Too many people are kept in their cells between 19 and 24 hours a day, says chief prison inspector
"It really is an absolutely critical issue," says Mark Kelly.
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Exclusion from CE schemes yet another barrier to people working while awaiting asylum decisions
“They all have the desire for work, but there’s barrier after barrier after barrier.”
After seven years, experimental funk octet Tongue Bundle prepare to release unheard music
Their new LP “Second-Hand Banger” offers an overview of the band’s oeuvre, including live and previously unreleased tracks.
Remembering the women and children detained in Grangegorman before being transported to Australia
Some stole potatoes to feed their children and a few deliberately committed arson to get transported to Australia, in the hope of a better life.
Through his work, a “paint eater” seeks connections – to strangers, to his father
“I spend a lot of time, whenever I take breaks from painting, going to town, and always finding myself having conversations with random people,” Michael Flavin says.
People seeking asylum who say they are children are being housed alongside adults
But a statistics blackout means it’s unclear how many.
Despite parents’ pleas, council has no plans to make walking and cycling across the Chapelizod Bypass to get to school safer
“Someone’s going to be seriously hurt on that road. What are they waiting for?” says parent Adrienne Lee.
Part of Quaker burial grounds might be used to aid construction of social housing next door, council says
The burial ground on Cork Street near Marrowbone Lane dates back to the 17th century and hundreds of people are buried under its grassy surface.
At the Egyptian embassy in Dublin, Sudanese immigrants plead for a chance to visit their loved ones in Egypt
Arwa Ahmed, a paediatric registrar at Temple Street Children’s Hospital, says she just wants to go visit her mum, who has heart disease.
Dublin should set up swap centres all over the city, councillors say
It’s been done in Copenhagen, where city officials have built a whole network of re-use points for neighbourhoods.
Two months after an alleged assault on an asylum seeker, IPAS has left the accuser and accused to share shelter
“I saw him today at the canteen, at breakfast time.”
Council plans campaign to urge cyclists to be more careful when sharing spaces with pedestrians
Both the Dublin Cycling Campaign and advocates for people with disabilities say they don’t think this is the right approach.