The St Vincent de Paul Society who ran a Free Night Shelter in Dublin City centre released figures for the year to date. They indicated there were a total of 16,785 admissions the previous year year (1920), a 5,180 increase on the year previous to that. In addition the number of free meals supplied has […]
ON THIS DAY: 3 NOVEMBER 1845: Irish Delegation visited Lord Heytesbury to act immediately and stop the export of food from Ireland because millions were starving. He declined. On that date, a delegation of concerned and alarmed Irishmen including Daniel O’Connell, Mayor O’Sullivan of Dublin and twenty others visited Britain’s Viceroy in Ireland, Lord Heytesbury. […]
Joanna Lumley has many admirable sides to her it must be said – foremost among them being her long-time public support for the people of Tibet who have endured 60 years of genocide and horror at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party. It might appear somewhat ironic then that her genuine concern for the […]
Waiting lists growing faster in poorer areas
On July 27th, just two weeks ago, the Irish Times reported that the hospitality sector, which is in the process of re-opening its doors to customers, is facing an “acute labour shortage”: Indoor service in restaurants and pubs resumed on Monday after months of closure because of Covid-19 restrictions. Industry participants said the availability of […]
Matt Talbot died of a heart attack in Granby Lane on Trinity Sunday, 7 June 1925, whilst making his way to Mass in St. Saviour’s Church on Dominick Street. His life would have gone unnoticed were it not for the cords and chains discovered on his body when he died suddenly that day. No one […]
An ESRI report published today examines the persistence of poverty among families with children. The report, The Dynamics of Child Poverty: Evidence from the Growing Up in Ireland Survey, is based on thousands of families in two cohorts of those with children aged 0 – 9 years in 1998 and 9 – 18 in 2008. […]
I’m not proud of a feeling of schadenfreude upon hearing wealthy actor Paul Hogan whine about the homeless drug addicts that have descended on his Los Angeles elite Venice Beach neighbourhood. Mr Hogan feels blockaded into his $3.5m mansion and wishes the homeless just stayed somewhere else where property prices were more suited to their […]
The level of poverty in Ireland was evidenced by further comments from O’Connell: “The last Population Returns of 1841 showed that, out of the whole rural population of Ireland, 46 per cent lived in a single room; the entire human family and the pigs occupied the same apartment together. The next fact was, that of […]
PODCAST: John Aidan Byrne interviews Christine Soule CAPITALISM FOR THE POOR: Christine Soule on her journey from drug-addicted stripper to Christianity; founder Seattle’s Providence House, author, Broken and Beautiful; and her economic solution for poverty Christine Soule’s life was a jumbled pile of broken pieces. Her father was married seven times; her mother […]
ON THIS DAY: 3 NOVEMBER 1845: Irish Delegation visited LORD Heytesbury to act immediately and stop the export of food from Ireland because millions were starving. He declined. On that date, a delegation of concerned and alarmed Irishmen including Daniel O’Connell, Mayor O’Sullivan of Dublin and twenty others visited Britain’s Viceroy in Ireland, Lord Heytesbury. […]
March 17, 2021 will mark the centenary of the opening of Britain’s first family planning clinic at 61 Marlborough Road, Holloway, London. The Mothers’ Clinic gave poor and working-class women ready access to contraceptives for the first time. Funded by Dr Marie Stopes and her second husband, Humphrey Roe, it provided instruction in birth control and supplied […]