Kitty Holland

Kitty Holland

Social Affairs Correspondent

Kitty Holland is Social Affairs Correspondent of The Irish Times.

Department must pay €30,000 to visually impaired employee over ‘protracted’ discrimination

Paul Hill ‘humiliated’ by Department of Social Protection’s failure to provide reasonable accommodations for over 12-year period

Housing charity concerned at risk to tenants under modular home plan

Threshold raises concerns over proposed planning exemption and rent-a-room changes

Fire safety issue forces Peter McVerry homeless service to move tenants from Dublin property

St Stephen’s Green hostel being emptied in stages as a precaution

Asylum seeker in children’s facility despite Tusla’s belief he is an adult, judge told

Hearing to determine the male’s age is adjourned as he could not be brought to court on Tuesday

Child who drew up ‘kill list’ of care staff seeks to be detained by High Court

Minor one of six children court ordered taken into special care but who cannot access beds

Energy poverty: ‘I am basically on the breadline. I never have the heating on’

Nothing in the Government’s €505m fuel support package announced after protests will benefit Susan Power and her family

Oberstown children locked in rooms for hours at weekend, Hiqa inspection finds

Staffing levels at child detention facility at times too low to provide safe cover, Hiqa report says

Communities risk being sidelined in Government’s new drug strategy, warn groups

Local taskforces say proposed approach will ‘unravel decades of life-saving work’ as decision-making is centralised into HSE

Residents of Dublin’s oldest Traveller housing site ‘devastated’ by redevelopment setback

Refurbishment and construction of Ballyfermot’s Labre Park promised since 1999

Iranian critical-skills workers face ‘inhumane’ delays for family visas

Delays of more than two years for decisions are forcing some to consider leaving Ireland

Enoch Burke fails in Supreme Court bid for judgment appeal

Former teacher remains behind bars, continuing his refusal to stay away from Wilson’s Hospital School

Abuse and neglect allegations against Dublin foster carers not always properly recorded

Management of two out of 17 allegations made against carers did not follow Tusla processes

Concern grows for children in Tusla placements following killing of teenager last year

Health watchdog received reports of children being hungry, feeling unsafe and living in unstable placements

Courts’ poor box raises €1.5m last year, with sum of €100,000 going to SVP

Poor box donations previously came under spotlight as some motorists were permitted to use these to avoid penalty points and/or driving bans

‘Respectful’ and ‘moving’: Relatives of 1916 Rising participants honour contribution at GPO

Members of Army, Naval Service and Air Corps participate in ceremony attended by President, Taoiseach and Minister for Defence

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