Laura Fletcher
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Single homeless adults 'overlooked', warns charity (opens the original)
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Simon Communities of Ireland has warned that single adults have been largely overlooked in housing policy and homelessness responses, despite being the dominant demographic living in emergency accommodation. The most recent figures from the Department of Housing show 61% of all adults living in emergency accommodation are classed as "single". This figure includes childless couples, but very many adults are experiencing homelessness on their own. "We simply won't end homelessness if we are not ta
'A lonely road' - surviving homelessness and addiction (opens the original)
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Sean Kinsella can't walk through Ballymun in Dublin without being stopped by people who know him. It's where he was born and raised. It's where went to school and made friends. It's where he became homeless and addicted to heroin. And now, it is where he does much of his community work, having made a career helping other people overcome challenges. "Homelessness, for me, started when I was quite young," Mr Kinsella explained. He pointed to an alcove tucked away at the back of the Virgin Mary Chu
Man hospitalised after stabbing on O'Connell Street (opens the original)
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A man is recovering in hospital after he was stabbed on O'Connell Street in Dublin city centre yesterday afternoon. It happened near the Luas stop on the central median of O'Connell Street. Gardaí and emergency services attended the scene at around 4:30pm. The man's injuries are not believed to be life threatening. Gardaí arrested a man in his 40s in connection with the incident. He was arrested under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984 and is being detained in a Dublin garda station.
Two remanded in custody over firearms possession (opens the original)
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Two men have been remanded in custody, charged with possessing firearms and ammunition in suspicious circumstances in Ballymun earlier this week. David Savage, 34, of no fixed abode and 51-year-old Anthony Duff of Doon Court in Poppintree in Ballymun were arrested on Wednesday. Gardaí from the Ballymun Drugs Unit assisted by Serious Crime West Units and other local units, had responded to reports relating to a man in possession of firearms in the Belclare area of Poppintree in Ballymun. In the c
New special education plan ignores staff issue - activist (opens the original)
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Teenage disability rights campaigner Cara Darmody has said that a Government plan to support special educational needs fails to address "the elephant in the room", when it comes to the growing waiting list for an Assessment of Needs (AONs). A plan to implement 51 recommendations from a review carried out into the Education for Persons with Special Education Needs (EPSEN) Act 2004 was released by the Department of Education earlier today. Ms Darmody, aged 15, said the Government's new implementat
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