Report found 94% of migrants in Brussels slept rough, and 73% did not get enough to eat every day

Stefano Manservisi highlights ‘mismatch’ between precarious work and welfare states

Number of homeless families in midlands reached 45 towards end of April

Tenants in Dublin 6 and 8 are resisting eviction attempts under two linked firms

Focus Ireland study finds families in private rented accommodation ‘bear brunt of crisis’

Charity cut off support in 2015, although 60% of survivors may develop post-polio syndrome

National Union of Journalists calls for national approach to ensure transparency

Charlie Flanagan says he deeply regrets friends of Sylva Tukula were not notified

Redistribution of tax revenue to poorer homes ‘would reduce income inequality’

Council of Europe body criticises Garda and local authorities for inaction on hate speech

Drone footage highlights damage to houses and rubbish problem in Ballybane estate

Lack of urgency to redress substandard conditions ‘unacceptable’, Traveller group says

‘I am frightened for my son,’ says one mother ahead of a protest in Dublin on Saturday

Nicola Cox: ‘It does feel like the mother’s voice gets very little weight attached to it’

When Boidu Sayeh arrived in Moate at age eight, playing Gaelic football came naturally

Irish-born adults more than twice as likely to be member of sports club as adults born outside State

Hundreds attend memorial service for Leaving Cert student (18) stabbed in Dublin

In advance of next week’s local and European elections, we look at parties’ child poverty initiatives

Azzam Raguragui (18) was stabbed at Finsbury Park in Dundrum last Friday

Despite recent progress, discrimination is still widespread, says campaigner

Bill proposes provision to seek no-contact orders from the courts

Minister for Housing wants apartments built in other cities ‘to take the pressure off Dublin’

Oireachtas committee to hear from Traveller and special needs groups of ‘growing crisis’

North inner-city Dublin projects ‘beacons of hope’ for families in disadvantaged area

Minister outlines progress in last three years at opening of 31 Focus Ireland units in Dublin

Children’s Rights Alliance event hears that 107,000 children are living in deep poverty

Units in Cork hospital non-compliant on all conditions of registration for third year in a row

‘Some picked out the vegetables, saying they had only ever seen them in pictures’

Landlord seeking to refurbish Emmet Manor in Inchicore to relet at higher rents

Vulnerability of journalists and journalism highlighted at World Press Freedom event

Mental Health Commission finds 26 areas of ‘high risk non-compliance’ in inspected centres

Child welfare consultant Kieran McGrath warns issue ‘cannot be ignored’

Children accounted for all but four of the 41 additional people who became homeless since February

Workers’ Memorial Day notes ideas, energy and drive of women in building industry

Brigid Ward was hit by a car near Ballinasloe, Co Galway on Easter Sunday

British government ‘must respond’ to breaches of Northern Irish women’s rights

Carer says she has to fundraise to pay for physiotherapy of son with rare genetic condition

No Child 2020: How two of the most deprived parts of Ireland compare

Gendered nature of schools can cause stress for trans pupils, says youth group

Ombudsman reports children as young as five years of age attempting to flee hubs

New accounts are almost identical to those heard from children in direct provision

Ian Browne (25) was sent home from Drogheda hospital twice before his death

Problem cocaine use grows with improving economy, Health Research Board finds

Focus Ireland says many vulnerable young care leavers are in insecure accommodation

Call for significant investment in Ireland’s stock of publicly-owned housing

Thousands of working households are struggling to stay out of poverty, report finds

Single parents’ support group expresses scepticism over Minister’s promise

Changes to subsidised childcare programmes will see some parents lose up to €80 a week

Majority of calls to charity relate to mental health, isolation and family issues

Social Justice Ireland says economic benefits ‘distributed in grossly unequal fashion’

Leinster Rugby urges people not to focus on ‘isolated’ incident in statement

Question asking whether someone is heterosexual, lesbian, gay or bisexual is being tested in quarterly household survey

By treating drug addiction as a health issue, crime would be reduced, say supporters

Promoter of home births had a long running legal dispute with the HSE

Women want to know why they were not warned of the risks of taking an anti-epilepsy drug while pregnant

‘My hope is to shift the public and then the political discourse,’ says charity’s chief

Sonia Kolasinska was told to leave Madigan’s bar on O’Connell Street

Changes, redundancies necessary due to gaps in State funding – chief executive

Community in Ireland fearful after New Zealand massacre because Islamophobia ‘ignored’

Facilities planned for families and older people as issue to grow for at least three years

New CCLRP review finds lack of privacy and unsuitable conditions for family law cases

Government holds special Cabinet meeting on gender equality, ratification of Istanbul Convention

Women’s Aid says move is ‘major milestone in tackling domestic, sexual and gender based violence’

Memo instructing Department of Housing not to take more applications under scheme was never seen by Eoghan Murphy

Ballymun Child and Family Resource Centre’s first pop-up Communion-wear shop is big success

Elderly pair, who have chronic illnesses, also turned down for insulation and housing grants

Minister keen that working group reviews the obstacles to people using birth control

Morgan D'Arcy has been an inpatient at Crumlin children's hospital for five years

Terminally ill midwife sought speedy settlement against HSE to buy anti-cancer drug

Spend on housing payment schemes ‘going directly to the private market’ to hit €423m

English says within five years half of all new apartments and one third of new housing will have to be suitable for older people

Total number of people listed as homeless across the State is now just under 10,000

Campaigners say move is in breach of agreement to postpone Balgaddy eviction plans

Refurbishment of draughty and mouldy flats cancelled after councillors’ vote

No Child 2020: In the world’s ‘most food-secure’ country, 140,000 children have inadequate diets

‘We don’t want to live like this, but we have nowhere else to go.’

Presidential candidate saw popularity rise after controversial remarks about Traveller culture

‘Serious questions to be answered’, says National Women’s Council of Ireland director

Karen McEvoy’s partner calls for inquiry into her death in Naas hospital on Christmas Day

Children’s Rights Alliance warns of impact of homelessness on education and health

Partner of Karen McEvoy, who died on Christmas Day, not given ‘any information’

Karen McEvoy (24) died a week after giving birth at Coombe hospital

Partner says he has 'to be mammy and daddy now' to their three children

Young friends who died in ‘devastating’ incident near Gortahork described as ‘lovely lads’

Social rights committee also notes continued violations on trade union rules for gardaí

Number of Traveller families living in unsafe conditions has risen since Carrickmines fire

No Child 2020: Not everyone has enough to eat in Ireland. But poverty is more complex than that

Couple say they were told anomaly was fatal before hospital dubbed it ‘complex anomaly’

Coombe says medics not of opinion foetus would die before or within 28 days of birth

No Child 2020: Ireland and Finland take different approaches to single working mothers

‘This is not what the people of Ireland voted for. This is not what I voted for’

Addiction specialist warns parents on impact of their drinking on family

Patricia and William Maguire are living with their five children in emergency accommodation in Wicklow

South Dublin County Council says it has no duty of care for families, who have 28 children

South Dublin County Council says it has no ‘duty of care’ as family are not from the area

Local councils failing to deliver on agreed targets may be subject to financial sanction

Travellers in Wexford ‘severely disadvantaged’ when compared with settled population

Third of families presenting as homeless are foreign nationals whose rights are ‘unclear’

Eileen Gleeson says some fundraising ‘stigmatises’ homeless people

Gardaí appeal for witnesses to collision near Glanmire