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Irish Times Social Affairs Correspondent

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Please please get to this. Stop the genocide, the slaughter, the war crimes of Israel

11.08.2025 10:38 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Getting readying for the 12th here in Belfast

01.07.2025 15:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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‘I sleep easier here’: The makeshift homeless community under the M50 Rats and rubbish surround the camp at Finglas Road, but to some residents it’s better than other options

‘I sleep easier here’: The makeshift homeless community under the M50

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25.06.2025 07:15 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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€5,250 a month!! For a three-bedroom flat.

14.06.2025 12:51 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Children at west Dublin asylum seeker accommodation witnessed friends being ‘put in the back of a black van’ Three siblings were among 35 people deported on a flight to Nigeria on Wednesday

Children at west Dublin asylum seeker accommodation witnessed friends being ‘put in the back of a black van’

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07.06.2025 15:27 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Boy (16) ‘at real risk of death’ after targeting by drug dealers brought to secure care Judge found boy’s ‘chaotic lifestyle’ and risk profile met requirements for the order

Boy (16) ‘at real risk of death’ after targeting by drug dealers brought to secure care

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05.06.2025 20:13 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Dublin tenants shocked to be evicted due to ‘little-known legal loophole’ For a group of people in Applewood village, Swords, the landlord doesn’t need a reason to remove them

Dublin tenants shocked to be evicted due to ‘little-known legal loophole’

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05.06.2025 20:11 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

What a self-serving bore. He hasnt changed since Self Aid.

24.05.2025 11:02 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Oh. My. God..Bono on RTE now saying people don't understand the "complex affairs" of US selling arms to Israel

24.05.2025 10:57 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 1

‘Judge John Jordan, presiding over the weekly “no beds” list on Thursday, heard updates on three children in respect of whom secure care orders have been made but who cannot get a bed due to staff shortages.’

- @kittyholland.bsky.social @irishtimes.com

24.05.2025 09:29 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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An affront to the rule of law.

Report: @kittyholland.bsky.social
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23.05.2025 12:24 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

?

21.05.2025 19:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh fer fck sake.. get a grip

21.05.2025 17:35 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Israeli military fires shots near delegation that included Irish diplomats Tánaiste ‘shocked and appalled’ at reports of incident in West Bank city of Jenin

Israeli military fires shots near delegation that included Irish diplomats

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Bastards

21.05.2025 17:03 — 👍 4    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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‘He was kept locked in a room with a leg-shackle until the 1980s’: Stories from Ireland’s state-run asylums State-run asylums were Ireland’s ‘largest form of institutional confinement’ but they have never been subjected to a statutory inquiry into the treatment of their patients

‘He was kept locked in a room with a leg-shackle until the 1980s’: Stories from Ireland’s state-run asylums

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It was an honour to be trusted with the stories of those 'incarcerated' in our old mental asylums, as they were called

06.04.2025 07:53 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Please share!

09.02.2025 10:44 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm researching mass incarceration in Irish psychiatric institutions up to late 1990s. Would welcome contact from survivors/ their family members. Email in confidence Kitty.Holland@irishtimes.com

09.02.2025 10:38 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
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Ireland is signing up to a definition of anti-Semitism that has been used against Irish politicians Prominent Irish politicians - including President Michael D Higgins and Simon Harris - have been accused of anti-Semitism drawing on the logic of the IHRA definition

Ireland is signing up to a definition of anti-Semitism that has been used against Irish politicians

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05.02.2025 08:05 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Nor should compliance, silence, or exclusion be tolerated, especially when at the expense of other survivors.

03.02.2025 13:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

All voices are valid though, even, and sometimes especially, disruptuve ones. But I appreciate your input.

30.01.2025 10:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

It is factually corrct that this is how she heard what was said in the session. I've heard it from others too who were at that session. Were you there?

30.01.2025 09:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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This promise in the Programme for Government is so dangerous, conflating legitimate criticism of apartheid Israel with antisemitism

15.01.2025 18:35 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Attitudes to Traveller and Roma people more negative among middle class than working class - study Residents of affluent areas less comfortable with having Travellers as neighbours, ESRI reports finds

Attitudes to Traveller and Roma people more negative among middle class than working class - study

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20.12.2024 18:47 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘I have never really had sex not for money’: Woman hopes new injecting facility can allow some dignity ‘Amber’ believes the new medically supervised injecting facility at Merchants Quay will ‘change her life’

‘I have never really had sex not for money’: Woman hopes new injecting facility can allow some dignity

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20.12.2024 18:46 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Capuchin vouchers: ‘I have four kids and two grandkids - this is for St Stephen’s Day dinner’ Queue for €50 grocery vouchers began before 4am with over 2,500 distributed by 8.30am

Capuchin vouchers: ‘I have four kids and two grandkids - this is for St Stephen’s Day dinner’

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20.12.2024 18:38 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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‘We have never run out this early’: People ‘distraught’ after missing out on Capuchin Christmas food parcel tickets People ‘distraught’ on missing out after all 3,000 parcels are distributed by shortly after 9.30am

Scenes of desperation this morning in Dublin: ‘We have never run out this early’: People ‘distraught’ after missing out on Capuchin Christmas food parcel tickets

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11.12.2024 16:05 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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With votes sorted in Dublin Mid West the storage boxes are being readied to hold the bundles of first preferences, counting of which will start shortly #herewego

30.11.2024 11:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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With just over half the boxes tallied in 5-seat Dublin MW Sinn Fein's Eoin O Broin and Mark Ward are powering ahead.. Emer Higgins (FG) on track for a seat along with Shane Moynihan (FF). Gino Kenny (PBP) in for a rollercoaster battle for last seat with Soc Dems, Labour, FG and independents.

30.11.2024 10:49 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Election 2024 exit poll: Photo finish with Sinn Féin on 21.1%, Fine Gael 21%, Fianna Fáil 19.5% The election 2024 exit poll was conducted among 5,000-plus voters at more than 200 locations nationwid

Election 2024 exit poll: Photo finish with Sinn Féin on 21.1%, Fine Gael 21%, Fianna Fáil 19.5%

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If this isn't the incentive rhe left need to form a strong alliance, I don't know what is.

29.11.2024 22:34 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Asylum centre failed to protect four children who went missing, Hiqa inspection finds

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28.11.2024 19:24 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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