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Cars may be parked in the Churchyard.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6UH7EB7NIFH4ZAOOUPMZJY5ICM","additional_properties":{},"content":"PRESBYTERIAN","type":"header"},{"_id":"GU5YANUMJ5DQNLYYVGWESWLYN4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>About The Presbyterian Church in Ireland</b> The Presbyterian form of the Christian faith is best described as Reformed; with its strong emphasis on the Sovereignty of God, the Kingship of Christ, and the authority of the Bible. For more information, and for a full list of congregations around the whole island of Ireland, visit: <a href=\"http://www.presbyterianireland.org/\">www.presbyterianireland.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"QCT3UHJXGRGMZJNKA3YIX77CQU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Adelaide Road Presbyterian Church, Dublin City</b> Sundays at 11am in person or online. All Welcome. Our church building is located at the intersection of Earlsfort Terrace and Adelaide Road, Dublin 2. Rev Dr Colin Dickson has been our replacement minister while Rev Dr Sam Mawhinney served his year as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. To find out more visit: <a href=\"http://www.adelaideroadchurch.ie/\">www.adelaideroadchurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"6DL65BQFQ5BZNCHZAXJ3MXYZVI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Clontarf and Scots Presbyterian Church, Dublin</b> Sunday Service is at 11am with Communion. We are located opposite Clontarf Road DART Station, Dublin 3. Rev Lorraine Ritchie. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://www.clontarfchurch.ie/\">www.clontarfchurch.ie</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"TAIGXRKK7VC3XDOEMQFV2CXPYA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Donabate and Balbriggan Presbyterian Churches, Co. Dublin</b> Meet at 10:30am at Donabate and Portrane Community Centre, and at 4:30pm at Balbriggan Clubs Community Centre, Co. Dublin. Everyone is welcome. Rev. Andy Carroll. Visit <a href=\"http://www.donabatepc.org/\">www.donabatepc.org</a> to find out more and for directions","type":"text"},{"_id":"KYJTMWCTXFGEXIJROOUS3RTR2U","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Dún Laoghaire Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at York Road, Dun Laoghaire. Rev Clarke Deering. You will be most welcome to join us. For more information, visit: <a href=\"https://dl-pc.org/\">https://dl-pc.org/</a> or our Facebook page for regular updates, and online streaming.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D3H6F7B7TNC37JA4IVZO6XQOHM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Findlaters (Abbey Presbyterian Church)</b> 11am at Parnell Square, Dublin City. Rev Alan Boal. Communion on the first Sunday of each month. All welcome. Abbey exists to share Gods purpose; becoming more Christ-like as we go, and show the Gospel to the City. To find out more, visit: <a href=\"http://www.abbeychurch.ie/\">www.abbeychurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"BBPM2NNYSREB3BVSNXHRFTHDLY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Howth and Malahide Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 10am at Malahide and 11:45am in Howth. Rev Alastair Dunlop. Everyone is welcome to join us, as we share in the Good News of our Lord Jesus Christ. Programme for children during the service. You are welcome to join us for tea and coffee after the service. Visit: <a href=\"http://www.hmpchurch.org/\">www.hmpchurch.org</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"3EVWTG5VEFBBPBDNKVDSXG4WUM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Lucan Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at Main Street, Lucan Village. Lucan Presbyterian Church is a growing family of Christians who come from a variety of different church backgrounds, traditions and nationalities. Regardless of your age, background, experience or previous church connections you are welcome to come and visit us. For more information, visit <a href=\"http://www.lpc.ie/\">http://www.lpc.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"HTLPRGVYNJDGFIIOW5DCSQC6IU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Maynooth Presbyterian Church</b> Known locally as Maynooth Community Church; and meets together for worship on Sundays at 10:30am at Manor Mills Shopping Centre, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. On the first Sunday of the month we celebrate the Lords Supper (Communion). Rev Keith McCrory. Free parking is available in the underground car park and the service takes place on the 1st Floor. To find out more, visit <a href=\"http://maynoothcc.org/\">http://maynoothcc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"6O6KJU4IIVFA3E5SMTCMJ4IMD4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Naas Presbyterian Church, Co. Kildare</b> 11am with preacher, Mr Tom Dowling, Kilkenny Presbyterian. Programme for children during the service, and tea and coffee served afterwards. The church building is located across the street from the post office and town hall, and overlooks South Main Street - you cannot miss us. For further information, visit our Facebook page: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/NaasPCI\">www.facebook.com/NaasPCI</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"CKRDRFEAOZGEFBDBAAXOJSMEQU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Blackrock, Co. Dublin</b> Sundays at 9.45am for a traditional service of prayer and praise with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Junior Church for children and young people aged 5 to 15 years. For more information, visit <a href=\"https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie/\">https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie</a> - Rev Andrew Gill","type":"text"},{"_id":"2MPSU43CEVCRZB2R7DA7TBJFZE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Bray, Co. Wicklow</b> (We are located at the corner of Eglinton Road and Quinsborough Road) As a congregation, we exist to glorify God through worship and service. We meet every Sunday at 11:30am for a traditional service of prayer and praise, with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Sunday School for children. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://standrewschurchbray.com/\">standrewschurchbray.com</a> for more information. Rev. Andrew Gill","type":"text"},{"_id":"XEVX67XLW5GKTMZ5OQTLPPLABE","additional_properties":{},"content":"METHODIST","type":"header"},{"_id":"V64PL6VX2ZDDNNRPGPTYNYKY3Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>About the Methodist Church in Ireland</b> - The Methodist Church in Ireland is a community of people drawn together by Gods love, who seek to live wholeheartedly as followers of Jesus for the transformation of the world. With 212 churches spread across the island of Ireland from North to South, and East to West. To find a church near you, visit <a href=\"https://irishmethodist.org/\">https://irishmethodist.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"IYCU3DRA7FBCRDRVG3KXWW5NDE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin</b> The Methodist Church, Northumberland Avenue, Dún Laoghaire. Sunday Service 11am. Our services are available at <a href=\"http://www.dlmc.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.dlmc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZSJQW2ELVNDG5EFJRPDHINVXHE","additional_properties":{},"content":"RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS","type":"header"},{"_id":"T2IITSBLQNG2ZDRLHCICBJ3XBM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Quaker Meetings in Ireland Quakers in Ireland invite you to join us for Meeting for Worship at any of our Meeting Houses around the country. Visitors will be warmly welcomed and there will be an opportunity to ask any questions you might have. 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While the number of Ukrainian women seeking pregnancy support has dropped, the clinic now operates as a satellite service connected to the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/coombe-hospital/\" target=\"_blank\">Coombe</a>, offering maternity and gynaecological care to pregnant women going through the international protection system.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P3TGQO2UFVACFB64ZJIQ7IXBYM","additional_properties":{"_id":"DE5BMGTANJBURELUR5KBN3KDEQ"},"content":"Are you entitled to go on maternity leave a second time straight after your first ends?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"2BQPUCSX6ZACNP376TAWK2CTRU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731406685916},"content":"A total of 130 pregnant asylum-seeking women have attended the clinic since June 2023, when data started being collected. Current patients are most likely to be from Nigeria, Jordan, Bangladesh or Somalia. Before the clinic existed, pregnancy care for an asylum-seeking woman was “very messy” and “fractured”, says lead community midwife Emer Shine. “These women would all be quite high-risk, just by the fact that they’re all in international protection. A lot have gestational diabetes and FGM [female genital mutilation] is definitely an issue.” The diet many of these women have while living in emergency accommodation is also concerning, she adds.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U2LYZZ7WBVBKRK2FAHDRTXVLOE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731406685917},"content":"The arrival of the clinic means there is now “continuity of care” with “better links” for asylum seekers in Dublin. “The women have a phone number to call me and ask the things you might ring your mam about because some have no family here.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"N7J3UH37OVHCZORS4PNU43MZKE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731406685918},"content":"Some women can still fall through the cracks. Shine recalls how a woman late in her pregnancy was recently transferred “in the middle of the night” from City Ark Hotel in Citywest to new accommodation in Tipperary. “It was only because she had my phone number that she could start calling us straight away. Eventually we got her transferred back to Dublin. She was 37 weeks pregnant [and also had]… a three-year-old toddler.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"NNFU5BZANZAUXCWYJYC6ESDXCE","additional_properties":{"_id":"A56K6XZWKFA55GJRYXOVRG6LN4"},"content":"Ireland set to be one of first countries in world to allow women pause maternity leave if seriously ill, Minister says","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"ZZPCZY2KZZBFTMF4RVEPAVDFXM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731406685919},"content":"Elanor Hale, the clinic’s senior medical social worker, agrees that the new system is “more co-ordinated and efficient” and “a lot easier for women to access”. It not only streamlines supports for pregnant women, but offers far more efficient interpretation services to help overcome communication barriers, she says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SB4HEEAFIRG7XFNW3FPCR5WFSY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731406685920},"content":"However, she remains concerned about the “transient” nature of housing for these women. “They can be moved so quickly and without much notice. We’ve literally just had a case where a woman came in to deliver her baby, was living at one address and then was discharged to an alternative address.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"O5DTL5FONBFNZBRWJLXEQD4LD4","additional_properties":{"_id":"IVPE26FLL5GXRKX7JIJIPNVA2Y"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"HRDBKWSTSRANFPSDBCVNYCRAY4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731406685921},"content":"“These women are often confined to one room with more than one child and many are here on their own so it can be very isolating. Obviously childbirth and the postnatal period can be isolating for any woman, but this just exacerbates it.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"VUPTTVL3ZJHMXCFTRCNZIHHM7M","additional_properties":{"_id":1731406685922},"content":"Women discharged to accommodation outside the capital often do not have health services “readily available”, she says. “If you’re discharging a mother and baby outside a major city you’re somewhat reliant on the goodwill of our universal services. You hope the public health nurse will take an interest.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"RJAMFRTXARA75FOX3K2HVOEXYU","additional_properties":{"_id":"36WKHBUM6NC2LNYUSPNDBLB4EE"},"content":"Roma women are facing discrimination from retailers, Flac says in 2023 annual report","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"XK4W4GX6E5BX3P4TR4NU2GNHZ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731406685923},"content":"Maya*, who is 38 weeks pregnant and started attending the clinic in July, says she received no maternity care before arriving in Ireland. Her midwife has “supported me in every stage” which is “very important because this is my first pregnancy so I don’t know what’s going on and I needed her help”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HW6IGIGR2NCNNMQSUO7F7M32UQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731406685924},"content":"“We are here alone, we have no family,” says the young Bangladeshi mother-to-be as her husband nods his head. “My midwife is like my family now, she is so helpful, I can’t explain.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"G2GIPQXMTFDFHFEG2X7ZQSSZY4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731406685925},"content":"“I can text her with any problem.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"XLUQDVZHBNEJPJMWO3WTVALN2Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1731406685926},"content":"Ola, who is 30 weeks pregnant, was recently transferred with her husband and children from the centre where she was living in the west of Ireland. “The place where we were living was too tight for a new baby, they wanted us to have more room.” While she has not yet attended the clinic, she has already been contacted via WhatsApp and is due to see a community midwife next week.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AZXSP7QA65BIBKNYIECIKN7WYY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731406685927},"content":"Before the clinic was set up, a pregnant asylum-seeking woman who was suddenly moved to a different part of the country would struggle to see a doctor quickly because transferring a GP card can take between six months to a year, says nurse and midwife Debbie Garry.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QEYDCPJ6TBBXXIONZL4UJAWPKM","additional_properties":{"_id":"UB53CCDG45DMVPUVNRCT46FE44"},"content":"Welcoming migrants is not only a societal duty but a sacred obligation for Christians","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"P6RKCYCBSJCDVBTEFEUPJ7G3E4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731406685928},"content":"Now, the Daisy Clinic has created a system that’s “effective, productive and cost-effective for the hospital”, says Garry, noting that the Response for Vulnerable People team recently received a list from the International Protection and Accommodation Service (Ipas) of all pregnant women arriving in to Citywest for the first time. “That list makes life a lot easier for everyone – before the list we just had to go looking for these women.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"JSONIXTGZFFSBEILLXRT6UXRY4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731406685929},"content":"The 70-year-old midwife<b> </b>was appointed to the HSE’s social inclusion response for Roma women during the pandemic and oversees the care for pregnant asylum seekers in Dublin. Working with Roma and asylum-seeking women from certain countries “is almost like looking at Irish women 50 years ago, when women had no rights”. Many of these women do not have access to finances or even have their own phone, she says. Some cannot read or write and many of those who can, do not recognise the letters of the Roman alphabet. “You cannot assume that everybody can access or read a text from the hospital. Because of my age and experience I appreciate that these are women with no voice. And my age is an advantage to me, I’m like their grandmother You build up trust, you build up a relationship.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"JMXB4EQOMZF45FI5UG3A65FFU4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731406685930},"content":"“These are real people, these are real stories and you can see the trauma on their faces and in their body language. They’re not used to saying what they need.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"CC3NTDRO3VAYDAPHNL6HJZMJ4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1731406685931},"content":"The clinic model now needs to be extended across the State, says Maxine Radcliffe, who leads the Response for Vulnerable People team and is in the final stages of establishing an outreach midwife clinic in Citywest.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VPBEMTN7BFF2TPTAPITVVVEG7A","additional_properties":{"_id":1731406685932},"content":"“We’re seeing a lot of women at a very late stage antenatally. Imagine the journey some of these women have been on through Europe to get here. Many haven’t had any care at all. And that’s what we’re doing. These clinics need to exist.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q6EPXHVXPNGRBPB3BHYBGNPZ3E","additional_properties":{"_id":"PJOT3FRHEJCMJLRUHOKQ7RU2NQ"},"content":"A Wicklow village is still divided, six months after anti-asylum seeker protests","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"WM4YA6VGQJFV3JJEK2XOIIRTPA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731406685933},"content":"Asked if there were any plans to replicate the Daisy Clinic outside the capital, a HSE spokesman said pregnant asylum seekers were connected with a local GP and maternity services and were offered additional supports through the HSE’s migrant health teams.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2QYLIYKFENERJFME4MIH2E4E7M","additional_properties":{"_id":1731406685934},"content":"A new “pregnancy protocol”, introduced in July 2024, required direct provision and emergency accommodation managers to notify Ipas when a woman was pregnant and required a transfer, said a Department of Integration spokesman. Under the protocol, any pregnancy-related accommodation transfers should “where possible, occur between 12 and 28 weeks which is generally accepted as the most stable period of pregnancy”, said the spokesman.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5ES3H33MYFHGZCG5LKXSXUCJWI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731406685935},"content":"Ipas managers were “contractually obliged to meet the dietary and cultural needs of all residents” and when required, should also arrange transport for women to attend antenatal appointments, he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YCDY6C2IB5FUNMX3YVDX7FFP3I","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Sorcha Pollak"}},"name":"Sorcha Pollak"}]},"description":{"basic":"Coombe hospital-linked Daisy Clinic provides maternity and gynaecological care to pregnant women who are within the international protection system"},"display_date":"2024-11-25T06:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Pregnant and seeking asylum: ‘Imagine the journey some of these women have been on’","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"BP4H7774J5AQBA6NEJIJQ6YNJQ","auth":{"1":"f8ece94e47565c192b1133beb31afae6342beb062cb2d635330c30d98fa41e3e"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/BP4H7774J5AQBA6NEJIJQ6YNJQ.JPG"}},"subtype":"feature","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Social Affairs"},{"name":"Ireland"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/ireland/social-affairs/2024/11/18/pregnant-and-seeking-asylum-imagine-the-journey-some-of-these-women-have-been-on/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/ireland/social-affairs","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Social Affairs"}}}},{"_id":"PCBGVBBBO5GYZMDCOSGUFFTAYM","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":722,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/f5dfc4e2-5075-4930-80e6-f2d3c2b1d999/versions/1731508168/media/5ea1b7b1a75009af0d4ea61c9ab89d9a_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/life-style/people/2024/11/24/protestants-in-ireland-weve-gone-after-the-young-generations-weve-listened-and-changed-how-we-do-things/","content_elements":[{"_id":"T3VRJYD7KZE4RLXAPCUX6U5EGM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070824},"content":"This week we learned that <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2024/11/11/how-multicultural-ireland-is-contributing-to-a-growth-in-the-presbyterian-church/\" target=\"_blank\">multicultural Ireland is contributing to a growth in the Presbyterian Church</a>. But numbers of the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/church-of-ireland/\" target=\"_blank\">Church of Ireland</a> community are reducing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RNJW7S2DXNCEFKHGFXSIFOYY4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070827},"content":"The Rev Rob Jones is rector at Holy Trinity Rathmines in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin</a>. There is, he says, “a genuine sense across the West that churches are in decline and they need to do new things to reach out”. He believes “God works in seasons, things being cut back and pruned, and then he rebuilds. I think we’re in a massive paradigm shift which is bigger than anything that has gone maybe since the Reformation.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"NTZMSUPHMFCKJDD4YUO6WQRZF4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070831},"content":"In his view, “we do not need to lament being a minority and we need to learn humbly from other minority groups – a key point – and acknowledge the wrong attitudes that have accompanied being part of the dominant culture. I think that’s a key part of the future, being a creative minority as opposed to an oppressive majority,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H3NAMZT66FAQBFGURQ6JUO6GLU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070832},"content":"“I think this is a key part of the future of the church, a committed group of people who neither control nor abandon the world but engage in it.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"E56BX7OJEFCPRDMVXZSYJGNZKM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070833},"content":"At Holy Trinity Rathmines, “we have pioneered something new. We’ve gone after the young generations. We’ve listened to them and we’ve changed how we do things, not to change the message but to change how we actually do things to reach out to them. We’ve really grown.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"MTRKOCCA5JDSXFHJ57SPI7TONI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070834},"content":"In 2011, Holy Trinity Rathmines was attended by “15 elderly people. Now there are hundreds of young people.” The “pews are gone, liturgy is different, we do lots of dialogue, we don’t do monologues, it’s a different way of doing church.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EGOPKEGGB5EDTF3L2OJ3MJJA4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070835},"content":"They “do lots of stuff outside of a Sunday because I think Sundays are gone now” with the focus “in homes, around meals”, he says. “Part of what we do in Pioneer Ministry is create a place where anyone can belong, first, before they believe anything and before they behave in a certain way. So, for young people, being accepted for what they are is absolutely vital.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4UTLRSUPNNHRZCGMFRKCNY3PC4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070836},"content":"The younger generation “are flocking away from the church”, yet are “becoming more spiritual”. There was “a deep sense of spirituality in their music. I think their sense of spirituality is in being open to the world around them.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"7FYKCCXM45FABHAO52STRFV4HM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070837},"content":"They are the first generation who are “more interested in spirituality as opposed to organised religion, and it’s fascinating. We’re kind of going back to a time of Patrick, who dealt with a pagan philosophy and people open to something more than themselves. But organised religion wasn’t something they were up to. I think we’re kind of in that time again, of tapping into the spirituality which is so important in the life of our island.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"U3FR4WD4IBG45OCTF7S4TO2N74","additional_properties":{"_id":"AQG7PX2ANVETNFGYM5467YDE6Q"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"USIF7O5LDNHURNNIPTIEYIISBA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070838},"content":"Numbers attending Church of Ireland Sunday services across the island of Ireland “would not fill the seats and stands of the Aviva Stadium, once,” Archbishop of Dublin Michael Jackson has said. On any of the four Sundays on which a census of attendance was taken across the church in 2023, “numbers were around 40,000″, he said, adding that it meant “there is now one church building for every 49 people”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ODRA57ONTZD5XAUV5SDB2EDZKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070840},"content":"He notes that “between 1.6 and 1.8 million people live in the Greater Dublin Area”, yet the 2023 census found total attendance at Church of Ireland Sunday services in the diocese “barely scrape over the 5,000 mark”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2T33QGE2H5GWLPUJGL26QXOAUA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070841},"content":"Overall, the church’s internal 2023 census of attendance at those Sunday services showed a drop of 30 per cent on a similar census in 2013, he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XZESOG56VBEFPEWIY4LO4VU3RQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070842},"content":"Jackson presented the figures in his presidential address to the synods of Dublin and Glendalough dioceses last month. “This is who we are and where we are,” he said, with more and more people in suburban parishes “telling me and others that they feel the boat has already sailed”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KAJZQOH34VAWXGMQ2YYJ5FHZMQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070843},"content":"He spoke of “dis-ease and disgruntlement and, even from time to time, defeat” among people in the church, “an organisation that has all the signs of slipping away from them and from everything that they have held dear in their everyday church lives.” This, he said was “not begrudgery. This is not even sentimentality. This is bereavement. This is distress. This is real alienation. This is most worrying.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"GGFLHMUKGJGRXOUHP4IOPGLVXI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070844},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"4MF3LDJ7YFEI7EWC2BR3NMPIFA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070845},"content":"The 2023 Sunday services census to which Jackson referred took place in all Church of Ireland churches across the island last year on February 5th, June 11th, September 17th and November 26th. It found that 40,117 church members in Ireland attended services on February 5th, 42,209 on June 11th, 42,570 on September 17th and 44, 557 on November 26th, making a rough average of about 42,000.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VIVSBRQVGBAZHNG5ARYTDDWOKE","additional_properties":{"_id":"JWGHQSSCXVD47A25GIP5TG2MBM"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"XZ6PDGE44FB3XKXSF3AWH4VLEM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070847},"content":"A similar census was carried out in the church over three Sundays in November 2013. It found average attendance at 58,000 people, or 15.5 per cent of the Church of Ireland population, as defined by the 2011 censuses in the Republic and Northern Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MD7QQJ2NEFCJBANZYCQTOU35AY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070848},"content":"According to the combined 2022 census in the Republic and the 2021 Northern Ireland census, there are approximately 345,000 Church of Ireland members on the island (124,749 in the Republic, 219,788 in Northern Ireland), meaning attendance of 42,000 at those Sunday services in 2023 amounted to about 13 per cent of its population.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4R6HONRXYJC4FK3SHNFHSR2BYM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070849},"content":"However, even as Church of Ireland attendance at Sunday services continues to decline, its population in the Republic has grown. According to the Republic’s 2022 census, its Church of Ireland population grew by 2 per cent (from 122,612) since the previous census of 2016.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3ZQOWERAZFEDPKVGQOBIPUYNOI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070850},"content":"The 2021 Northern Ireland census showed Church of Ireland membership there had dropped 2.2 per cent to 11.5 per cent of the population, from its 248,821 members in 2011.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BFLIRWBOIRDONK54CEGQ4YQOFM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070851},"content":"On the difference between those who claim Church of Ireland membership and those who attend its Sunday services, church spokesman Peter Cheney says “the overall number of people who currently self-identify as members of the Church of Ireland is likely to be considerably closer to the State census figures”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WWARX7GHLRB3NKQJMOACQPGKSM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070852},"content":"Church of Ireland Dean of Limerick Niall Sloane says the Church of Ireland is not about to disappear. “My own experience is one of growth. I cover the whole of the city of Limerick which includes the cathedral, an urban church and one rural church out in Murroe.” Since 2013, “numbers have doubled”, he says. “I don’t think the Church of Ireland is going to wipe itself out or anything like that.” He continues: “We’ve had a new bishop this past two years and in the short time he’s been here we’ve seen that all our parishes, by Advent Sunday, will be filled.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"IJAAXGYTJNH6PDJIGDOHAAHFNA","additional_properties":{"_id":"J5ED56QKHZB5NFKXHUGITHE3WY"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"EC4AZGNSZ5FEDIEMXCXPNH4ZIM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070854},"content":"The diocese is the largest geographically in Ireland, taking in most of the Wild Atlantic Way from Sligo to Cork. “People are drawn to the west.” During Covid, people “decided they don’t want to be in the rat race of living in a city, with all the expense and all that, so people are going west”, Sloane says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HME4WNR4R5GGJIAXKJXHQH4SLM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070855},"content":"In the summer numbers “significantly grow, places like Spanish Point in Co Clare would have significant numbers, Roundstone in Galway, people holidaying, vacationing, with summer homes, et cetera”. Helping growth in Limerick, he felt, was a liturgy which “is carefully constructed, worship is at the heart of it all but it’s thoughtful, preaching is meaningful, pastoral care is careful”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OA77E7VGCRALHI6NBREJJ5WXF4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070856},"content":"Archdeacon of Armagh Peter Thompson says the Church of Ireland is not in danger of disappearing in Northern Ireland. “Not at all,” he says. Worship has become “more diverse and Sunday morning isn’t the only time people worship. In my parish we have more people working at weekends now – in healthcare, hospitality, retail.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"IOT6O3CCA5DOFH4QIW7RIUQ6AM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070857},"content":"People were “much more mobile”, while attendance at a midweek Wednesday service had “increased by 150 per cent in the last five years, because people aren’t always available on a Sunday”. The census did not provide “the full picture of attendance at worship at all and that’s before we touch on online worship”, he says. Since Covid “we’ve gathered a sizeable number of regular worshippers who are physically unable to be present on a Sunday”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"K3QD7ATDEVBWTGLVEA62MVMN6Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070858},"content":"Canon Gillian Wharton, rector at St Philip and St James’ Church in Booterstown, Co Dublin, says: “There’s a different way in which people now participate in worship and a different dynamic that’s going on. So, even if you are looking back to 2013, I would say now that we would have as many people involved in our parish and attending worship as we have 10 years ago, and in some cases more, but not as often.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BMFB7XYV6NFXZMBZHZV75YPNOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070859},"content":"She explains: “Ten years ago we didn’t have the amount of sports activities on a Sunday morning.” That is now “absolutely the case and we have to constantly battle with that”. In her parish, “we would have, I would say, the same number, in fact more people attending and involved, not as often”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5Q4VTHGATRCYTJ2EDWEFMCGEKI","additional_properties":{"_id":"IBO6EGRASBF73LHLLYP3FXFJUU"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"QODSZF7KJNAJZMGWXMMSQR6P6M","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070860},"content":"Wharton adds: “We’re not sticking our heads in the sand either, thinking that there isn’t cause to constantly evaluate and review.” People were now “choosing to opt in. They’re making a positive choice.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"FHOECSDZBBBHLOTOEOZERXDYMU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070861},"content":"Hazel Corrigan, honorary secretary to the Church of Ireland General Synods, does not believe there is any cause for alarm in the church over declining numbers. People probably need to look at the issue “a bit wider, in that – and I can see it in my own parish – there are more people working at home, there are so many kids’ sports now, with so many other activities going on. The days of attendance which was obligatory driven by your parents making you go to church, those days are gone.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"QODSZF7KJNAJZMGWXMMSQR6P6M","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070862},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"2ELXJAIC7JDQNDVRRS4IAWIDFE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070863},"content":"The church’s national youth officer Simon Henry recalls how this year the church’s “Summer Madness, Ireland’s largest Christian youth festival, had over 200 young people come to faith this summer for the first time, with the biggest numbers attending that since pre-Covid”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BPCU4UM6ORCTBPBOIKFSU3E2E4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070864},"content":"It was also the case now that “a lot of youth work is not done on a Sunday morning” but “mostly during the week”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EGD3E3NEPBFA7B2NLMAV5OVFJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070865},"content":"Still, in February 2023, the church launched its Pioneer Ministry, with the aim “of reaching those outside the church in new ways and in different places”, according to its website. It notes how “over the last 50 years, attendance and membership of the Church of Ireland has progressively declined, as has also been observed in many other Christian denominations in western societies”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OGGERMPKRJE5JCRCYY5LJWPONU","additional_properties":{"_id":"BK374CXNGFDKZIELNNU5TOK5UY"},"content":"Catholicism is having a moment: A new generation finds solace in the Confession box and sense of community","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"5A3W734XORBGJM6PBEAEVINAP4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070866},"content":"This, it says, “has resulted in a narrowing of the fringe of people with whom traditional church can connect. There are now more people in our communities who have no engagement with the church and no understanding of the Christian message. 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Helena Trench, principal of Powerstown Educate Together National School, said it had been “deeply disheartening” to witness the challenges faced by children’s parents who have been forced to apply to up to 20 or 30 schools to find a place.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3AEITESESVGXZJBBFZ4QSKZEPE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732300091339},"content":"She said the trial of a new common applications system for all schools in the area was a first step in reducing the burden on families and enabling better planning for places.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PYOGXW5IFRAN5C34X62ZCXFQWA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732298464483},"content":"Minister of State with responsibility for special education <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/hildegarde-naughton/\" target=\"_blank\">Hildegarde Naughton</a> said recently she was “committed to ensuring that every child has a school place appropriate for their needs” and hoped the common system could be expanded nationwide.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Carl O'Brien"}},"name":"Carl O'Brien"}]},"description":{"basic":"Official estimates point to a near doubling in proportion of children with autism in need of support at school within five years"},"display_date":"2024-11-23T06:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Sharp increase in autism diagnoses to require thousands of additional special needs places in schools","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"2F4WB4ED5JGD7WDGGCXBOYV2FE","auth":{"1":"053ce9d9fb3e8a11e8067db7776c01c97c4660fb40b60d601b888a4f03262b2a"},"focal_point":{"x":1896,"y":1237},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/2F4WB4ED5JGD7WDGGCXBOYV2FE.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Education"},{"name":"Social Affairs"},{"name":"Ireland"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/ireland/education/2024/11/23/sharp-increase-in-autism-to-require-thousands-of-additional-special-needs-places-in-schools/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/ireland/education","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Education"}}}},{"_id":"NBUTDA6BFBD45ICQ2ID37LJW24","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":376,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/a7b98f1f-a8a0-4530-9174-9717e0271b36/versions/1732274097/media/6da3903e06161582e260fb01f558fbe6_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/ireland/dublin/2024/11/23/dublin-riots-one-year-on-north-inner-city-youth-traumatised-by-the-stigma-of-violence/","content_elements":[{"_id":"4ISTEFB35VA43FFEGNIA6FK55A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635412},"content":"A year on from the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dublin-riots/\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin riots</a>, young residents of the north inner city still feel “unfairly blamed” and hurt by how their community was stigmatised afterwards.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4F46BOQSZRCHZG76VNSCS7U77Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635413},"content":"They are “annoyed”, feel nothing has improved and are “fearful” of similar clashes in future. Youth workers say many young people remain traumatised 12 months later.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NCVPULDNONEHVDJM57B4PNNDQ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635414},"content":"The Dublin riots broke out on November 23rd, 2023, following the stabbing of three children and a care worker outside a primary school on Parnell Square.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VXHHKAHA7FF2LBY6N7PDEKISWY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635415},"content":"In December <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2024/02/22/parnell-square-stabbing-accused-sent-forward-for-trial-to-central-criminal-court/\" target=\"_blank\">Riad Bouchaker</a>, an Irish citizen and Algerian national, of no fixed abode, was charged with attempted murder.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YFMXD3JKHBED5CU5HIOG32NPNE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635416},"content":"There have been multiple arrests and convictions in the year since then over the public disorder in the hours after the attack.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EQ6JMWHKGREUBFHZN4ID465QMQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635417},"content":"On Thursday, Declan Donaghey (28) of Williams Place Upper, Dorset Street, pleaded guilty to arson, violent disorder and criminal damage during the riots and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2024/11/20/man-who-set-fire-to-garda-patrol-car-in-dublin-riots-is-jailed-for-6-years/\" target=\"_blank\">was jailed</a> for 6½ years.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BHCADMYTVBD2VIIH4DEVDGYZB4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635418},"content":"“I do think he got too long,” says Sean (20) who does not want to give his full name, as he walks along Gardiner Street in Dublin this week. He believes they “just had to make an example out of him”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G7WM3KFUORCXJOQMQFMPEFVKY4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635419},"content":"He feels young people in the area were “big time” blamed for the riots. He didn’t get involved. “I used my brain, but I can see the way people were; they were frustrated and got involved,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J7RJ7G3BAVBUTOXEXGKUMST5CA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635420},"content":"A teenage girl on Sean McDermott Street, when asked how she feels ahead of the anniversary of the riots, says: “Everyone is kind of on edge, fearful it’s going to happen again.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"MP6JSBK5QLKISVSTLPKPQJQOFE","additional_properties":{"_id":"SUGM5U546NHXPBZXPZLOE42VUI"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"4YYPFOQGCVFOJCNJUZVJUEJEFM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635422},"content":"Luke Fay (21) from Sheriff Street, who is a history and philosophy student at Trinity College Dublin, says: “Just because the area is seen as a bad area doesn’t mean people coming from there are bad.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J5F24O3C5NFWFNB27DLSAWFJM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635423},"content":"“When people are given opportunities and chances, they will take them. I am a testament to that,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FE3IZ4XISFATPLJDO65T5DQWM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635424},"content":"His family has lived in the north inner city for generations. His father, Mark Fay, runs a local shop with his grandfather Gerry – both well-known and respected community activists. Luke too is active, advocating for young people and sitting on the boards of the North Inner City Community Coalition and the North Wall Women’s Centre.","type":"text"},{"_id":"URLQQ72GBFE7RA5DUGFQ5EFFHU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635425},"content":"He was at home when the riots erupted getting texts from friends “caught up in it” and “desperate to get out”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3AMOSVMIINFSNHPW6TKNUUFCBE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635426},"content":"Local youth workers Dean Murray and Jonathan Dowling, who is also a criminologist, say anger had been festering in the community since Covid lockdowns, which had a more adverse impact on overcrowded, poorer homes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GRZDGK7BZZCXLFTLKKONDRWYDI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635427},"content":"“We are going to be cleaning up the impact of Covid on young people in disadvantaged areas for many years,” says Dowling.","type":"text"},{"_id":"POUWB4HEUNC2VLDJC5WLOIGPBA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635428},"content":"The return to post-Covid normality coincided with a sharp rise in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/immigration/\" target=\"_blank\">immigration</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SFAXLP7XTJFNHFGGM7Q4AADIXQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635429},"content":"“There was a lot of anger building in the community, a lot of protests in the area – in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2022/12/03/in-east-wall-a-struggle-to-control-the-narrative-over-asylum-seeker-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">East Wall</a>, on Talbot Street. People’s genuine fears were stoked by people who had far-right agendas,” says Murray.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3KKSQDQERFEYZFJPG4AVKSB3EU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635430},"content":"Dowling “panicked” when news of the stabbings broke. “I knew this was going to explode,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VUTPYQCWPVDTPFZWTNWQAJRGZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635431},"content":"In the immediate aftermath “a lot of kids were quite fearful”, says Dowling, “coming out of school with fear: ‘What if someone comes to my school with a knife?’”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EZL5XUZTXFAA3NEIEG4G663VTY","additional_properties":{"_id":"T5K6UMGTGVGLPCG2NHWBM3DASU"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"5BEKFGHQRBB4LLUPN74IUBX5DA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635433},"content":"Children of colour feared being attacked. Schools and clubs saw a drop in attendance in the days afterwards.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RYQDDGVFUZF65PSBHGHLXEJLUM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635434},"content":"Many of Fay’s peers were “shook up that this could be allowed to happen, and worried for the future”. They then felt their community was blamed, he adds.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GMUXURSPGFELRFMCOJO5WV2DXE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635435},"content":"Minister for Justice Helen McEntee described those involved in the riots as “<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/12/08/justine-mccarthy-politicians-throwing-around-terms-like-scumbags-and-thugs-is-a-slippery-slope/\" target=\"_blank\">scumbags</a>”. Politicians described their horror at the violence but offered little comfort to those most affected, says Fay.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IHM76TBAVRF3XPJFTSWL5Z543U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635436},"content":"“The impact of the riots, especially on my community, was like a slap in the face,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X3CP347EEFEE7BSZYGYXX3LU7M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635439},"content":"The area is one of sharp economic contrasts. The Irish Financial Services Centre area is classified by independent agency Pobal as “very affluent”, while adjacent homes around Sheriff Street, Oriel Street and Summerhill Parade are “very disadvantaged”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"546IMRVHFFBRHPKPOTQTM7XL3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635440},"content":"“It feels like the community is crying out for very small things that would make a huge difference but always it’s only the bare minimum that is done,” says Fay.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JD6D6DAPUNHOFFIZWAPCANSW2Y","additional_properties":{"_id":"XX7C2FQW4VFXZODNSM4O2ZRZVM"},"content":"Election 2024: Elderly in Dublin’s north inner city say they are unconvinced by politicians","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"YV636VARHBHC5D33ZPVGYLJSIE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635442},"content":"He believes a portion of Dublin City Council’s €35 million budget for a <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2024/11/17/it-will-rejuvenate-our-great-city-ambitious-plans-for-dublin-lido-move-a-step-closer/\" target=\"_blank\">swimming pool</a> on George’s Dock would have “a bigger, better impact” tackling antisocial behaviour than employing a hundred extra gardaí.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DVLLK4IQBBDS7AC6TM25WBYQTA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635443},"content":"“We know what the problems are and how to solve them,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SO7UCK4QJNEEBG2EWLZRCC625Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635444},"content":"Fay knows people his age or younger, sleeping rough and selling drugs – “kids who have trauma”. He says there are supports in our area that would help them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PA5CJ6JELVFHHB6VFN5GBDRML4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635445},"content":"“But just not enough,” he says. “The services that could save them are crying out for funding. That’s State neglect.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"SLOU5GRRIJGNVGQTWHXYL6G52I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635446},"content":"Dowling says well-funded youth services are “crucial” where parents haven’t the capacity to mitigate the impact of poverty.","type":"text"},{"_id":"52B4ZAZ6BJA3JE2ESBXQCAWNRU","additional_properties":{"_id":"N6MWVZYI2RG2VN6FLKSFJ3EPU4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"LBR366R37FD63LCRVIG4RFWGIM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635448},"content":"Both he and Murray grew up in the area and “were born into social deficit but were lucky enough that our parents and peers were able to wrap around us and support us”, says Dowling.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AWDLNKRAW5GXDOQFOO5S63SLMQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635449},"content":"“I don’t believe anyone is born wanting to do something wrong. 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Mayes, B.A., M.Litt., Prebendary of Tipper. 15.15 CHORAL EVENSONG sung by the Cathedral Choir - Responses: Sumsion, Dyson in D, Psalm: 119 vv 1-16, Walford Davies: King of glory, Preacher: The Revd A.W.A. Mayes, B.A., M.Litt., Prebendary of Tipper. SUNG MATINS at 09.00 Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday CHORAL EVENSONG at 17.30 - Monday to Friday. EUCHARIST at 11.05 - Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday. For further information visit <a href=\"http://www.stpatrickscathedral.ie/\" target=\"_blank\">www.stpatrickscathedral.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"4DYN5TEYKZH2HBTBDEA5GAMA34","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203175889},"content":"CHURCH OF IRELAND","type":"header"},{"_id":"ZQ7SWQWSMVDFBP2ZLMD6P7OLUE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Ardamine Group of Parishes, Co Wexford</b> Monamolin 9 am Morning Prayer Ardamine 10.15 am Holy Communion Kilnamanagh 11.45 am Morning Prayer","type":"text"},{"_id":"N36QUSHI2FFVNF4OQJPSDH2VF4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Christ Church Bray</b> Rector: Revd Dr Leonard Madden. Sunday 10th November: 8.30 a.m. Holy Communion; 11 a.m. Remembrance Service. Monday 11th November: 11 a.m. Act of Remembrance. Live stream <a href=\"http://www.churchservices.tv/christchurchbray\">www.churchservices.tv/christchurchbray</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"65DLEHLH4FG5HEC5ETOEEPZ5WQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Audoen Cornmarket </b>9.30 Bellringing, 10.00 Eucharist (every Sunday), Remembrance. During works, access through the OPW Visitor Centre. Cars may be parked between Francis Street and Christ Church.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CVNZRIE325DIRNPG7LIYFDY74Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Catherine St James Donore Avenue</b> 11.30, Service of the Word, Remembrance Sunday. Speaker, Fr David Corrigan SM, PP, St Teresas Donore Avenue. Organist, Olesia Borsuk. Cars may be parked in the Churchyard.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KMKKQQW4W5CVPNG4YS7GHQSAMQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Zion Parish Church</b> Sunday 24th November - The Sunday before Advent - The Kingship of Christ. 10.30am Morning Prayer. 9am Holy Communion 1. All welcome.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RQYENRBEAFD4LPJDJ7ELFI3LBI","additional_properties":{},"content":"PRESBYTERIAN","type":"header"},{"_id":"2PHIZE7WKZAVBJ6P57AOGBSM3Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>About The Presbyterian Church in Ireland</b> The Presbyterian form of the Christian faith is best described as Reformed; with its strong emphasis on the Sovereignty of God, the Kingship of Christ, and the authority of the Bible. For more information, and for a full list of congregations around the whole island of Ireland, visit: <a href=\"http://www.presbyterianireland.org/\">www.presbyterianireland.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"HRGW3ICMIBCKFNV5NBMXPNC734","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Adelaide Road Presbyterian Church, Dublin City</b> Sundays at 11am in person or online. All Welcome. Our church building is located at the intersection of Earlsfort Terrace and Adelaide Road, Dublin 2. Rev Dr Colin Dickson has been our replacement minister while Rev Dr Sam Mawhinney served his year as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. To find out more visit: <a href=\"http://www.adelaideroadchurch.ie/\">www.adelaideroadchurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"DU4PFKY3RBGGPPDV2PLXD2FSLM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Clontarf and Scots Presbyterian Church, Dublin</b> Sunday Service is at 11am with Communion. We are located opposite Clontarf Road DART Station, Dublin 3. Rev Lorraine Ritchie. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://www.clontarfchurch.ie/\">www.clontarfchurch.ie</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"3EQPLCUKGNFMNFVQ5HKLLPCHXE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Donabate and Balbriggan Presbyterian Churches, Co. Dublin</b> Meet at 10:30am at Donabate and Portrane Community Centre, and at 4:30pm at Balbriggan Clubs Community Centre, Co. Dublin. Everyone is welcome. Rev. Andy Carroll. Visit <a href=\"http://www.donabatepc.org/\">www.donabatepc.org</a> to find out more and for directions","type":"text"},{"_id":"2Y7UMZKNZJFWJOY56RUQBYDM4Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Dún Laoghaire Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at York Road, Dun Laoghaire. Rev Clarke Deering. You will be most welcome to join us. For more information, visit: <a href=\"https://dl-pc.org/\">https://dl-pc.org/</a> or our Facebook page for regular updates, and online streaming.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BHKBNMFXRJAWNI3HOIRW4C4N5I","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Findlaters (Abbey Presbyterian Church)</b> 11am at Parnell Square, Dublin City. Rev Alan Boal. Communion on the first Sunday of each month. All welcome. Abbey exists to share Gods purpose; becoming more Christ-like as we go, and show the Gospel to the City. To find out more, visit: <a href=\"http://www.abbeychurch.ie/\">www.abbeychurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"5673HJHFAVCILDX5NHZKZK32UQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"PRESBYTERIAN","type":"header"},{"_id":"F2GGAC2WGJGJLD5WJUXFPEMMQ4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>About The Presbyterian Church in Ireland</b> The Presbyterian form of the Christian faith is best described as Reformed; with its strong emphasis on the Sovereignty of God, the Kingship of Christ, and the authority of the Bible. For more information, and for a full list of congregations around the whole island of Ireland, visit: <a href=\"http://www.presbyterianireland.org/\">www.presbyterianireland.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"FHGUXNPUOVE57CT5MQRIOZVY7A","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Adelaide Road Presbyterian Church, Dublin City</b> Sundays at 11am in person or online. All Welcome. Our church building is located at the intersection of Earlsfort Terrace and Adelaide Road, Dublin 2. Rev Dr Colin Dickson has been our replacement minister while Rev Dr Sam Mawhinney served his year as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. To find out more visit: <a href=\"http://www.adelaideroadchurch.ie/\">www.adelaideroadchurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"H3N5B5L4TFCMPAYID27BOPWYIM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Clontarf and Scots Presbyterian Church, Dublin</b> Sunday Service is at 11am with Communion. We are located opposite Clontarf Road DART Station, Dublin 3. Rev Lorraine Ritchie. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://www.clontarfchurch.ie/\">www.clontarfchurch.ie</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"XXGHVYDZINHONNN7A3JR7GPG5Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Donabate and Balbriggan Presbyterian Churches, Co. Dublin</b> Meet at 10:30am at Donabate and Portrane Community Centre, and at 4:30pm at Balbriggan Clubs Community Centre, Co. Dublin. Everyone is welcome. Rev. Andy Carroll. Visit <a href=\"http://www.donabatepc.org/\">www.donabatepc.org</a> to find out more and for directions","type":"text"},{"_id":"KCWMR7UMONCYVIFUB7YI3BJTGA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Dún Laoghaire Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at York Road, Dun Laoghaire. Rev Clarke Deering. You will be most welcome to join us. For more information, visit: <a href=\"https://dl-pc.org/\">https://dl-pc.org/</a> or our Facebook page for regular updates, and online streaming.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YDUEFXXT7NBD3MYMXRTFANS2OY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Findlaters (Abbey Presbyterian Church)</b> 11am at Parnell Square, Dublin City. Rev Alan Boal. Communion on the first Sunday of each month. All welcome. Abbey exists to share Gods purpose; becoming more Christ-like as we go, and show the Gospel to the City. To find out more, visit: <a href=\"http://www.abbeychurch.ie/\">www.abbeychurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y43LNP24TREGHBDFBX3NAM4ZPQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Howth and Malahide Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 10am at Malahide and 11:45am in Howth. Rev Alastair Dunlop. Everyone is welcome to join us, as we share in the Good News of our Lord Jesus Christ. Programme for children during the service. You are welcome to join us for tea and coffee after the service. Visit: <a href=\"http://www.hmpchurch.org/\">www.hmpchurch.org</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"ITL2KXFZFJD25JL2EIYCR5YSAI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Lucan Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at Main Street, Lucan Village. Lucan Presbyterian Church is a growing family of Christians who come from a variety of different church backgrounds, traditions and nationalities. Regardless of your age, background, experience or previous church connections you are welcome to come and visit us. For more information, visit <a href=\"http://www.lpc.ie/\">http://www.lpc.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"XZYP6SWYDJAYVNLVUUZZYE3HAQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Maynooth Presbyterian Church</b> Known locally as Maynooth Community Church; and meets together for worship on Sundays at 10:30am at Manor Mills Shopping Centre, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. On the first Sunday of the month we celebrate the Lords Supper (Communion). Rev Keith McCrory. Free parking is available in the underground car park and the service takes place on the 1st Floor. To find out more, visit <a href=\"http://maynoothcc.org/\">http://maynoothcc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"WYO2ZCNP65G7ZDSO4I5KI42J5Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Naas Presbyterian Church, Co. Kildare</b> 11am with preacher, Mr Tom Dowling, Kilkenny Presbyterian. Programme for children during the service, and tea and coffee served afterwards. The church building is located across the street from the post office and town hall, and overlooks South Main Street - you cannot miss us. For further information, visit our Facebook page: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/NaasPCI\">www.facebook.com/NaasPCI</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"V4QCSDBC5JEMDCYAIZRRZUQS5Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Blackrock, Co. Dublin</b> Sundays at 9.45am for a traditional service of prayer and praise with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Junior Church for children and young people aged 5 to 15 years. For more information, visit <a href=\"https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie/\">https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie</a> - Rev Andrew Gill","type":"text"},{"_id":"SXVD26A5KBCB5PS5JVRW4UMJ7M","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Bray, Co. Wicklow</b> (We are located at the corner of Eglinton Road and Quinsborough Road) As a congregation, we exist to glorify God through worship and service. We meet every Sunday at 11:30am for a traditional service of prayer and praise, with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Sunday School for children. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://standrewschurchbray.com/\">standrewschurchbray.com</a> for more information. Rev. Andrew Gill","type":"text"},{"_id":"V5LQNSCE4NDF5HJLE3XCROSQNM","additional_properties":{},"content":"METHODIST","type":"header"},{"_id":"RA52VZGP7ZG5FHSUKGMNDKW5JA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>About the Methodist Church in Ireland</b> - The Methodist Church in Ireland is a community of people drawn together by Gods love, who seek to live wholeheartedly as followers of Jesus for the transformation of the world. With 212 churches spread across the island of Ireland from North to South, and East to West. 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The Crooksling site has capacity for 540 people and houses between 10 and 12 men in each tent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XIOEAHBGR5DN3CYDU3EECSOAGY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732037063533},"content":"In an update the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth said the people involved are being moved indoors to buildings on the site.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UWPBIJ3LVNFNXHXELFQPCKV2HU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732037063534},"content":"The Department added: “Contingency plans to use the buildings on the site as temporary indoor accommodation have been put into action, and all residents will either be moved into the indoor buildings, or to another site, before tonight.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WNWUJELG5NBLHOQMPTFICOPP7Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732037063535},"content":"“Our team are on site at Crooksling and will remain in place while we work to ensure people are warm and dry.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"7a4aa85f-0b12-4137-9948-14c869613d9e","additional_properties":{"_id":"3RPFUXYTGJFFJFQGLSUGU3ZYXA"},"subtype":"irish-times-video","type":"video"},{"_id":"EXPBMF5XXJG6XMSLXPJOUO2YTY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732107043232},"content":"However, an official liaising directly with asylum seekers in Crooksling expressed concern that not all residents had been brought indoors on Tuesday evening.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W5ZK5EJLXNBQLG37PFCH7XUBXE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732022792447},"content":"Snow and sleet fell around Crooksling on Tuesday morning, while Met Éireann has forecast temperatures to drop below freezing on Tuesday night. 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This morning we have asked IPAS (International Protection Accommodation Services) to move people indoors at least until the cold weather passes.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TDRRQABWRBHX5OYLM2KUVD4HTA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732022792454},"content":"Residents also say they should be moved into the refurbished former nursing home building without delay and before temperatures drop further. Crooksling residents were temporarily moved indoors during the stormy weather in October before being rehoused again in tents.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DMVEQKRTRVCGTMY2YEMZKYJ7JI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732022792455},"content":"Asked what efforts were being made to improve conditions in Crooksling, a department of integration spokesman said the IPAS “cold weather response” had come into effect on November 15th, which provides additional supports to asylum seekers in tents or without accommodation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KLOWAJUU6JE7ZDDKM7BDIUUULY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732022792456},"content":"“All IPAS sites providing tented accommodation have plans in place for adverse weather, including cold weather contingency plans,” he said. “Tented accommodation is provided in robust, weather proof tents. 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Unions say this has led to a steady decline in their private-sector membership.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BINYLUHLXRAQXJDAGCEJQYVDI4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732025636146},"content":"They say change is needed more than ever now to stem the rise of the far right by addressing its claims that the concerns of large sections of the population are being ignored by the political mainstream.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4FCQC2RUVRBNRC63Q455CUQYE4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732025636147},"content":"“What we’re looking for is new legislation to protect workplace representatives, protect the right to organise in the workplace and provide for genuine collective bargaining in Ireland,” said Ms Ní Bhrógáin. “The outgoing Government supported this directive in Europe and that directive requires the Government not just to support collective bargaining but to promote it. We currently have half the rate of coverage of our EU peers.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"RMNYSPOCEVE5TEEHGRYWTQOBB4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732025636148},"content":"Lynda Scully, a supervisor at the Dublin 12 Jobs Initiative and a Siptu activist, said it had taken workers in her sector 15 years to achieve recognition but that the benefits since they succeeded had been clear.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WDXOK3ZJMNAETBHRVYQYRVGTTM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732025636149},"content":"“It was difficult because we are so dispersed, across the whole country, and so it was difficult to organise people but since it was agreed we have received our first pay rise in 15 years, we now have a mechanism for sitting down and speaking with our employer when we are due another one. 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People have already shown they want to support Ukrainians and asylum seekers “quietly in their own environment”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DW7RJJJWO5EPDJIFNSY2XP7BW4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731943931412},"content":"He acknowledged that communities may struggle to secure housing for a family and said additional supports would be available to navigate the accommodation crisis. Additional language classes and courses on entering the Irish workforce will also be made available, he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZL5R3OQ7HNC3PADE53TKMEWWNY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731943931413},"content":"Supporting a family in the long-term is challenging and rewarding and it is important for any interested communities to embark on the project “with their eyes open”, he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VLQWVHUUYRB7PJ56MBKNYAMJRU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731943931414},"content":"Khalil Al Shablaq from Syria, who was resettled through the IRPP in Clane, Co Kildare, with his wife and two daughters in 2019, said the local community “are family to us now”. 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The <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/jordan/\" target=\"_blank\">Jordanian</a>-<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/palestine/\" target=\"_blank\">Palestinian</a> was staying at the Crooksling tented <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/movement-of-asylum-seekers/\" target=\"_blank\">international protection</a> accommodation centre in Co <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dublin/\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin</a> when he was approached in the early summer by a Nigerian resident who suggested he volunteer with the controversial organisation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DA6SIGS4WJABTLKNEZQJPNQ4QE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362530},"content":"“He said I’d get a certificate that would help me with my refugee status and give me an advantage to remain in Ireland, and that they would help me with job interviews,” Ishtiah recalls.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FF7RWUODCBGFBEVMA2SOOJPUMM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362531},"content":"He also agreed to set up a Crooksling-Scientology WhatsApp group to help recruit other Arabic-speaking asylum seekers in the camp. 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Some treated the whole excursion as a joke.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FWFI75NGGZFLDGKK3HSQGWZTUA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362534},"content":"“Some of them didn’t even hand them out, they just threw them in the bin and then picked up the certificate,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YQ2JMXVVXJAJFPLGGFDOUD2WKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362535},"content":"However, others were keen to get involved and participated in a “human rights open day” at the Church of Scientology in Firhouse in July. “It was called Nelson Mandela day and it brought people from all around Dublin together – Somalis, Nigerians, Jordanians and Palestinians. We got certificates for that day too.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"KFRL6MHDQNBY7JSQFU7JRTWT2M","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362536},"content":"One afternoon, a group of men were brought to the church for training in maintaining eye contact with one another, he said. “They gave us a booklet about it, said it’s better for people when handing out leaflets.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"XPTK3CJ2AVBHBKRIJ7S4XDHN44","additional_properties":{"_id":"Q3F3YZ5EURDNJHUIXTRFN6AP2A"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"M4NC3HGIQVEIJBSNQBKTSEGQ3Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362537},"content":"Ishtiah started feeling uneasy when church representatives suggested he give English classes to other asylum seekers on their premises but without remuneration. 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In some cases these groups hide their connection to Scientology.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O3BFLA22HBGZNEMC4FR5W4O4AM","additional_properties":{"_id":"VQWYT4RUGNGMFM2XQA77ZJYAPY"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"3VFR4EJ5H5GNJNHRV5E64QLXYQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731681502862},"content":"Scientology has been variously described as a religion, cult and, in several countries, a scam. It teaches that man is immortal and that traumatic events in a person’s life can only be cured by an often expensive process known as “auditing”. In the past it has attracted many high-profile supporters, including Hollywood actor Tom Cruise. However, its membership was dwindled in recent years.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ALWVRENSZFEABBI2RHFFQ3HK2M","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362541},"content":"Scientology’s founder, science fiction writer L Ron Hubbard, opened an office in Dublin in 1956, just two years after founding the organisation. In 2017 the group opened <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/keep-tom-cruise-out-of-firhouse-scientology-centre-sparks-protest-1.3256577\">a large centre in Firhouse, Dublin</a> which frequently hosts free <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/scientology-community-activity-sparks-concern-in-firhouse-1.3322442\">concerts and family events</a> for the local community. It regularly carries out litter clean ups and has distributed large amounts of literature to schools around the country.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SXI5EXMXMZDWZLIAUW7FDBN4NM","additional_properties":{"_id":"BVCTIJCFR5BJJPMTEDPFQY5G4I"},"content":"How Scientology is trying to insert itself into Irish schools","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"GPIWHRQBQND53IX2GKRAZBXZPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362543},"content":"Critics and anti-cult activists have accused Scientology of attempting to infiltrate Irish society by stealth. The goal, they say, is to legitimise itself and shed its image as a predatory organisation that brainwashes and extorts money from members.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BWRP5HRT7ZECVBBS4HDOE5OZQQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362544},"content":"“What’s clear, because they’re based here in Firhouse, is they’re trying to extend their reach into all aspects of community volunteering and manipulating people in order to do that,” said Alan Edge, an independent councillor for South Dublin County Council.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7QHXPAZQTFKAXGKLYUHBHLYZ6A","additional_properties":{"_id":"JJDWCSCB4ND53DANVF5DUMEN34"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"AYXNGP3UNRB2ROFCYILWBDO6E4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362545},"content":"“I’ve been aware at first hand of their attempt to infiltrate drug and alcohol taskforces; they’ve been prevented from doing this because of our serious concerns [that] their practices may be harmful.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TKP7D3KEWFCWJM5ZGAQMJG2FFY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362548},"content":"On paper, there is little evidence Scientology is succeeding at its alleged infiltrating goals. The 2022 census showed there were 132 scientologists in Ireland, compared to 189 “satanists” and 1,800 “Jedi Knights”. However, the true figure may be higher, as the number of asylum seekers in Ireland has increased significantly since the 2022 census.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MTRSEIMEF5F3REBOQ3OYDYSDD4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362549},"content":"Endurance Osaretin, who came to Ireland in February seeking asylum, has been volunteering with the Church of Scientology for five months and leads leaflet drops in Dublin’s city centre every week. Church representatives “talk about boosting your career, your dreams,” said Osaretin. “It’s an opportunity to develop your talents.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"WU2RPPO2W5FU3PZLBFJOEPWETQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362550},"content":"Osaretin has acquired a range of certificates, as well as a letter of appreciation from Scientology for his “constant support of the humanitarian campaigns”. He also paid €20 for a training course on how to enter the Irish labour market.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DWMGWTOADFAD5G6RQZFALAKFXA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362551},"content":"He plans to use the reference letter in his interview for international protection. “I’ve done four months of cleaning with no pay and sometimes you think you should be paid. But I don’t get annoyed. I just see it as a way of being kind and trying to help,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QQVWINV4MNAB3I7XLERFSKAYBE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362552},"content":"“Many people say bad things about Scientologists but I don’t really care. I just want to join and do something, trying to help people and show them the way. I’ve also met new friends.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"P2AGMDJSAVAGHEUIHDMR7SISDI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362557},"content":"Legal experts say the certificates offered by Scientology would be of “zero benefit” when applying for asylum or subsidiary protection.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AU4CODVCH5EFVGHHPLHIFCMJ4I","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362558},"content":"One member of the International Protection Appeals Tribunal, which hears appeals against refusals of asylum status, said applicants frequently include letters from churches or community groups in support of their case. “They all carry no weight,” the tribunal member added.","type":"text"},{"_id":"63XZB7UD45EFHAGHCCOWZ7OR4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1731669144844},"content":"“In an international protection case the only issue is whether a person is at risk of serious harm or persecution in the country or origin,” said David Leonard, a barrister specialising in asylum law.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HFZI6G7GFBBQVJP3DH6KDC2OPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362560},"content":"If asylum seekers fail in the application, it is still open to them to apply to the Minister for Justice for “leave to remain”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PHIHFYIYO5AUHCCUTQBJH63C5U","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362561},"content":"In theory, a certificate detailing voluntary work could be relevant here, said Leonard. “But I can’t imagine a certificate from [Scientology] would materially increase your chances of remaining in Ireland. 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Volunteers were visible on the streets as recently as last week.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UNOJ5ETWZ5GHBIBMJ7J5ZCB7VY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731602263197},"content":"In response to queries, Diana Stahl, director of public affairs for the Church of Scientology in Ireland, said “many hundreds of asylum seekers joined in numerous volunteer projects”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"POUAQ5QGUJHKDKZXF6WNZUY4Q4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731602263198},"content":"Asylum seekers “reached out” to the organisation and “some have become very passionate about these topics and asked to volunteer,” she said. “Many volunteers eagerly requested letters or certificates to acknowledge their participation, which we provided.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"S64FIVOWYNBSHGBK447UZKGWKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731602263199},"content":"The church “has never and would never advise any asylum seeker on any legal aspects of their application or circumstances”, Ms Stahl said, adding that meals were provided for volunteers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VHVTIH6LLJH3TCROUUYI5C7APM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731602263201},"content":"She said the church had received numerous community awards for its volunteer work, including one from Cllr Edge when he was mayor of South Dublin","type":"text"},{"_id":"2FOT7AYVINF6LGJFY5KRO2G3QI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731602263202},"content":"Cllr Edge said the organisation participated in an event to raise money for cancer research and that he presented certificates to everyone involved. He said he was not aware until the ceremony that Scientology was a participant.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KAJC36KRNNHSVFR5JRRAR5AV2E","additional_properties":{"_id":1731606284827},"content":"The Department of Integration said some accommodation centres had been made aware of contacts between the Church of Scientology and residents. 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Kingston, <a href=\"http://B.Sc\" target=\"_blank\">B.Sc</a>., <a href=\"http://M.Sc\" target=\"_blank\">M.Sc</a>., <a href=\"http://B.Th\" target=\"_blank\">B.Th</a>., Prebendary of Yagoe. 15.15 CHORAL EVENSONG sung by the Lay Vicars Choral -in memory of Artists, Musicians, and Entertainment professionals - Responses: Tallis, Batten: The Short Service, Psalm: 89 vv 1-19, Anon (16thC): Justorum animae, Preacher: The Revd M.T. Kingston, <a href=\"http://B.Sc\" target=\"_blank\">B.Sc</a>., <a href=\"http://M.Sc\" target=\"_blank\">M.Sc</a>., <a href=\"http://B.Th\" target=\"_blank\">B.Th</a>., Prebendary of Yagoe. SUNG MATINS at 09.00 - Monday to Friday CHORAL EVENSONG at 17.30 - Monday to Friday. EUCHARIST at 11.05 Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday. 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Live stream <a href=\"http://www.churchservices.tv/christchurchbray\">www.churchservices.tv/christchurchbray</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"6IKJSJ54VBCTHP6EUURKOELEY4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Audoen Cornmarket </b>9.30 Bellringing, 10.00 Eucharist (every Sunday), Remembrance. During works, access through the OPW Visitor Centre. Cars may be parked between Francis Street and Christ Church.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FRCLJ53PGVHXFGYVNIFGBHTYAI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Catherine St James Donore Avenue</b> 11.30, Service of the Word, Remembrance Sunday. Speaker, Fr David Corrigan SM, PP, St Teresas Donore Avenue. Organist, Olesia Borsuk. Cars may be parked in the Churchyard.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IC4H4TMG2BF5ZNBS6NMY7VR7LY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Zion Parish Church</b> Sunday 17th November - The Second Sunday before Advent. 10.30am Holy Communion and Holy Baptism. 9am Holy Communion 1. All welcome.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AGYYDRYWFNGS5MIQZBLRWTLQXQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"PRESBYTERIAN","type":"header"},{"_id":"5LH5GVYUVVA3HFXGBQALGPHLXE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>About The Presbyterian Church in Ireland</b> The Presbyterian form of the Christian faith is best described as Reformed; with its strong emphasis on the Sovereignty of God, the Kingship of Christ, and the authority of the Bible. For more information, and for a full list of congregations around the whole island of Ireland, visit: <a href=\"http://www.presbyterianireland.org/\">www.presbyterianireland.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"GP36L6LRB5CI7CAJKBJAMX3PAE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Adelaide Road Presbyterian Church, Dublin City</b> Sundays at 11am in person or online. All Welcome. Our church building is located at the intersection of Earlsfort Terrace and Adelaide Road, Dublin 2. Rev Dr Colin Dickson has been our replacement minister while Rev Dr Sam Mawhinney served his year as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. To find out more visit: <a href=\"http://www.adelaideroadchurch.ie/\">www.adelaideroadchurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"V6LGUHET7BBF5DUQTQVGQG4IN4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Clontarf and Scots Presbyterian Church, Dublin</b> Sunday Service is at 11am with Communion. We are located opposite Clontarf Road DART Station, Dublin 3. Rev Lorraine Ritchie. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://www.clontarfchurch.ie/\">www.clontarfchurch.ie</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"DDM7FE3BOZAF3DHTF6TBWCGM5Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Donabate and Balbriggan Presbyterian Churches, Co. Dublin</b> Meet at 10:30am at Donabate and Portrane Community Centre, and at 4:30pm at Balbriggan Clubs Community Centre, Co. Dublin. Everyone is welcome. Rev. Andy Carroll. Visit <a href=\"http://www.donabatepc.org/\">www.donabatepc.org</a> to find out more and for directions","type":"text"},{"_id":"KCKQUOBOH5GWFJKZCV26NCAYRE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Dún Laoghaire Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at York Road, Dun Laoghaire. Rev Clarke Deering. You will be most welcome to join us. For more information, visit: <a href=\"https://dl-pc.org/\">https://dl-pc.org/</a> or our Facebook page for regular updates, and online streaming.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I7UBEJ4OHNC5JKP2ENO5URVONU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Findlaters (Abbey Presbyterian Church)</b> 11am at Parnell Square, Dublin City. Rev Alan Boal. Communion on the first Sunday of each month. All welcome. Abbey exists to share Gods purpose; becoming more Christ-like as we go, and show the Gospel to the City. To find out more, visit: <a href=\"http://www.abbeychurch.ie/\">www.abbeychurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"IUQVZOKZXVAMXFRVTJQMAC3DVA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Howth and Malahide Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 10am at Malahide and 11:45am in Howth. Rev Alastair Dunlop. Everyone is welcome to join us, as we share in the Good News of our Lord Jesus Christ. Programme for children during the service. You are welcome to join us for tea and coffee after the service. Visit: <a href=\"http://www.hmpchurch.org/\">www.hmpchurch.org</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"YZ3RTVJKDRFOTPOKZXOQSDMBEA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Lucan Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at Main Street, Lucan Village. Lucan Presbyterian Church is a growing family of Christians who come from a variety of different church backgrounds, traditions and nationalities. Regardless of your age, background, experience or previous church connections you are welcome to come and visit us. For more information, visit <a href=\"http://www.lpc.ie/\">http://www.lpc.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"HSAIXUAQERGKBGMXSA3DWQREPM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Maynooth Presbyterian Church</b> Known locally as Maynooth Community Church; and meets together for worship on Sundays at 10:30am at Manor Mills Shopping Centre, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. On the first Sunday of the month we celebrate the Lords Supper (Communion). Rev Keith McCrory. Free parking is available in the underground car park and the service takes place on the 1st Floor. To find out more, visit <a href=\"http://maynoothcc.org/\">http://maynoothcc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"ORFRHKEVVZHUJAC7LAQDJ75FKY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Naas Presbyterian Church, Co. Kildare</b> 11am with preacher, Mr Tom Dowling, Kilkenny Presbyterian. Programme for children during the service, and tea and coffee served afterwards. The church building is located across the street from the post office and town hall, and overlooks South Main Street - you cannot miss us. For further information, visit our Facebook page: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/NaasPCI\">www.facebook.com/NaasPCI</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"7XPMH7OOS5G75AFQGLKDLEOVWQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Blackrock, Co. Dublin</b> Sundays at 9.45am for a traditional service of prayer and praise with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Junior Church for children and young people aged 5 to 15 years. For more information, visit <a href=\"https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie/\">https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie</a> - Rev Andrew Gill","type":"text"},{"_id":"YT5C3HRW6ZE5LMODJTESWNN4CU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Bray, Co. 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To find a church near you, visit <a href=\"https://irishmethodist.org/\">https://irishmethodist.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q6PPFZMEEJA3ZBOCMDZ2YZYZYU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin</b> The Methodist Church, Northumberland Avenue, Dún Laoghaire. Sunday Service 11am. Our services are available at <a href=\"http://www.dlmc.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.dlmc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"ONA6OPZNPBDJXG32FBYYLRRZGY","additional_properties":{},"content":"RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS","type":"header"},{"_id":"CJ3R2E5BAZEWRA5YMJBJ3R6QLQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Quaker Meetings in Ireland</b> Quakers in Ireland invite you to join us for Meeting for Worship at any of our Meeting Houses around the country. Visitors will be warmly welcomed and there will be an opportunity to ask any questions you might have. 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This stated: “An employee who works a ‘5 over 7′ roster [five days in a weeklong period] and is scheduled to work on Sunday is entitled to single time extra for each hour worked.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"REI55N574NFKJKDULNE32V44AM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601862635},"content":"Rev Cuffe wrote to the hospital management in June 2022 looking for clarification on various allowances, including Sunday premium pay.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NDZJBSDA6RGD3IZMWSNJ75TFZU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601862636},"content":"His Fórsa rep said there had been a “lengthy engagement process” culminating in his client being told it had been “decided” after correspondence with the HSE that chaplains would “get single time extra”, or double time, for Sundays, starting on November 6th, 2023.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UBZ7JBR2PFHQTAXFGH2OZZ2VCU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601862637},"content":"The hospital’s position was that the Sunday premium had been paid to the complainant since that date in “good faith” and there was “no pre-existing contractual entitlement” to it. The extra pay had been provided for out of the hospital’s own funds rather than the HSE funding, which usually covered payroll, a representative of employers’ group Ibec, appearing for the hospital, submitted.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y5IICEDNXJCPNF3PJT7S2VSE2M","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601862639},"content":"A HSE circular addressing the provision of a chaplaincy service stated that it “shall include nights and weekends” and stated that “overtime is not payable”, it was submitted. The language of the circular was “mirrored” in contracts signed by Rev Cuffe in 2001 and 2006, it was further submitted.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZIMZK7OSSZBQPCUTZP5RVNWLF4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601862640},"content":"The Ibec representative argued that the clause “naturally included Sundays” and that a premium had been “incorporated into his contractual salary”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OZPJIFYYFND2DEROCM445DMIQI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601862641},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"XA6EB7N4WJGCPAXVSV43XLKYRA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601862642},"content":"Adjudicator Aideen Collard wrote that it was “incumbent” on the employer to make sure the chaplain was paid according to his contractual and statutory entitlements, but that it had been “guided by the HSE” in this regard.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MJDEBVDQSBHTHATMSRA3KUAFVI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601862643},"content":"She wrote that, as the hospital started paying the Sunday premium after 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No priest was ordained for the archdiocese this year and only two priests have been ordained for the archdiocese since 2020,” it is noted.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SZ2LUV36TJFFPASYCL6Y2QKRK4","additional_properties":{"_id":"52L7LKQ3HBCPLAK7POBGY2NY2Y"},"content":"Some 21 men begin studies for ordination as Catholic priests","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"GFXMOTR7HBGDRCTCPBNAUF6R4Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1731336657425},"content":"In 2023, “payments were made to 331 serving priests and 43 retired priests” in Dublin, it said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UACN2KK2DFFAPN2Q26HY5YFMSA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731336657426},"content":"Fr Tim Hazelwood, of the Association of Catholic Priests leadership team, said it was not possible to project priest numbers with accuracy. “The Christian Brothers had a projection (of declining numbers) for 20 years. It happened in 10,” he recalled. “Nobody knows. 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There’s nobody in reserve, just plugging the gap.” He thought the pressures involved were unfair on the ageing cohort of priests, who accept a greater burden serving many parishes “out of a sense of duty or for fear of letting people down”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OUWUSKPMURAWXAFQGUSHRWEVCE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731336657428},"content":"He spoke of parishes now where “Sunday Mass is on a Thursday”, and one diocese where a priest is serving 12 churches. “In rural Ireland, it is very difficult,” he said. “The expectation on an older group of priests is unfair.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"WHLZKLZCYFBJZPMQZEVMDA4T2M","additional_properties":{"_id":"GH2BC27V6FHMVNVFAPTE5YAOGM"},"content":"Two Dublin city centre Catholic parishes to merge due to priest shortage","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"WOPWXAJPVJDGVMX3YY7UQO3PBM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731336657429},"content":"The Dublin financial statement, for charities and services based at Archbishop’s House, found that total reserves there now stood at €129.4 million, up from €123.4 million in 2022, but it noted that “the decrease in Mass attendance and financial contributions has a direct effect on the charity’s ability to meet its fixed expenditures”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AJMW2WYGSFB5BKUU6JX52IY7BE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731336657430},"content":"It was anticipated “the existing reserves will be exhausted by 2041 if income levels reduce as forecast”, it said","type":"text"},{"_id":"GR4JQVKBHZAIFATMUMDZIANQQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731336657431},"content":"Dublin parishes had reserves of €229.6 million as of December 31st 2023, it said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YCDY6C2IB5FUNMX3YVDX7FFP3I","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Patsy McGarry"}},"name":"Patsy McGarry"}]},"description":{"basic":"Only two priests have been ordained in capital’s archdiocese since 2020, with none so far this year"},"display_date":"2024-11-11T17:01:07.3Z","headlines":{"basic":"Priest numbers in Dublin to fall 70 per cent in 20 years, report predicts","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"FKDPRYDXAVAXVEATJILFKFX7UQ","auth":{"1":"6bf6ae01e05b346728f12432d1bd6aee2dfd9848075adfed2b235275bb4c67f9"},"focal_point":{"x":659,"y":317},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/FKDPRYDXAVAXVEATJILFKFX7UQ.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Social Affairs"},{"name":"Ireland"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/ireland/social-affairs/2024/11/11/priest-numbers-in-dublin-to-fall-70-per-cent-in-20-years-report-predicts/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/ireland/social-affairs","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Social Affairs"}}}},{"_id":"5E54A434GNGANAHN47AD47ZLRA","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":289,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/5606ddd4-fbda-4b8d-b415-6fd602b0ed9e/versions/1731079721/media/bee4811fbbb5e67f6127256528c1f0d7_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/ireland/social-affairs/2024/11/11/how-multicultural-ireland-is-contributing-to-a-growth-in-the-presbyterian-church/","content_elements":[{"_id":"6UCBR6YIP5FONHLSRHDWMN4QDE","additional_properties":{"_id":1727528449679},"content":"The recent opening of a purpose-built Presbyterian church at <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/maynooth/\" target=\"_blank\">Maynooth</a>, Co Kildare, goes against current trends for all churches in Ireland where decline, not growth, appears to be the norm.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AGYK7RNKJZFVBPT5EWAC3UOSNI","additional_properties":{"_id":1727528449680},"content":"A classic ‘overnight success’ story, the opening of Maynooth Community Church comes after 20 years of nurturing which began in September 2002 when a small group of people began meeting in the town to pray and study the Bible together.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5A2OH6DYLVEHJDLBVUEGPQEWTI","additional_properties":{"_id":1727528449681},"content":"Rev Keith McCrory has been involved from the beginning. In November 2007, the group was formally constituted as a congregation of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland with Rev Dr McCrory installed as inaugural minister.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SDM7IMGNGZHHPLOHHR3UMAWRS4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731076337317},"content":"The fact is he is from Derry and was baptised both as a <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/catholic-church/\" target=\"_blank\">Catholic</a> and in the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/church-of-ireland/\" target=\"_blank\">Church of Ireland</a> by his now deceased parents possibly helps explain why he has such good ecumenical relations with local Catholic and Protestant clergy and their congregations in Maynooth.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B3AWTU5RP5CCTKPZ34EIOVOSFA","additional_properties":{"_id":1727528449683},"content":"The arrival and growth of the new Presbyterian Church in Maynooth was “accidental”, he said, attracted by the university and a growing commuter population in the area. It had nothing to do with Maynooth’s perception as Ireland’s Catholic citadel.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S5ZFP27ZUBBHDMASFFXNEKX3KM","additional_properties":{"_id":"2HUAGNEXPVB3LLN7RJFC3KQ3DU"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"TGA6K6XKP5AU5F2ZFQXKO6JOH4","additional_properties":{"_id":1727528449684},"content":"His Presbyterian congregation there includes a mixture of mainly Irish people and non-nationals, a majority of the Irish coming from Catholic backgrounds.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q6M272RVUVBM7ELHVIENYD6IDE","additional_properties":{"_id":1727528449685},"content":"Over the last 17 years Maynooth Community Church had a number of temporary homes, most recently at Gaelcholáiste Mhaigh Nuad, a secondary school run by the Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board at the Manor Mills Shopping Centre.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YIFWKA6WJVCOLM5IKIHW576GEU","additional_properties":{"_id":1727528449686},"content":"Today Rev McCrory leads a congregation of about 140, one of more than 500 in the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. At a total cost of €4.5 million, building of the new church complex started in April of last year on a 3.2-acre greenfield site opposite the Tesco shopping park in Maynooth. It covers 900 sq m and has a worship area for about 220 people.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NDTOWG3KKRFJTLIBZYQ6U2TGEI","additional_properties":{"_id":1727528449687},"content":"Remarkably, the church complex is already “debt-free”, Rev McCrory said, describing this as “a miracle, assisted by great local fundraising, the wider Presbyterian family, Trust Funds, etc”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DWK5E7FBJZEIBPLUKGTWJHY7N4","additional_properties":{"_id":"DWQWRKSVUJAJPBG6ZQPGSAJGZE"},"content":"Men are suffering a crisis of meaning. And some are finding answers in orthodox religion","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"UTGCYILN4RGWRHA6TUDPCT3AW4","additional_properties":{"_id":1727528449688},"content":"He lavished praise on “our architect Judith Hamilton, her team at Knox and Markwell, the builders Corbally Construction, our local politicians, Kildare County Council, and those who have hosted us in the past”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZABYOBQD2RH6BANRIP4CZNZLNA","additional_properties":{"_id":1727528449689},"content":"At the official opening in September, Presbyterian Moderator Rev Dr Richard Murray described it as “a wonderful and encouraging day” and gave thanks “for our rich Presbyterian heritage on this island”. He hoped to see similar developments “across Ireland, north, south east and west, in the years to come”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O7QASDDCKNDFTBDHVPFG6HR4SQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1727528449690},"content":"A number of Presbyterian churches have been renovated, extended and rebuilt in the Republic in recent years, notably at Kilkenny, Drogheda and Mullingar.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5CGBJVYB7VAOLEPSH6V5Y2IBVY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731076337327},"content":"Rick Hill, secretary to the Presbyterian Church’s Council for Mission in Ireland, said that the new church in Maynooth “shows that the trajectory of the church is not in a single direction, and neither is this example an isolated experience”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ABOPLZZ2GRGLDCZUZKN33ML4BU","additional_properties":{"_id":1727528449691},"content":"While the Presbyterian Church in Ireland “is not alone in seeing the overall official number of church membership fall”, it was also “seeing signs of growth, ‘green shoots’ if you like, in different places”, he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L2YOJBFE2BFNJASGVBD7JPYH2I","additional_properties":{"_id":"6QCMMRTAF5EP5F26UD56VHQB2Y"},"content":"Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity review: Magisterial work on theologies around sex","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"ABOPLZZ2GRGLDCZUZKN33ML4BU","additional_properties":{"_id":1727528449691},"content":"With the growth of a multicultural Ireland “we have seen many people of faith from overseas find a home in a number of Presbyterian churches. 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All described their hopes for getting a new house.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DBG4YJMIEBF3REYTGLMP3LLPK4","additional_properties":{"_id":"V57ITRFQBJAT5HZVA7Y7AYLPXM"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"D2ICE2QQV5BSRG6ITCPLMNDWKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731019238232},"content":"Aaron Ferguson is a family case manager with Focus Ireland, the lead charity working with homeless families.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HP4HEJ5C2VFINALYPTA5RX3M4Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1731029096841},"content":"“You see sometimes the kids are holding [in] how they are, putting on a brave face ... 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The figure was so shocking at the time then Taoiseach Enda Kenny told the Dáil there was “an emergency here for many of these cases”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J5YBJG47PZCL7DONJLYVH556Q4","additional_properties":{"_id":"7C5ZFMKNTNBB3BXWVA4NVA6X6Q"},"content":"From the archive: Dublin’s homeless children","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"6BTGD6QQV5BLTBGVDCHCYXXFTE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731029096845},"content":"At that time, the emerging housing crisis was a priority for then Minister for the Environment Alan Kelly, the Labour TD, who said resources would be made available to deal with it.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IOYQSLP7WVGYTGAPHFBGJDFBCY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731019238235},"content":"He was responding to then leader of the opposition and now Tánaiste Micheál Martin, who described the numbers of destitute children as “by any standards ... shameful”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GFWKPXJWFRCRNCEXICNYUKN77M","additional_properties":{"_id":1731019238236},"content":"Since, there have been two general elections – in February 2016, when the number of homeless children reached 1,881 in 912 families. By the time of the next election, in February 2020, there were 3,534 homeless children, in 1,610 families.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YBZAKIQ3PVB6XBAPOXBFQGKXNY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731019238237},"content":"On November 29th, as votes are cast in the next general election, publication of homelessness figures for October will likely report another bleak record.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I53PC3HUFRBZNHGHI2TGLM5FAA","additional_properties":{"_id":"M3PHATRQD5DCTLXZHW6ZEC5PGQ"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"CNQZAQGWBZCDJFNI5AQEPLEWWQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731019238238},"content":"In its plea to political parties now ramping up their election campaigns, Focus Ireland warns that without “specific and targeted” adjustments to “routine housing policy”, there will be “large scale homelessness for many years”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VHSNXV6S3BAGRGDQEN2PLA7S4A","additional_properties":{"_id":"DG5XICGURZCCBDNPPI3Y2B2FCA"},"content":"Homeless families should get dedicated portion of new social housing supply, Focus Ireland says","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"CU6P5Y5RN5F2BFN5IPA5P5WVHQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731019238239},"content":"In 2014 the primary cause of family homelessness was spiralling rents. The main driver now is landlords selling up.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OFKT7RMG2ZDPZDRPJXVV3GIWYY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731019238240},"content":"Ferguson is concerned at a mismatch between number of families coming into homelessness and lower numbers exiting. This means some families, especially the more vulnerable, are getting stuck in homelessness.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S476T5UD3JBLHDZAAPS7VO6IQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731029096853},"content":"Between June and August, Department of Housing figures show that 480 families entered homelessness but just 327 exited.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2RFR673B2RHUPA2LJE6LZZN4MA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731029096854},"content":"“In the last three months I have had three families move out,” says Ferguson.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AFCWINWTK5HTTEQEAI4WLYUSB4","additional_properties":{"_id":"MLPFRIV5P5HEDCFKZTVINOMIAU"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"YVEJV2BSIVAHZPSBPY6WQXK5PU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731019238241},"content":"Focus Ireland has reiterated its call for more social housing and argues that a proportion should be ring-fenced and dedicated for households homeless for six months or more.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3XRN754V5FC23K3HWXPYBVKYP4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731019238242},"content":"“International evidence suggests that ending long-term homelessness requires a targeted approach involving dedicated housing units allocated to homeless households,” says Mike Allen, head of advocacy with the charity.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IKX64XCYV5A4VCXKS57MU4USE4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731019238243},"content":"He says not enough social homes for single people or families with four or more children are being built, especially in Dublin where homelessness is highest.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NALEU72MN5HUFPHWEJOEMHWCOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731029096859},"content":"“Dublin City Council only met half its new-build social housing target in 2023, creating serious challenges for addressing long-term homelessness in the city,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W5UQ44AWLZHWNCW2VZTVU6J57U","additional_properties":{"_id":1731019238244},"content":"Focus Ireland plans to amplify homeless children’s voices and is setting up a youth panel for secondary-school-age children to express their views and concerns, and will also support younger children through play.","type":"text"},{"_id":"W3QP5OVPQRDH3BFOPLIF3BZVII","additional_properties":{"_id":1731019238245},"content":"“We want to hear their voices, to improve our services and bring their views to stakeholders like the Dublin Region Homeless Executive and Tusla,” says Hester Rodenhuis, team leader with the charity’s homeless action team.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MDGUP542ZFHYXGCJYTK5JYCRBM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731029096862},"content":"“We hope the young people will feel empowered, that their voices matter, and that will impact them positively. As adults we assume a lot of things for children and young people, assume we know what they need, but rarely ask them.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TQBBUAKL3JAGJF2HCSE3C322MY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731019238246},"content":"Jake’s sister Becka, when asked what she misses about having a home, says: “So much – having a few hours in the evening by yourself, not hearing anyone, being able to make a cup of tea or have a shower when you want.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IP4SCVD3YFE23JYCOORC6ZQAIM","additional_properties":{"_id":"5PJSZX2ZCJFYXPZN3TG6SBNCHU"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"NP53FW44W5A3PKFGZRBLB42OWQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731019238247},"content":"“I felt like a bit of me was gone. I felt shame. I still haven’t told my friends I am living in my nana’s. Home is such a basic thing.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"DIT3KTDQYREIBNVBHMYMVB34QQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731019238248},"content":"Ronald* (seven), from Crumlin, has been homeless for a year. He lives in a family hub with his mother.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6QNRPTTFMJBVXCTQWER3CE3RTQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731019238249},"content":"“I liked our other house because it had more rooms. I had my own bed. Now it’s a bunk bed and the TV is small,” he says. “The new place is really, really noisy. Everyone is talking a lot. There are rules like my friends can’t visit. It makes me angry and sad.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"QOE5CRSVYVGPXJCKMPURMEIMTE","additional_properties":{"_id":"MZBISPMCSZFLXN22CZKWWIYTRQ"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"67K3ZULHA5D6DGDOT34BOJWNUU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731029096869},"content":"Asked what kind of home would he like, he says: “I’d like to live anywhere, just not in a place with other families.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZXTHKAZ2FFAYZDJKHXS5DTAVXU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731019238251},"content":"“We don’t do everything in the room but we do eat in the room. My mum gets the dinner downstairs and I stay in the room. After school I just stay home in the room. It is boring every time. I hate when I am bored. I’d want a garden to play soccer.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KNJZD6YK4NEWJHKZP2OBSXN334","additional_properties":{"_id":1731019238252},"content":"“I am not allowed pets and I want to get a hamster. When I get a house I will have my own room. I might put a hamster there. I might do my homework there. I would sleep there and it will be peaceful. I’d like a new house and my mum, she would love it too.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B2WCNENE75C65GJIF6DYUMCWSY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731029096872},"content":"“She is always happy. She only cries sometimes.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BWMMCHF3NFEQJIQMJI7UHJJROU","additional_properties":{"_id":"KOUCNUNCIRAZFAQ6K3IJIYF27U"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"O3HFE7YTTVFXDA3YQY54DPLU4U","additional_properties":{"_id":1731019238253},"content":"Killian* (nine) has been homeless with his mother and infant sister since April. They live in a family hub since their landlord sold their private-rented home in south Dublin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZTCWEDBO5ZBJRD7AIVZCNVWACU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731019238254},"content":"“I miss my old house. I liked that my friends could come over and also that I could have some privacy. And my sister, when she woke up, she didn’t wake me.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"HXJB6BY3CVGJ7MBZDFJ5TF6OUE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731029096876},"content":"That was a four-bedroom house, he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"K54EBMBITRBVXBAQB4SIPFLIQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731029096877},"content":"“Now we have one room with bunk bed, desk, fridge, toilet, shower, sink. That is pretty much it,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TTIMACBS3RHK7GDKMPRVOUXBCE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731019238256},"content":"“I wake in the morning very tired because it’s noisy at night. I have breakfast in the bedroom and I watch my tablet. I do homework on top of my bed, eat on my bed. The only time I don’t go on my bed is in school. I’d like a break from that bed.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"KHB3I7YSWNC4VLOG74JLH6UZQM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731029096879},"content":"He says that his mother does’t have a kitchen at the hub so staff give them food.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YGQHXD6CB5HZZGGCFIGNB4KOUI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731019238257},"content":"“I miss her cooking a lot, I miss nsima [a traditional Malawian dish]. It makes me sad she can’t cook.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"R5VVLAZMOFA4PMHD7SN5NBQI74","additional_properties":{"_id":1731019238258},"content":"His friends cannot visit him at the hub.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X4EXZYDXUJGUXPYJSPZYLD4XYU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731029096882},"content":"“But they used to come to my old house. If they ask, I tell them: ‘No.’ I say: ‘I’m going somewhere.’ One of my friends knows I am homeless. He is my best friend.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ML3LSUDEFRDPHBDU6PGTUF7MIU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731019238259},"content":"“I’d like a big house so my sister can have her own room and I won’t hear her. And a pool and a balcony. Then wood floors like a modern-day mansion.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"INO2PHG6RNEEBNPEKX4HRSYL4E","additional_properties":{"_id":1731019238260},"content":"<i>*Names have been changed. 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There was the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/celtic-tiger/\" target=\"_blank\">Celtic Tiger</a> and there was powder cocaine. And then we had a couple of years where we had major issues with snow-blow [a synthetic stimulant] and major psychosis from that. Now we have a crack epidemic.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"HKQHFKBXDNCK7HJHWAMTQLYZAE","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810099991},"content":"“I’m surprised you weren’t offered anything on the way in here,” says Ryan Connolly, harm reduction lead project worker. “Crack is very available ... A lot of the older heroin users here would know where to get heroin. But if you’re 20 years of age in Dublin now you’re not seeing heroin – and if you are, it’s probably not great ... The trend is that they’re going towards crack.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4JT4JGSSUNH4BBX7SUVYXUKT2A","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810099992},"content":"Some crack users, Carroll says, pride themselves on not being heroin users. “‘I don’t need needles, I only want a pipe.’ Heroin is seen as a dirty drug.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2ZAKZMXIZJCAFIBRFXN2YYXLGM","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810099993},"content":"Is there any other reason people gravitate towards crack? “It’s around and available,” says Connolly. “When heroin was available, people got addicted to that. So now it’s crack. And people’s situations aren’t getting easier.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5B6S2B4IENC2FCMJSDPBGJTNPU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810099995},"content":"A young woman comes into the needle-exchange room out of breath. “I want to talk to you. I’m trying to get on the good side. I was in jail for four months and I did very well.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EKVRINU4WBCV5MSFD4KKOARJJQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810099996},"content":"“You’re going to start linking in, are you?” says Connolly.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EOH53OX4QJCFLMZOLEA6ZO2Q44","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810099997},"content":"She nods. “There’s also this group starting,” he says. He points to a poster that says, “What’s the Craic?” It advertises an ‘Informal social support group for people struggling for crack cocaine’.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3WPLQHBANBC2DEUCYBDKNJD7SA","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810099998},"content":"She looks at it and nods. “I’ll come again, I promise you. What’s your name?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"KHZVPABQWVGOPFF6FIAHZPE4XI","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810099999},"content":"“Ryan.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"HPPJAK5OFZF73AS6IUDOCNYFE4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100000},"content":"“I’ll come again and explain it all, Ryan,” she says and laughs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7GPWRMNRMJCXTAB2UBL6IMT7P4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100001},"content":"A middle-aged man comes in looking for a “straight shooter” (one of the more popular types of crack pipe).","type":"text"},{"_id":"LO2V53RMNNAKDKLBPCLQ2GCZTY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100002},"content":"“What’s the story?” says Connolly.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E4THRNEXONEKXAWX25VYRDVMXE","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100003},"content":"“I’m going to start a detox and the GP is going to take me on. He’ll test my urine and if there’s only benzos in it, he said he’ll start me. I haven’t taken heroin. Tomorrow it will be three weeks.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"RLABFNILD5HPZE4SRYXCWAVT2Q","additional_properties":{"_id":"X7Z5OARYPRBHRBX74WUOZSDPUY"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"77F7X52NPVFRPBHKCXVQ5NWE3Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100004},"content":"He asks about being referred to a counsellor. Connolly sets it up. He also says he’ll get in touch with the detox service.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LVSNH3YIL5GYNOFU3KDV2JTDFM","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100005},"content":"“You’re no longer injecting or anything are you?” says Connolly.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RWYV5VL7MJD6VEFLYRDBMHBGJU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100006},"content":"“Nah, only a few smokes and taking tablets. I live on my own. I don’t want to die on the floor. All the family work and have their own homes. Some days I’m in the gaff all day on my own. Most of the time they call in to see if I’m all right. I don’t want to collapse and OD and die when they haven’t called in.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5VQVJ3AQGVBONGWBW5LOSMA4FI","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100007},"content":"“Have you ever OD’d?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"MTVWDWZNWBCMPHDUJAXNWG6PKY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100008},"content":"“No never. Touch wood.” He taps the table. So does Connolly. The man says he always uses clean stuff, “barrels and spikes” from places like Merchants Quay. “I think that’s why I never had any abscesses.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"S6F6ZU3YFFGNHNNYRUH74XGI24","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100009},"content":"He’s sometimes tempted to do crack when he sees people he knows doing it on the street. It’s everywhere, he says. “Twice coming up it was offered to me on the bus.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"KL4WXOKH3VH2ZOJ5JCEEMNVJHY","additional_properties":{"_id":"6SAVWVAIPRESRGCGJCMWHPVFDQ"},"content":"Huge increase in cocaine use, particularly among women, research shows","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"SHGKZLMKYBBLBIYLDJ6ZCOUUS4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100010},"content":"He first encountered it when he came out of prison in 2020. “I was hearing about crack and did it and got a rush, but then you get paranoia. There was six or seven of us in a laneway doing pipes. And they were all my mates I grew up with but I just thought, ‘I have to get out of here. I have to get out of here.’”","type":"text"},{"_id":"R77MDT4RFJEEFNRSGHJAVZZ62Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100011},"content":"“Why is it so popular?” I ask.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4XG2T4QBNNHOXEODLXY2JPYAJE","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100012},"content":"“I don’t know. You get a rush. You come down. And then you have to go again.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"GFT6KA7RB5G47HCFWFU3UOOEEQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"C3DN42YC3RETBPGKGX6BVJG7VI"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"7FQKPIKDXFFUBHI73WNBETLXJA","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100014},"content":"Andy O’Hara is a co-ordinator with Uisce, the national advocacy service for people who use drugs. He explains the market logic of the crack trend. In the past, drug dealers didn’t have the expertise required to “wash” cocaine into crack – but that changed over the past decade, he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JMDG4ZS5XBHQXCFHZY6LGZSNXE","additional_properties":{"_id":1730882075158},"content":"“There’s a huge market for cocaine in this country. If I’m a dealer or a mid-level dealer, it’s much easier for me to get a nine bar [nine ounces] of coke than a nine bar of heroin. The heroin market is a niche market. Europe is being flooded [with cocaine]. Cocaine is available across all classes. More people can get it to sell.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QTEJNM3STZDGXCZPH2CMG73LBQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730991431437},"content":"“And it’s a very easy drug to sell. A dealer can get a consignment of cocaine and keep some to sell to the weekend warriors and some can be washed up into crack. So essentially, the dealer can sell to a few different kind of customer bases.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TTQL3CZ2VVFI7POFAGOS46TXSI","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100015},"content":"I sit in on a meeting of Uisce clients who are working on an anti-stigma project with academics from the University of West London at Uisce’s offices. They’re all either in recovery or have stabilised their lives significantly. This is partly through the sense of encouragement, dignity and purpose they get from being part of this group. They feed into policy documents, do outreach with drug users and train people how to use the opiate overdose reversal drug, Naloxone.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4B4VXOPSOFCOPB4D3Q45V4ER6M","additional_properties":{"_id":1730882075160},"content":"“Since I came here, I’ve been helping others,” says Paul (not his real name). “But also, it’s given me the platform to look at myself. Nothing is being asked of me here.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"S6ZS6PIHHNBKVJNMGGSTZNGXYU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100016},"content":"I don’t ask about the specifics of their addictions, but they have a better understanding than most about what’s happening with drugs on our streets. “Crack is the trend at the moment,” says ‘Bill’. “When that goes, there’s going to be something else to replace it.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ENU3W4GBWFCUXGFNLZHE4JVUR4","additional_properties":{"_id":"LJFXAWP4SNFKPKSV4N2GHACM6M"},"content":"Dublin’s heroin epidemic: ‘A man died and his partner died a few weeks later. Grandparents were looking after kids’","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"A2Z3AE4WCNFMVOTCXMLHZ76F7Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100017},"content":"The first safe, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2024/01/23/medically-supervised-drug-injection-facility-to-open-in-dublin/\" target=\"_blank\">medically supervised injection facility</a> is to open in Merchant Quay’s premises in December. The Uisce volunteers I speak to feel it should be changed to a “consumption room” to include people who smoke crack or who smoke heroin (Merchants Quay informs me that smoking any sort of drug doesn’t fall under the scope of the Misuse of Drugs Act 2017 that facilitates injection rooms). “The epidemic is not heroin now, it’s crack,” says Bill.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XS6CRU7PVFFJZMUUCLDA25TG7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100018},"content":"Crack is hugely psychologically addictive, says ‘Colin’. “After the first [hit], your brain and your endorphins are so spiked that when you start going down ...”","type":"text"},{"_id":"R7F6JPMVR5G6DDJ4AGIIWX3RMA","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100019},"content":"“You want more, more, more,” says Bill, finishing his sentence.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ENXSXTN76VD6NHOSMPVHKWNFFQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100020},"content":"Crack users exhibit very different behaviour from people on opiates. “People become hyped up,” says Colin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QSDLYRDHHNCH5NWWWFHGCYI2XM","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100021},"content":"“They don’t realise what they’re doing half the time,” says Bill.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KIRLZVVNXNEU7KEMADXJQPO6JU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100022},"content":"But not all people react the same way. They stress that stereotypes about any drug are simplifications. “The reality is most drug users have jobs and go to college,” says Colin. “The majority of people that use drugs are functional addicts.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"FFLW75N7JBHMRLY7THWMA4TFCY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100023},"content":"Getting entirely clean of any drug is a struggle. There’s a huge shortage of detox beds in the country and there are waiting lists and hurdles to jump for addicts trying to access them. And there’s very little aftercare.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AFIIBYFOKFEGJGBZGK7QTOX4PE","additional_properties":{"_id":"ELKWEIQEAZA4HKNECCWYNBJPQU"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"PIFBLL6ITBH2JBPUARX4QQI3UQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100024},"content":"They believe one of the big reasons for the rise in crack is that it’s simply a more profitable drug to sell. The high from crack doesn’t last long. “When you come down you need one more [hit] to keep it at that level,” says Colin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GO4WNLH2ZZHIFBRLPW3OR7Y7QY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100025},"content":"“So you have to buy a lot more,” says Bill.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TB6NDIVSJRH3JJJM4ZKHCSHEX4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100026},"content":"Many young men in deprived neighbourhoods, says Colin, “see it as an opportunity. That’s why you see 17-year-olds and 18-year-olds selling”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OHZKB5STSFBRJCT67742QCOAF4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100027},"content":"Also, the quality of heroin in Ireland is inconsistent. One person tells me: “You could be buying cooking chocolate.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"S7YOR5UFTVBF7AIWTRTR7VH4AY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100028},"content":"Paul says he thinks that heroin in Dublin “was deliberately f**ked up because there was more money in crack”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CKYEK4HUWFF4RHQ3T7QMHBBFDY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100030},"content":"What are the health problems associated with crack? “Respiratory issues,” says Carroll. “A lot of recovering drug addicts would suffer from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).”","type":"text"},{"_id":"AM3J7IS6BRE3XJVJFPNIABKYLQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100031},"content":"“There’s a thing called ‘crack lung’, an acute pulmonary syndrome,” says Connolly. “Respiratory illnesses, mini heart attacks. Six years ago [crack] came here and now you’re starting to see real health issues with it.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"OF3FKRI62FAMDC5DOAUGUIXOAM","additional_properties":{"_id":"JM6KKBSDSBBL3G5KO72QZRXDSA"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"F6CY3JK33FGDVAPJFQHATQAFEY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730882075177},"content":"Last week Connolly helped with a client who was having a heart attack. The staff here are all trained in CPR and how to administer Naloxone to reverse opiate overdoses.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AWQ6H3BOIRE33MR3PNUBJ7ZIUM","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100032},"content":"“A lot of our clients would have hepatitis from cuts on their lips and hands and sharing pipes to smoke crack,” says Carroll. “It can bring on drug-induced psychosis.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TMMDZYHFXRHWJDUFRRSVGWXHIQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100033},"content":"One common phenomenon is crack users hallucinating crack rocks on the footpath. “It’s a psychological effect,” says Connolly. “You imagine it’s there. The mind playing tricks. It’s very intense. Anything you’re feeling is magnified. Your body is going through a lot of stress.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"3KAT5VABWRCGLHBFVA5T24GNNE","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100034},"content":"All they can do is be there for people. “Some will want to come in and talk to the staff for half an hour,” says Carroll. “Others won’t even sit down, they’re so agitated.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"3RMYOOT5SVBDBGC6D3Y6N5WSQA","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100035},"content":"“We’re here to talk to people,” says Connolly. “What runners have you? Did you watch the football?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BASAUKPVZ5CHHHJ74CZF66PAZE","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100036},"content":"“Have you eaten today?” says Carroll.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SEUAPKPGYBAMPEYN4NZS4FVPH4","additional_properties":{"_id":"KWUEHNHWMBFC7GLDTLTVEVEIGY"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"DHPZJJPLNFENJAQ7U4PQCX4L6A","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100037},"content":"People’s drug use often escalates coming up to Christmas due to family estrangement and loneliness. For rough sleepers it’s also harder to smoke in colder weather, so lots of them move to injecting. For Connolly and Carroll it’s really important that the clients feel listened to and respected.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CZWCETCL5VFXPADH6EZKNMHNHE","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100038},"content":"Do staff ever feel unsafe here? “This is one of the places I feel most safe,” says Connolly. “I don’t know what that says about me. We save lives in here.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"JUFSJ734VZANLPPSWGC446X6X4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100040},"content":"A young man comes into the needle-exchange room in a ripped jacket, looking a bit frantic. “I took 15 of the new Tranax,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B5VUE47LZ5HR5E4OQU6K4QHONQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100041},"content":"Connolly looks concerned. “There’s new Tranax going around? The yellow ones?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6NEQZ2QHTZCCJDRE7G6BMA4WP4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100042},"content":"“Nah. Different ones again. They’re white. They’re like the cheap version. I should have been all right but I took a seizure. I woke up in the hospital. They said I was very lucky. They said they had morphine in them.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"YNWKGFUBIFCKVANEA5JYP72JCI","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100043},"content":"This is useful information for Connolly. He monitors drug trends and feeds the information to the HSE. Last Christmas there was a <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/health/2023/11/26/new-synthetic-drug-stronger-than-fentanyl-linked-to-recent-dublin-overdoses/\" target=\"_blank\">spate of overdoses because of the synthetic opiate nitazene</a>. “Twenty-five in one day,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5I7OXHWTCVF6VCIH34U2QI54JU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100044},"content":"“My friend put me on my back,” says the young man. “He didn’t know about the recovery position. He said there was froth on my mouth and he could hear me choking on my tongue.” He points to his ripped jacket. “They had to cut me out of my clothes.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4WLFHVEUK5CKZBZ4IVM3ITWA6Y","additional_properties":{"_id":"IPBZYMPXT5BTTOS5UFDHIPVGMY"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"VAPDJECZRJEMDP6LH4BSKGNYEU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100045},"content":"Connolly starts asking him questions about his use. He wants to get into recovery he says but it’s too hard to get a bed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KEWQBJ5QIZBP5N3HEOCGKTLBZA","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100046},"content":"Connolly is worried about him. “Do you have a phone number or anything?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"724SSYS7AVDQFOM4O5KHKUIDZI","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100047},"content":"“Collecting a new phone tomorrow from the shop.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"S2QU2V3Q55AMLLXLNKIDBORLEQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100048},"content":"Connolly asks if he wants to talk to a counsellor. He shakes his head. “Be very careful,” says Connolly, but he’s already out the door.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UH5G35KR4BEABE37OD7MOLH3F4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100050},"content":"In harm reduction services there are a lot more categories than just “using” or “drug-free”. Sometimes a person might not be ready to completely quit but they get some structure in their lives. They stop being so chaotic. They might get a job. They might reunite with their family. Over the course of a morning in Merchants Quay, I meet all types of people.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CN4ZYQM4UFCI3FTQBY6WVKX42Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100051},"content":"Two of the people who come in are purely heroin users. Connolly explains to one man the safer parts of the body to inject (there are three types of needle distributed depending on where the person is injecting – long-term users have to change the injection sites). Most who visit are looking for crack pipes but many are polydrug users, often using one drug to counteract another, and they ask for needles as well.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BS6ISR5TAZF5XIHWAXGXACIBDQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100052},"content":"As he talks to them, Connolly tries to establish the state of their health and their drug usage and checks out what services they are linked in with or want to be linked in with. People ask him about Community Employment schemes, seeing a counsellor or visiting the doctor.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GV3CJWI5MZACDCXFCXZZLZR53Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100053},"content":"What might be surprising to some readers is how warm and good-humoured it all is. One vulnerable young man comes in holding a $20 bill. “Which president is that?” he wonders genuinely. “It’s not Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin or George Washington. Is it Thomas Jefferson?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"QVSRRCOUXBGTTGA2RITA7MLXAI","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100054},"content":"Connolly talks to him about his drug use. As he’s leaving, he grabs a trolley filled with drug paraphernalia and pretends to casually pull it out of the door. He’s only messing. Connolly laughs. “A pleasure as always,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HY2ZAVHOORAYRCFK2ATSCLCF4A","additional_properties":{"_id":"FNKKBEKXAZHSXHJCTPZS466HAU"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"RSJ2XGFY2ZAPTKFLYMMQ4ZBOPU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100055},"content":"An older man talks about his plans to uses his disability benefit to get some “new clobber” later that day and how nice it will make him feel. He and Connolly talk about how good Penneys can be before they ever get on to his need for drug paraphernalia.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XJ2L6PWQMRHRZHMW47723N4CUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100056},"content":"A well-dressed, healthy-looking man, says, mischievously: “You showed me how to inject!” He means <i>safely</i> inject. But the man also credits Connolly with helping him to stop taking heroin. He’s on methadone now. He still uses crack but he aspires to stop that too.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EOZGAD2RZBF2NDJMTJU6LLAVYU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100057},"content":"Another man tells Connolly that he’s living in the same house as his child again. He still uses crack but less chaotically. “It’s good to see my child every day,” he says before leaving.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DZ3F6OQVINCOLPNY2KH2ABLTIY","additional_properties":{"_id":"WJ7UWJWJHVH4TBYI5JG32CGZAM"},"content":"Fintan O’Toole: Ireland’s crack cocaine epidemic has consequences far worse than any viral pandemic","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"KR3E6WSX3ZGZ5O5AZCDB3FURCU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100059},"content":"Andy O’Hara stresses that I shouldn’t write about crack in a way that stigmatises users further. He talks about how bad policy leads to trauma, which leads to addiction, which leads to people being punished and criminalised for that addiction.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3653JR4LR5FHNMFJW23EK4ESUE","additional_properties":{"_id":1730882075206},"content":"“Why do we have cohorts of people who are willing to take the riskiest drugs?” he says. “The streets that people are walking around on are a reflection of how we treat people. Because the worse we treat people, and the worse we shame people, and the more we criminalise people, the worse things get.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2QHUT5T4BVCEPHBSMIOEGAAPCQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730882075207},"content":"“Right now, there are far more people in the city than ever who have loads of underlying problems, and that’s to do with our housing policy. We literally have thousands and thousands more people living in hostels ... Emergency accommodation can be quite stressful and quite traumatic. A lot of people’s drug use is escalating because of the trauma of that.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"C2BXPF2KF5DJXNQZP63U5GKZRU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100060},"content":"The crack epidemic is just the newest symptom, he says, of deprivation and inequality. “We’ve created this ground zero here for any one with underlying conditions.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"NJIO2JCRTZEZLGW32K3Y7NVJKE","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100061},"content":"Before I leave Merchants Quay an employee named Mary Enright asks if I noticed how friendly and upbeat the centre is. “They’re all someone’s child,” she says. “They have enough stigma and survival out on the streets. And they know we’re not here to make a laugh at anybody. 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Oxley, B.A., <a href=\"http://b.th/\" target=\"_blank\">B.Th</a>., Prebendary of St Audoens. 15.15 CHORAL EVENSONG sung by the Cathedral Choir - Responses: Radcliffe, Stanford in A, Psalm: 46, Howells: Take him to earth for cherishing. Preacher: The Revd D.W. Oxley, B.A., <a href=\"http://b.th/\" target=\"_blank\">B.Th</a>., Prebendary of St Audoens. SUNG MATINS at 09.00 - Monday to Friday CHORAL EVENSONG at 17.30 - Monday to Friday. EUCHARIST at 11.05 Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday. For further information visit <a href=\"http://www.stpatrickscathedral.ie/\" target=\"_blank\">www.stpatrickscathedral.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"UOQ6WNPPFVHPBDCFSKPELA4PUM","additional_properties":{"_id":1730980756987},"content":"CHURCH OF IRELAND","type":"header"},{"_id":"WI5E6PQTNNGTBI4B2GBNMM5GXU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730980756988},"content":"<b>Ardamine Group of Parishes, Co Wexford</b> Services Sunday 10th November Monamolin 9 am Holy Communion Kiltennel 10.15 am Holy Communion Kilnamanagh 11.45 am Morning Prayer","type":"text"},{"_id":"TZAB5Z6GO5HCBJ4TXX7PBEY77E","additional_properties":{"_id":1730980756989},"content":"<b>Christ Church Bray</b> Rector: Revd Dr Leonard Madden. Sunday 10th November: 8.30 a.m. Holy Communion; 11 a.m. Remembrance Service. Monday 11th November: 11 a.m. Act of Remembrance. Live stream <a href=\"http://www.churchservices.tv/christchurchbray\" target=\"_blank\">www.churchservices.tv/christchurchbray</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"2I2J2DXGORF2HEX65CI3RFL3J4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730980756990},"content":"<b>St Audoen Cornmarket </b>9.30 Bellringing, 10.00 Eucharist (every Sunday), Remembrance. During works, access through the OPW Visitor Centre. Cars may be parked between Francis Street and Christ Church.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G3ZYXZKEMNHVTK7MQJQAAZX7RI","additional_properties":{"_id":1730980756991},"content":"<b>St Catherine St James Donore Avenue</b> 11.30, Service of the Word, Remembrance Sunday. Speaker, Fr David Corrigan SM, PP, St Teresas Donore Avenue. Organist, Olesia Borsuk. Cars may be parked in the Churchyard.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ERT7NSV7HNHDBG4E3TWDH6P5ZU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730980756992},"content":"<b>Zion Parish Church</b> Sunday 10th November - The Third Sunday before Advent. 10.30am Morning Prayer. 9am Holy Communion 1. All welcome.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YVQMADE6YBBWHM4E3KR5HHWNPA","additional_properties":{},"content":"PRESBYTERIAN","type":"header"},{"_id":"T436KQGM5FDYRNQ6UKINT6IC2Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"About The Presbyterian Church in Ireland --The Presbyterian form of the Christian faith is best described as Reformed; with its strong emphasis on the Sovereignty of God, the Kingship of Christ, and the authority of the Bible. For more information, and for a full list of congregations around the whole island of Ireland, visit: <a href=\"http://www.presbyterianireland.org/\">www.presbyterianireland.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"33KMFYL4IVHFROV2P4ALIDP2RU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Adelaide Road Presbyterian Church, Dublin City</b> Sundays at 11am in person or online. All Welcome. Our church building is located at the intersection of Earlsfort Terrace and Adelaide Road, Dublin 2. Rev Dr Colin Dickson has been our replacement minister while Rev Dr Sam Mawhinney served his year as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. To find out more visit: <a href=\"http://www.adelaideroadchurch.ie/\">www.adelaideroadchurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"4ESFLUC2OZAIFLNO7SYT4H66VA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Clontarf and Scots Presbyterian Church, Dublin</b> Sunday Service is at 11am with Communion. We are located opposite Clontarf Road DART Station, Dublin 3. Rev Lorraine Ritchie. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://www.clontarfchurch.ie/\">www.clontarfchurch.ie</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"3CBXHDPXDFH7ZIKNI2RHY5PIAE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Donabate and Balbriggan Presbyterian Churches, Co. Dublin</b> Meet at 10:30am at Donabate and Portrane Community Centre, and at 4:30pm at Balbriggan Clubs Community Centre, Co. Dublin. Everyone is welcome. Rev. Andy Carroll. Visit <a href=\"http://www.donabatepc.org/\">www.donabatepc.org</a> to find out more and for directions","type":"text"},{"_id":"OFLNZGIUR5DJJC2O7HCBGAEVBI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Dún Laoghaire Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at York Road, Dun Laoghaire. Rev Clarke Deering. You will be most welcome to join us. For more information, visit: <a href=\"https://dl-pc.org/\">https://dl-pc.org/</a> or our Facebook page for regular updates, and online streaming.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OBS2VPXKKFF4XLDDUN4MACOOQE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Findlaters (Abbey Presbyterian Church)</b> 11am at Parnell Square, Dublin City. Rev Alan Boal. Communion on the first Sunday of each month. All welcome. Abbey exists to share Gods purpose; becoming more Christ-like as we go, and show the Gospel to the City. To find out more, visit: <a href=\"http://www.abbeychurch.ie/\">www.abbeychurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"XOI3IZQZN5CLLPOY53LX74C62U","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Howth and Malahide Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 10am at Malahide and 11:45am in Howth. Rev Alastair Dunlop. Everyone is welcome to join us, as we share in the Good News of our Lord Jesus Christ. Programme for children during the service. You are welcome to join us for tea and coffee after the service. Visit: <a href=\"http://www.hmpchurch.org/\">www.hmpchurch.org</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"LLVIEBOSKZERFDZ6EA6GPRXZXM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Lucan Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at Main Street, Lucan Village. Lucan Presbyterian Church is a growing family of Christians who come from a variety of different church backgrounds, traditions and nationalities. Regardless of your age, background, experience or previous church connections you are welcome to come and visit us. For more information, visit <a href=\"http://www.lpc.ie/\">http://www.lpc.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"BPN5AUYJLRFTFKTFTDPZOBEQBI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Maynooth Presbyterian Church</b> Known locally as Maynooth Community Church; and meets together for worship on Sundays at 10:30am at Manor Mills Shopping Centre, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. On the first Sunday of the month we celebrate the Lords Supper (Communion). Rev Keith McCrory. Free parking is available in the underground car park and the service takes place on the 1st Floor. To find out more, visit <a href=\"http://maynoothcc.org/\">http://maynoothcc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"JWFSLW6DHNBWBNAAWBY6ZL3UCM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Naas Presbyterian Church, Co. Kildare</b> 11am with preacher, Mr Tom Dowling, Kilkenny Presbyterian. Programme for children during the service, and tea and coffee served afterwards. The church building is located across the street from the post office and town hall, and overlooks South Main Street - you cannot miss us. For further information, visit our Facebook page: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/NaasPCI\">www.facebook.com/NaasPCI</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"HZHF4TOEPRFULBYLWICDZLNLBQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Blackrock, Co. Dublin</b> Sundays at 9.45am for a traditional service of prayer and praise with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Junior Church for children and young people aged 5 to 15 years. For more information, visit <a href=\"https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie/\">https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie</a> - Rev Andrew Gill","type":"text"},{"_id":"TK36HTLPJVBCJPPAML4YBAVKRQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Bray, Co. Wicklow</b> (We are located at the corner of Eglinton Road and Quinsborough Road) As a congregation, we exist to glorify God through worship and service. We meet every Sunday at 11:30am for a traditional service of prayer and praise, with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Sunday School for children. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://standrewschurchbray.com/\">standrewschurchbray.com</a> for more information. Rev. Andrew Gill","type":"text"},{"_id":"SZVEW2AQWVHIJDB32NFOYZLL2U","additional_properties":{"_id":1730980756993},"content":"METHODIST","type":"header"},{"_id":"LLTLUNUFSNFUFBK2TAQJ6KC5RQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730980756994},"content":"About the Methodist Church in Ireland - The Methodist Church in Ireland is a community of people drawn together by Gods love, who seek to live wholeheartedly as followers of Jesus for the transformation of the world. With 212 churches spread across the island of Ireland from North to South, and East to West. To find a church near you, visit <a href=\"https://irishmethodist.org/\">https://irishmethodist.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"26F4VQ76J5DPZPK77ZO4TFEGKI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin</b> The Methodist Church, Northumberland Avenue, Dún Laoghaire. Sunday Service 11am. Our services are available at <a href=\"http://www.dlmc.org/\" target=\"_blank\">www.dlmc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"UFNMFSRIUFBMLIPTFAKN6WCU6I","additional_properties":{"_id":1730980756995},"content":"RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS","type":"header"},{"_id":"EQRYVSDXZZAGPFIOZN2JHRAMLA","additional_properties":{"_id":1730980756996},"content":"Quaker Meetings in Ireland Quakers in Ireland invite you to join us for Meeting for Worship at any of our Meeting Houses around the country. Visitors will be warmly welcomed and there will be an opportunity to ask any questions you might have. 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Like, for example, the fact that last month’s budget offered no increase in core funding by <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/tusla/\" target=\"_blank\">Tusla </a>for their family resource centre, or indeed any of the 121 such centres throughout the country.","type":"text"},{"_id":"POABPVB4TVDDZEUAMEGKAPHSOM","additional_properties":{"_id":1730806047418},"content":"Annmarie Gallagher, a mother of three, isn’t slow to let her views be known about the essential services provided by Le Chéile.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ATDG5KUHTRCBTDW3JHQIEA22NY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730806047419},"content":"“I recently highlighted the urgency of proper funding for these vital services to [Fianna Fáil Senator] Lisa Chambers. 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I’m off out to meet someone later this week in the hope they will mind the two youngest in their own home but they might only be able to mind Cathal, so we may have to go back to the drawing board.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"JCAYZ5N7NRFKXHDJRI3MJA6RZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730806047424},"content":"Anita Prendergast empathises with Gallagher. She and her partner live in Bohola and have four children aged from nine to one. She is passionate in her belief that the incoming government must make childcare more community-based and integrated into society.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BT7VSKHYIVGSFB3G2TCMIZDZDA","additional_properties":{"_id":1730806047425},"content":"“I had great supports here at Le Chéile as I prepared to return to work a year ago. I work in the health sector and it was quite daunting to be called to interview when I was 11 days postpartum. But here I could just bring all the children in to an event or meeting and feel welcome and supported. 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However, SMTW says, no screening determination is available and the Minister “has no competence to make such a determination”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZSTO3XYIARF45NDA5NTM2Z2VOQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"WAK442FRC5ACHOK2WG54IEF554"},"content":"Ireland is in no position to accept 25,000 homeless migrants claiming asylum every year","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"PW3MJ3J4HBDTFKL332IT2BD55Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1730812369640},"content":"SMTW says there is “severe pressure” on the existing wastewater treatment plants in the area, and that proper assessment of the development must at least confirm that these can accept the material from the site. It points to a proposed housing development next to Thornton Hall that was recently refused permission because there was no foul sewer infrastructure to service it.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MSOVNRYVXFGQVIQZZYUU6OOCYU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730812369641},"content":"It alleges that the proposal to accommodate 1,000 men on the site yields an obligation to service 150,000 litres of wastewater daily or for the sewage to be treated on site. 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Many say they have had little or no communication with Irish authorities or the UN Refugee Agency since.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2QAWXUASBNA7TPNNR55HQWVDRU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730461910280},"content":"When the conflict escalated on September 23rd with Israel and Hizbullah engaging in tit-for-tat attacks, it forced some of those families to flee long distances, sleeping in the streets or temporary shelters. Some children suffered panic attacks from the sounds of drones and war planes, or from witnessing injured and dead people amid air strikes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ISIR2C43TJCAJGWGJY6O27N744","additional_properties":{"_id":1730461910281},"content":"Some families remain in areas that are regularly attacked. 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She died after her heart stopped multiple times and resuscitation finally failed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UB5O4456ARERJMPHL553WQMOVM","additional_properties":{"_id":"WGVZYBGVWNHAJGH6C4VTTDZ5Z4"},"content":"Abandoned in Lebanon: How Ireland offered Syrian refugees a route to safety, then left them in a war zone","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"GCINC4DTXBAR7HFV4HSN5AMYNU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730461910284},"content":"Al-Ashqar struggled to get her a diagnosis and adequate medical care, in a country with a well-publicised healthcare <a href=\"https://healtheconomicsreview.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13561-023-00435-w\">crisis</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KZYRUWJ27JCUXOAI7LE44Z3QAA","additional_properties":{"_id":1730461910285},"content":"Hoda was admitted to hospital in Lebanon’s capital Beirut, but her father says the bills became too high for NGOs and the UN to cover. 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He said they are monitoring the situation and are “conscious of how difficult lengthy waiting periods to travel are on the families concerned”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZEV4U3W5VNEADKQZTZGHIFYKPU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730461910291},"content":"More people are scheduled to travel this month, he said, with further arrivals anticipated before the end of the year. 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They share a bathroom with at least 10 other families, and the conditions look set to become increasingly strained as more people arrive there, fleeing Israeli air strikes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RA6QIM3Z4NDEDP6DZCSYQD6ZHM","additional_properties":{"_id":1730461910297},"content":"This week, the UN’s humanitarian coordinator for Lebanon, Imran Riza, <a href=\"https://x.com/Imran_Riza/status/1851703489694700026\">said</a> that Akkar – where their camp is – is hosting nearly 70,000 newly displaced people due to the latest escalation in war. “The strain on Akkar’s public services is increasing, with urgent needs in healthcare, waste management and shelter,” Riza said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"26S5VOQHN5D6ZPPFQLR52EACSE","additional_properties":{"_id":1730461910298},"content":"Alongside that, Al-Ashqar said they see fighter jets flying over the camp. “[We are] living in a state of great terror,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IHM6EWWDTJF4FMNX3D6M2LFVOE","additional_properties":{"_id":1730461910299},"content":"Al-Ashqar’s brother travelled to Ireland in 2017 under the refugee resettlement scheme; Al-Ashqar said he is very happy there. 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Live stream <a href=\"http://www.churchservices.tv/christchurchbray\" target=\"_blank\">www.churchservices.tv/christchurchbray</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"4YR6RGKCOBCCNDM5E7MGHEZ7RA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Audoen Cornmarket</b> 9.30 Bellringing, 10.00 Eucharist (every Sunday), All Saints. During works, access through the OPW Visitor Centre. Cars may be parked between Francis Street and Christ Church.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JFJ6ZLADBVALZDCJGOJX6EYLXM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Catherine St James Donore Avenue</b> 11.30, Eucharist, All Saints Sunday. Organist, Olesia Borsuk. Cars may be parked in the Churchyard.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TBBWB64VZBHILNXNDGYJGAGHWU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Zion Parish Church </b>Sunday 3rd November - The Fourth Sunday before Advent. Patronal Festival - The anniversary of the Opening of Zion Church on All Saints Day 1861. 10.30am Holy Communion, 9am Holy Communion 1. All welcome.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WCT6MVVL2FFBRE6VK3JEWS5AXQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"PRESBYTERIAN","type":"header"},{"_id":"QBARTTRHNRDQTCEZRSIKPUAQNE","additional_properties":{},"content":"About The Presbyterian Church in Ireland --The Presbyterian form of the Christian faith is best described as Reformed; with its strong emphasis on the Sovereignty of God, the Kingship of Christ, and the authority of the Bible. For more information, and for a full list of congregations around the whole island of Ireland, visit: <a href=\"http://www.presbyterianireland.org/\">www.presbyterianireland.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"U5B74E5ATNE4FKGJPSY2HNZXQY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Adelaide Road Presbyterian Church, Dublin City</b> Sundays at 11am in person or online. All Welcome. Our church building is located at the intersection of Earlsfort Terrace and Adelaide Road, Dublin 2. Rev Dr Colin Dickson has been our replacement minister while Rev Dr Sam Mawhinney served his year as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. To find out more visit: <a href=\"http://www.adelaideroadchurch.ie/\">www.adelaideroadchurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"IGVYEYBYBNDORFAM73FUB6VYTI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Clontarf and Scots Presbyterian Church, Dublin</b> Sunday Service is at 11am with Communion. We are located opposite Clontarf Road DART Station, Dublin 3. Rev Lorraine Ritchie. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://www.clontarfchurch.ie/\">www.clontarfchurch.ie</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"2ZGDRKVWPNFK3PKUGAQLUTPRXM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Donabate and Balbriggan Presbyterian Churches, Co. Dublin</b> Meet at 10:30am at Donabate and Portrane Community Centre, and at 4:30pm at Balbriggan Clubs Community Centre, Co. Dublin. Everyone is welcome. Rev. Andy Carroll. Visit <a href=\"http://www.donabatepc.org/\">www.donabatepc.org</a> to find out more and for directions","type":"text"},{"_id":"I7TYWVG4RBFGZCQDE43VIAXYWI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Dún Laoghaire Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at York Road, Dun Laoghaire. Rev Clarke Deering. You will be most welcome to join us. For more information, visit: <a href=\"https://dl-pc.org/\">https://dl-pc.org/</a> or our Facebook page for regular updates, and online streaming.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7WY4SZAVB5C2VH2CS3ZIGMHGP4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Findlaters (Abbey Presbyterian Church)</b> 11am at Parnell Square, Dublin City. Rev Alan Boal. Communion on the first Sunday of each month. All welcome. Abbey exists to share Gods purpose; becoming more Christ-like as we go, and show the Gospel to the City. To find out more, visit: <a href=\"http://www.abbeychurch.ie/\">www.abbeychurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"6HKCPZJGMJFANEEGAUVKOZCCEE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Howth and Malahide Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 10am at Malahide and 11:45am in Howth. Rev Alastair Dunlop. Everyone is welcome to join us, as we share in the Good News of our Lord Jesus Christ. Programme for children during the service. You are welcome to join us for tea and coffee after the service. Visit: <a href=\"http://www.hmpchurch.org/\">www.hmpchurch.org</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"A5VSLNBRABDBHI6SM6Z6ICADBM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Lucan Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at Main Street, Lucan Village. Lucan Presbyterian Church is a growing family of Christians who come from a variety of different church backgrounds, traditions and nationalities. Regardless of your age, background, experience or previous church connections you are welcome to come and visit us. For more information, visit <a href=\"http://www.lpc.ie/\">http://www.lpc.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"LRHKE5I3F5CVDIOHBOXFKWV5RE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Maynooth Presbyterian Church</b> Known locally as Maynooth Community Church; and meets together for worship on Sundays at 10:30am at Manor Mills Shopping Centre, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. On the first Sunday of the month we celebrate the Lords Supper (Communion). Rev Keith McCrory. Free parking is available in the underground car park and the service takes place on the 1st Floor. To find out more, visit <a href=\"http://maynoothcc.org/\">http://maynoothcc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"U6ZBQK6FVNHFNPO6OFS5IUBLGU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Naas Presbyterian Church, Co. Kildare</b> 11am with preacher, Mr Tom Dowling, Kilkenny Presbyterian. Programme for children during the service, and tea and coffee served afterwards. The church building is located across the street from the post office and town hall, and overlooks South Main Street - you cannot miss us. For further information, visit our Facebook page: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/NaasPCI\">www.facebook.com/NaasPCI</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"B5GT5Z3IQBFJXCFGFPQF3LWMBY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Blackrock, Co. Dublin</b> Sundays at 9.45am for a traditional service of prayer and praise with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Junior Church for children and young people aged 5 to 15 years. For more information, visit <a href=\"https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie/\">https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie</a> - Rev Andrew Gill","type":"text"},{"_id":"47CUERQIHJHMHDIZXQSYHLTPII","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Bray, Co. Wicklow</b> (We are located at the corner of Eglinton Road and Quinsborough Road) As a congregation, we exist to glorify God through worship and service. We meet every Sunday at 11:30am for a traditional service of prayer and praise, with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Sunday School for children. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://standrewschurchbray.com/\">standrewschurchbray.com</a> for more information. Rev. Andrew Gill","type":"text"},{"_id":"EPOU6QQJ35FHZMSUCSAE6W375I","additional_properties":{},"content":"METHODIST","type":"header"},{"_id":"NNYCK6EZV5EWLKLWKMEOHW5LCY","additional_properties":{},"content":"About the Methodist Church in Ireland - The Methodist Church in Ireland is a community of people drawn together by Gods love, who seek to live wholeheartedly as followers of Jesus for the transformation of the world. With 212 churches spread across the island of Ireland from North to South, and East to West. 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One struggled to pay the cost of getting to and from her doctor. They haven’t money for socialising, so it isolates people,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZL3P3NY2IVDNRGDMSCFMF2OMTA","additional_properties":{"_id":1730301290057},"content":"Fellow committee member Noreen Coughlan said there was a feeling that “when we were working we were useful but now we are simply forgotten about”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AT5ALVECMJBDBIPYDIOIP7PKOE","additional_properties":{"_id":1730301290058},"content":"Benefits have been frozen at 2008 levels because the scheme was substantially in the red, failing to meet the minimum funding standard set out in legislation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TI7GQ34CYZEQPHVFRWQJAL6SD4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730307153767},"content":"It is now back in surplus, but only just. While one set of consultants, commissioned by the scheme’s committee, have said increases over 2.6 per cent annually would be sustainable over the next few years, others, commissioned by the company, have said that would not be “prudent”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VRBIG3JPW5G6RNXCFPAYUFVOFM","additional_properties":{"_id":1730301290059},"content":"The company argues it is the last surviving public sector scheme of its type but is, as such, unaffordable. It currently contributes 27 per cent of salary.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GRRCSVLEVZD2PHRXDSILI2TKVI","additional_properties":{"_id":1730307153769},"content":"Under the terms of a deal to address the funding issue by raising the minimum retirement age from 60 to 63 and cutting future benefits, the company would be required to pay €320 million into the fund over the next 10 years. That deal, recommended by the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/labour-court\" target=\"_blank\">Labour Court</a> and approved in a ballot of current staff, has not yet been implemented.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YCDY6C2IB5FUNMX3YVDX7FFP3I","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Emmet Malone"}},"name":"Emmet Malone"}]},"description":{"basic":"Transport group’s pensioners protest against their benefits being frozen at 2008 levels"},"display_date":"2024-10-30T17:20:02.261Z","headlines":{"basic":"Former CIÉ employees ‘having to watch what they eat’ ","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"KBOLDK3PJND7JPG4U5HKSYIPOQ","auth":{"1":"4aff7a6de9ffdfe343b4df23cf26722cca97e2b6c06e8fc162240b876370dc68"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/KBOLDK3PJND7JPG4U5HKSYIPOQ.JPG"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Health"},{"name":"Business"},{"name":"Ireland"},{"name":"Social Affairs"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/health/2024/10/30/former-cie-employees-having-to-watch-what-they-eat/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/health","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Health"}}}},{"_id":"FPBHRBVEZBDWZJQQQCENKVY4MQ","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":243,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/2f0c586c-507e-4be3-af61-cae6e358c1b0/versions/1730220945/media/b5dfdea6f59de6b8307fd326dfa2e137_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/ireland/housing-planning/2024/10/29/dublin-authorities-make-400-extra-beds-available-for-homeless-this-winter/","content_elements":[{"_id":"GAGTJO2XOJATLLZKUUPOCXCARQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730218260902},"content":"More than 400 extra emergency beds for the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/homeless-crisis/\" target=\"_blank\">homeless</a> will be provided in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dublin/\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin</a> this winter.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ALCVE3LZYFF43J2UJ43ZIPFUUA","additional_properties":{"_id":1730218260903},"content":"As part of its cold weather strategy the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dublin-region-homeless-executive/\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin Region Homeless Executive</a> (DRHE) announced on Friday it would make available an additional 173 beds immediately with 150 more coming on stream in March. These will be open 24 hours a day with meals provided on-site.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2E4SOUDHOFFBDDL5PBFDU4TV4Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1730218260904},"content":"In addition, 104 “extreme weather” beds will be available in the event of exceptionally cold, wet or windy weather.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N5ZPRSIU6RFONAWNF2X7Y77XD4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730218260905},"content":"These will be in addition to the more than 10,701 emergency beds already occupied by homeless people in Dublin, including 7,313 adults and 3,388 children, last month. Of these, 4,726 were homeless adults without dependent children – a 15 per cent increase since September 2023 when there were 4,085.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3RP6D3MNRBEFHJKLCX3OLFWUDE","additional_properties":{"_id":1730218260906},"content":"In a statement the DRHE said: “In order to meet the increase in demand for homeless services and have the appropriate contingency plans in place for cold weather conditions, we are activating the cold weather strategy 2024-2025 in the Dublin region.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4BVYQZUALJFWJPI6SMB4ZLANGU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730218260907},"content":"“The ... strategy focuses on expanding current capacity to meet increasing demand for emergency accommodation whilst also providing a targeted response for people who are long-term rough sleeping.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WXUF44XIK5HT5N3DMHWRBBW3SQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730218260908},"content":"“The cold weather provides opportunities for more assertive engagement with long-term, entrenched rough sleepers and hard-to-reach groups, aimed at placing them in appropriate and long-term accommodation.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2A4SUEFBYRFUBKRBI3YECIQUGM","additional_properties":{"_id":1730218260909},"content":"A spokesman confirmed none of these would be available to the more than 2,800 homeless male asylum seekers, however, saying their accommodation was “a matter for the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/department-of-children-equality-integration-and-youth/\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Children</a>”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5WNSGVGIWVEPPK4PPP4W5PE3M4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730218260910},"content":"According to latest figures from the department, as of Tuesday, there were 2,808 male asylum seekers “awaiting offer of accommodation”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F7M6HPCLHRDMHCNYJZLJGP2HPM","additional_properties":{"_id":"BMY3NBJ3LBHPZGYOEHECDS4YW4"},"content":"Number of homeless deaths in Dublin reaches 40 so far this year, records show","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"G2JV3WE4ZVEJJIHT3YQSYDDF54","additional_properties":{"_id":1730218260911},"content":"Since December 4th the department’s <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/international-protection-accommodation-services/\" target=\"_blank\">International Protection Accommodation Service</a> has not been providing shelter to single, adult, male international protection applicants on presentation at the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/international-protection-office/\" target=\"_blank\">International Protection Office</a>. A total of 6,002 have applied since then, of whom 2,547 have since been accommodated and 647 offered shelter following a “vulnerability triage”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5L5HU7JGQNBPPLHUWFLGVQ2RAA","additional_properties":{"_id":1730218260912},"content":"Volunteers say while this cohort should be offered shelter on arrival, those they were meeting sleeping rough around Dublin were “generally getting offers within a few days”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EVLGDBFTNNFQZKHNM3OL2QWDEY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730218260913},"content":"One volunteer, who has been supporting homeless asylum seekers since early 2024, said: “The speed with which they are getting accommodation has improved, generally within four to five nights, or even less. But they just need accommodation on arrival. They are walking around in wet clothes all day and getting into wet sleeping bags.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"A5PPVQTT2FEZ5DQIEJBWCXRRSM","additional_properties":{"_id":1730218260914},"content":"One man, who gave his name as Issa (34), from Sierra Leone, was bedding down on Sunday night on wet ground, in a wet tent, in a sheltered area in south Dublin, having arrived in Ireland on October 21st, he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DGVLUSXJJ5DRVD5UE67RS24MHY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730218260915},"content":"“It is very, very difficult. It is too cold. It is not easy for us. There is a lot of struggle here. But the country is so peaceful, the people are good people.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"WL2CZ6RSZRCG3FP32HXSSZ4GEY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730218260916},"content":"The Department of Children was asked by The Irish Times about winter plans to shelter male asylum seekers, and about opening of accommodation in Thornton Hall in north Co Dublin. 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They do not receive child benefit or the child support payment – formerly the qualified child increase – in respect of children whose parents are dependent on social welfare.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7YX4MRQFJRFNRO5ZOMMMZ3IBDY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730120493921},"content":"The vast majority of children of asylum seekers live in accommodation provided by the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) which includes meals.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FHHZ3M4GBJAHDE54L4O6QDIESI","additional_properties":{"_id":1730120493922},"content":"“As we head into difficult winter months, many families will breathe a sigh of relief with this additional support [of double child benefit],” said Ms Ward. “But as this happens, children and young people in direct provision will receive nothing. No double payment or child benefit payment at all.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ERTSQF3RMZFTXMAUA3OLR4NYKE","additional_properties":{"_id":1730120493923},"content":"“For five years, these children have been left behind by this Government. They have watched budget after budget go by without any increases to the income support they receive ... Instead, Government expects these children and young people to survive on just €29.80 a week.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"THJ772LDBZEDRLBM57SF2MHJ2A","additional_properties":{"_id":1730120493924},"content":"She continued: “We know that less than €30 a week falls shamefully short of what is needed to afford just the basic essentials for a decent standard of living. Ignoring these children and the obvious need for more adequate income supports all but confirms that their childhoods will be severely compromised by poverty.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2JG4T33UPVG2ZDNXGHKLUAZEDU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730121528922},"content":"“There are no after-school activities, cinema trips, birthday parties with friends. The hallmarks of a happy childhood are not an option when you can barely afford to just get through the week.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SIKURAERKBG4JIBMAZDMVOOIX4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730120493925},"content":"“We urge Government to implement this critical income support to ensure that the financial support is brought closer to that of their peers. 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The vast majority of young people in the SCSIP service reported as missing are aged over 16 years.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DSNQSD2FG5HITOYA4JGEOYXBKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1730038540793},"content":"“Some of these young people communicated their intention to travel on to other countries to join family members, and some indicated that it was never their intention to remain in Ireland and left soon after they arrived in the country.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HIHCWBUM3BFHNIZNFPRTSJ562I","additional_properties":{"_id":1730043261307},"content":"“Nonetheless, for those who did not subsequently make us aware of their whereabouts, these young people are counted as missing and An Garda Síochána are notified accordingly.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2X2POFSZORDZ3A72T4JN55AO5E","additional_properties":{"_id":1730038540794},"content":"Tusla did not specify whether it believed the 31 missing young asylum seekers were still in the country or whether it was making efforts to ascertain their whereabouts.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LEK4NNZEY5BLNPMSELN7IHM4TA","additional_properties":{"_id":1730038540795},"content":"The agency continued: “Of the 37, six are living in Tusla’s residential settings. Most of these young people reported as ‘missing’ return to their placement after a brief period of time and remain in a safe and caring environment.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"QXACQULIJNEVTBBZM5END3WTK4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730038540796},"content":"It said it was “important to note” that where a child is absent from their residential care placement for more than 15 minutes, they can be reported as “missing” from care.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H55TNWZNNZEUHNIDAZX4QHXE2E","additional_properties":{"_id":1730043261311},"content":"“This could be for a range of reasons, such as missing their curfew or not returning to their placement at an agreed time.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TCRCWRREO5AL5NPKSCPHEQ4LBE","additional_properties":{"_id":1730043261312},"content":"“Three of these six young people remained in contact with the services whilst absent, and three of these young people were not in contact as of 10th October.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZJUOCPADCRH5HHUYYAMHDYUBQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730042102158},"content":"Setting out what happens when a young person goes missing from its care, a Tusla spokeswoman said a joint protocol with gardaí required that the force be notified immediately “due to vulnerable nature of young people in care”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CYYEIUW2WNECRNUMVWGTLPS6RY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730042102159},"content":"“Once a young person has been reported missing, gardaí have primary responsibility for investigating the young person’s whereabouts. Throughout the Garda investigation, however, the child’s social worker and carers continue to make inquiries with people who may be able to assist with the investigation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GYHL47WLGJBVFEEKHKFSYKNYMU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730042102160},"content":"“All information gathered through these inquiries is passed on to the gardaí,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"APVRMT6HPJBXXPRUGVMLEZH52U","additional_properties":{"_id":1730043596672},"content":"Meanwhile, speaking on Sunday, Minister for Children <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/roderic-o-gorman/\" target=\"_blank\">Roderic O’Gorman</a> said there have “very clearly been failings” in the case of missing boy Kyran Durnin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZVAQC3LIRZA6FJBTYQDJPVQQZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730043596673},"content":"“We can’t be complacent when it comes to child protection ... 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For more information, and for a full list of congregations around the whole island of Ireland, visit: <a href=\"http://www.presbyterianireland.org/\">www.presbyterianireland.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"JF7JX4VYXJABZAFPWMHVGOM3VY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Adelaide Road Presbyterian Church, Dublin City</b> Sundays at 11am in person or online. All Welcome. Our church building is located at the intersection of Earlsfort Terrace and Adelaide Road, Dublin 2. Rev Dr Colin Dickson has been our replacement minister while Rev Dr Sam Mawhinney served his year as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. To find out more visit: <a href=\"http://www.adelaideroadchurch.ie/\">www.adelaideroadchurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"3UZEO2O75BEYHIOOMYSFT5BSFQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Clontarf and Scots Presbyterian Church, Dublin</b> Sunday Service is at 11am with Communion. We are located opposite Clontarf Road DART Station, Dublin 3. Rev Lorraine Ritchie. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://www.clontarfchurch.ie/\">www.clontarfchurch.ie</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"AEGCPIFFCJAXDOQQKYOA2K4URU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Donabate and Balbriggan Presbyterian Churches, Co. Dublin</b> Meet at 10:30am at Donabate and Portrane Community Centre, and at 4:30pm at Balbriggan Clubs Community Centre, Co. Dublin. Everyone is welcome. Rev. Andy Carroll. Visit <a href=\"http://www.donabatepc.org/\">www.donabatepc.org</a> to find out more and for directions","type":"text"},{"_id":"ECYVCTXBRFCKJKIOJHJZGHKIYI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Dún Laoghaire Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at York Road, Dun Laoghaire. Rev Clarke Deering. You will be most welcome to join us. For more information, visit: <a href=\"https://dl-pc.org/\">https://dl-pc.org/</a> or our Facebook page for regular updates, and online streaming.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RZPSGHXG3FB5ZMBJE62F6IVSDU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Findlaters (Abbey Presbyterian Church)</b> 11am at Parnell Square, Dublin City. Rev Alan Boal. Communion on the first Sunday of each month. All welcome. Abbey exists to share Gods purpose; becoming more Christ-like as we go, and show the Gospel to the City. To find out more, visit: <a href=\"http://www.abbeychurch.ie/\">www.abbeychurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"E2V5XQAXAJDCVNAUJVVXLNBDCE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Howth and Malahide Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 10am at Malahide and 11:45am in Howth. Rev Alastair Dunlop. Everyone is welcome to join us, as we share in the Good News of our Lord Jesus Christ. Programme for children during the service. You are welcome to join us for tea and coffee after the service. Visit: <a href=\"http://www.hmpchurch.org/\">www.hmpchurch.org</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"VJSEBLJUXZB57L4VYMW27TF36A","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Lucan Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at Main Street, Lucan Village. Lucan Presbyterian Church is a growing family of Christians who come from a variety of different church backgrounds, traditions and nationalities. Regardless of your age, background, experience or previous church connections you are welcome to come and visit us. For more information, visit <a href=\"http://www.lpc.ie/\">http://www.lpc.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"HI5T2KYJ2BC55PV5XI7DLJZZQI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Maynooth Presbyterian Church</b> Known locally as Maynooth Community Church; and meets together for worship on Sundays at 10:30am at Manor Mills Shopping Centre, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. On the first Sunday of the month we celebrate the Lords Supper (Communion). Rev Keith McCrory. Free parking is available in the underground car park and the service takes place on the 1st Floor. To find out more, visit <a href=\"http://maynoothcc.org/\">http://maynoothcc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"W4MCSS3PIRDZ3NMMH5M2CBFUIY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Naas Presbyterian Church, Co. Kildare</b> 11am with preacher, Mr Tom Dowling, Kilkenny Presbyterian. Programme for children during the service, and tea and coffee served afterwards. The church building is located across the street from the post office and town hall, and overlooks South Main Street - you cannot miss us. For further information, visit our Facebook page: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/NaasPCI\">www.facebook.com/NaasPCI</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"E66D6UEJVVHY5EKQNFALBQU7SQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Blackrock, Co. Dublin</b> Sundays at 9.45am for a traditional service of prayer and praise with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Junior Church for children and young people aged 5 to 15 years. For more information, visit <a href=\"https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie/\">https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie</a> - Rev Andrew Gill","type":"text"},{"_id":"6M6U2JYOMBFTBIETYQUSZZWGNA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Bray, Co. Wicklow</b> (We are located at the corner of Eglinton Road and Quinsborough Road) As a congregation, we exist to glorify God through worship and service. We meet every Sunday at 11:30am for a traditional service of prayer and praise, with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Sunday School for children. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://standrewschurchbray.com/\">standrewschurchbray.com</a> for more information. Rev. 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You will find a list of Meetings on our website: <a href=\"https://quakers-in-ireland.ie/map-of-quaker-meetings-worship-groups/\">https://quakers-in-ireland.ie/map-of-quaker-meetings-worship-groups/</a>","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[]},"description":{"basic":"Week beginning Saturday, October 26th, 2024"},"display_date":"2024-10-25T05:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Church services","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU","auth":{"1":"d4b9e121d137a9aeef92fc18438df403b5c177f6a3855de62a93ccfae6ccb05d"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/IN7OZZ6E2NGO5KX2KLF2SIQGJU.png"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Social Affairs"},{"name":"Ireland"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/ireland/social-affairs/2024/10/25/church-services/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/ireland/social-affairs","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Social Affairs"}}}},{"_id":"J3X3AJ5R2JG53L6FDZ4VTPGMAQ","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":242,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/748ec0b9-09ae-4dbc-8271-17143ab29997/versions/1729706629/media/51687fdc6cc4538b722faeb4579e3598_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/ireland/social-affairs/2024/10/23/oscar-winner-david-puttnam-says-film-production-can-play-role-in-shared-ireland/","content_elements":[{"_id":"3ZSG7TZP7NAUFPRC7XJTXRUFJM","additional_properties":{"_id":1729683461630},"content":"Much more money should be spent by the Irish Government and the Stormont Executive on cross-Border culture to “reflect the island’s story back on to itself”, Oscar-winning film producer <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/david-puttnam/\" target=\"_blank\">David Puttnam</a> has said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"64TRBJTXARH6PGEBDORYJJIC5A","additional_properties":{"_id":1729683461631},"content":"“I can’t think of many areas that are more likely to drive mutual understanding and a shared sense of the future than the film and television industries. 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The party is also promising to ensure no new schools are built without a childcare facility on the site.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QITRPV2T25C2BLFRM2LF4XFMII","additional_properties":{"_id":1729684332965},"content":"The party’s childcare document argues that smaller business are being bought out by “large multinationals or by capital management companies”, with significant amounts of taxpayer funds “taken for profit for investment funds, rather than being reinvested in the service”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SJOISUA6WRHRXBWWTXSFK37PQA","additional_properties":{"_id":1729684332966},"content":"Asked if the Social Democrats would remove private provision entirely, Ms Whitmore said there would likely be some degree of private provision under a fully operational version of their policies, but that larger corporate entities would not be supported.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G5YHIY7DSNEQ3NTIJH3QEHNW64","additional_properties":{"_id":1729684332967},"content":"“The problems we see in care provision, in childcare and in care for older people is because we have actually focused far too much on the use of the corporates to provide fundamental public services,” she said","type":"text"},{"_id":"IR4RLLQVAJBWBDEPLUN2XXZ6TE","additional_properties":{"_id":1729684332968},"content":"“Absolutely we are not factoring them into this policy. What we want is a policy where the State runs childcare and early year services and they are run for the benefit of parents and for children and for the staff that’s in them.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"NXZVDIZAO5HBJO4436OZNUPWBI","additional_properties":{"_id":1729684332969},"content":"The party’s document refers to the example of Canada, which it said has stricter conditions for providers in receipt of public funds, which must sign up to principles in keeping with public provision.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZPY4OYE2ZFDS7ECG2GG36MGSII","additional_properties":{"_id":1729684332970},"content":"“As a result, multinationals and investment funds are not interested in childcare in Canada as profit extraction is capped, there are clear rules about how much parents pay, and providers must open their books to show what they are paying staff,” the policy said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PBJ5LCIEPJHSZOPILZI2C5GTG4","additional_properties":{"_id":1729690552136},"content":"“If 60 or 70 per cent of a business’s turnover is coming from the taxpayer, government should have a right to talk to those businesses about profit caps and staff working conditions.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"YCDY6C2IB5FUNMX3YVDX7FFP3I","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Jack Horgan-Jones"}},"name":"Jack Horgan-Jones"}]},"description":{"basic":"‘Twin-track’ system would use budget surpluses to buy existing childcare businesses and build new facilities"},"display_date":"2024-10-23T13:39:40.175Z","headlines":{"basic":"Social Democrats promise to spend €250m on early years education and cap fees at €250 a month","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"LM4XF6VATBFDXFIGNHY2DB6HQ4","auth":{"1":"e716c665ac1b3c43392732d6d6e2627bcfeb0cd75882ee46b8f4c954e05fe197"},"focal_point":{"x":3315,"y":2007},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/LM4XF6VATBFDXFIGNHY2DB6HQ4.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Politics"},{"name":"Social Affairs"},{"name":"Ireland"},{"name":"Education"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/politics/2024/10/23/social-democrats-promise-to-spend-250m-on-early-years-education-and-cap-fees-at-250-a-month/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/politics","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Politics"}}}},{"_id":"75LVCK3JLBC7LGUIYJZN4KLM6E","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":140,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/bbc3ada8-13c4-446f-ae59-4c065a2739a5/versions/1729689396/media/e25dbfb7845c9fdb143f265620fb6a63_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/ireland/social-affairs/2024/10/23/cso-figures-show-10000-more-ukrainians-in-ireland-since-same-time-last-year/","content_elements":[{"_id":"GRJF6WDVUFC3XAH36Z37DUAICM","additional_properties":{"_id":1729688580440},"content":"The number of refugees from Ukraine living in Ireland has increased by more than 10,000 compared to this time last year, figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KBSAI42MPNG57BWYIDLHFBYS2A","additional_properties":{"_id":1729688580441},"content":"There were 109,566 arrivals to Ireland up to the end of September of this year. 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As people go to the polls throughout today, they should ask themselves do they want another five years of rising homelessness. Because that is what they will get it Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael go back into government.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"QFFNT5QC6FGOXAFNFXHQ5ISXHY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732894500467},"content":"Social Democrats deputy leader and housing spokesperson Cian O’Callaghan described the figures as a “monumental failure” on the part of the Government that has “devastating consequences for people’s lives”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NTTSULUAFBBAXAA4QTFQPUGRJM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732894500468},"content":"He added: “We are not a country starved of resources. The outgoing Government has had record budget surpluses while simultaneously breaking the homelessness record 24 times.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q2AZ6MXJNBEULHSZBDH23GFVVI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732894500469},"content":"“This constant rise in homelessness is not inevitable – it is the direct result of failed policies from a Government that refused to treat the housing crisis like the emergency that it is.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"MKRXYSWYOVAAXFEUWOEISNDZQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732894500470},"content":"Simon Communities of Ireland interim executive director Tony Geoghegan said the outgoing Government has made commitments to end homelessness, but the “problems continue unabated”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UPUB23UNPZA5FIQP5GIT7HRTZI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732894500471},"content":"He added: “The new Government must commit to end homelessness and the need to sleep rough by 2030. 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Poulton, B.A., Prebendary of Swords. 18.00 ADVENT PROCESSION BY CANDLELIGHT sung by the Cathedral Choir with readings by Bryan Dobson. SUNG MATINS at 09.00 Monday to Friday CHORAL EVENSONG at 17.30 - Monday to Friday. EUCHARIST at 11.05 - Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday. For further information visit <a href=\"http://www.stpatrickscathedral.ie\" target=\"_blank\">www.stpatrickscathedral.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"7T6BBXBOOZD7NDIJSWZJABTEYQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"CHURCH OF IRELAND","type":"header"},{"_id":"V6UGQBXPFFHANK3RITM2Y7TDHE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Ardamine Group of Parishes, Co Wexford</b> Services Sunday 1st December Monamolin 9 am Morning Prayer Ardamine 10.15 am Morning Prayer Kilnamanagh 11.45 am Holy Communion","type":"text"},{"_id":"DHOMIIB4VFACRPNYUIMEV6LP2M","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Christ Church Bray</b> Rector: Revd Dr Leonard Madden. Sunday 10th November: 8.30 a.m. Holy Communion; 11 a.m. Remembrance Service. Monday 11th November: 11 a.m. Act of Remembrance. Live stream <a href=\"http://www.churchservices.tv/christchurchbray\">www.churchservices.tv/christchurchbray</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"E3YOLVNJTNFIPESO6LFTB7WQOE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Audoen Cornmarket </b>9.30 Bellringing, 10.00 Eucharist (every Sunday), Remembrance. During works, access through the OPW Visitor Centre. Cars may be parked between Francis Street and Christ Church.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RGROOXCI3BA7PADF3C5PWFI7OU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Zion Parish Church</b> Sunday 1st December, Advent Sunday. 10.30am Holy Communion, 9am Holy Communion 1. All welcome","type":"text"},{"_id":"DVG3SVBDENHVVO6IDIP6SUDHPA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Catherine St James Donore Avenue</b> 11.30, Service of the Word, Remembrance Sunday. Speaker, Fr David Corrigan SM, PP, St Teresas Donore Avenue. Organist, Olesia Borsuk. Cars may be parked in the Churchyard.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6UH7EB7NIFH4ZAOOUPMZJY5ICM","additional_properties":{},"content":"PRESBYTERIAN","type":"header"},{"_id":"GU5YANUMJ5DQNLYYVGWESWLYN4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>About The Presbyterian Church in Ireland</b> The Presbyterian form of the Christian faith is best described as Reformed; with its strong emphasis on the Sovereignty of God, the Kingship of Christ, and the authority of the Bible. For more information, and for a full list of congregations around the whole island of Ireland, visit: <a href=\"http://www.presbyterianireland.org/\">www.presbyterianireland.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"QCT3UHJXGRGMZJNKA3YIX77CQU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Adelaide Road Presbyterian Church, Dublin City</b> Sundays at 11am in person or online. All Welcome. Our church building is located at the intersection of Earlsfort Terrace and Adelaide Road, Dublin 2. Rev Dr Colin Dickson has been our replacement minister while Rev Dr Sam Mawhinney served his year as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. To find out more visit: <a href=\"http://www.adelaideroadchurch.ie/\">www.adelaideroadchurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"6DL65BQFQ5BZNCHZAXJ3MXYZVI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Clontarf and Scots Presbyterian Church, Dublin</b> Sunday Service is at 11am with Communion. We are located opposite Clontarf Road DART Station, Dublin 3. Rev Lorraine Ritchie. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://www.clontarfchurch.ie/\">www.clontarfchurch.ie</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"TAIGXRKK7VC3XDOEMQFV2CXPYA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Donabate and Balbriggan Presbyterian Churches, Co. Dublin</b> Meet at 10:30am at Donabate and Portrane Community Centre, and at 4:30pm at Balbriggan Clubs Community Centre, Co. Dublin. Everyone is welcome. Rev. Andy Carroll. Visit <a href=\"http://www.donabatepc.org/\">www.donabatepc.org</a> to find out more and for directions","type":"text"},{"_id":"KYJTMWCTXFGEXIJROOUS3RTR2U","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Dún Laoghaire Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at York Road, Dun Laoghaire. Rev Clarke Deering. You will be most welcome to join us. For more information, visit: <a href=\"https://dl-pc.org/\">https://dl-pc.org/</a> or our Facebook page for regular updates, and online streaming.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D3H6F7B7TNC37JA4IVZO6XQOHM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Findlaters (Abbey Presbyterian Church)</b> 11am at Parnell Square, Dublin City. Rev Alan Boal. Communion on the first Sunday of each month. All welcome. Abbey exists to share Gods purpose; becoming more Christ-like as we go, and show the Gospel to the City. To find out more, visit: <a href=\"http://www.abbeychurch.ie/\">www.abbeychurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"BBPM2NNYSREB3BVSNXHRFTHDLY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Howth and Malahide Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 10am at Malahide and 11:45am in Howth. Rev Alastair Dunlop. Everyone is welcome to join us, as we share in the Good News of our Lord Jesus Christ. Programme for children during the service. You are welcome to join us for tea and coffee after the service. Visit: <a href=\"http://www.hmpchurch.org/\">www.hmpchurch.org</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"3EVWTG5VEFBBPBDNKVDSXG4WUM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Lucan Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at Main Street, Lucan Village. Lucan Presbyterian Church is a growing family of Christians who come from a variety of different church backgrounds, traditions and nationalities. Regardless of your age, background, experience or previous church connections you are welcome to come and visit us. For more information, visit <a href=\"http://www.lpc.ie/\">http://www.lpc.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"HTLPRGVYNJDGFIIOW5DCSQC6IU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Maynooth Presbyterian Church</b> Known locally as Maynooth Community Church; and meets together for worship on Sundays at 10:30am at Manor Mills Shopping Centre, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. On the first Sunday of the month we celebrate the Lords Supper (Communion). Rev Keith McCrory. Free parking is available in the underground car park and the service takes place on the 1st Floor. To find out more, visit <a href=\"http://maynoothcc.org/\">http://maynoothcc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"6O6KJU4IIVFA3E5SMTCMJ4IMD4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Naas Presbyterian Church, Co. Kildare</b> 11am with preacher, Mr Tom Dowling, Kilkenny Presbyterian. Programme for children during the service, and tea and coffee served afterwards. The church building is located across the street from the post office and town hall, and overlooks South Main Street - you cannot miss us. For further information, visit our Facebook page: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/NaasPCI\">www.facebook.com/NaasPCI</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"CKRDRFEAOZGEFBDBAAXOJSMEQU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Blackrock, Co. Dublin</b> Sundays at 9.45am for a traditional service of prayer and praise with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Junior Church for children and young people aged 5 to 15 years. For more information, visit <a href=\"https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie/\">https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie</a> - Rev Andrew Gill","type":"text"},{"_id":"2MPSU43CEVCRZB2R7DA7TBJFZE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Bray, Co. 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According to the report, perpetrators of violence against women and girls who have known paramilitary connections often “wield an implicit form of protection within their communities”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BPPKQR7ZMBCO7NBYL7VX7C4JTE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732559418066},"content":"“This association with paramilitary groups can act as a powerful deterrent for survivors and witnesses, making it incredibly difficult for victims-survivors to speak out.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"27IJNO2Y3VHD3GJVZ5TILOHG4E","additional_properties":{"_id":1732559418067},"content":"Orla O’Connor, director of the National Women’s Council, said there was an “epidemic of violence of women” both sides of the Border.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OP7HOP63RZGHVPGE43TCMYYMF4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732559418068},"content":"“There are multiple barriers to accessing supports, particularly for certain groups like migrant women, disabled women, and Traveller and Roma women. 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While the number of Ukrainian women seeking pregnancy support has dropped, the clinic now operates as a satellite service connected to the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/coombe-hospital/\" target=\"_blank\">Coombe</a>, offering maternity and gynaecological care to pregnant women going through the international protection system.","type":"text"},{"_id":"P3TGQO2UFVACFB64ZJIQ7IXBYM","additional_properties":{"_id":"DE5BMGTANJBURELUR5KBN3KDEQ"},"content":"Are you entitled to go on maternity leave a second time straight after your first ends?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"2BQPUCSX6ZACNP376TAWK2CTRU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731406685916},"content":"A total of 130 pregnant asylum-seeking women have attended the clinic since June 2023, when data started being collected. Current patients are most likely to be from Nigeria, Jordan, Bangladesh or Somalia. Before the clinic existed, pregnancy care for an asylum-seeking woman was “very messy” and “fractured”, says lead community midwife Emer Shine. “These women would all be quite high-risk, just by the fact that they’re all in international protection. A lot have gestational diabetes and FGM [female genital mutilation] is definitely an issue.” The diet many of these women have while living in emergency accommodation is also concerning, she adds.","type":"text"},{"_id":"U2LYZZ7WBVBKRK2FAHDRTXVLOE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731406685917},"content":"The arrival of the clinic means there is now “continuity of care” with “better links” for asylum seekers in Dublin. “The women have a phone number to call me and ask the things you might ring your mam about because some have no family here.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"N7J3UH37OVHCZORS4PNU43MZKE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731406685918},"content":"Some women can still fall through the cracks. Shine recalls how a woman late in her pregnancy was recently transferred “in the middle of the night” from City Ark Hotel in Citywest to new accommodation in Tipperary. “It was only because she had my phone number that she could start calling us straight away. Eventually we got her transferred back to Dublin. She was 37 weeks pregnant [and also had]… a three-year-old toddler.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"NNFU5BZANZAUXCWYJYC6ESDXCE","additional_properties":{"_id":"A56K6XZWKFA55GJRYXOVRG6LN4"},"content":"Ireland set to be one of first countries in world to allow women pause maternity leave if seriously ill, Minister says","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"ZZPCZY2KZZBFTMF4RVEPAVDFXM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731406685919},"content":"Elanor Hale, the clinic’s senior medical social worker, agrees that the new system is “more co-ordinated and efficient” and “a lot easier for women to access”. 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Her midwife has “supported me in every stage” which is “very important because this is my first pregnancy so I don’t know what’s going on and I needed her help”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HW6IGIGR2NCNNMQSUO7F7M32UQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731406685924},"content":"“We are here alone, we have no family,” says the young Bangladeshi mother-to-be as her husband nods his head. “My midwife is like my family now, she is so helpful, I can’t explain.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"G2GIPQXMTFDFHFEG2X7ZQSSZY4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731406685925},"content":"“I can text her with any problem.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"XLUQDVZHBNEJPJMWO3WTVALN2Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1731406685926},"content":"Ola, who is 30 weeks pregnant, was recently transferred with her husband and children from the centre where she was living in the west of Ireland. “The place where we were living was too tight for a new baby, they wanted us to have more room.” While she has not yet attended the clinic, she has already been contacted via WhatsApp and is due to see a community midwife next week.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AZXSP7QA65BIBKNYIECIKN7WYY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731406685927},"content":"Before the clinic was set up, a pregnant asylum-seeking woman who was suddenly moved to a different part of the country would struggle to see a doctor quickly because transferring a GP card can take between six months to a year, says nurse and midwife Debbie Garry.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QEYDCPJ6TBBXXIONZL4UJAWPKM","additional_properties":{"_id":"UB53CCDG45DMVPUVNRCT46FE44"},"content":"Welcoming migrants is not only a societal duty but a sacred obligation for Christians","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"P6RKCYCBSJCDVBTEFEUPJ7G3E4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731406685928},"content":"Now, the Daisy Clinic has created a system that’s “effective, productive and cost-effective for the hospital”, says Garry, noting that the Response for Vulnerable People team recently received a list from the International Protection and Accommodation Service (Ipas) of all pregnant women arriving in to Citywest for the first time. “That list makes life a lot easier for everyone – before the list we just had to go looking for these women.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"JSONIXTGZFFSBEILLXRT6UXRY4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731406685929},"content":"The 70-year-old midwife<b> </b>was appointed to the HSE’s social inclusion response for Roma women during the pandemic and oversees the care for pregnant asylum seekers in Dublin. Working with Roma and asylum-seeking women from certain countries “is almost like looking at Irish women 50 years ago, when women had no rights”. Many of these women do not have access to finances or even have their own phone, she says. Some cannot read or write and many of those who can, do not recognise the letters of the Roman alphabet. “You cannot assume that everybody can access or read a text from the hospital. Because of my age and experience I appreciate that these are women with no voice. And my age is an advantage to me, I’m like their grandmother You build up trust, you build up a relationship.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"JMXB4EQOMZF45FI5UG3A65FFU4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731406685930},"content":"“These are real people, these are real stories and you can see the trauma on their faces and in their body language. 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But numbers of the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/church-of-ireland/\" target=\"_blank\">Church of Ireland</a> community are reducing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RNJW7S2DXNCEFKHGFXSIFOYY4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070827},"content":"The Rev Rob Jones is rector at Holy Trinity Rathmines in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin</a>. There is, he says, “a genuine sense across the West that churches are in decline and they need to do new things to reach out”. He believes “God works in seasons, things being cut back and pruned, and then he rebuilds. I think we’re in a massive paradigm shift which is bigger than anything that has gone maybe since the Reformation.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"NTZMSUPHMFCKJDD4YUO6WQRZF4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070831},"content":"In his view, “we do not need to lament being a minority and we need to learn humbly from other minority groups – a key point – and acknowledge the wrong attitudes that have accompanied being part of the dominant culture. I think that’s a key part of the future, being a creative minority as opposed to an oppressive majority,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H3NAMZT66FAQBFGURQ6JUO6GLU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070832},"content":"“I think this is a key part of the future of the church, a committed group of people who neither control nor abandon the world but engage in it.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"E56BX7OJEFCPRDMVXZSYJGNZKM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070833},"content":"At Holy Trinity Rathmines, “we have pioneered something new. We’ve gone after the young generations. We’ve listened to them and we’ve changed how we do things, not to change the message but to change how we actually do things to reach out to them. We’ve really grown.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"MTRKOCCA5JDSXFHJ57SPI7TONI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070834},"content":"In 2011, Holy Trinity Rathmines was attended by “15 elderly people. Now there are hundreds of young people.” The “pews are gone, liturgy is different, we do lots of dialogue, we don’t do monologues, it’s a different way of doing church.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EGOPKEGGB5EDTF3L2OJ3MJJA4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070835},"content":"They “do lots of stuff outside of a Sunday because I think Sundays are gone now” with the focus “in homes, around meals”, he says. “Part of what we do in Pioneer Ministry is create a place where anyone can belong, first, before they believe anything and before they behave in a certain way. So, for young people, being accepted for what they are is absolutely vital.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4UTLRSUPNNHRZCGMFRKCNY3PC4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070836},"content":"The younger generation “are flocking away from the church”, yet are “becoming more spiritual”. There was “a deep sense of spirituality in their music. I think their sense of spirituality is in being open to the world around them.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"7FYKCCXM45FABHAO52STRFV4HM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070837},"content":"They are the first generation who are “more interested in spirituality as opposed to organised religion, and it’s fascinating. We’re kind of going back to a time of Patrick, who dealt with a pagan philosophy and people open to something more than themselves. But organised religion wasn’t something they were up to. I think we’re kind of in that time again, of tapping into the spirituality which is so important in the life of our island.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"U3FR4WD4IBG45OCTF7S4TO2N74","additional_properties":{"_id":"AQG7PX2ANVETNFGYM5467YDE6Q"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"USIF7O5LDNHURNNIPTIEYIISBA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070838},"content":"Numbers attending Church of Ireland Sunday services across the island of Ireland “would not fill the seats and stands of the Aviva Stadium, once,” Archbishop of Dublin Michael Jackson has said. On any of the four Sundays on which a census of attendance was taken across the church in 2023, “numbers were around 40,000″, he said, adding that it meant “there is now one church building for every 49 people”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ODRA57ONTZD5XAUV5SDB2EDZKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070840},"content":"He notes that “between 1.6 and 1.8 million people live in the Greater Dublin Area”, yet the 2023 census found total attendance at Church of Ireland Sunday services in the diocese “barely scrape over the 5,000 mark”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2T33QGE2H5GWLPUJGL26QXOAUA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070841},"content":"Overall, the church’s internal 2023 census of attendance at those Sunday services showed a drop of 30 per cent on a similar census in 2013, he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XZESOG56VBEFPEWIY4LO4VU3RQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070842},"content":"Jackson presented the figures in his presidential address to the synods of Dublin and Glendalough dioceses last month. “This is who we are and where we are,” he said, with more and more people in suburban parishes “telling me and others that they feel the boat has already sailed”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KAJZQOH34VAWXGMQ2YYJ5FHZMQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070843},"content":"He spoke of “dis-ease and disgruntlement and, even from time to time, defeat” among people in the church, “an organisation that has all the signs of slipping away from them and from everything that they have held dear in their everyday church lives.” This, he said was “not begrudgery. This is not even sentimentality. This is bereavement. This is distress. This is real alienation. This is most worrying.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"GGFLHMUKGJGRXOUHP4IOPGLVXI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070844},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"4MF3LDJ7YFEI7EWC2BR3NMPIFA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070845},"content":"The 2023 Sunday services census to which Jackson referred took place in all Church of Ireland churches across the island last year on February 5th, June 11th, September 17th and November 26th. It found that 40,117 church members in Ireland attended services on February 5th, 42,209 on June 11th, 42,570 on September 17th and 44, 557 on November 26th, making a rough average of about 42,000.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VIVSBRQVGBAZHNG5ARYTDDWOKE","additional_properties":{"_id":"JWGHQSSCXVD47A25GIP5TG2MBM"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"XZ6PDGE44FB3XKXSF3AWH4VLEM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070847},"content":"A similar census was carried out in the church over three Sundays in November 2013. It found average attendance at 58,000 people, or 15.5 per cent of the Church of Ireland population, as defined by the 2011 censuses in the Republic and Northern Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MD7QQJ2NEFCJBANZYCQTOU35AY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070848},"content":"According to the combined 2022 census in the Republic and the 2021 Northern Ireland census, there are approximately 345,000 Church of Ireland members on the island (124,749 in the Republic, 219,788 in Northern Ireland), meaning attendance of 42,000 at those Sunday services in 2023 amounted to about 13 per cent of its population.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4R6HONRXYJC4FK3SHNFHSR2BYM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070849},"content":"However, even as Church of Ireland attendance at Sunday services continues to decline, its population in the Republic has grown. According to the Republic’s 2022 census, its Church of Ireland population grew by 2 per cent (from 122,612) since the previous census of 2016.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3ZQOWERAZFEDPKVGQOBIPUYNOI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070850},"content":"The 2021 Northern Ireland census showed Church of Ireland membership there had dropped 2.2 per cent to 11.5 per cent of the population, from its 248,821 members in 2011.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BFLIRWBOIRDONK54CEGQ4YQOFM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070851},"content":"On the difference between those who claim Church of Ireland membership and those who attend its Sunday services, church spokesman Peter Cheney says “the overall number of people who currently self-identify as members of the Church of Ireland is likely to be considerably closer to the State census figures”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WWARX7GHLRB3NKQJMOACQPGKSM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070852},"content":"Church of Ireland Dean of Limerick Niall Sloane says the Church of Ireland is not about to disappear. “My own experience is one of growth. I cover the whole of the city of Limerick which includes the cathedral, an urban church and one rural church out in Murroe.” Since 2013, “numbers have doubled”, he says. “I don’t think the Church of Ireland is going to wipe itself out or anything like that.” He continues: “We’ve had a new bishop this past two years and in the short time he’s been here we’ve seen that all our parishes, by Advent Sunday, will be filled.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"IJAAXGYTJNH6PDJIGDOHAAHFNA","additional_properties":{"_id":"J5ED56QKHZB5NFKXHUGITHE3WY"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"EC4AZGNSZ5FEDIEMXCXPNH4ZIM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070854},"content":"The diocese is the largest geographically in Ireland, taking in most of the Wild Atlantic Way from Sligo to Cork. “People are drawn to the west.” During Covid, people “decided they don’t want to be in the rat race of living in a city, with all the expense and all that, so people are going west”, Sloane says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HME4WNR4R5GGJIAXKJXHQH4SLM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070855},"content":"In the summer numbers “significantly grow, places like Spanish Point in Co Clare would have significant numbers, Roundstone in Galway, people holidaying, vacationing, with summer homes, et cetera”. Helping growth in Limerick, he felt, was a liturgy which “is carefully constructed, worship is at the heart of it all but it’s thoughtful, preaching is meaningful, pastoral care is careful”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OA77E7VGCRALHI6NBREJJ5WXF4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070856},"content":"Archdeacon of Armagh Peter Thompson says the Church of Ireland is not in danger of disappearing in Northern Ireland. “Not at all,” he says. Worship has become “more diverse and Sunday morning isn’t the only time people worship. In my parish we have more people working at weekends now – in healthcare, hospitality, retail.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"IOT6O3CCA5DOFH4QIW7RIUQ6AM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070857},"content":"People were “much more mobile”, while attendance at a midweek Wednesday service had “increased by 150 per cent in the last five years, because people aren’t always available on a Sunday”. The census did not provide “the full picture of attendance at worship at all and that’s before we touch on online worship”, he says. Since Covid “we’ve gathered a sizeable number of regular worshippers who are physically unable to be present on a Sunday”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"K3QD7ATDEVBWTGLVEA62MVMN6Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070858},"content":"Canon Gillian Wharton, rector at St Philip and St James’ Church in Booterstown, Co Dublin, says: “There’s a different way in which people now participate in worship and a different dynamic that’s going on. So, even if you are looking back to 2013, I would say now that we would have as many people involved in our parish and attending worship as we have 10 years ago, and in some cases more, but not as often.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BMFB7XYV6NFXZMBZHZV75YPNOU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070859},"content":"She explains: “Ten years ago we didn’t have the amount of sports activities on a Sunday morning.” That is now “absolutely the case and we have to constantly battle with that”. In her parish, “we would have, I would say, the same number, in fact more people attending and involved, not as often”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5Q4VTHGATRCYTJ2EDWEFMCGEKI","additional_properties":{"_id":"IBO6EGRASBF73LHLLYP3FXFJUU"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"QODSZF7KJNAJZMGWXMMSQR6P6M","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070860},"content":"Wharton adds: “We’re not sticking our heads in the sand either, thinking that there isn’t cause to constantly evaluate and review.” People were now “choosing to opt in. They’re making a positive choice.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"FHOECSDZBBBHLOTOEOZERXDYMU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070861},"content":"Hazel Corrigan, honorary secretary to the Church of Ireland General Synods, does not believe there is any cause for alarm in the church over declining numbers. People probably need to look at the issue “a bit wider, in that – and I can see it in my own parish – there are more people working at home, there are so many kids’ sports now, with so many other activities going on. The days of attendance which was obligatory driven by your parents making you go to church, those days are gone.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"QODSZF7KJNAJZMGWXMMSQR6P6M","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070862},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"2ELXJAIC7JDQNDVRRS4IAWIDFE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070863},"content":"The church’s national youth officer Simon Henry recalls how this year the church’s “Summer Madness, Ireland’s largest Christian youth festival, had over 200 young people come to faith this summer for the first time, with the biggest numbers attending that since pre-Covid”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BPCU4UM6ORCTBPBOIKFSU3E2E4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070864},"content":"It was also the case now that “a lot of youth work is not done on a Sunday morning” but “mostly during the week”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EGD3E3NEPBFA7B2NLMAV5OVFJY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070865},"content":"Still, in February 2023, the church launched its Pioneer Ministry, with the aim “of reaching those outside the church in new ways and in different places”, according to its website. It notes how “over the last 50 years, attendance and membership of the Church of Ireland has progressively declined, as has also been observed in many other Christian denominations in western societies”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OGGERMPKRJE5JCRCYY5LJWPONU","additional_properties":{"_id":"BK374CXNGFDKZIELNNU5TOK5UY"},"content":"Catholicism is having a moment: A new generation finds solace in the Confession box and sense of community","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"5A3W734XORBGJM6PBEAEVINAP4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070866},"content":"This, it says, “has resulted in a narrowing of the fringe of people with whom traditional church can connect. There are now more people in our communities who have no engagement with the church and no understanding of the Christian message. New approaches to ministry – pioneer ministries – are needed to cross cultural barriers to enable the Gospel to be shared with people who are well beyond the fringe.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"RNJW7S2DXNCEFKHGFXSIFOYY4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070867},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"O6NE6YSYJZBCRA5Y27TL75LNVM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070868},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"BLLUSF33QFA5RBDYBO2LCZ3444","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070869},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"FOEFALEJNJGKRGFTNGJDXZEYZE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070870},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"NTZMSUPHMFCKJDD4YUO6WQRZF4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070871},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"H3NAMZT66FAQBFGURQ6JUO6GLU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070872},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"E56BX7OJEFCPRDMVXZSYJGNZKM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070873},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"MTRKOCCA5JDSXFHJ57SPI7TONI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070874},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"EGOPKEGGB5EDTF3L2OJ3MJJA4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070875},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"4UTLRSUPNNHRZCGMFRKCNY3PC4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070876},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"7FYKCCXM45FABHAO52STRFV4HM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731503070877},"content":"","type":"text"},{"_id":"YCDY6C2IB5FUNMX3YVDX7FFP3I","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Patsy McGarry"}},"name":"Patsy McGarry"}]},"description":{"basic":"A younger generation of Protestants ‘are flocking away from the church’ yet ‘becoming more spiritual’"},"display_date":"2024-11-24T06:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Protestants in Ireland: ‘We’ve gone after the young generations. 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Helena Trench, principal of Powerstown Educate Together National School, said it had been “deeply disheartening” to witness the challenges faced by children’s parents who have been forced to apply to up to 20 or 30 schools to find a place.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3AEITESESVGXZJBBFZ4QSKZEPE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732300091339},"content":"She said the trial of a new common applications system for all schools in the area was a first step in reducing the burden on families and enabling better planning for places.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PYOGXW5IFRAN5C34X62ZCXFQWA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732298464483},"content":"Minister of State with responsibility for special education <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/hildegarde-naughton/\" target=\"_blank\">Hildegarde Naughton</a> said recently she was “committed to ensuring that every child has a school place appropriate for their needs” and hoped the common system could be expanded nationwide.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Carl O'Brien"}},"name":"Carl O'Brien"}]},"description":{"basic":"Official estimates point to a near doubling in proportion of children with autism in need of support at school within five years"},"display_date":"2024-11-23T06:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Sharp increase in autism diagnoses to require thousands of additional special needs places in schools","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"2F4WB4ED5JGD7WDGGCXBOYV2FE","auth":{"1":"053ce9d9fb3e8a11e8067db7776c01c97c4660fb40b60d601b888a4f03262b2a"},"focal_point":{"x":1896,"y":1237},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/2F4WB4ED5JGD7WDGGCXBOYV2FE.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Education"},{"name":"Social Affairs"},{"name":"Ireland"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/ireland/education/2024/11/23/sharp-increase-in-autism-to-require-thousands-of-additional-special-needs-places-in-schools/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/ireland/education","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Education"}}}},{"_id":"NBUTDA6BFBD45ICQ2ID37LJW24","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":376,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/a7b98f1f-a8a0-4530-9174-9717e0271b36/versions/1732274097/media/6da3903e06161582e260fb01f558fbe6_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/ireland/dublin/2024/11/23/dublin-riots-one-year-on-north-inner-city-youth-traumatised-by-the-stigma-of-violence/","content_elements":[{"_id":"4ISTEFB35VA43FFEGNIA6FK55A","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635412},"content":"A year on from the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dublin-riots/\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin riots</a>, young residents of the north inner city still feel “unfairly blamed” and hurt by how their community was stigmatised afterwards.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4F46BOQSZRCHZG76VNSCS7U77Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635413},"content":"They are “annoyed”, feel nothing has improved and are “fearful” of similar clashes in future. Youth workers say many young people remain traumatised 12 months later.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NCVPULDNONEHVDJM57B4PNNDQ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635414},"content":"The Dublin riots broke out on November 23rd, 2023, following the stabbing of three children and a care worker outside a primary school on Parnell Square.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VXHHKAHA7FF2LBY6N7PDEKISWY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635415},"content":"In December <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2024/02/22/parnell-square-stabbing-accused-sent-forward-for-trial-to-central-criminal-court/\" target=\"_blank\">Riad Bouchaker</a>, an Irish citizen and Algerian national, of no fixed abode, was charged with attempted murder.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YFMXD3JKHBED5CU5HIOG32NPNE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635416},"content":"There have been multiple arrests and convictions in the year since then over the public disorder in the hours after the attack.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EQ6JMWHKGREUBFHZN4ID465QMQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635417},"content":"On Thursday, Declan Donaghey (28) of Williams Place Upper, Dorset Street, pleaded guilty to arson, violent disorder and criminal damage during the riots and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2024/11/20/man-who-set-fire-to-garda-patrol-car-in-dublin-riots-is-jailed-for-6-years/\" target=\"_blank\">was jailed</a> for 6½ years.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BHCADMYTVBD2VIIH4DEVDGYZB4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635418},"content":"“I do think he got too long,” says Sean (20) who does not want to give his full name, as he walks along Gardiner Street in Dublin this week. He believes they “just had to make an example out of him”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G7WM3KFUORCXJOQMQFMPEFVKY4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635419},"content":"He feels young people in the area were “big time” blamed for the riots. He didn’t get involved. “I used my brain, but I can see the way people were; they were frustrated and got involved,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J7RJ7G3BAVBUTOXEXGKUMST5CA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635420},"content":"A teenage girl on Sean McDermott Street, when asked how she feels ahead of the anniversary of the riots, says: “Everyone is kind of on edge, fearful it’s going to happen again.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"MP6JSBK5QLKISVSTLPKPQJQOFE","additional_properties":{"_id":"SUGM5U546NHXPBZXPZLOE42VUI"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"4YYPFOQGCVFOJCNJUZVJUEJEFM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635422},"content":"Luke Fay (21) from Sheriff Street, who is a history and philosophy student at Trinity College Dublin, says: “Just because the area is seen as a bad area doesn’t mean people coming from there are bad.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J5F24O3C5NFWFNB27DLSAWFJM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635423},"content":"“When people are given opportunities and chances, they will take them. I am a testament to that,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FE3IZ4XISFATPLJDO65T5DQWM4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635424},"content":"His family has lived in the north inner city for generations. His father, Mark Fay, runs a local shop with his grandfather Gerry – both well-known and respected community activists. Luke too is active, advocating for young people and sitting on the boards of the North Inner City Community Coalition and the North Wall Women’s Centre.","type":"text"},{"_id":"URLQQ72GBFE7RA5DUGFQ5EFFHU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635425},"content":"He was at home when the riots erupted getting texts from friends “caught up in it” and “desperate to get out”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3AMOSVMIINFSNHPW6TKNUUFCBE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635426},"content":"Local youth workers Dean Murray and Jonathan Dowling, who is also a criminologist, say anger had been festering in the community since Covid lockdowns, which had a more adverse impact on overcrowded, poorer homes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GRZDGK7BZZCXLFTLKKONDRWYDI","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635427},"content":"“We are going to be cleaning up the impact of Covid on young people in disadvantaged areas for many years,” says Dowling.","type":"text"},{"_id":"POUWB4HEUNC2VLDJC5WLOIGPBA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635428},"content":"The return to post-Covid normality coincided with a sharp rise in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/immigration/\" target=\"_blank\">immigration</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SFAXLP7XTJFNHFGGM7Q4AADIXQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635429},"content":"“There was a lot of anger building in the community, a lot of protests in the area – in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2022/12/03/in-east-wall-a-struggle-to-control-the-narrative-over-asylum-seeker-protests/\" target=\"_blank\">East Wall</a>, on Talbot Street. People’s genuine fears were stoked by people who had far-right agendas,” says Murray.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3KKSQDQERFEYZFJPG4AVKSB3EU","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635430},"content":"Dowling “panicked” when news of the stabbings broke. “I knew this was going to explode,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VUTPYQCWPVDTPFZWTNWQAJRGZM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635431},"content":"In the immediate aftermath “a lot of kids were quite fearful”, says Dowling, “coming out of school with fear: ‘What if someone comes to my school with a knife?’”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EZL5XUZTXFAA3NEIEG4G663VTY","additional_properties":{"_id":"T5K6UMGTGVGLPCG2NHWBM3DASU"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"5BEKFGHQRBB4LLUPN74IUBX5DA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635433},"content":"Children of colour feared being attacked. Schools and clubs saw a drop in attendance in the days afterwards.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RYQDDGVFUZF65PSBHGHLXEJLUM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635434},"content":"Many of Fay’s peers were “shook up that this could be allowed to happen, and worried for the future”. They then felt their community was blamed, he adds.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GMUXURSPGFELRFMCOJO5WV2DXE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635435},"content":"Minister for Justice Helen McEntee described those involved in the riots as “<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2023/12/08/justine-mccarthy-politicians-throwing-around-terms-like-scumbags-and-thugs-is-a-slippery-slope/\" target=\"_blank\">scumbags</a>”. Politicians described their horror at the violence but offered little comfort to those most affected, says Fay.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IHM76TBAVRF3XPJFTSWL5Z543U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635436},"content":"“The impact of the riots, especially on my community, was like a slap in the face,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X3CP347EEFEE7BSZYGYXX3LU7M","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635439},"content":"The area is one of sharp economic contrasts. The Irish Financial Services Centre area is classified by independent agency Pobal as “very affluent”, while adjacent homes around Sheriff Street, Oriel Street and Summerhill Parade are “very disadvantaged”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"546IMRVHFFBRHPKPOTQTM7XL3U","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635440},"content":"“It feels like the community is crying out for very small things that would make a huge difference but always it’s only the bare minimum that is done,” says Fay.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JD6D6DAPUNHOFFIZWAPCANSW2Y","additional_properties":{"_id":"XX7C2FQW4VFXZODNSM4O2ZRZVM"},"content":"Election 2024: Elderly in Dublin’s north inner city say they are unconvinced by politicians","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"YV636VARHBHC5D33ZPVGYLJSIE","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635442},"content":"He believes a portion of Dublin City Council’s €35 million budget for a <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2024/11/17/it-will-rejuvenate-our-great-city-ambitious-plans-for-dublin-lido-move-a-step-closer/\" target=\"_blank\">swimming pool</a> on George’s Dock would have “a bigger, better impact” tackling antisocial behaviour than employing a hundred extra gardaí.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DVLLK4IQBBDS7AC6TM25WBYQTA","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635443},"content":"“We know what the problems are and how to solve them,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SO7UCK4QJNEEBG2EWLZRCC625Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635444},"content":"Fay knows people his age or younger, sleeping rough and selling drugs – “kids who have trauma”. He says there are supports in our area that would help them.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PA5CJ6JELVFHHB6VFN5GBDRML4","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635445},"content":"“But just not enough,” he says. “The services that could save them are crying out for funding. That’s State neglect.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"SLOU5GRRIJGNVGQTWHXYL6G52I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635446},"content":"Dowling says well-funded youth services are “crucial” where parents haven’t the capacity to mitigate the impact of poverty.","type":"text"},{"_id":"52B4ZAZ6BJA3JE2ESBXQCAWNRU","additional_properties":{"_id":"N6MWVZYI2RG2VN6FLKSFJ3EPU4"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"LBR366R37FD63LCRVIG4RFWGIM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635448},"content":"Both he and Murray grew up in the area and “were born into social deficit but were lucky enough that our parents and peers were able to wrap around us and support us”, says Dowling.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AWDLNKRAW5GXDOQFOO5S63SLMQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635449},"content":"“I don’t believe anyone is born wanting to do something wrong. It’s the oppressive policies and legislation,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"USUZKY57U5DWVBTM2SF6NSUINM","additional_properties":{"_id":1732240635450},"content":"“That’s no excuse for crime but when you are allowing people to be born into poverty, then bringing measures that keep them in poverty and they start doing things you don’t like, I believe you need to look in rather than look out.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"YCDY6C2IB5FUNMX3YVDX7FFP3I","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Kitty Holland"}},"name":"Kitty Holland"}]},"description":{"basic":"Many young people remain on edge and feel unfairly blamed for the violence, while local youth workers question a system that ‘allows people to be born into poverty’"},"display_date":"2024-11-23T01:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Dublin riots left north inner city youth ‘traumatised’ by the stigma of violence","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"DNFY3OMJ4RDLRAXM4C7C2GWQKU","auth":{"1":"0f7a372cf7f5d2cdd244dd176d190d52e7a3f67a9e6d3f1f79c903c37d4ac230"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/DNFY3OMJ4RDLRAXM4C7C2GWQKU.JPG"}},"subtype":"feature","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Dublin"},{"name":"Social Affairs"},{"name":"Crime & Law"},{"name":"Ireland"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/ireland/dublin/2024/11/23/dublin-riots-one-year-on-north-inner-city-youth-traumatised-by-the-stigma-of-violence/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/ireland/dublin","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Dublin"}}}},{"_id":"R2KWIZWO7NBSNHGPV2IJV6C7OQ","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/ireland/social-affairs/2024/11/22/church-services/","content_elements":[{"_id":"G4FE7XJRC5AZTE224367DA6T2I","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203175887},"content":"CATHEDRALS","type":"header"},{"_id":"Z2JISJ6MGZF2RBGV6KH7ZBHZIY","additional_properties":{"_id":1732203175888},"content":"<b>National Cathedral of Saint Patrick, Dublin</b> THE SUNDAY BEFORE ADVENT THE KINGSHIP OF CHRIST - 09.15 EUCHARIST said in the Lady Chapel. 11.15 CHORAL MATINS sung by the Cathedral Choir - Responses: Radcliffe, Britten in E, Britten in C, Psalm 117, Mathias: Let the people praise thee, Preacher: The Revd A.W.A. Mayes, B.A., M.Litt., Prebendary of Tipper. 15.15 CHORAL EVENSONG sung by the Cathedral Choir - Responses: Sumsion, Dyson in D, Psalm: 119 vv 1-16, Walford Davies: King of glory, Preacher: The Revd A.W.A. Mayes, B.A., M.Litt., Prebendary of Tipper. SUNG MATINS at 09.00 Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday CHORAL EVENSONG at 17.30 - Monday to Friday. EUCHARIST at 11.05 - Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday. 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All welcome.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RQYENRBEAFD4LPJDJ7ELFI3LBI","additional_properties":{},"content":"PRESBYTERIAN","type":"header"},{"_id":"2PHIZE7WKZAVBJ6P57AOGBSM3Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>About The Presbyterian Church in Ireland</b> The Presbyterian form of the Christian faith is best described as Reformed; with its strong emphasis on the Sovereignty of God, the Kingship of Christ, and the authority of the Bible. For more information, and for a full list of congregations around the whole island of Ireland, visit: <a href=\"http://www.presbyterianireland.org/\">www.presbyterianireland.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"HRGW3ICMIBCKFNV5NBMXPNC734","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Adelaide Road Presbyterian Church, Dublin City</b> Sundays at 11am in person or online. All Welcome. Our church building is located at the intersection of Earlsfort Terrace and Adelaide Road, Dublin 2. Rev Dr Colin Dickson has been our replacement minister while Rev Dr Sam Mawhinney served his year as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. To find out more visit: <a href=\"http://www.adelaideroadchurch.ie/\">www.adelaideroadchurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"DU4PFKY3RBGGPPDV2PLXD2FSLM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Clontarf and Scots Presbyterian Church, Dublin</b> Sunday Service is at 11am with Communion. We are located opposite Clontarf Road DART Station, Dublin 3. Rev Lorraine Ritchie. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://www.clontarfchurch.ie/\">www.clontarfchurch.ie</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"3EQPLCUKGNFMNFVQ5HKLLPCHXE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Donabate and Balbriggan Presbyterian Churches, Co. Dublin</b> Meet at 10:30am at Donabate and Portrane Community Centre, and at 4:30pm at Balbriggan Clubs Community Centre, Co. Dublin. Everyone is welcome. Rev. Andy Carroll. Visit <a href=\"http://www.donabatepc.org/\">www.donabatepc.org</a> to find out more and for directions","type":"text"},{"_id":"2Y7UMZKNZJFWJOY56RUQBYDM4Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Dún Laoghaire Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at York Road, Dun Laoghaire. Rev Clarke Deering. You will be most welcome to join us. For more information, visit: <a href=\"https://dl-pc.org/\">https://dl-pc.org/</a> or our Facebook page for regular updates, and online streaming.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BHKBNMFXRJAWNI3HOIRW4C4N5I","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Findlaters (Abbey Presbyterian Church)</b> 11am at Parnell Square, Dublin City. Rev Alan Boal. Communion on the first Sunday of each month. All welcome. Abbey exists to share Gods purpose; becoming more Christ-like as we go, and show the Gospel to the City. To find out more, visit: <a href=\"http://www.abbeychurch.ie/\">www.abbeychurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"5673HJHFAVCILDX5NHZKZK32UQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"PRESBYTERIAN","type":"header"},{"_id":"F2GGAC2WGJGJLD5WJUXFPEMMQ4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>About The Presbyterian Church in Ireland</b> The Presbyterian form of the Christian faith is best described as Reformed; with its strong emphasis on the Sovereignty of God, the Kingship of Christ, and the authority of the Bible. For more information, and for a full list of congregations around the whole island of Ireland, visit: <a href=\"http://www.presbyterianireland.org/\">www.presbyterianireland.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"FHGUXNPUOVE57CT5MQRIOZVY7A","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Adelaide Road Presbyterian Church, Dublin City</b> Sundays at 11am in person or online. All Welcome. Our church building is located at the intersection of Earlsfort Terrace and Adelaide Road, Dublin 2. Rev Dr Colin Dickson has been our replacement minister while Rev Dr Sam Mawhinney served his year as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. To find out more visit: <a href=\"http://www.adelaideroadchurch.ie/\">www.adelaideroadchurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"H3N5B5L4TFCMPAYID27BOPWYIM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Clontarf and Scots Presbyterian Church, Dublin</b> Sunday Service is at 11am with Communion. We are located opposite Clontarf Road DART Station, Dublin 3. Rev Lorraine Ritchie. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://www.clontarfchurch.ie/\">www.clontarfchurch.ie</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"XXGHVYDZINHONNN7A3JR7GPG5Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Donabate and Balbriggan Presbyterian Churches, Co. Dublin</b> Meet at 10:30am at Donabate and Portrane Community Centre, and at 4:30pm at Balbriggan Clubs Community Centre, Co. Dublin. Everyone is welcome. Rev. Andy Carroll. Visit <a href=\"http://www.donabatepc.org/\">www.donabatepc.org</a> to find out more and for directions","type":"text"},{"_id":"KCWMR7UMONCYVIFUB7YI3BJTGA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Dún Laoghaire Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at York Road, Dun Laoghaire. Rev Clarke Deering. You will be most welcome to join us. For more information, visit: <a href=\"https://dl-pc.org/\">https://dl-pc.org/</a> or our Facebook page for regular updates, and online streaming.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YDUEFXXT7NBD3MYMXRTFANS2OY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Findlaters (Abbey Presbyterian Church)</b> 11am at Parnell Square, Dublin City. Rev Alan Boal. Communion on the first Sunday of each month. All welcome. Abbey exists to share Gods purpose; becoming more Christ-like as we go, and show the Gospel to the City. To find out more, visit: <a href=\"http://www.abbeychurch.ie/\">www.abbeychurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y43LNP24TREGHBDFBX3NAM4ZPQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Howth and Malahide Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 10am at Malahide and 11:45am in Howth. Rev Alastair Dunlop. Everyone is welcome to join us, as we share in the Good News of our Lord Jesus Christ. Programme for children during the service. You are welcome to join us for tea and coffee after the service. Visit: <a href=\"http://www.hmpchurch.org/\">www.hmpchurch.org</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"ITL2KXFZFJD25JL2EIYCR5YSAI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Lucan Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at Main Street, Lucan Village. Lucan Presbyterian Church is a growing family of Christians who come from a variety of different church backgrounds, traditions and nationalities. Regardless of your age, background, experience or previous church connections you are welcome to come and visit us. For more information, visit <a href=\"http://www.lpc.ie/\">http://www.lpc.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"XZYP6SWYDJAYVNLVUUZZYE3HAQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Maynooth Presbyterian Church</b> Known locally as Maynooth Community Church; and meets together for worship on Sundays at 10:30am at Manor Mills Shopping Centre, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. On the first Sunday of the month we celebrate the Lords Supper (Communion). Rev Keith McCrory. Free parking is available in the underground car park and the service takes place on the 1st Floor. To find out more, visit <a href=\"http://maynoothcc.org/\">http://maynoothcc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"WYO2ZCNP65G7ZDSO4I5KI42J5Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Naas Presbyterian Church, Co. Kildare</b> 11am with preacher, Mr Tom Dowling, Kilkenny Presbyterian. Programme for children during the service, and tea and coffee served afterwards. The church building is located across the street from the post office and town hall, and overlooks South Main Street - you cannot miss us. For further information, visit our Facebook page: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/NaasPCI\">www.facebook.com/NaasPCI</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"V4QCSDBC5JEMDCYAIZRRZUQS5Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Blackrock, Co. Dublin</b> Sundays at 9.45am for a traditional service of prayer and praise with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Junior Church for children and young people aged 5 to 15 years. For more information, visit <a href=\"https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie/\">https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie</a> - Rev Andrew Gill","type":"text"},{"_id":"SXVD26A5KBCB5PS5JVRW4UMJ7M","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Bray, Co. Wicklow</b> (We are located at the corner of Eglinton Road and Quinsborough Road) As a congregation, we exist to glorify God through worship and service. We meet every Sunday at 11:30am for a traditional service of prayer and praise, with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Sunday School for children. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://standrewschurchbray.com/\">standrewschurchbray.com</a> for more information. Rev. Andrew Gill","type":"text"},{"_id":"V5LQNSCE4NDF5HJLE3XCROSQNM","additional_properties":{},"content":"METHODIST","type":"header"},{"_id":"RA52VZGP7ZG5FHSUKGMNDKW5JA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>About the Methodist Church in Ireland</b> - The Methodist Church in Ireland is a community of people drawn together by Gods love, who seek to live wholeheartedly as followers of Jesus for the transformation of the world. With 212 churches spread across the island of Ireland from North to South, and East to West. 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The <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/jordan/\" target=\"_blank\">Jordanian</a>-<a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/palestine/\" target=\"_blank\">Palestinian</a> was staying at the Crooksling tented <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/movement-of-asylum-seekers/\" target=\"_blank\">international protection</a> accommodation centre in Co <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dublin/\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin</a> when he was approached in the early summer by a Nigerian resident who suggested he volunteer with the controversial organisation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DA6SIGS4WJABTLKNEZQJPNQ4QE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362530},"content":"“He said I’d get a certificate that would help me with my refugee status and give me an advantage to remain in Ireland, and that they would help me with job interviews,” Ishtiah recalls.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FF7RWUODCBGFBEVMA2SOOJPUMM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362531},"content":"He also agreed to set up a Crooksling-Scientology WhatsApp group to help recruit other Arabic-speaking asylum seekers in the camp. Up to 200 asylum seekers subsequently joined the group.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4HFCQNOOMJDZNC5PR34QI64K2M","additional_properties":{"_id":1731675886204},"content":"“Half the people in Crooksling don’t speak English so I had a chance to be translator for them. I told them the same thing I’d been told, that this would help with their refugee status,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KSKJUWJTJJACBILXMYNFHRP66E","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362532},"content":"For two months, Ishtiah rounded up between 30 and 50 men twice a week who were bussed into Dublin’s city centre to hand out anti-drug leaflets to passersby. 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Some treated the whole excursion as a joke.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FWFI75NGGZFLDGKK3HSQGWZTUA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362534},"content":"“Some of them didn’t even hand them out, they just threw them in the bin and then picked up the certificate,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YQ2JMXVVXJAJFPLGGFDOUD2WKA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362535},"content":"However, others were keen to get involved and participated in a “human rights open day” at the Church of Scientology in Firhouse in July. “It was called Nelson Mandela day and it brought people from all around Dublin together – Somalis, Nigerians, Jordanians and Palestinians. We got certificates for that day too.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"KFRL6MHDQNBY7JSQFU7JRTWT2M","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362536},"content":"One afternoon, a group of men were brought to the church for training in maintaining eye contact with one another, he said. “They gave us a booklet about it, said it’s better for people when handing out leaflets.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"XPTK3CJ2AVBHBKRIJ7S4XDHN44","additional_properties":{"_id":"Q3F3YZ5EURDNJHUIXTRFN6AP2A"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"M4NC3HGIQVEIJBSNQBKTSEGQ3Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362537},"content":"Ishtiah started feeling uneasy when church representatives suggested he give English classes to other asylum seekers on their premises but without remuneration. They offered him accommodation if he accepted the role, he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R6GJSODSWFFK5C2RP6NO65IQGA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362538},"content":"Another day, he was brought to Firhouse and asked to clean the church for eight hours without food, he said. “I thought they would pay me that day but they didn’t. They said it was volunteering. Eight hours of volunteering? I don’t need that.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"UJLFLIQOFJGKLLEC7PQ7PONTBA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362540},"content":"The Church of Scientology has a long history of attempting to gain a foothold in Irish society, often using front groups with innocuous-sounding names such as Drug Free World or The Citizen’s Commission on Human Rights. In some cases these groups hide their connection to Scientology.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O3BFLA22HBGZNEMC4FR5W4O4AM","additional_properties":{"_id":"VQWYT4RUGNGMFM2XQA77ZJYAPY"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"3VFR4EJ5H5GNJNHRV5E64QLXYQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731681502862},"content":"Scientology has been variously described as a religion, cult and, in several countries, a scam. It teaches that man is immortal and that traumatic events in a person’s life can only be cured by an often expensive process known as “auditing”. In the past it has attracted many high-profile supporters, including Hollywood actor Tom Cruise. However, its membership was dwindled in recent years.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ALWVRENSZFEABBI2RHFFQ3HK2M","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362541},"content":"Scientology’s founder, science fiction writer L Ron Hubbard, opened an office in Dublin in 1956, just two years after founding the organisation. In 2017 the group opened <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/keep-tom-cruise-out-of-firhouse-scientology-centre-sparks-protest-1.3256577\">a large centre in Firhouse, Dublin</a> which frequently hosts free <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/scientology-community-activity-sparks-concern-in-firhouse-1.3322442\">concerts and family events</a> for the local community. It regularly carries out litter clean ups and has distributed large amounts of literature to schools around the country.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SXI5EXMXMZDWZLIAUW7FDBN4NM","additional_properties":{"_id":"BVCTIJCFR5BJJPMTEDPFQY5G4I"},"content":"How Scientology is trying to insert itself into Irish schools","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"GPIWHRQBQND53IX2GKRAZBXZPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362543},"content":"Critics and anti-cult activists have accused Scientology of attempting to infiltrate Irish society by stealth. The goal, they say, is to legitimise itself and shed its image as a predatory organisation that brainwashes and extorts money from members.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BWRP5HRT7ZECVBBS4HDOE5OZQQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362544},"content":"“What’s clear, because they’re based here in Firhouse, is they’re trying to extend their reach into all aspects of community volunteering and manipulating people in order to do that,” said Alan Edge, an independent councillor for South Dublin County Council.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7QHXPAZQTFKAXGKLYUHBHLYZ6A","additional_properties":{"_id":"JJDWCSCB4ND53DANVF5DUMEN34"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"AYXNGP3UNRB2ROFCYILWBDO6E4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362545},"content":"“I’ve been aware at first hand of their attempt to infiltrate drug and alcohol taskforces; they’ve been prevented from doing this because of our serious concerns [that] their practices may be harmful.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TKP7D3KEWFCWJM5ZGAQMJG2FFY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362548},"content":"On paper, there is little evidence Scientology is succeeding at its alleged infiltrating goals. The 2022 census showed there were 132 scientologists in Ireland, compared to 189 “satanists” and 1,800 “Jedi Knights”. However, the true figure may be higher, as the number of asylum seekers in Ireland has increased significantly since the 2022 census.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MTRSEIMEF5F3REBOQ3OYDYSDD4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362549},"content":"Endurance Osaretin, who came to Ireland in February seeking asylum, has been volunteering with the Church of Scientology for five months and leads leaflet drops in Dublin’s city centre every week. Church representatives “talk about boosting your career, your dreams,” said Osaretin. “It’s an opportunity to develop your talents.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"WU2RPPO2W5FU3PZLBFJOEPWETQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362550},"content":"Osaretin has acquired a range of certificates, as well as a letter of appreciation from Scientology for his “constant support of the humanitarian campaigns”. He also paid €20 for a training course on how to enter the Irish labour market.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DWMGWTOADFAD5G6RQZFALAKFXA","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362551},"content":"He plans to use the reference letter in his interview for international protection. “I’ve done four months of cleaning with no pay and sometimes you think you should be paid. But I don’t get annoyed. I just see it as a way of being kind and trying to help,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QQVWINV4MNAB3I7XLERFSKAYBE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362552},"content":"“Many people say bad things about Scientologists but I don’t really care. I just want to join and do something, trying to help people and show them the way. I’ve also met new friends.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"P2AGMDJSAVAGHEUIHDMR7SISDI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362557},"content":"Legal experts say the certificates offered by Scientology would be of “zero benefit” when applying for asylum or subsidiary protection.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AU4CODVCH5EFVGHHPLHIFCMJ4I","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362558},"content":"One member of the International Protection Appeals Tribunal, which hears appeals against refusals of asylum status, said applicants frequently include letters from churches or community groups in support of their case. “They all carry no weight,” the tribunal member added.","type":"text"},{"_id":"63XZB7UD45EFHAGHCCOWZ7OR4M","additional_properties":{"_id":1731669144844},"content":"“In an international protection case the only issue is whether a person is at risk of serious harm or persecution in the country or origin,” said David Leonard, a barrister specialising in asylum law.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HFZI6G7GFBBQVJP3DH6KDC2OPY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362560},"content":"If asylum seekers fail in the application, it is still open to them to apply to the Minister for Justice for “leave to remain”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PHIHFYIYO5AUHCCUTQBJH63C5U","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601362561},"content":"In theory, a certificate detailing voluntary work could be relevant here, said Leonard. “But I can’t imagine a certificate from [Scientology] would materially increase your chances of remaining in Ireland. 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Volunteers were visible on the streets as recently as last week.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UNOJ5ETWZ5GHBIBMJ7J5ZCB7VY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731602263197},"content":"In response to queries, Diana Stahl, director of public affairs for the Church of Scientology in Ireland, said “many hundreds of asylum seekers joined in numerous volunteer projects”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"POUAQ5QGUJHKDKZXF6WNZUY4Q4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731602263198},"content":"Asylum seekers “reached out” to the organisation and “some have become very passionate about these topics and asked to volunteer,” she said. “Many volunteers eagerly requested letters or certificates to acknowledge their participation, which we provided.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"S64FIVOWYNBSHGBK447UZKGWKQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731602263199},"content":"The church “has never and would never advise any asylum seeker on any legal aspects of their application or circumstances”, Ms Stahl said, adding that meals were provided for volunteers.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VHVTIH6LLJH3TCROUUYI5C7APM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731602263201},"content":"She said the church had received numerous community awards for its volunteer work, including one from Cllr Edge when he was mayor of South Dublin","type":"text"},{"_id":"2FOT7AYVINF6LGJFY5KRO2G3QI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731602263202},"content":"Cllr Edge said the organisation participated in an event to raise money for cancer research and that he presented certificates to everyone involved. 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Kingston, <a href=\"http://B.Sc\" target=\"_blank\">B.Sc</a>., <a href=\"http://M.Sc\" target=\"_blank\">M.Sc</a>., <a href=\"http://B.Th\" target=\"_blank\">B.Th</a>., Prebendary of Yagoe. 15.15 CHORAL EVENSONG sung by the Lay Vicars Choral -in memory of Artists, Musicians, and Entertainment professionals - Responses: Tallis, Batten: The Short Service, Psalm: 89 vv 1-19, Anon (16thC): Justorum animae, Preacher: The Revd M.T. Kingston, <a href=\"http://B.Sc\" target=\"_blank\">B.Sc</a>., <a href=\"http://M.Sc\" target=\"_blank\">M.Sc</a>., <a href=\"http://B.Th\" target=\"_blank\">B.Th</a>., Prebendary of Yagoe. SUNG MATINS at 09.00 - Monday to Friday CHORAL EVENSONG at 17.30 - Monday to Friday. EUCHARIST at 11.05 Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday. For further information visit <a href=\"http://www.stpatrickscathedral.ie\" target=\"_blank\">www.stpatrickscathedral.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"XYXRG6ZS6FEHVKNF6TFWSVFA4Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"CHURCH OF IRELAND","type":"header"},{"_id":"VGWDFN3P4NCGFBZNKEAAUDF35I","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Ardamine Group of Parishes, Co Wexford</b> Monamolin 9 am Morning Prayer Ardamine 10.15 am Holy Communion Kilnamanagh 11.45 am Morning Prayer","type":"text"},{"_id":"SDKAZHDXRFFT5NAZOFRUPZ5MBM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Christ Church Bray</b> Rector: Revd Dr Leonard Madden. Sunday 10th November: 8.30 a.m. Holy Communion; 11 a.m. Remembrance Service. Monday 11th November: 11 a.m. Act of Remembrance. Live stream <a href=\"http://www.churchservices.tv/christchurchbray\">www.churchservices.tv/christchurchbray</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"6IKJSJ54VBCTHP6EUURKOELEY4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Audoen Cornmarket </b>9.30 Bellringing, 10.00 Eucharist (every Sunday), Remembrance. During works, access through the OPW Visitor Centre. Cars may be parked between Francis Street and Christ Church.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FRCLJ53PGVHXFGYVNIFGBHTYAI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Catherine St James Donore Avenue</b> 11.30, Service of the Word, Remembrance Sunday. Speaker, Fr David Corrigan SM, PP, St Teresas Donore Avenue. Organist, Olesia Borsuk. Cars may be parked in the Churchyard.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IC4H4TMG2BF5ZNBS6NMY7VR7LY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Zion Parish Church</b> Sunday 17th November - The Second Sunday before Advent. 10.30am Holy Communion and Holy Baptism. 9am Holy Communion 1. All welcome.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AGYYDRYWFNGS5MIQZBLRWTLQXQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"PRESBYTERIAN","type":"header"},{"_id":"5LH5GVYUVVA3HFXGBQALGPHLXE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>About The Presbyterian Church in Ireland</b> The Presbyterian form of the Christian faith is best described as Reformed; with its strong emphasis on the Sovereignty of God, the Kingship of Christ, and the authority of the Bible. For more information, and for a full list of congregations around the whole island of Ireland, visit: <a href=\"http://www.presbyterianireland.org/\">www.presbyterianireland.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"GP36L6LRB5CI7CAJKBJAMX3PAE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Adelaide Road Presbyterian Church, Dublin City</b> Sundays at 11am in person or online. All Welcome. Our church building is located at the intersection of Earlsfort Terrace and Adelaide Road, Dublin 2. Rev Dr Colin Dickson has been our replacement minister while Rev Dr Sam Mawhinney served his year as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. To find out more visit: <a href=\"http://www.adelaideroadchurch.ie/\">www.adelaideroadchurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"V6LGUHET7BBF5DUQTQVGQG4IN4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Clontarf and Scots Presbyterian Church, Dublin</b> Sunday Service is at 11am with Communion. We are located opposite Clontarf Road DART Station, Dublin 3. Rev Lorraine Ritchie. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://www.clontarfchurch.ie/\">www.clontarfchurch.ie</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"DDM7FE3BOZAF3DHTF6TBWCGM5Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Donabate and Balbriggan Presbyterian Churches, Co. Dublin</b> Meet at 10:30am at Donabate and Portrane Community Centre, and at 4:30pm at Balbriggan Clubs Community Centre, Co. Dublin. Everyone is welcome. Rev. Andy Carroll. Visit <a href=\"http://www.donabatepc.org/\">www.donabatepc.org</a> to find out more and for directions","type":"text"},{"_id":"KCKQUOBOH5GWFJKZCV26NCAYRE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Dún Laoghaire Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at York Road, Dun Laoghaire. Rev Clarke Deering. You will be most welcome to join us. For more information, visit: <a href=\"https://dl-pc.org/\">https://dl-pc.org/</a> or our Facebook page for regular updates, and online streaming.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I7UBEJ4OHNC5JKP2ENO5URVONU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Findlaters (Abbey Presbyterian Church)</b> 11am at Parnell Square, Dublin City. Rev Alan Boal. Communion on the first Sunday of each month. All welcome. Abbey exists to share Gods purpose; becoming more Christ-like as we go, and show the Gospel to the City. To find out more, visit: <a href=\"http://www.abbeychurch.ie/\">www.abbeychurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"IUQVZOKZXVAMXFRVTJQMAC3DVA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Howth and Malahide Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 10am at Malahide and 11:45am in Howth. Rev Alastair Dunlop. Everyone is welcome to join us, as we share in the Good News of our Lord Jesus Christ. Programme for children during the service. You are welcome to join us for tea and coffee after the service. Visit: <a href=\"http://www.hmpchurch.org/\">www.hmpchurch.org</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"YZ3RTVJKDRFOTPOKZXOQSDMBEA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Lucan Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at Main Street, Lucan Village. Lucan Presbyterian Church is a growing family of Christians who come from a variety of different church backgrounds, traditions and nationalities. Regardless of your age, background, experience or previous church connections you are welcome to come and visit us. For more information, visit <a href=\"http://www.lpc.ie/\">http://www.lpc.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"HSAIXUAQERGKBGMXSA3DWQREPM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Maynooth Presbyterian Church</b> Known locally as Maynooth Community Church; and meets together for worship on Sundays at 10:30am at Manor Mills Shopping Centre, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. On the first Sunday of the month we celebrate the Lords Supper (Communion). Rev Keith McCrory. Free parking is available in the underground car park and the service takes place on the 1st Floor. To find out more, visit <a href=\"http://maynoothcc.org/\">http://maynoothcc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"ORFRHKEVVZHUJAC7LAQDJ75FKY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Naas Presbyterian Church, Co. Kildare</b> 11am with preacher, Mr Tom Dowling, Kilkenny Presbyterian. Programme for children during the service, and tea and coffee served afterwards. The church building is located across the street from the post office and town hall, and overlooks South Main Street - you cannot miss us. For further information, visit our Facebook page: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/NaasPCI\">www.facebook.com/NaasPCI</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"7XPMH7OOS5G75AFQGLKDLEOVWQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Blackrock, Co. Dublin</b> Sundays at 9.45am for a traditional service of prayer and praise with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Junior Church for children and young people aged 5 to 15 years. For more information, visit <a href=\"https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie/\">https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie</a> - Rev Andrew Gill","type":"text"},{"_id":"YT5C3HRW6ZE5LMODJTESWNN4CU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Bray, Co. 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The extra pay had been provided for out of the hospital’s own funds rather than the HSE funding, which usually covered payroll, a representative of employers’ group Ibec, appearing for the hospital, submitted.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y5IICEDNXJCPNF3PJT7S2VSE2M","additional_properties":{"_id":1731601862639},"content":"A HSE circular addressing the provision of a chaplaincy service stated that it “shall include nights and weekends” and stated that “overtime is not payable”, it was submitted. 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Please stop this absolute witch hunt and consider that politicians should not get to tell you where you can and cannot work,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"C2X3VQ4Y2JFO7B76LOEMBGRFRY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731567691230},"content":"“I would give anything to wake up to peace. My husband resigned. This attack is unwarranted and not justified. You’re causing hurt not helping.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"I2BU4WH775FZLFLA7FKIPKMLLM","subtype":"twitter","type":"oembed_response"},{"_id":"NJWX523U3BGGZKQMD5ML3HJDWE","additional_properties":{"_id":1731510874949},"content":"She did not name the politician involved.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OQO6C4IXGZEM7AOACN5X43V6XQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731510874950},"content":"The issue of Robbie Keane’s tenure as Maccabi Tel Aviv manager was raised again this week when he visited the Ireland squad camp on Monday. The invitation came at the request of the FAI. 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He hoped to see similar developments “across Ireland, north, south east and west, in the years to come”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O7QASDDCKNDFTBDHVPFG6HR4SQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1727528449690},"content":"A number of Presbyterian churches have been renovated, extended and rebuilt in the Republic in recent years, notably at Kilkenny, Drogheda and Mullingar.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5CGBJVYB7VAOLEPSH6V5Y2IBVY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731076337327},"content":"Rick Hill, secretary to the Presbyterian Church’s Council for Mission in Ireland, said that the new church in Maynooth “shows that the trajectory of the church is not in a single direction, and neither is this example an isolated experience”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ABOPLZZ2GRGLDCZUZKN33ML4BU","additional_properties":{"_id":1727528449691},"content":"While the Presbyterian Church in Ireland “is not alone in seeing the overall official number of church membership fall”, it was also “seeing signs of growth, ‘green shoots’ if you like, in different places”, he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L2YOJBFE2BFNJASGVBD7JPYH2I","additional_properties":{"_id":"6QCMMRTAF5EP5F26UD56VHQB2Y"},"content":"Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity review: Magisterial work on theologies around sex","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"ABOPLZZ2GRGLDCZUZKN33ML4BU","additional_properties":{"_id":1727528449691},"content":"With the growth of a multicultural Ireland “we have seen many people of faith from overseas find a home in a number of Presbyterian churches. Our congregations in Galway and Drogheda, for example, are largely multicultural congregations”, he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NUJS4XWQXBDHPNLGM7YN3W73ZI","additional_properties":{"_id":1727528449692},"content":"He also noted Donabate in Co Dublin, now the Presbyterian Church’s “youngest congregation”, which had already set up “another community of worshippers in Balbriggan”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JRHN5EQLXZG4DI44LAKNU5AWF4","additional_properties":{"_id":1727528449693},"content":"Presbyterian congregations in Mullingar, Drogheda and Kilkenny have had to build new church buildings recently as the old ones had become too small, he said. There were also new Presbyterian communities in north and central Belfast, while the church had “begun to re-establish our witness in west Belfast” where it once “had a number of congregations”, he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4OPRSTXDNBBIJOYKATIQQHVQWQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"SS3URFXPINEVPNZM74IKDEYHKI"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"TVIVPBUBFBHIXOFINT3GI7ZLZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1727528449694},"content":"The Presbyterian Church is the largest Protestant denomination in Northern Ireland, and has about 200,000 members across the island of Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YCDY6C2IB5FUNMX3YVDX7FFP3I","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Patsy McGarry"}},"name":"Patsy McGarry"}]},"description":{"basic":"Maynooth Community Church is among those bucking the trend of decline in church membership, boosting its congregation with people of faith from overseas"},"display_date":"2024-11-11T01:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"How multicultural Ireland is contributing to a growth in the Presbyterian Church","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"CD5JP5DRPVC7VMMVCQHPFG2I74","auth":{"1":"82e271a52de437d2edf8bc46321f21770c1a14ecc3e730cd3fa1f06a1993a4ac"},"focal_point":{"x":3040,"y":2183},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/CD5JP5DRPVC7VMMVCQHPFG2I74.JPG"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Social Affairs"},{"name":"Ireland"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/ireland/social-affairs/2024/11/11/how-multicultural-ireland-is-contributing-to-a-growth-in-the-presbyterian-church/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/ireland/social-affairs","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Social Affairs"}}}},{"_id":"KKK3CUIICVEL5A5K32YOE2FRLE","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":656,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/b46927cc-a4b7-4527-8d0b-c149e472df6f/versions/1731061630/media/64077de5b2a640364ddccf5d0706b764_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/ireland/social-affairs/2024/11/10/in-their-own-words-i-miss-my-old-house-homeless-children-in-emergency-accommodation/","content_elements":[{"_id":"6OQGAETQOVD5PFKBM6NL7IZSCY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731019238225},"content":"Nine-year-old Jake*, who has been <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/homeless-crisis/\" target=\"_blank\">homeless</a> for more than a year, lives in a hotel in central <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin</a> with his mother. His sister Becka* (18) lived with them for a while but now stays with their grandmother in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/tallaght/\" target=\"_blank\">Tallaght</a>, near her <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/education/\" target=\"_blank\">school</a>. Jake had to move to a school nearer his emergency accommodation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MVRVVIH65ZBYVDXV5N7OF5BAQ4","additional_properties":{"_id":1731019238226},"content":"Their hotel room is “a decent size” but “only homeless people are allowed in the hotel,” says Jake.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PYQA6KTTZRCKRBRFO67UWNCOYY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731029096823},"content":"“I’m not allowed have friends there and I’d like that. I miss my friends from my old school,” he says. “My best friend is Rob* but I don’t really see him because I don’t go to that school any more. It does make me sad. 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As adults we assume a lot of things for children and young people, assume we know what they need, but rarely ask them.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TQBBUAKL3JAGJF2HCSE3C322MY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731019238246},"content":"Jake’s sister Becka, when asked what she misses about having a home, says: “So much – having a few hours in the evening by yourself, not hearing anyone, being able to make a cup of tea or have a shower when you want.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IP4SCVD3YFE23JYCOORC6ZQAIM","additional_properties":{"_id":"5PJSZX2ZCJFYXPZN3TG6SBNCHU"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"NP53FW44W5A3PKFGZRBLB42OWQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731019238247},"content":"“I felt like a bit of me was gone. I felt shame. I still haven’t told my friends I am living in my nana’s. Home is such a basic thing.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"DIT3KTDQYREIBNVBHMYMVB34QQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1731019238248},"content":"Ronald* (seven), from Crumlin, has been homeless for a year. 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After school I just stay home in the room. It is boring every time. I hate when I am bored. I’d want a garden to play soccer.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KNJZD6YK4NEWJHKZP2OBSXN334","additional_properties":{"_id":1731019238252},"content":"“I am not allowed pets and I want to get a hamster. When I get a house I will have my own room. I might put a hamster there. I might do my homework there. I would sleep there and it will be peaceful. I’d like a new house and my mum, she would love it too.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B2WCNENE75C65GJIF6DYUMCWSY","additional_properties":{"_id":1731029096872},"content":"“She is always happy. She only cries sometimes.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BWMMCHF3NFEQJIQMJI7UHJJROU","additional_properties":{"_id":"KOUCNUNCIRAZFAQ6K3IJIYF27U"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"O3HFE7YTTVFXDA3YQY54DPLU4U","additional_properties":{"_id":1731019238253},"content":"Killian* (nine) has been homeless with his mother and infant sister since April. 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The only time I don’t go on my bed is in school. I’d like a break from that bed.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"KHB3I7YSWNC4VLOG74JLH6UZQM","additional_properties":{"_id":1731029096879},"content":"He says that his mother does’t have a kitchen at the hub so staff give them food.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YGQHXD6CB5HZZGGCFIGNB4KOUI","additional_properties":{"_id":1731019238257},"content":"“I miss her cooking a lot, I miss nsima [a traditional Malawian dish]. It makes me sad she can’t cook.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"R5VVLAZMOFA4PMHD7SN5NBQI74","additional_properties":{"_id":1731019238258},"content":"His friends cannot visit him at the hub.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X4EXZYDXUJGUXPYJSPZYLD4XYU","additional_properties":{"_id":1731029096882},"content":"“But they used to come to my old house. If they ask, I tell them: ‘No.’ I say: ‘I’m going somewhere.’ One of my friends knows I am homeless. 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It says the approval rate for the granting of some increase is 75 per cent, which suggests about 600 providers will get to increase their fees.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TD2R7KODRJBZ3EQHNSPA2RSICY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730982023220},"content":"The department says, however, that not all cases involve approvals for the full €33, which is equivalent to the increase to the National Childcare Scheme (NCS) supports implemented at the start of September.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JOMF32FQ2JCEPBR2SMEQRPHRQQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730982023221},"content":"The intention was that while <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/parents\" target=\"_blank\">parents</a> impacted by the full increase would not benefit from the higher NCS rates introduced then, none would actually be worse off than before.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J74XKKZMUZENPCJIGDUK6DM3VU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730982023222},"content":"“The fee increase application process opened on July 31st this year. Only services currently charging fees below the average in their county are eligible to apply. There is an assessment to ensure there is a demonstrable need for a fee increase before approval is granted,” the department said in a statement.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OOH5WS7FJJBVVDQNCYANLBEDGA","additional_properties":{"_id":1730982023224},"content":"“This measure balances the need of parents for stability with their early learning and childcare costs, and the need for providers to operate viable businesses in order to continue providing this service for the public good in their community.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"S5BYU6WXYZCTPP7AGIQYOIGHCY","additional_properties":{"_id":"NSJR7SVA7ZAM3PWI57JPI7SPOU"},"content":"Q&A: Creches and core funding - why are childcare providers pulling out?","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"GQ5PIQFYT5BQRHIS7PGIBJQZ3I","additional_properties":{"_id":1730982023225},"content":"Sign-up rates for the third year of core funding remain at the same level as last year, the department says, with almost 4,300 services having registered for the coming 12 months and another 45 in the process of doing so.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BMJ5UATLYBDUJC2536CVKCSZ2Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1730982023226},"content":"The figures equate to about 91 per cent of services and are, it says, on course, to increase over the coming weeks.","type":"text"},{"_id":"372GBOJ2XJFGVHO524XTN6WWIU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730982023227},"content":"There have been a number of high-profile instances of services announcing their withdrawal from core funding in order to substantially increase the fees charged to parents while there have been persistent suggestions a much wider withdrawal was imminent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"X3RC2MYX6VDMLGLZQ6OXFM3SCY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730982023228},"content":"The figures, however, suggest the majority of providers see benefits from participating in the scheme. They are also engaging with other supports that are intended to control costs for families and increase pay and conditions for those working in the sector.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YCDY6C2IB5FUNMX3YVDX7FFP3I","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Emmet Malone"}},"name":"Emmet Malone"}]},"description":{"basic":"Department of Children has received applications for fee increases from more than 800 childcare providers"},"display_date":"2024-11-10T06:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Childcare fees set to increase at 600 Government-funded services","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"NBKK55JXPBHHFKDILUESWQSW2Q","auth":{"1":"f11c951a77d99c7d4bc64e4b45d5615df873434078d9e3df3bb038da7f5ebea6"},"focal_point":{"x":1010,"y":640},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/NBKK55JXPBHHFKDILUESWQSW2Q.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Social Affairs"},{"name":"Ireland"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/ireland/social-affairs/2024/11/10/childcare-fees-set-to-increase-at-600-government-funded-services/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/ireland/social-affairs","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Social Affairs"}}}},{"_id":"J25W7Y5C2NGBLEJA76SXZ3KFYM","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":1062,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/7fee485c-a016-443f-9717-05c7037e097c/versions/1730888547/media/44b0628cfe6b4a048409e0ed82e88f6d_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/life-style/people/2024/11/09/dublins-crack-cocaine-epidemic-you-get-a-rush-you-come-down-and-then-you-have-to-go-again/","content_elements":[{"_id":"FO6CXS674RDFBGAZ4VKMT7AA7Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810099990},"content":"Around five years ago <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/merchants-quay/\" target=\"_blank\">Merchants Quay Ireland</a> started providing crack cocaine pipes in its needle-exchange rooms alongside needles. “We have a <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/2023/07/05/drug-task-forces-turning-addicts-away-amid-a-400-per-cent-increase-in-crack-cocaine-use/\" target=\"_blank\">crack</a> epidemic,” says Amy Carroll, harm reduction service co-ordinator at the charity, which supports people affected by homelessness and addiction. “During and after <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/covid-19/\" target=\"_blank\">Covid</a>, it surged.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3EWYC4WNO5EKVLPIJL6LSHYVWM","additional_properties":{"_id":1730882075133},"content":"“I think this country goes through epidemics ... ... in the 1980s with <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2024/01/20/dublins-heroin-epidemic-a-man-died-and-his-partner-died-a-few-weeks-later-grandparents-were-looking-after-kids/\" target=\"_blank\">heroin</a>, everybody was dying from HIV ... There was the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/celtic-tiger/\" target=\"_blank\">Celtic Tiger</a> and there was powder cocaine. And then we had a couple of years where we had major issues with snow-blow [a synthetic stimulant] and major psychosis from that. Now we have a crack epidemic.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"HKQHFKBXDNCK7HJHWAMTQLYZAE","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810099991},"content":"“I’m surprised you weren’t offered anything on the way in here,” says Ryan Connolly, harm reduction lead project worker. “Crack is very available ... A lot of the older heroin users here would know where to get heroin. But if you’re 20 years of age in Dublin now you’re not seeing heroin – and if you are, it’s probably not great ... The trend is that they’re going towards crack.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4JT4JGSSUNH4BBX7SUVYXUKT2A","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810099992},"content":"Some crack users, Carroll says, pride themselves on not being heroin users. “‘I don’t need needles, I only want a pipe.’ Heroin is seen as a dirty drug.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2ZAKZMXIZJCAFIBRFXN2YYXLGM","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810099993},"content":"Is there any other reason people gravitate towards crack? “It’s around and available,” says Connolly. “When heroin was available, people got addicted to that. So now it’s crack. And people’s situations aren’t getting easier.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5B6S2B4IENC2FCMJSDPBGJTNPU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810099995},"content":"A young woman comes into the needle-exchange room out of breath. “I want to talk to you. I’m trying to get on the good side. I was in jail for four months and I did very well.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"EKVRINU4WBCV5MSFD4KKOARJJQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810099996},"content":"“You’re going to start linking in, are you?” says Connolly.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EOH53OX4QJCFLMZOLEA6ZO2Q44","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810099997},"content":"She nods. “There’s also this group starting,” he says. He points to a poster that says, “What’s the Craic?” It advertises an ‘Informal social support group for people struggling for crack cocaine’.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3WPLQHBANBC2DEUCYBDKNJD7SA","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810099998},"content":"She looks at it and nods. “I’ll come again, I promise you. What’s your name?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"KHZVPABQWVGOPFF6FIAHZPE4XI","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810099999},"content":"“Ryan.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"HPPJAK5OFZF73AS6IUDOCNYFE4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100000},"content":"“I’ll come again and explain it all, Ryan,” she says and laughs.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7GPWRMNRMJCXTAB2UBL6IMT7P4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100001},"content":"A middle-aged man comes in looking for a “straight shooter” (one of the more popular types of crack pipe).","type":"text"},{"_id":"LO2V53RMNNAKDKLBPCLQ2GCZTY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100002},"content":"“What’s the story?” says Connolly.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E4THRNEXONEKXAWX25VYRDVMXE","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100003},"content":"“I’m going to start a detox and the GP is going to take me on. He’ll test my urine and if there’s only benzos in it, he said he’ll start me. I haven’t taken heroin. Tomorrow it will be three weeks.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"RLABFNILD5HPZE4SRYXCWAVT2Q","additional_properties":{"_id":"X7Z5OARYPRBHRBX74WUOZSDPUY"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"77F7X52NPVFRPBHKCXVQ5NWE3Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100004},"content":"He asks about being referred to a counsellor. Connolly sets it up. He also says he’ll get in touch with the detox service.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LVSNH3YIL5GYNOFU3KDV2JTDFM","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100005},"content":"“You’re no longer injecting or anything are you?” says Connolly.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RWYV5VL7MJD6VEFLYRDBMHBGJU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100006},"content":"“Nah, only a few smokes and taking tablets. I live on my own. I don’t want to die on the floor. All the family work and have their own homes. Some days I’m in the gaff all day on my own. Most of the time they call in to see if I’m all right. I don’t want to collapse and OD and die when they haven’t called in.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"5VQVJ3AQGVBONGWBW5LOSMA4FI","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100007},"content":"“Have you ever OD’d?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"MTVWDWZNWBCMPHDUJAXNWG6PKY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100008},"content":"“No never. Touch wood.” He taps the table. So does Connolly. The man says he always uses clean stuff, “barrels and spikes” from places like Merchants Quay. “I think that’s why I never had any abscesses.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"S6F6ZU3YFFGNHNNYRUH74XGI24","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100009},"content":"He’s sometimes tempted to do crack when he sees people he knows doing it on the street. It’s everywhere, he says. “Twice coming up it was offered to me on the bus.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"KL4WXOKH3VH2ZOJ5JCEEMNVJHY","additional_properties":{"_id":"6SAVWVAIPRESRGCGJCMWHPVFDQ"},"content":"Huge increase in cocaine use, particularly among women, research shows","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"SHGKZLMKYBBLBIYLDJ6ZCOUUS4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100010},"content":"He first encountered it when he came out of prison in 2020. “I was hearing about crack and did it and got a rush, but then you get paranoia. There was six or seven of us in a laneway doing pipes. And they were all my mates I grew up with but I just thought, ‘I have to get out of here. I have to get out of here.’”","type":"text"},{"_id":"R77MDT4RFJEEFNRSGHJAVZZ62Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100011},"content":"“Why is it so popular?” I ask.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4XG2T4QBNNHOXEODLXY2JPYAJE","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100012},"content":"“I don’t know. You get a rush. You come down. And then you have to go again.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"GFT6KA7RB5G47HCFWFU3UOOEEQ","additional_properties":{"_id":"C3DN42YC3RETBPGKGX6BVJG7VI"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"7FQKPIKDXFFUBHI73WNBETLXJA","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100014},"content":"Andy O’Hara is a co-ordinator with Uisce, the national advocacy service for people who use drugs. He explains the market logic of the crack trend. In the past, drug dealers didn’t have the expertise required to “wash” cocaine into crack – but that changed over the past decade, he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JMDG4ZS5XBHQXCFHZY6LGZSNXE","additional_properties":{"_id":1730882075158},"content":"“There’s a huge market for cocaine in this country. If I’m a dealer or a mid-level dealer, it’s much easier for me to get a nine bar [nine ounces] of coke than a nine bar of heroin. The heroin market is a niche market. Europe is being flooded [with cocaine]. Cocaine is available across all classes. More people can get it to sell.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QTEJNM3STZDGXCZPH2CMG73LBQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730991431437},"content":"“And it’s a very easy drug to sell. A dealer can get a consignment of cocaine and keep some to sell to the weekend warriors and some can be washed up into crack. So essentially, the dealer can sell to a few different kind of customer bases.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TTQL3CZ2VVFI7POFAGOS46TXSI","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100015},"content":"I sit in on a meeting of Uisce clients who are working on an anti-stigma project with academics from the University of West London at Uisce’s offices. They’re all either in recovery or have stabilised their lives significantly. This is partly through the sense of encouragement, dignity and purpose they get from being part of this group. They feed into policy documents, do outreach with drug users and train people how to use the opiate overdose reversal drug, Naloxone.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4B4VXOPSOFCOPB4D3Q45V4ER6M","additional_properties":{"_id":1730882075160},"content":"“Since I came here, I’ve been helping others,” says Paul (not his real name). “But also, it’s given me the platform to look at myself. Nothing is being asked of me here.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"S6ZS6PIHHNBKVJNMGGSTZNGXYU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100016},"content":"I don’t ask about the specifics of their addictions, but they have a better understanding than most about what’s happening with drugs on our streets. “Crack is the trend at the moment,” says ‘Bill’. “When that goes, there’s going to be something else to replace it.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ENU3W4GBWFCUXGFNLZHE4JVUR4","additional_properties":{"_id":"LJFXAWP4SNFKPKSV4N2GHACM6M"},"content":"Dublin’s heroin epidemic: ‘A man died and his partner died a few weeks later. Grandparents were looking after kids’","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"A2Z3AE4WCNFMVOTCXMLHZ76F7Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100017},"content":"The first safe, <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2024/01/23/medically-supervised-drug-injection-facility-to-open-in-dublin/\" target=\"_blank\">medically supervised injection facility</a> is to open in Merchant Quay’s premises in December. The Uisce volunteers I speak to feel it should be changed to a “consumption room” to include people who smoke crack or who smoke heroin (Merchants Quay informs me that smoking any sort of drug doesn’t fall under the scope of the Misuse of Drugs Act 2017 that facilitates injection rooms). “The epidemic is not heroin now, it’s crack,” says Bill.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XS6CRU7PVFFJZMUUCLDA25TG7U","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100018},"content":"Crack is hugely psychologically addictive, says ‘Colin’. “After the first [hit], your brain and your endorphins are so spiked that when you start going down ...”","type":"text"},{"_id":"R7F6JPMVR5G6DDJ4AGIIWX3RMA","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100019},"content":"“You want more, more, more,” says Bill, finishing his sentence.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ENXSXTN76VD6NHOSMPVHKWNFFQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100020},"content":"Crack users exhibit very different behaviour from people on opiates. “People become hyped up,” says Colin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QSDLYRDHHNCH5NWWWFHGCYI2XM","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100021},"content":"“They don’t realise what they’re doing half the time,” says Bill.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KIRLZVVNXNEU7KEMADXJQPO6JU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100022},"content":"But not all people react the same way. They stress that stereotypes about any drug are simplifications. “The reality is most drug users have jobs and go to college,” says Colin. “The majority of people that use drugs are functional addicts.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"FFLW75N7JBHMRLY7THWMA4TFCY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100023},"content":"Getting entirely clean of any drug is a struggle. There’s a huge shortage of detox beds in the country and there are waiting lists and hurdles to jump for addicts trying to access them. And there’s very little aftercare.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AFIIBYFOKFEGJGBZGK7QTOX4PE","additional_properties":{"_id":"ELKWEIQEAZA4HKNECCWYNBJPQU"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"PIFBLL6ITBH2JBPUARX4QQI3UQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100024},"content":"They believe one of the big reasons for the rise in crack is that it’s simply a more profitable drug to sell. The high from crack doesn’t last long. “When you come down you need one more [hit] to keep it at that level,” says Colin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GO4WNLH2ZZHIFBRLPW3OR7Y7QY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100025},"content":"“So you have to buy a lot more,” says Bill.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TB6NDIVSJRH3JJJM4ZKHCSHEX4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100026},"content":"Many young men in deprived neighbourhoods, says Colin, “see it as an opportunity. That’s why you see 17-year-olds and 18-year-olds selling”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OHZKB5STSFBRJCT67742QCOAF4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100027},"content":"Also, the quality of heroin in Ireland is inconsistent. One person tells me: “You could be buying cooking chocolate.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"S7YOR5UFTVBF7AIWTRTR7VH4AY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100028},"content":"Paul says he thinks that heroin in Dublin “was deliberately f**ked up because there was more money in crack”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CKYEK4HUWFF4RHQ3T7QMHBBFDY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100030},"content":"What are the health problems associated with crack? “Respiratory issues,” says Carroll. “A lot of recovering drug addicts would suffer from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).”","type":"text"},{"_id":"AM3J7IS6BRE3XJVJFPNIABKYLQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100031},"content":"“There’s a thing called ‘crack lung’, an acute pulmonary syndrome,” says Connolly. “Respiratory illnesses, mini heart attacks. Six years ago [crack] came here and now you’re starting to see real health issues with it.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"OF3FKRI62FAMDC5DOAUGUIXOAM","additional_properties":{"_id":"JM6KKBSDSBBL3G5KO72QZRXDSA"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"F6CY3JK33FGDVAPJFQHATQAFEY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730882075177},"content":"Last week Connolly helped with a client who was having a heart attack. The staff here are all trained in CPR and how to administer Naloxone to reverse opiate overdoses.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AWQ6H3BOIRE33MR3PNUBJ7ZIUM","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100032},"content":"“A lot of our clients would have hepatitis from cuts on their lips and hands and sharing pipes to smoke crack,” says Carroll. “It can bring on drug-induced psychosis.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TMMDZYHFXRHWJDUFRRSVGWXHIQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100033},"content":"One common phenomenon is crack users hallucinating crack rocks on the footpath. “It’s a psychological effect,” says Connolly. “You imagine it’s there. The mind playing tricks. It’s very intense. Anything you’re feeling is magnified. Your body is going through a lot of stress.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"3KAT5VABWRCGLHBFVA5T24GNNE","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100034},"content":"All they can do is be there for people. “Some will want to come in and talk to the staff for half an hour,” says Carroll. “Others won’t even sit down, they’re so agitated.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"3RMYOOT5SVBDBGC6D3Y6N5WSQA","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100035},"content":"“We’re here to talk to people,” says Connolly. “What runners have you? Did you watch the football?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BASAUKPVZ5CHHHJ74CZF66PAZE","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100036},"content":"“Have you eaten today?” says Carroll.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SEUAPKPGYBAMPEYN4NZS4FVPH4","additional_properties":{"_id":"KWUEHNHWMBFC7GLDTLTVEVEIGY"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"DHPZJJPLNFENJAQ7U4PQCX4L6A","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100037},"content":"People’s drug use often escalates coming up to Christmas due to family estrangement and loneliness. For rough sleepers it’s also harder to smoke in colder weather, so lots of them move to injecting. For Connolly and Carroll it’s really important that the clients feel listened to and respected.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CZWCETCL5VFXPADH6EZKNMHNHE","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100038},"content":"Do staff ever feel unsafe here? “This is one of the places I feel most safe,” says Connolly. “I don’t know what that says about me. We save lives in here.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"JUFSJ734VZANLPPSWGC446X6X4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100040},"content":"A young man comes into the needle-exchange room in a ripped jacket, looking a bit frantic. “I took 15 of the new Tranax,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B5VUE47LZ5HR5E4OQU6K4QHONQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100041},"content":"Connolly looks concerned. “There’s new Tranax going around? The yellow ones?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"6NEQZ2QHTZCCJDRE7G6BMA4WP4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100042},"content":"“Nah. Different ones again. They’re white. They’re like the cheap version. I should have been all right but I took a seizure. I woke up in the hospital. They said I was very lucky. They said they had morphine in them.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"YNWKGFUBIFCKVANEA5JYP72JCI","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100043},"content":"This is useful information for Connolly. He monitors drug trends and feeds the information to the HSE. Last Christmas there was a <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/health/2023/11/26/new-synthetic-drug-stronger-than-fentanyl-linked-to-recent-dublin-overdoses/\" target=\"_blank\">spate of overdoses because of the synthetic opiate nitazene</a>. “Twenty-five in one day,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5I7OXHWTCVF6VCIH34U2QI54JU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100044},"content":"“My friend put me on my back,” says the young man. “He didn’t know about the recovery position. He said there was froth on my mouth and he could hear me choking on my tongue.” He points to his ripped jacket. “They had to cut me out of my clothes.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4WLFHVEUK5CKZBZ4IVM3ITWA6Y","additional_properties":{"_id":"IPBZYMPXT5BTTOS5UFDHIPVGMY"},"type":"image"},{"_id":"VAPDJECZRJEMDP6LH4BSKGNYEU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100045},"content":"Connolly starts asking him questions about his use. He wants to get into recovery he says but it’s too hard to get a bed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KEWQBJ5QIZBP5N3HEOCGKTLBZA","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100046},"content":"Connolly is worried about him. “Do you have a phone number or anything?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"724SSYS7AVDQFOM4O5KHKUIDZI","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100047},"content":"“Collecting a new phone tomorrow from the shop.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"S2QU2V3Q55AMLLXLNKIDBORLEQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100048},"content":"Connolly asks if he wants to talk to a counsellor. He shakes his head. “Be very careful,” says Connolly, but he’s already out the door.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UH5G35KR4BEABE37OD7MOLH3F4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100050},"content":"In harm reduction services there are a lot more categories than just “using” or “drug-free”. Sometimes a person might not be ready to completely quit but they get some structure in their lives. They stop being so chaotic. They might get a job. They might reunite with their family. Over the course of a morning in Merchants Quay, I meet all types of people.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CN4ZYQM4UFCI3FTQBY6WVKX42Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100051},"content":"Two of the people who come in are purely heroin users. Connolly explains to one man the safer parts of the body to inject (there are three types of needle distributed depending on where the person is injecting – long-term users have to change the injection sites). Most who visit are looking for crack pipes but many are polydrug users, often using one drug to counteract another, and they ask for needles as well.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BS6ISR5TAZF5XIHWAXGXACIBDQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100052},"content":"As he talks to them, Connolly tries to establish the state of their health and their drug usage and checks out what services they are linked in with or want to be linked in with. People ask him about Community Employment schemes, seeing a counsellor or visiting the doctor.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GV3CJWI5MZACDCXFCXZZLZR53Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100053},"content":"What might be surprising to some readers is how warm and good-humoured it all is. One vulnerable young man comes in holding a $20 bill. “Which president is that?” he wonders genuinely. “It’s not Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin or George Washington. Is it Thomas Jefferson?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"QVSRRCOUXBGTTGA2RITA7MLXAI","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100054},"content":"Connolly talks to him about his drug use. As he’s leaving, he grabs a trolley filled with drug paraphernalia and pretends to casually pull it out of the door. He’s only messing. Connolly laughs. “A pleasure as always,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HY2ZAVHOORAYRCFK2ATSCLCF4A","additional_properties":{"_id":"FNKKBEKXAZHSXHJCTPZS466HAU"},"subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"RSJ2XGFY2ZAPTKFLYMMQ4ZBOPU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100055},"content":"An older man talks about his plans to uses his disability benefit to get some “new clobber” later that day and how nice it will make him feel. He and Connolly talk about how good Penneys can be before they ever get on to his need for drug paraphernalia.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XJ2L6PWQMRHRZHMW47723N4CUY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730810100056},"content":"A well-dressed, healthy-looking man, says, mischievously: “You showed me how to inject!” He means <i>safely</i> inject. But the man also credits Connolly with helping him to stop taking heroin. He’s on methadone now. 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He talks about how bad policy leads to trauma, which leads to addiction, which leads to people being punished and criminalised for that addiction.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3653JR4LR5FHNMFJW23EK4ESUE","additional_properties":{"_id":1730882075206},"content":"“Why do we have cohorts of people who are willing to take the riskiest drugs?” he says. “The streets that people are walking around on are a reflection of how we treat people. Because the worse we treat people, and the worse we shame people, and the more we criminalise people, the worse things get.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2QHUT5T4BVCEPHBSMIOEGAAPCQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730882075207},"content":"“Right now, there are far more people in the city than ever who have loads of underlying problems, and that’s to do with our housing policy. We literally have thousands and thousands more people living in hostels ... Emergency accommodation can be quite stressful and quite traumatic. 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Oxley, B.A., <a href=\"http://b.th/\" target=\"_blank\">B.Th</a>., Prebendary of St Audoens. 15.15 CHORAL EVENSONG sung by the Cathedral Choir - Responses: Radcliffe, Stanford in A, Psalm: 46, Howells: Take him to earth for cherishing. Preacher: The Revd D.W. Oxley, B.A., <a href=\"http://b.th/\" target=\"_blank\">B.Th</a>., Prebendary of St Audoens. SUNG MATINS at 09.00 - Monday to Friday CHORAL EVENSONG at 17.30 - Monday to Friday. EUCHARIST at 11.05 Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday. 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Live stream <a href=\"http://www.churchservices.tv/christchurchbray\" target=\"_blank\">www.churchservices.tv/christchurchbray</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"2I2J2DXGORF2HEX65CI3RFL3J4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730980756990},"content":"<b>St Audoen Cornmarket </b>9.30 Bellringing, 10.00 Eucharist (every Sunday), Remembrance. During works, access through the OPW Visitor Centre. Cars may be parked between Francis Street and Christ Church.","type":"text"},{"_id":"G3ZYXZKEMNHVTK7MQJQAAZX7RI","additional_properties":{"_id":1730980756991},"content":"<b>St Catherine St James Donore Avenue</b> 11.30, Service of the Word, Remembrance Sunday. Speaker, Fr David Corrigan SM, PP, St Teresas Donore Avenue. Organist, Olesia Borsuk. Cars may be parked in the Churchyard.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ERT7NSV7HNHDBG4E3TWDH6P5ZU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730980756992},"content":"<b>Zion Parish Church</b> Sunday 10th November - The Third Sunday before Advent. 10.30am Morning Prayer. 9am Holy Communion 1. All welcome.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YVQMADE6YBBWHM4E3KR5HHWNPA","additional_properties":{},"content":"PRESBYTERIAN","type":"header"},{"_id":"T436KQGM5FDYRNQ6UKINT6IC2Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"About The Presbyterian Church in Ireland --The Presbyterian form of the Christian faith is best described as Reformed; with its strong emphasis on the Sovereignty of God, the Kingship of Christ, and the authority of the Bible. For more information, and for a full list of congregations around the whole island of Ireland, visit: <a href=\"http://www.presbyterianireland.org/\">www.presbyterianireland.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"33KMFYL4IVHFROV2P4ALIDP2RU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Adelaide Road Presbyterian Church, Dublin City</b> Sundays at 11am in person or online. All Welcome. Our church building is located at the intersection of Earlsfort Terrace and Adelaide Road, Dublin 2. Rev Dr Colin Dickson has been our replacement minister while Rev Dr Sam Mawhinney served his year as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. To find out more visit: <a href=\"http://www.adelaideroadchurch.ie/\">www.adelaideroadchurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"4ESFLUC2OZAIFLNO7SYT4H66VA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Clontarf and Scots Presbyterian Church, Dublin</b> Sunday Service is at 11am with Communion. We are located opposite Clontarf Road DART Station, Dublin 3. Rev Lorraine Ritchie. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://www.clontarfchurch.ie/\">www.clontarfchurch.ie</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"3CBXHDPXDFH7ZIKNI2RHY5PIAE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Donabate and Balbriggan Presbyterian Churches, Co. Dublin</b> Meet at 10:30am at Donabate and Portrane Community Centre, and at 4:30pm at Balbriggan Clubs Community Centre, Co. Dublin. Everyone is welcome. Rev. Andy Carroll. Visit <a href=\"http://www.donabatepc.org/\">www.donabatepc.org</a> to find out more and for directions","type":"text"},{"_id":"OFLNZGIUR5DJJC2O7HCBGAEVBI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Dún Laoghaire Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at York Road, Dun Laoghaire. Rev Clarke Deering. You will be most welcome to join us. For more information, visit: <a href=\"https://dl-pc.org/\">https://dl-pc.org/</a> or our Facebook page for regular updates, and online streaming.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OBS2VPXKKFF4XLDDUN4MACOOQE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Findlaters (Abbey Presbyterian Church)</b> 11am at Parnell Square, Dublin City. Rev Alan Boal. Communion on the first Sunday of each month. All welcome. Abbey exists to share Gods purpose; becoming more Christ-like as we go, and show the Gospel to the City. To find out more, visit: <a href=\"http://www.abbeychurch.ie/\">www.abbeychurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"XOI3IZQZN5CLLPOY53LX74C62U","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Howth and Malahide Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 10am at Malahide and 11:45am in Howth. Rev Alastair Dunlop. Everyone is welcome to join us, as we share in the Good News of our Lord Jesus Christ. Programme for children during the service. You are welcome to join us for tea and coffee after the service. Visit: <a href=\"http://www.hmpchurch.org/\">www.hmpchurch.org</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"LLVIEBOSKZERFDZ6EA6GPRXZXM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Lucan Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at Main Street, Lucan Village. Lucan Presbyterian Church is a growing family of Christians who come from a variety of different church backgrounds, traditions and nationalities. Regardless of your age, background, experience or previous church connections you are welcome to come and visit us. For more information, visit <a href=\"http://www.lpc.ie/\">http://www.lpc.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"BPN5AUYJLRFTFKTFTDPZOBEQBI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Maynooth Presbyterian Church</b> Known locally as Maynooth Community Church; and meets together for worship on Sundays at 10:30am at Manor Mills Shopping Centre, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. On the first Sunday of the month we celebrate the Lords Supper (Communion). Rev Keith McCrory. Free parking is available in the underground car park and the service takes place on the 1st Floor. To find out more, visit <a href=\"http://maynoothcc.org/\">http://maynoothcc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"JWFSLW6DHNBWBNAAWBY6ZL3UCM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Naas Presbyterian Church, Co. Kildare</b> 11am with preacher, Mr Tom Dowling, Kilkenny Presbyterian. Programme for children during the service, and tea and coffee served afterwards. The church building is located across the street from the post office and town hall, and overlooks South Main Street - you cannot miss us. For further information, visit our Facebook page: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/NaasPCI\">www.facebook.com/NaasPCI</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"HZHF4TOEPRFULBYLWICDZLNLBQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Blackrock, Co. Dublin</b> Sundays at 9.45am for a traditional service of prayer and praise with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Junior Church for children and young people aged 5 to 15 years. For more information, visit <a href=\"https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie/\">https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie</a> - Rev Andrew Gill","type":"text"},{"_id":"TK36HTLPJVBCJPPAML4YBAVKRQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Bray, Co. Wicklow</b> (We are located at the corner of Eglinton Road and Quinsborough Road) As a congregation, we exist to glorify God through worship and service. We meet every Sunday at 11:30am for a traditional service of prayer and praise, with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Sunday School for children. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://standrewschurchbray.com/\">standrewschurchbray.com</a> for more information. Rev. 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Many say they have had little or no communication with Irish authorities or the UN Refugee Agency since.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2QAWXUASBNA7TPNNR55HQWVDRU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730461910280},"content":"When the conflict escalated on September 23rd with Israel and Hizbullah engaging in tit-for-tat attacks, it forced some of those families to flee long distances, sleeping in the streets or temporary shelters. Some children suffered panic attacks from the sounds of drones and war planes, or from witnessing injured and dead people amid air strikes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ISIR2C43TJCAJGWGJY6O27N744","additional_properties":{"_id":1730461910281},"content":"Some families remain in areas that are regularly attacked. 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She died after her heart stopped multiple times and resuscitation finally failed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UB5O4456ARERJMPHL553WQMOVM","additional_properties":{"_id":"WGVZYBGVWNHAJGH6C4VTTDZ5Z4"},"content":"Abandoned in Lebanon: How Ireland offered Syrian refugees a route to safety, then left them in a war zone","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"GCINC4DTXBAR7HFV4HSN5AMYNU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730461910284},"content":"Al-Ashqar struggled to get her a diagnosis and adequate medical care, in a country with a well-publicised healthcare <a href=\"https://healtheconomicsreview.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13561-023-00435-w\">crisis</a>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KZYRUWJ27JCUXOAI7LE44Z3QAA","additional_properties":{"_id":1730461910285},"content":"Hoda was admitted to hospital in Lebanon’s capital Beirut, but her father says the bills became too high for NGOs and the UN to cover. 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He said they are monitoring the situation and are “conscious of how difficult lengthy waiting periods to travel are on the families concerned”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZEV4U3W5VNEADKQZTZGHIFYKPU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730461910291},"content":"More people are scheduled to travel this month, he said, with further arrivals anticipated before the end of the year. 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They share a bathroom with at least 10 other families, and the conditions look set to become increasingly strained as more people arrive there, fleeing Israeli air strikes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RA6QIM3Z4NDEDP6DZCSYQD6ZHM","additional_properties":{"_id":1730461910297},"content":"This week, the UN’s humanitarian coordinator for Lebanon, Imran Riza, <a href=\"https://x.com/Imran_Riza/status/1851703489694700026\">said</a> that Akkar – where their camp is – is hosting nearly 70,000 newly displaced people due to the latest escalation in war. “The strain on Akkar’s public services is increasing, with urgent needs in healthcare, waste management and shelter,” Riza said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"26S5VOQHN5D6ZPPFQLR52EACSE","additional_properties":{"_id":1730461910298},"content":"Alongside that, Al-Ashqar said they see fighter jets flying over the camp. “[We are] living in a state of great terror,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IHM6EWWDTJF4FMNX3D6M2LFVOE","additional_properties":{"_id":1730461910299},"content":"Al-Ashqar’s brother travelled to Ireland in 2017 under the refugee resettlement scheme; Al-Ashqar said he is very happy there. 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Live stream <a href=\"http://www.churchservices.tv/christchurchbray\" target=\"_blank\">www.churchservices.tv/christchurchbray</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"4YR6RGKCOBCCNDM5E7MGHEZ7RA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Audoen Cornmarket</b> 9.30 Bellringing, 10.00 Eucharist (every Sunday), All Saints. During works, access through the OPW Visitor Centre. Cars may be parked between Francis Street and Christ Church.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JFJ6ZLADBVALZDCJGOJX6EYLXM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Catherine St James Donore Avenue</b> 11.30, Eucharist, All Saints Sunday. Organist, Olesia Borsuk. Cars may be parked in the Churchyard.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TBBWB64VZBHILNXNDGYJGAGHWU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Zion Parish Church </b>Sunday 3rd November - The Fourth Sunday before Advent. Patronal Festival - The anniversary of the Opening of Zion Church on All Saints Day 1861. 10.30am Holy Communion, 9am Holy Communion 1. All welcome.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WCT6MVVL2FFBRE6VK3JEWS5AXQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"PRESBYTERIAN","type":"header"},{"_id":"QBARTTRHNRDQTCEZRSIKPUAQNE","additional_properties":{},"content":"About The Presbyterian Church in Ireland --The Presbyterian form of the Christian faith is best described as Reformed; with its strong emphasis on the Sovereignty of God, the Kingship of Christ, and the authority of the Bible. For more information, and for a full list of congregations around the whole island of Ireland, visit: <a href=\"http://www.presbyterianireland.org/\">www.presbyterianireland.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"U5B74E5ATNE4FKGJPSY2HNZXQY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Adelaide Road Presbyterian Church, Dublin City</b> Sundays at 11am in person or online. All Welcome. Our church building is located at the intersection of Earlsfort Terrace and Adelaide Road, Dublin 2. Rev Dr Colin Dickson has been our replacement minister while Rev Dr Sam Mawhinney served his year as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. To find out more visit: <a href=\"http://www.adelaideroadchurch.ie/\">www.adelaideroadchurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"IGVYEYBYBNDORFAM73FUB6VYTI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Clontarf and Scots Presbyterian Church, Dublin</b> Sunday Service is at 11am with Communion. We are located opposite Clontarf Road DART Station, Dublin 3. Rev Lorraine Ritchie. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://www.clontarfchurch.ie/\">www.clontarfchurch.ie</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"2ZGDRKVWPNFK3PKUGAQLUTPRXM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Donabate and Balbriggan Presbyterian Churches, Co. Dublin</b> Meet at 10:30am at Donabate and Portrane Community Centre, and at 4:30pm at Balbriggan Clubs Community Centre, Co. Dublin. Everyone is welcome. Rev. Andy Carroll. Visit <a href=\"http://www.donabatepc.org/\">www.donabatepc.org</a> to find out more and for directions","type":"text"},{"_id":"I7TYWVG4RBFGZCQDE43VIAXYWI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Dún Laoghaire Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at York Road, Dun Laoghaire. Rev Clarke Deering. You will be most welcome to join us. For more information, visit: <a href=\"https://dl-pc.org/\">https://dl-pc.org/</a> or our Facebook page for regular updates, and online streaming.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7WY4SZAVB5C2VH2CS3ZIGMHGP4","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Findlaters (Abbey Presbyterian Church)</b> 11am at Parnell Square, Dublin City. Rev Alan Boal. Communion on the first Sunday of each month. All welcome. Abbey exists to share Gods purpose; becoming more Christ-like as we go, and show the Gospel to the City. To find out more, visit: <a href=\"http://www.abbeychurch.ie/\">www.abbeychurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"6HKCPZJGMJFANEEGAUVKOZCCEE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Howth and Malahide Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 10am at Malahide and 11:45am in Howth. Rev Alastair Dunlop. Everyone is welcome to join us, as we share in the Good News of our Lord Jesus Christ. Programme for children during the service. You are welcome to join us for tea and coffee after the service. Visit: <a href=\"http://www.hmpchurch.org/\">www.hmpchurch.org</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"A5VSLNBRABDBHI6SM6Z6ICADBM","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Lucan Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at Main Street, Lucan Village. Lucan Presbyterian Church is a growing family of Christians who come from a variety of different church backgrounds, traditions and nationalities. Regardless of your age, background, experience or previous church connections you are welcome to come and visit us. For more information, visit <a href=\"http://www.lpc.ie/\">http://www.lpc.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"LRHKE5I3F5CVDIOHBOXFKWV5RE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Maynooth Presbyterian Church</b> Known locally as Maynooth Community Church; and meets together for worship on Sundays at 10:30am at Manor Mills Shopping Centre, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. On the first Sunday of the month we celebrate the Lords Supper (Communion). Rev Keith McCrory. Free parking is available in the underground car park and the service takes place on the 1st Floor. To find out more, visit <a href=\"http://maynoothcc.org/\">http://maynoothcc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"U6ZBQK6FVNHFNPO6OFS5IUBLGU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Naas Presbyterian Church, Co. Kildare</b> 11am with preacher, Mr Tom Dowling, Kilkenny Presbyterian. Programme for children during the service, and tea and coffee served afterwards. The church building is located across the street from the post office and town hall, and overlooks South Main Street - you cannot miss us. For further information, visit our Facebook page: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/NaasPCI\">www.facebook.com/NaasPCI</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"B5GT5Z3IQBFJXCFGFPQF3LWMBY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Blackrock, Co. Dublin</b> Sundays at 9.45am for a traditional service of prayer and praise with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Junior Church for children and young people aged 5 to 15 years. For more information, visit <a href=\"https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie/\">https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie</a> - Rev Andrew Gill","type":"text"},{"_id":"47CUERQIHJHMHDIZXQSYHLTPII","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Bray, Co. Wicklow</b> (We are located at the corner of Eglinton Road and Quinsborough Road) As a congregation, we exist to glorify God through worship and service. We meet every Sunday at 11:30am for a traditional service of prayer and praise, with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Sunday School for children. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://standrewschurchbray.com/\">standrewschurchbray.com</a> for more information. Rev. Andrew Gill","type":"text"},{"_id":"EPOU6QQJ35FHZMSUCSAE6W375I","additional_properties":{},"content":"METHODIST","type":"header"},{"_id":"NNYCK6EZV5EWLKLWKMEOHW5LCY","additional_properties":{},"content":"About the Methodist Church in Ireland - The Methodist Church in Ireland is a community of people drawn together by Gods love, who seek to live wholeheartedly as followers of Jesus for the transformation of the world. With 212 churches spread across the island of Ireland from North to South, and East to West. 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One struggled to pay the cost of getting to and from her doctor. They haven’t money for socialising, so it isolates people,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZL3P3NY2IVDNRGDMSCFMF2OMTA","additional_properties":{"_id":1730301290057},"content":"Fellow committee member Noreen Coughlan said there was a feeling that “when we were working we were useful but now we are simply forgotten about”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AT5ALVECMJBDBIPYDIOIP7PKOE","additional_properties":{"_id":1730301290058},"content":"Benefits have been frozen at 2008 levels because the scheme was substantially in the red, failing to meet the minimum funding standard set out in legislation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TI7GQ34CYZEQPHVFRWQJAL6SD4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730307153767},"content":"It is now back in surplus, but only just. While one set of consultants, commissioned by the scheme’s committee, have said increases over 2.6 per cent annually would be sustainable over the next few years, others, commissioned by the company, have said that would not be “prudent”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VRBIG3JPW5G6RNXCFPAYUFVOFM","additional_properties":{"_id":1730301290059},"content":"The company argues it is the last surviving public sector scheme of its type but is, as such, unaffordable. It currently contributes 27 per cent of salary.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GRRCSVLEVZD2PHRXDSILI2TKVI","additional_properties":{"_id":1730307153769},"content":"Under the terms of a deal to address the funding issue by raising the minimum retirement age from 60 to 63 and cutting future benefits, the company would be required to pay €320 million into the fund over the next 10 years. That deal, recommended by the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/labour-court\" target=\"_blank\">Labour Court</a> and approved in a ballot of current staff, has not yet been implemented.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YCDY6C2IB5FUNMX3YVDX7FFP3I","additional_properties":{},"type":"list"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Emmet Malone"}},"name":"Emmet Malone"}]},"description":{"basic":"Transport group’s pensioners protest against their benefits being frozen at 2008 levels"},"display_date":"2024-10-30T17:20:02.261Z","headlines":{"basic":"Former CIÉ employees ‘having to watch what they eat’ ","native":""},"label":{"audio_project_id":{"text":"8948"}},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"KBOLDK3PJND7JPG4U5HKSYIPOQ","auth":{"1":"4aff7a6de9ffdfe343b4df23cf26722cca97e2b6c06e8fc162240b876370dc68"},"url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/KBOLDK3PJND7JPG4U5HKSYIPOQ.JPG"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Health"},{"name":"Business"},{"name":"Ireland"},{"name":"Social Affairs"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/health/2024/10/30/former-cie-employees-having-to-watch-what-they-eat/","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/health","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Health"}}}},{"_id":"FPBHRBVEZBDWZJQQQCENKVY4MQ","additional_properties":{"audio_duration":243,"audio_url":"https://d22tbkdovk5ea2.cloudfront.net/audio/projects/8948/podcasts/2f0c586c-507e-4be3-af61-cae6e358c1b0/versions/1730220945/media/b5dfdea6f59de6b8307fd326dfa2e137_compiled.mp3"},"canonical_url":"/ireland/housing-planning/2024/10/29/dublin-authorities-make-400-extra-beds-available-for-homeless-this-winter/","content_elements":[{"_id":"GAGTJO2XOJATLLZKUUPOCXCARQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730218260902},"content":"More than 400 extra emergency beds for the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/homeless-crisis/\" target=\"_blank\">homeless</a> will be provided in <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dublin/\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin</a> this winter.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ALCVE3LZYFF43J2UJ43ZIPFUUA","additional_properties":{"_id":1730218260903},"content":"As part of its cold weather strategy the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/dublin-region-homeless-executive/\" target=\"_blank\">Dublin Region Homeless Executive</a> (DRHE) announced on Friday it would make available an additional 173 beds immediately with 150 more coming on stream in March. These will be open 24 hours a day with meals provided on-site.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2E4SOUDHOFFBDDL5PBFDU4TV4Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1730218260904},"content":"In addition, 104 “extreme weather” beds will be available in the event of exceptionally cold, wet or windy weather.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N5ZPRSIU6RFONAWNF2X7Y77XD4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730218260905},"content":"These will be in addition to the more than 10,701 emergency beds already occupied by homeless people in Dublin, including 7,313 adults and 3,388 children, last month. Of these, 4,726 were homeless adults without dependent children – a 15 per cent increase since September 2023 when there were 4,085.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3RP6D3MNRBEFHJKLCX3OLFWUDE","additional_properties":{"_id":1730218260906},"content":"In a statement the DRHE said: “In order to meet the increase in demand for homeless services and have the appropriate contingency plans in place for cold weather conditions, we are activating the cold weather strategy 2024-2025 in the Dublin region.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4BVYQZUALJFWJPI6SMB4ZLANGU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730218260907},"content":"“The ... strategy focuses on expanding current capacity to meet increasing demand for emergency accommodation whilst also providing a targeted response for people who are long-term rough sleeping.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WXUF44XIK5HT5N3DMHWRBBW3SQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730218260908},"content":"“The cold weather provides opportunities for more assertive engagement with long-term, entrenched rough sleepers and hard-to-reach groups, aimed at placing them in appropriate and long-term accommodation.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2A4SUEFBYRFUBKRBI3YECIQUGM","additional_properties":{"_id":1730218260909},"content":"A spokesman confirmed none of these would be available to the more than 2,800 homeless male asylum seekers, however, saying their accommodation was “a matter for the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/department-of-children-equality-integration-and-youth/\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Children</a>”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5WNSGVGIWVEPPK4PPP4W5PE3M4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730218260910},"content":"According to latest figures from the department, as of Tuesday, there were 2,808 male asylum seekers “awaiting offer of accommodation”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F7M6HPCLHRDMHCNYJZLJGP2HPM","additional_properties":{"_id":"BMY3NBJ3LBHPZGYOEHECDS4YW4"},"content":"Number of homeless deaths in Dublin reaches 40 so far this year, records show","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"G2JV3WE4ZVEJJIHT3YQSYDDF54","additional_properties":{"_id":1730218260911},"content":"Since December 4th the department’s <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/international-protection-accommodation-services/\" target=\"_blank\">International Protection Accommodation Service</a> has not been providing shelter to single, adult, male international protection applicants on presentation at the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/international-protection-office/\" target=\"_blank\">International Protection Office</a>. A total of 6,002 have applied since then, of whom 2,547 have since been accommodated and 647 offered shelter following a “vulnerability triage”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5L5HU7JGQNBPPLHUWFLGVQ2RAA","additional_properties":{"_id":1730218260912},"content":"Volunteers say while this cohort should be offered shelter on arrival, those they were meeting sleeping rough around Dublin were “generally getting offers within a few days”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EVLGDBFTNNFQZKHNM3OL2QWDEY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730218260913},"content":"One volunteer, who has been supporting homeless asylum seekers since early 2024, said: “The speed with which they are getting accommodation has improved, generally within four to five nights, or even less. But they just need accommodation on arrival. They are walking around in wet clothes all day and getting into wet sleeping bags.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"A5PPVQTT2FEZ5DQIEJBWCXRRSM","additional_properties":{"_id":1730218260914},"content":"One man, who gave his name as Issa (34), from Sierra Leone, was bedding down on Sunday night on wet ground, in a wet tent, in a sheltered area in south Dublin, having arrived in Ireland on October 21st, he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DGVLUSXJJ5DRVD5UE67RS24MHY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730218260915},"content":"“It is very, very difficult. It is too cold. It is not easy for us. There is a lot of struggle here. But the country is so peaceful, the people are good people.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"WL2CZ6RSZRCG3FP32HXSSZ4GEY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730218260916},"content":"The Department of Children was asked by The Irish Times about winter plans to shelter male asylum seekers, and about opening of accommodation in Thornton Hall in north Co Dublin. 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They do not receive child benefit or the child support payment – formerly the qualified child increase – in respect of children whose parents are dependent on social welfare.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7YX4MRQFJRFNRO5ZOMMMZ3IBDY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730120493921},"content":"The vast majority of children of asylum seekers live in accommodation provided by the International Protection Accommodation Service (IPAS) which includes meals.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FHHZ3M4GBJAHDE54L4O6QDIESI","additional_properties":{"_id":1730120493922},"content":"“As we head into difficult winter months, many families will breathe a sigh of relief with this additional support [of double child benefit],” said Ms Ward. “But as this happens, children and young people in direct provision will receive nothing. No double payment or child benefit payment at all.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ERTSQF3RMZFTXMAUA3OLR4NYKE","additional_properties":{"_id":1730120493923},"content":"“For five years, these children have been left behind by this Government. They have watched budget after budget go by without any increases to the income support they receive ... Instead, Government expects these children and young people to survive on just €29.80 a week.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"THJ772LDBZEDRLBM57SF2MHJ2A","additional_properties":{"_id":1730120493924},"content":"She continued: “We know that less than €30 a week falls shamefully short of what is needed to afford just the basic essentials for a decent standard of living. Ignoring these children and the obvious need for more adequate income supports all but confirms that their childhoods will be severely compromised by poverty.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2JG4T33UPVG2ZDNXGHKLUAZEDU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730121528922},"content":"“There are no after-school activities, cinema trips, birthday parties with friends. The hallmarks of a happy childhood are not an option when you can barely afford to just get through the week.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SIKURAERKBG4JIBMAZDMVOOIX4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730120493925},"content":"“We urge Government to implement this critical income support to ensure that the financial support is brought closer to that of their peers. 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The vast majority of young people in the SCSIP service reported as missing are aged over 16 years.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DSNQSD2FG5HITOYA4JGEOYXBKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1730038540793},"content":"“Some of these young people communicated their intention to travel on to other countries to join family members, and some indicated that it was never their intention to remain in Ireland and left soon after they arrived in the country.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HIHCWBUM3BFHNIZNFPRTSJ562I","additional_properties":{"_id":1730043261307},"content":"“Nonetheless, for those who did not subsequently make us aware of their whereabouts, these young people are counted as missing and An Garda Síochána are notified accordingly.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"2X2POFSZORDZ3A72T4JN55AO5E","additional_properties":{"_id":1730038540794},"content":"Tusla did not specify whether it believed the 31 missing young asylum seekers were still in the country or whether it was making efforts to ascertain their whereabouts.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LEK4NNZEY5BLNPMSELN7IHM4TA","additional_properties":{"_id":1730038540795},"content":"The agency continued: “Of the 37, six are living in Tusla’s residential settings. Most of these young people reported as ‘missing’ return to their placement after a brief period of time and remain in a safe and caring environment.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"QXACQULIJNEVTBBZM5END3WTK4","additional_properties":{"_id":1730038540796},"content":"It said it was “important to note” that where a child is absent from their residential care placement for more than 15 minutes, they can be reported as “missing” from care.","type":"text"},{"_id":"H55TNWZNNZEUHNIDAZX4QHXE2E","additional_properties":{"_id":1730043261311},"content":"“This could be for a range of reasons, such as missing their curfew or not returning to their placement at an agreed time.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TCRCWRREO5AL5NPKSCPHEQ4LBE","additional_properties":{"_id":1730043261312},"content":"“Three of these six young people remained in contact with the services whilst absent, and three of these young people were not in contact as of 10th October.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZJUOCPADCRH5HHUYYAMHDYUBQU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730042102158},"content":"Setting out what happens when a young person goes missing from its care, a Tusla spokeswoman said a joint protocol with gardaí required that the force be notified immediately “due to vulnerable nature of young people in care”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CYYEIUW2WNECRNUMVWGTLPS6RY","additional_properties":{"_id":1730042102159},"content":"“Once a young person has been reported missing, gardaí have primary responsibility for investigating the young person’s whereabouts. Throughout the Garda investigation, however, the child’s social worker and carers continue to make inquiries with people who may be able to assist with the investigation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GYHL47WLGJBVFEEKHKFSYKNYMU","additional_properties":{"_id":1730042102160},"content":"“All information gathered through these inquiries is passed on to the gardaí,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"APVRMT6HPJBXXPRUGVMLEZH52U","additional_properties":{"_id":1730043596672},"content":"Meanwhile, speaking on Sunday, Minister for Children <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/roderic-o-gorman/\" target=\"_blank\">Roderic O’Gorman</a> said there have “very clearly been failings” in the case of missing boy Kyran Durnin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZVAQC3LIRZA6FJBTYQDJPVQQZQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1730043596673},"content":"“We can’t be complacent when it comes to child protection ... 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For more information, and for a full list of congregations around the whole island of Ireland, visit: <a href=\"http://www.presbyterianireland.org/\">www.presbyterianireland.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"JF7JX4VYXJABZAFPWMHVGOM3VY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Adelaide Road Presbyterian Church, Dublin City</b> Sundays at 11am in person or online. All Welcome. Our church building is located at the intersection of Earlsfort Terrace and Adelaide Road, Dublin 2. Rev Dr Colin Dickson has been our replacement minister while Rev Dr Sam Mawhinney served his year as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. To find out more visit: <a href=\"http://www.adelaideroadchurch.ie/\">www.adelaideroadchurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"3UZEO2O75BEYHIOOMYSFT5BSFQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Clontarf and Scots Presbyterian Church, Dublin</b> Sunday Service is at 11am with Communion. We are located opposite Clontarf Road DART Station, Dublin 3. Rev Lorraine Ritchie. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://www.clontarfchurch.ie/\">www.clontarfchurch.ie</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"AEGCPIFFCJAXDOQQKYOA2K4URU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Donabate and Balbriggan Presbyterian Churches, Co. Dublin</b> Meet at 10:30am at Donabate and Portrane Community Centre, and at 4:30pm at Balbriggan Clubs Community Centre, Co. Dublin. Everyone is welcome. Rev. Andy Carroll. Visit <a href=\"http://www.donabatepc.org/\">www.donabatepc.org</a> to find out more and for directions","type":"text"},{"_id":"ECYVCTXBRFCKJKIOJHJZGHKIYI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Dún Laoghaire Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at York Road, Dun Laoghaire. Rev Clarke Deering. You will be most welcome to join us. For more information, visit: <a href=\"https://dl-pc.org/\">https://dl-pc.org/</a> or our Facebook page for regular updates, and online streaming.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RZPSGHXG3FB5ZMBJE62F6IVSDU","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Findlaters (Abbey Presbyterian Church)</b> 11am at Parnell Square, Dublin City. Rev Alan Boal. Communion on the first Sunday of each month. All welcome. Abbey exists to share Gods purpose; becoming more Christ-like as we go, and show the Gospel to the City. To find out more, visit: <a href=\"http://www.abbeychurch.ie/\">www.abbeychurch.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"E2V5XQAXAJDCVNAUJVVXLNBDCE","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Howth and Malahide Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 10am at Malahide and 11:45am in Howth. Rev Alastair Dunlop. Everyone is welcome to join us, as we share in the Good News of our Lord Jesus Christ. Programme for children during the service. You are welcome to join us for tea and coffee after the service. Visit: <a href=\"http://www.hmpchurch.org/\">www.hmpchurch.org</a> to find out more","type":"text"},{"_id":"VJSEBLJUXZB57L4VYMW27TF36A","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Lucan Presbyterian Church, Co. Dublin</b> 11am at Main Street, Lucan Village. Lucan Presbyterian Church is a growing family of Christians who come from a variety of different church backgrounds, traditions and nationalities. Regardless of your age, background, experience or previous church connections you are welcome to come and visit us. For more information, visit <a href=\"http://www.lpc.ie/\">http://www.lpc.ie</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"HI5T2KYJ2BC55PV5XI7DLJZZQI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Maynooth Presbyterian Church</b> Known locally as Maynooth Community Church; and meets together for worship on Sundays at 10:30am at Manor Mills Shopping Centre, Maynooth, Co. Kildare. On the first Sunday of the month we celebrate the Lords Supper (Communion). Rev Keith McCrory. Free parking is available in the underground car park and the service takes place on the 1st Floor. To find out more, visit <a href=\"http://maynoothcc.org/\">http://maynoothcc.org</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"W4MCSS3PIRDZ3NMMH5M2CBFUIY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>Naas Presbyterian Church, Co. Kildare</b> 11am with preacher, Mr Tom Dowling, Kilkenny Presbyterian. Programme for children during the service, and tea and coffee served afterwards. The church building is located across the street from the post office and town hall, and overlooks South Main Street - you cannot miss us. For further information, visit our Facebook page: <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/NaasPCI\">www.facebook.com/NaasPCI</a>","type":"text"},{"_id":"E66D6UEJVVHY5EKQNFALBQU7SQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Blackrock, Co. Dublin</b> Sundays at 9.45am for a traditional service of prayer and praise with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Junior Church for children and young people aged 5 to 15 years. For more information, visit <a href=\"https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie/\">https://standrewschurchblackrock.ie</a> - Rev Andrew Gill","type":"text"},{"_id":"6M6U2JYOMBFTBIETYQUSZZWGNA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<b>St Andrews, Bray, Co. Wicklow</b> (We are located at the corner of Eglinton Road and Quinsborough Road) As a congregation, we exist to glorify God through worship and service. We meet every Sunday at 11:30am for a traditional service of prayer and praise, with contemporary Bible-based preaching. During the service there is a creche and Sunday School for children. All Welcome. Visit <a href=\"http://standrewschurchbray.com/\">standrewschurchbray.com</a> for more information. Rev. 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