Christmas time is exceptionally busy for the charity and those staffing its phone lines as people find making ends meet ‘really, really tough’

TD says Government target of reducing child poverty to 3 per cent is disappointing

The bonus is worth 100 per cent of their payment, meaning recipients will get a double-payment of their welfare amount

Bill to give effect to pact is seen as most radical overhaul of migration policy in a generation

Social enterprise Shuttleknit has Traveller identity at its core, and big ambitions

Latest case follows previous outbreaks at farms in Laois, Monaghan, Meath and Carlow

Handing out tents and sleeping bags, most of which are then destroyed, a ‘huge waste’, says volunteer

Renting a home in Foxrock in the first quarter of this year would set a household back an average of €3,718 a month, according to the CSO

Vast majority of Ukrainian children referred are boys aged 16 or 17, agency says

Average annual number of suicides between 2018 and 2022 was 526

As gardaí investigate numerous alleged assaults, many of the estimated 25,000 people here with Bangladeshi roots worry as they go about their day-to-day lives

Judge says it is ‘unacceptable’ no beds are available for two children ‘at risk of death’ whom he ordered to be detained for their own safety

Minister launches National Strategy for Women and Girls, with gender pay gap reporting to expand

ISPCC publishes harrowing accounts from children of sexual exploitation by parents as part of its Christmas Childline appeal

Latest housing strategy involves instructions to council to put long-term homeless families with children at the top of their housing lists