said the difficult issues of the past were not something that the church can wallpaper over

Martin: Church's commitments cannot be reneged upon

Religious and Social Affairs / 12 Mar

This is the second weekend in a row that Archbishop Michael Neary has spoken out on the Tuam case

Neary calls for detailed examination of church, state

Religious and Social Affairs / 11 Mar

Pope Francis said allowing priests in training to choose whether or not to be celibate was 'not the solution'

Pope Francis may consider making married men priests

The group has asked Pope Francis to act

Redress scheme needs papal intervention, survivors say

Religious and Social Affairs / 10 Mar

Dr Martin said the church ostracised, stigmatised and isolated unwed mothers

Irish Catholic church leader says Tuam find 'appalling'

The State originally gave the religious congregations an indemnity in 2002, limiting their contribution

13% of redress scheme cost paid so far - C&AG report

Micheál Martin said the State has already invested heavily in the properties and is essentially running them

Call for State to take over church hospital properties

The old Magdalene laundry in Donnybrook is being redeveloped

No unmarked graves at old Donnybrook laundry, nuns say

Flowers were laid on Magdalene graves in several locations around the country today

Magdalene laundries justice group calling for memorials

Some foster families report having to pay the medical bills for children they are looking after on behalf of the State

93% of children in State care had foster placements

Marie Collins said the lack of cooperation has been 'shameful'

Irish abuse survivor resigns from Vatican panel

Traveller groups are at Leinster House for the announcement

Travellers hail 'historic day' as ethnicity recognised

Fr Paddy Mooney blesses a motorist

'Drive-thru' Ash Wednesday at Galway church

Some elderly people got rid of their landline phones because they could no longer afford them

Allowance cut sees fewer opt for panic buttons

Multiple failures in the care system are listed in the reports

HSE apologises over foster home 'significant failures'

HSE-commissioned 'Conal Devine' and 'Resilience Ireland' reports to outline failures at a foster home in Waterford

Foster home failures to be detailed in two reports

Child abuser Bill Kenneally is currently serving a 14-year sentence

Kenneally abuse victims critical of Tusla

Catholic Archbishop Diarmuid Martin celebrated the funeral mass

Cardinal Desmond Connell laid to rest

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