Peter Mcverry
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Meet Paddy Fay, the first person Peter McVerry housed
- People
- December 14, 2019, 06:00
When he was around 13, Paddy Fay broke into Fr Peter McVerry’s home. “Peter saw me in his bedroom and he says. ‘What are you doing?’ I said, ‘I don’t (...)

State is ‘letting children down’ on housing, says Minister
- Social Affairs
- December 12, 2019, 10:40
The State is “letting children down” by having them live in emergency accommodation, Minister for Housing Eoghan Murphy has said. Mr Murphy was updat(...)

Dublin City Council pays €195,000 a year for empty building
- Social Affairs
- December 3, 2019, 02:01
Dublin City Council is paying almost €200,000 a year to lease a historic city centre building it planned three years ago to turn into a homeless hoste(...)

In a Word . . . Charity
- Culture
- November 30, 2019, 00:01
It’s that time of year when thou mayest on TV behold very many images of human misery, particularly the pain of wide-eyed children, as legions of char(...)

Plans for Dublin rough sleeper hostel scrapped after local opposition
- Irish News
- November 29, 2019, 13:42
A protest against a planned homeless facility in Dublin City Centre will go ahead tonight despite a decision to accommodate families in the building r(...)

Dublin shop seeks permission to erect shutters to stop homeless sleeping in doorway
- Social Affairs
- November 24, 2019, 12:38
Dublin businesses should use their influence to force Government action on homelessness instead of to force homeless people from their doorways, housi(...)

Government to enter talks on Dublin City Council budget
- Politics
- November 19, 2019, 20:23
The Government has agreed to talks with Dublin City Council to solve the impasse over funding to run the city in 2020, Minister of State for Housing D(...)

May the force be with your casserole
- Interiors
- November 16, 2019, 06:00
Come dine with Darth Vader The idea of putting cookware on a Christmas list may sound like something out of the 1950s, that is until you see the(...)

Dublin businesses seek to stop 155-bed homeless hostel
- Social Affairs
- November 14, 2019, 18:18
Businesses on Aungier Street, Dublin, are to take legal action to stop the opening of the State’s largest homeless hostel for rough sleepers at Avalon(...)

State’s largest homeless hostel for single adults to open over Starbucks in Dublin
- Social Affairs
- November 14, 2019, 02:00
The State’s largest homeless hostel for single adults is to be opened in Dublin 2 in a Victorian building currently occupied by a branch of Starbucks (...)