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The population of the greater Dublin area will grow to 2.2 million over the next 13 years, so pressure on the housing stock will only continue to rise. 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I did not come to just find a job and drink coffee. We cannot go back to Syria and I cannot stay in Turkey because I have Irish travel documents now. What other option do we have?\"","type":"text"},{"_id":"2VCTZPXKNVANBKTJOAW7KBTOTY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Jazmati and his wife Kinda were married in November 2013 after they met in the art cafe he ran in Damascus. It was Mr Jazmati's second marriage; his first ended in early 2012 when he and his first wife separated. He says they appeared before a local judge to formalise their separation and then applied for divorce.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EYKQNTZD4BGJ3P5W4LTCCGW7EE","content":"However, he married Kinda before the divorce papers from his first marriage had been cleared.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F5IOKQNIRNEVBH4CDVWOQXCXFI","content":"“To finish the papers took a lot of time and during the war it was very difficult. My previous wife lives in another city which means she’d need to travel 10 hours and cross 25 checkpoints to get to Damascus for the papers. There was too much danger with the bombing and shells.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"LGI3HGGIBBHY7CPBN7MC5CFZLQ","content":"The violence in Syria continued to intensify and in 2015 Mr Jazmati decided to leave. “What really pushed me to run was the worry for my family. If they stayed in Syria it would be a disaster. My wife said ‘you need to get out because it’s a chance to take us away from here’.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BIVDS6U2UVHFLBXQHNX7CNI3C4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Refugee status","type":"header"},{"_id":"ADNGAFYMONHPBEWHJ2KMAZEFGA","additional_properties":{},"content":"He left his pregnant wife and travelled to Lebanon, Turkey and finally Ireland where he claimed asylum in September 2015. Back in Syria, his wife gave birth to twins boys they named Jade and Jude. As soon as his refugee status was granted in February 2016, Mr Jazmati applied for his wife, the twins and his stepson Nour (his wife Kinda's son from a previous marriage) to join him. Three months later he was informed by the Department of Justice that his marriage was not recognised under Irish law.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XVUWAJELVVBCPKDA5XDEAE4SHI","content":"“They insisted it was a polygamist marriage in spite of the fact that I was divorced from my ex-wife in 2015. Me and my wife, we don’t follow polygamy, we are completely against it. Polygamy for us is to live with two or more wives, but for the Irish government polygamy means papers.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4UCSX5BU3VEOTBYONE3GKRSOT4","content":"Mr Jazmati appealed the decision and in August 2017 his twin boys were accepted but his wife and stepson were refused again.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LOC5R3KN6FCMBJC6KFVB4TVG7Y","content":"But Mr Jazmati says his twin sons cannot come to Ireland without their mother. “How can you separate a mother from her sons? Does this mean according to Irish law I don’t have a wife now? Doesn’t my stepson have a father and brothers? Do I not have a family anymore?”","type":"text"},{"_id":"FTXZRPP6OJE7DJVKVCP377C7LE","content":"He has now brought the appeal to the High Court and has been awaiting a hearing date since November 2017.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VBZXRVAI6NEUBOYDTPABGXRPCU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Had Mr Jazmati sought asylum in the United Kingdom he may not have faced problems in reuniting with his family. While polygamy is illegal in the UK, as long as the marriage is recognised in the country where it took place and properly executed according to the laws of that country, the marriage is valid and the spouse is entitled to be reunited with one wife. The application is refused if the spouse applies for a second wife to enter the country. Similar rules also apply in Belgium, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands and Norway.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KPYQ7E63DNAO3JM7ZCNDQFXBII","content":"Mr Jazmati’s wife left Syria shortly after the twins were born and is now in Turkey with her three sons. “She speaks Arabic and English but she can’t speak Turkish. Some of Turkish society is not welcoming to Syrians and she has been threatened. There is one neighbour who bothers her all the time. When you are a woman living alone in that country they think it’s easy to get you, to force you to say Yes.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"BCULFNZ7QVEHRFCLDR3ZHXBB2A","content":"A spokesman for the Department of Justice said the Minister was unable to comment on Mr Jazmati’s case as it is currently the subject of legal proceedings.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VXTREFCACJBKDHRYLZ3FKAZ7KQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The spokesman added that the Supreme Court had set out its position on the matter through its judgement in the 2017 HAH v SAA case which found that only the first marriage of a Lebanese man with two wives was valid. This ruling \"clearly established that recognition of an actually polygamous marriage 'would be contrary to a fundamental constitutional principle and therefore contrary to public policy'.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VI4YZFLMTZEH7MV26JGROLE7RY","content":"“Therefore it not possible for the State to recognise any second or subsequent marriages entered into while the marriage to a first spouse is in being, and considered valid under Irish law.”","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Sorcha Pollak"}},"name":"Sorcha Pollak"}]},"description":{"basic":"Refugee Muhanad Jazmati wants to bring his wife, twin sons and stepson to Ireland"},"display_date":"2018-08-13T03:00:00Z","headlines":{"basic":"Syrian family refused reunification as marriage considered polygamous"},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"2QKEZ3YW7KCTWCGJ4X5ON4RLSM","auth":{"1":"63ffebbf19254d7c1153e5a9e3e1360a4925d8defb5a11aad4a5971db8449f9e"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/2QKEZ3YW7KCTWCGJ4X5ON4RLSM.jpg"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Social Affairs"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/news/social-affairs/syrian-family-refused-reunification-as-marriage-considered-polygamous-1.3593894","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/ireland/social-affairs","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Social Affairs"}}}},{"_id":"KHT5Y3IXBBJONDFBZ66UWMTZB4","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/archbishop-unaware-of-vatican-attempt-to-secure-abuse-indemnity-from-ireland-1.3593996","content_elements":[{"_id":"EDLJJAEEPVH2XFQHRY3MPARBTQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has said he has no further information on contacts between the Vatican and then president Mary McAleese and then minister for foreign affairs Dermot Ahern in the early 2000s.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y6UYO7ZTXZBOTIO3YF5SB4SJ2M","additional_properties":{},"content":"He was responding to reports in The Irish Times last week that Ms McAleese refused to discuss a suggestion by then Vatican secretary of state Cardinal Angelo Sodano in November 2003 of an agreement with Ireland that it would not access church documents.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MHQ64V6RK5ALXBSE5LC27QWQHQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Meanwhile, Mr Ahern said Cardinal Sodano, in private discussion with him at the Vatican in November 2004, suggested Ireland might indemnify the Catholic Church against legal actions for compensation by clerical child sexual-abuse survivors.","type":"text"},{"_id":"37IHTNUMFRC53OCYWZL2U3IHQ4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Archbishop Martin attended a conference with Mr Ahern at the Irish College in Rome on November 12th, 2004, the same day the former minister had met Cardinal Sodano.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WSP7YLGAPBAP5KFJT55O4HRTBY","content":"Archbishop Martin said in a statement he “was not informed of any such interventions at that time by either side”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"D5TC3JWE75ESBJMKMXRLBGDDHA","content":"In his statement, Archbishop Martin said he believed the media “reports highlight the importance of maintaining open transparent dialogue between Church and State and respect for important legislation in this area such as Freedom of Information and lobbying legislation”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N347V3PRLJEZFK6PZVWBMAUS7Q","content":"He reiterated “that Church State dialogue should accord true recognition by each and delineate the rights of each”, within what he describes as a “co-operative regime of separation between Church and State”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5PKMF567UJG6XHL5OZ3LHOZHII","content":"Where access to Church documents was concerned, the statement said “the Murphy Commission noted in its final report that it had access to more than 100,000 documents to assist in its investigation – around 80,000 of which were made available to it” by Archbishop Martin.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OK3DRBTHS5DILIJTNAVWWVJNLI","content":"The Murphy Commission looked at the handling of clerical child sexual-abuse allegations in the Dublin archdiocese.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RSM6OIPJOJBFHC37FOD22OXR6E","additional_properties":{},"content":"Appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of Dublin in May 2003, Archbishop Martin succeeded the late cardinal Desmond Connell as Archbishop of Dublin in April 2004.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KJH5RIU6ZFDJXF42FRFP27RODM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Ms McAleese said last week she was on a state visit to Italy when the topic of church documents came up in a courtesy call to the Vatican.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MVCBEHZHC5EPXGXZ3NL5PIS4AQ","content":"Describing it as as “one of the most devastating moments in my presidency” she said of the Cardinal’s proposal: “It was very clear it was because he wanted to protect Vatican and diocesan archives. I have to say that I immediately said the conversation had to stop.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"DI5ALUDLJFGZ5EEAP3VUF4543M","additional_properties":{},"content":"Blunt","type":"header"},{"_id":"HMGOIR3UIJEPXHHVA77OQFLMGQ","content":"Mr Ahern said of Cardinal Sodano: “He wanted to know whether the Irish government would indemnify the Vatican against any similar claims in Ireland. He was as blunt as that.” Mr Ahern said. “On no account could I give such an undertaking” and “I was very annoyed,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VC2LVATUKRARBJ3GR4DXHJGDUI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Ahern was in Rome to meet Pope John Paul as part of events to mark 75 years of diplomatic relations between Ireland and the Holy See.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OM5UJRWV7BDXFETMEG7WDFL2EQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Separately, the Vatican press office has told The Irish Times that Cardinal Kevin Farrell, who has overall responsibility for the World Meeting of Families taking place in Dublin later this month, would not be commenting \"before or during\" the upcoming events on reports in the US that he, as a member of the controversial Legionaries of Christ, was closer to its disgraced founder Fr Marcial Maciel than previously maintained.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RNFYXI5VJZE27FTMVRD7PHJGCI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Fr Maciel, who died in 2008, was exposed as a serial sex abuser of boys and young men and the father of six children by multiple women. 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There are no grounds for complacency. It is important that we remain committed to this vital work.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"VXWF5KXSHJA2DFIHCZBUS7V6TE","additional_properties":{},"content":"He said \"as we prepare for the World Meeting of Families in Dublin next August, we should recall the words of Pope Francis: 'Families need to know that the Church is making every effort to protect their children. They should also know that they have every right to turn to the Church with full confidence, for it is a safe and secure home'.\"","type":"text"},{"_id":"KPCJ72PDFRESNFVKH3H2Z6GBSA","content":"Dublin now had “almost 400 parish safeguarding representatives who are working alongside clerical and lay colleagues to ensure that best safeguarding practice is followed in each of our 199 parishes,” he said, while in the previous year “nearly 1,200 people attended one day safeguarding training sessions and a further 1,500 attended information sessions.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"AURHGZPLNNG6HMRYQPVT7ZG53Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"He had also \"asked the diocesan Advisory Panel on Chid Protection, the diocesan Safeguarding Committee and the Child Safeguarding and Protection Service to extend their remit to include vulnerable adults. 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The opening ceremony will take place simultaneously across all 26 Dioceses of Ireland that evening.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QSCLUWDOONCAPKNNKXSB7AZHNA","additional_properties":{},"content":"<strong>Sorry, I thought we were talking about the pope</strong><strong> here?</strong>","type":"text"},{"_id":"YXUFAGTPH6WO2XI423LXV5ZXKY","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"4DPOQXHQU2B36A5MCWADHXTQRI","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"I2VAWMBT4FCZBIK22TOV3AIGVQ","content":"We are. But were it not for the World Meeting of Families, it is very unlikely he would be coming to Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YR2YTXKHYZAADIGYSMZUOAIUEQ","content":"<strong>What is that again?</strong>","type":"text"},{"_id":"MG2ZT5AATBALDEWFP7Z2T53O4M","additional_properties":{},"content":"It is a pretty big deal within the Catholic community although the organisers have stressed that they would like it to be an ecumenical matter and have invited other faiths to play a role. It has taken place every three years since Pope John Paul II set it up in 1994. In 2015 it was in Philadelphia, in the US. There will be hundreds of speakers and seminars as well as events taking place around the country for adults and children. The organisation of the event has taken more than two years and involved a paid staff of almost 60 and a team of volunteers that will top 10,000.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DOFY2KFXMVADLLSZNVDDFE2DWE","content":"<strong>And it is in the RDS? I might pop along</strong>","type":"text"},{"_id":"MOAPWILWSNGAPGRZ2FMUJM4VAA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Might you now? Good luck with that. More than 40,000 tickets for the RDS have long since been sold out as have tickets for the climax of the six-day event, a papal address in Croke Park.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EW7ZA24FQ5DVBEDL7Z7UXTCRNI","content":"<strong>Croke Park? I thought Pope Francis was going to the Phoenix Park?</strong>","type":"text"},{"_id":"CABV2467GRDBVCFS4ODZBDRR5E","content":"He is. But that is not all. The pope will have a busy 36 hours in Ireland after he touches down at Dublin Airport at 10.30am on Saturday, August 25th.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7FOLFE3J2ZFLHISJ7OZ3GLBXQA","content":"<strong>How busy?</strong>","type":"text"},{"_id":"NHAG37ALANG4PJF2SINTK7YYN4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mad busy. From the airport he travels to Áras an Uachtaráin to meet President Michael D Higgins and his wife, Sabina. He will sign the visitors' book, after which there will be a private meeting. Then Francis crosses the river to Dublin Castle to meet Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, church leaders, politicians from the North and south and other luminaries. He will make his first of three speeches at the castle.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N2OTKLPJONBVPOPOAEUPY4LXZQ","content":"<strong>What next?</strong>","type":"text"},{"_id":"YVYYLYGZHVGLPPYRJW7VAXB3AQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"He goes from the castle on Dame Street back across the river to the church on Marlborough Street, otherwise known as St Mary's Pro-Cathedral<strong>.</strong>","type":"text"},{"_id":"FCMFIIN7DBF3XOEMZ6O5XDQUWQ","content":"<strong>After the pro-cathedral, where does he go?</strong>","type":"text"},{"_id":"42LOWEXZTJDJBIETX7J57BPKDY","additional_properties":{},"content":"He will meet homeless people at the Capuchin Fathers day centre on Bowe Street near Smithfield. This is being billed as a private visit after which he will head down Dorset Street to appear at Croke Park in front of 70,000 people. They will have been warmed up by the likes of Andrea Bocelli; Daniel O'Donnell; Nathan Carter; Paddy Moloney; Riverdance and The Priests.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7UMFR7OPRNBXVGOVDIYI7NC5RE","content":"<strong>So that’s Saturday. Would there anything to be said for another Mass?</strong>","type":"text"},{"_id":"YB6MTYWRAFAQBFICKHWHFEOF7I","content":"There would. The big Mass happens the following day but not before Francis makes a (literally) flying visit to Knock where 45,000 people will be waiting at or near the shrine to hear him lead the Angelus. Once that is done he will fly back to Dublin for “a modest lunch with his immediate delegation” at his residence.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UKYZEAYVW5AJ3FZFHNDGWS27XM","content":"<strong>Where’s he staying?</strong>","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z2RP3BFMRVEWZFM6V2WKP67GB4","content":"We don’t know. For security reasons this information has not been released.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RKUQAFMDDBEONHMUYXJU7COJYA","content":"<strong>And what happens after lunch?</strong>","type":"text"},{"_id":"VH35XGZQTNBMZJALYYFP6SXL6I","content":"It is back to the Papal Cross in the Phoenix Park where half a million people, 4,000 communion servers, 10,000 volunteers and 3,000 choir members will be waiting to hear the pope deliver a sermon in Italian.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XS3TLE5PUREZRJR4SPUCIFWHWY","additional_properties":{},"content":"<strong>Italian? Sure, I don't speak Italian</strong><strong>. </strong><strong>What good is that to me?</strong>","type":"text"},{"_id":"XV3HOTMIHBD57MQCSAP5GS5SZE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Don't worry, there will be 16 massive video screens in sub-chapels around the place carrying subtitles as well as a translator. Once that is done the pope will meet the Irish bishops at the convent of the Dominican Sisters in Cabra and deliver his finial speech on Irish soil.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BYWF4VBTMZHJRBW56BX47DNZAI","content":"<strong>How disruptive will the visit be?</strong>","type":"text"},{"_id":"CSYQ3JI6I5FS3AWY2NK37KMMWU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Pretty disruptive, to be honest. A \"controlled access zone\" inside the M50 from 6am to 11pm on Sunday will cause diversions, road closures and restrictions city-wide. There will also be \"rolling restrictions\" in Dublin on Saturday depending on where the pope is. But the National Transport Authority has said a priority is that people not interested in the pope can go about their weekend without too much disruption. People with tickets for any of the events will be allowed travel free on public transport in Dublin. Iarnród Éireann, Dublin Bus, Luas, Bus Éireann, Go-Ahead and Translink in the North are all operating special services.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EG4C63YLZFGL3HA3MROAOOQIPM","content":"<strong>Can I get a bus to the Mass?</strong>","type":"text"},{"_id":"Y72WQW5K55HDBDX6XUGAJYQWPM","additional_properties":{},"content":"No. Everyone who has ticket to the Mass – and without a ticket you are not getting in – will either have to walk from wherever they are or take a bus to drop-off points including Heuston Station, Smithfield and the Ashtown Gate and then use the entry point marked on the ticket.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7X5ZH2XJGVBKHJRJGMF2CGOWCE","content":"<strong>Will the walk be long?</strong>","type":"text"},{"_id":"6V4I2XDRBFFXTJHNYVGDE4YNN4","content":"Yes. Depending on your age and fitness level you could find yourself walking for two hours to get to where you need to be. Attendees should allow at least eight for the event – that includes walking to the event, waiting for the pope, going to the Mass and then walking back from the event.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N2SSFHFUABDP7DQLB3N3SJRWAE","content":"<strong>Did I hear talk of a morgue being put in place in the Phoenix Park?</strong>","type":"text"},{"_id":"7HMJ3DELJ5ED3JYEP37OQBXWAM","content":"Yes, but by all accounts that is not uncommon for major events of this nature so you’d be as well off not reading too much into it.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FDHTRV5N2RCPJPZFQMAC6AQKRE","content":"<strong>Will it be on the telly?</strong>","type":"text"},{"_id":"JCXYDYJCSVGYHE2WCRTBKU42BU","additional_properties":{},"content":"It will. And it will be covered extensively online and in print by <em>The Irish Times</em> too.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5S3MI3JLL5H5VGFGQA3T5TIC7I","content":"<strong>Is there a Popemobile?</strong>","type":"text"},{"_id":"RHLRD6ROM5EUTKXZ3P4MRJNELM","additional_properties":{},"content":"There are two. One in Knock and another on which he will tour the Phoenix Park ahead of the big Mass. He will also be travelling in a closed car and fly into Ireland on a chartered Alitalia plane. His internal flights and his homeward-bound journey will most likely be taken care of by Aer Lingus.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XJGG73FFUBE3LKILGNC43SEYWI","additional_properties":{},"content":"<strong>Will Pope Francis meet </strong><strong>abuse survivors and others who suffered at the hands of the church?</strong>","type":"text"},{"_id":"3WGXJ47RQRHSZJWAZCLSVFFPP4","additional_properties":{},"content":"He will, though details of who he will meet and when he will meet them will not be released in advance to protect the anonymity of survivors. Archbishop of Dublin Dr Diarmuid Martin has been pushing the Vatican to have the pope meet a cross-section of survivors of industrial schools, Magdalene laundries, mother and baby homes and those who suffered from clerical sex abuse.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IINGTGRCPZBNXN2DITM4YJAZMQ","content":"<strong>Will there be protests?</strong>","type":"text"},{"_id":"OSPS3BYOMJHUBAGUNCLPI35NTY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Yes. 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However, the Popemobile was running behind schedule and drove on, much to the disappointment of many local people. Some said afterwards joyriders did not go down Seán McDermott Street as fast.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LVCZQPALM7YR4REIUBBF7OYIWY","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"EHTKZVZ5B7JV6G65JSA2OQ5QPY","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"WZHZ763WYCDH2KCDDCUBCXBKKI","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"UOLYVYGDOJAFJJSEKFMQVYNAE4","content":"“The story still persists, of course, of how people were waiting for Pope John Paul to stop,” said Fr Hugh O’Donnell at the church on Sunday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O7EODOMIJVF3VDPOJP2COTDA3A","content":"“The significance of a stop, no matter how brief, is very important. In some ways it’s a corrective, almost. The expectation was there in ’79, that he would stop,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WYJQG34UWRDWVJHHOFSO3UHEZY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Fr O'Donnell said Pope Francis's visit, which would follow his meeting at Dublin Castle with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and other members of the Government, was not an official stop.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YZIDAZHNEVDDPHXQ3PX4YKB34Y","content":"“He won’t be saying anything. He won’t even come into the church. So, I would say it’s more a symbolic gesture, a very reassuring gesture for the people of the area.","type":"text"},{"_id":"FONLQRR7LFBKFOWOHGGEZMJIKU","additional_properties":{},"content":"\"Also we have the tomb of Matt Talbot here who is a real symbol of, an exemplar of, someone who dealt with addiction in a particular way. He's well known all over the world, even more so I think than locally.\"","type":"text"},{"_id":"UKAV7R3D3RCJRK6CHREFCPJOEI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Difficult history","type":"header"},{"_id":"UFXABJWQAJGSFCRFRU2GMHH26Q","content":"Matt Talbot was an alcoholic from the area who gave up drink at 28 and lived a life of prayer and fasting. He died in 1925, aged 69, and was declared Venerable by Pope Paul VI in 1975.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ORPZ2WXIG5BLXMCSCK66VICQYM","content":"The last Magdalene laundry in Ireland is near the church. Known as the Gloucester Street laundry, it closed in October 1996. “Yeah, we’ve all that past history of difficulties. We try to move forward,” said Fr O’Donnell.","type":"text"},{"_id":"E5BMEQIBO6TAWHY3MWVBUOH6UY","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"XZY24XPSJJC3RAGGQSBGBPZNEA","content":"A Salesian priest, he said the Salesian community had been “looking after the parish for the last 25 years or so”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DGVUFMZW55CT5O6GS5G52DGWPU","content":"“The people are wonderful,” he said. “Any funeral we have is so well attended. The people are very supportive of each other. There’s always a very good vibe, it’s a very welcoming place. I enjoy saying Mass here, I love meeting people. It’s my 15th year.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"JPBN2R57LFB2HOAVID3OLUZ32M","content":"Fr O’Donnell said Pope Francis’s visit would be “very brief. I think he’ll be on his way to the pro-cathedral. 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In fact, <em>Faith of Our Fathers</em> was written to commemorate those Catholics executed as traitors in post-Reformation England. No matter, it fitted the bill where Irish Catholics of the middle 20th century were concerned. It was how they saw themselves and their church: triumphant and free at last after centuries of oppression.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LUYPDNTX75GULNKT7YI7FRQ5VI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Many would now see that Ireland of <em>Faith of Our Fathers</em>, with its black and white images and realities, as such a foreign country. 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In this post-Famine Ireland, there were few priests, few Catholic Church buildings or primary schools, and the church had little influence on day-to-day life. That would change in 1850 with the appointment of Paul Cullen as Archbishop of Armagh and his translation, to use the Church term, to Dublin in 1852.","type":"text"},{"_id":"B4PBCRAD25EV5AL6GKYZZMT7SY","type":"quote"},{"_id":"7LMZJWD4DBAEHPB6JFWWPJ3F2M","content":"This extraordinary man was architect of the heavily-clericalised Irish Catholic Church we have known. He centralised its authority and structures, bound it to Rome, introduced processions, Benediction, retreats and devotions, and encouraged the building of schools and hospitals managed by priests and Catholic religious congregations.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NCFC5XKGRJGPHHDUXWZXMBYXJA","content":"He laid powerful foundations for a Catholic Church that dominated Ireland through the 20th century.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ODYRLVVPSJF5DDQMMM7KSNEL24","additional_properties":{},"content":"Powerful indicator","type":"header"},{"_id":"FEQUAJBQU5BV3NBA5L5QEO4YKI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Today it is in steep decline. The most powerful indicator may be that the average age of the Irish Catholic priest today is 70, while just six men began training for the priesthood in Maynooth last autumn – the lowest number since its foundation in 1795.","type":"text"},{"_id":"24GOYJDDZJEWHMOI57OCJWDSPU","additional_properties":{},"content":"According to Association of Catholic Priests figures, their number in active ministry has dropped by 43 per cent since 1995. Association co-founder Fr Brendan Hoban has said that \"Ireland's priests will have almost disappeared in 20 years\".","type":"text"},{"_id":"WRSJ42KQKJEMJBWHXIXOYNYLQE","content":"But what we are witnessing is the death of a model of the Catholic Church in Ireland, not of Catholicism itself.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GONNKBQGFFFDXCCKGE4I2PISC4","type":"quote"},{"_id":"X6DB6WP5NFD3XMYNGLEU47CJXA","content":"Christianity has been in Ireland for over 1,500 years; the Church that Paul Cullen built lasted one tenth of that time, about 150 years. And it’s goodbye to all that. It was not a pretty church. It became dominant, arrogant, abusive. It betrayed its teaching and the people, abused their children, and facilitated that abuse through covering it up to protect itself.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XW33TF6OUJAUJG3PWMNVD24J2M","additional_properties":{},"content":"This was as concluded by Ms Justice Yvonne Murphy in her 2009 report on the handling of clerical child sexual abuse in Dublin's Catholic Archdiocese.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CWV6GAN5VVAUXH2YUSLSHL6FM4","content":"The priorities of the Archdiocese in dealing with clerical child abuse, she found, were “the maintenance of secrecy, the avoidance of scandal, the protection of the reputation of the Church, and the preservation of its assets. All other considerations, including the welfare of children and justice for victims, were subordinated to these priorities. The Archdiocese did not implement its own canon law rules and did its best to avoid any application of the law of the State.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"MUES4UA2JJG6LATUXJA3KPR3MY","content":"This was a template for what would emerge from other Irish dioceses and Catholic institutions in further such State reports. Probably worst of all, Justice Murphy found that “the welfare of children, which should have been the first priority, was not even a factor to be considered in the early stages”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2C3PDH47LFCJ3GMJALLJHBH6FI","additional_properties":{},"content":"But if the Irish Catholic Church was so culpable in betraying its people, just as culpable was Rome. This was underscored in the past week with revelations from a meeting between former president Mary McAleese and then Vatican secretary of State Cardinal Angelo Sodano in 2003.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Z25AYC6VZZFI3NP4GE4FYDBYJQ","content":"He initiated a discussion with her about an agreement between Ireland and Rome under which Rome would have control over all church documents in Ireland and at the Vatican. Mrs McAleese ended the discussion, pronto.","type":"text"},{"_id":"RMMDXFWWAJBZDAUHIDA6JLPZTI","additional_properties":{},"content":"A year later Cardinal Sodano went further. He proposed to then minister for foreign affairs Dermot Ahern at the Vatican that the Irish taxpayer should pick up the bill for compensation paid to survivors of abuse by Catholic priests in Ireland. That conversation, too, ended abruptly.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DD5NZNNH3JH5BDH4ISRPOIP4WA","additional_properties":{},"content":"And all of this from a Rome which refused to co-operate with Irish State inquiries into the handling of clerical child sex abuse in two Irish dioceses from which it had received details of such abuse in 2001. That was at the direction of then Dean of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J4QUL3AMU5BTJEU5WRPM2A3V44","additional_properties":{},"content":"He instructed every Catholic bishop in the world to forward such details to him, and they did. He was pope when the Commission investigating Dublin and then Cloyne dioceses in Ireland was looking for those documents and was ignored.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OOSX4WLBWNHQFIFCKL3O7WE3WA","content":"Despite which he felt free, in his letter to Irish Catholics of March 2010, to excoriate Ireland’s Catholic bishops for covering-up clerical child sex abuse.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WHR2LJCEIJB2LPEP5XWSTIFOEI","content":"It was after publication of the Cloyne report in July 2011 that then taoiseach Enda Kenny made one of the most damning Church-related Dáil addresses ever delivered.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ELKHXLSDNZHMJEWLUINOOAG4PY","content":"He said the Cloyne report exposed “an attempt by the Holy See, to frustrate an inquiry in a sovereign, democratic republic.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"KMMLWZPJV5CUJNQ6CKCF7GGQVY","content":"He continued: “Far from listening to evidence of humiliation and betrayal . . . the Vatican’s reaction was to parse and analyse it with the gimlet eye of a canon lawyer . . . This calculated, withering position being the polar opposite of the radicalism, humility and compassion upon which the Roman Church was founded.” Ireland’s embassy to the Holy See was closed in November that year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SMI5BGWTG5GY5H542RUUQEXQ4A","additional_properties":{},"content":"Betrayals","type":"header"},{"_id":"XP3P5D2UTJCAPEK4UPFBKWICIM","content":"That was then. The Embassy has since reopened, and relations between Ireland and the Vatican have improved greatly. Despite the betrayals mentioned above, an exceptional number of Irish Catholics still hold on to their faith – even if they have little trust in the institution anymore.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CSWFHZ7SOZBGLHUQQWSTHDYAUI","additional_properties":{},"content":"The 2016 census in Ireland found that 78.3 per cent of the population still identified as Roman Catholic.","type":"text"},{"_id":"R52MWBMEMVATLPY42YB4NCNYXA","content":"A European Social Survey of 18 countries that year, and published last November, showed that weekly Mass attendance by Irish Catholics remained high by European standards. It found that 36 per cent of Irish adults attended a religious service at least once a week. The average weekly attendance for the 18 European countries surveyed was 12.8 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"42SYAPXGVJD6VK7BW4HBLBYAXU","type":"quote"},{"_id":"W4XVQ66OEFC2VCWMUMSQ6IZSZM","content":"That survey also found the number of Irish people who pray at least once a week was 55.3 per cent, while the average for the 18 countries was 30 per cent.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TLTQ7PCKAVDRBOUJZSU3ESLOGE","additional_properties":{},"content":"It found that Ireland's least religious age group, those aged 16 to 29, were more likely to practise their religion than almost any of their peers in Europe. Of those young Irish, 54 per cent identify as Catholic, 24 per cent attend church weekly outside of special occasions, and 43 per cent pray weekly.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7P23R3FXGFG7POUJQQUMU2KMGY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Only their peers in Poland (47 per cent) and Portugal (27 per cent) have a higher weekly Mass attendance.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZKEDPDAEQ5BK3FM6Z7MXCDS6EA","content":"What all of this indicates is the continuing importance of faith to the Irish people, despite persecution in the past and shocking betrayal by in more recent times.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HJQDZI6DORDCZECG5653KYJI7E","content":"Where this faith continues to be most manifest is in the deep, sustained, compassion of the Irish people. A perfect illustration is their ongoing support for causes such as the Catholic bishops’ overseas development agency Trócaire. Last year it raised €29.1 million, an increase of €12 million on the previous year and the second-highest amount received in the agency’s 45-year history.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VDZSOKXTZFD5NEYCSTUVLFD6HE","content":"Irish Catholics remain faithful, generous and compassionate, despite all. 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Its president Joe Healy said the weather has been against dairy farmers over the past 12 months. “Firstly by the extended wet period and late spring in 2018 and the more recent two-month period of drought conditions, which resulted in no grass growth in most dairy regions of Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HCGY66UWIFE6FCWF5KQNPZDYQI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Specialised operation","type":"header"},{"_id":"6MMI5LNNSFB4BLKUKYLWL4OI2E","content":"“This has placed extra costs of between €5,000- €10,000 per month on the average dairy farmer. Liquid milk farming is a specialised operation which incurs extra costs of feeding, labour management and capital investment. 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The family have been living in emergency accommodation ever since.","type":"text"},{"_id":"T2CDFK5OFRE6TDLWCMMZECAG6U","additional_properties":{},"content":"She said she was directed to go to the garda station by Focus Ireland and told to present as homeless after a suitable place for them to stay in could not be found. She said it was the second time the family had to sleep in a garda station.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MV4TCESQAVEVRFEJ7NXFCXAYMU","additional_properties":{},"content":"‘Didn’t sleep’","type":"header"},{"_id":"XPC3WFYAUVFO3LH56PHFMN7NZM","additional_properties":{},"content":"\"I didn't sleep, the kids eventually fell asleep around 1am. It was so hard,\" she told <em>The Irish Times</em>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BKRSNRPBYRE3BG3GEXZ6C7K5O4","content":"“People coming in and out and the doors opening and closing. The baby was screaming crying, he had no way of turning around, he was stuck in the buggy. It was horrible. I’ve lost myself, I can’t even speak. I don’t know whether I’m coming or going.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"RDEQGHR7QJBCPGYFNFELCPXMUI","content":"She added: “I’ve been 11 years on the housing list, they told me before I’ll be another four or five years waiting for a house.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"R576232FSNABXFMPWVZKLH4SEM","content":"On Thursday evening Ms Cash said her family had been provided with temporary accommodation by the Inner City Helping Homeless (ICHH) group. They now have somewhere to stay until Monday next.","type":"text"},{"_id":"M2Y7XLCFPRB4PO6N2WVRYB3IBI","content":"The most recent official figures showed there were some 9,900 homeless people across the State in June, including some 3,824 children.","type":"text"},{"_id":"JFMYZDFQG5EVFESFSL7PZ4ICDY","content":"The Dublin Region Homeless Executive (DRHE) said an “unprecedented” 10 families presented out of hours seeking emergency accommodation on Wednesday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N3NL6XW44BB77J4FWWRJA6KOQU","content":"“We were notified by the Family Homeless Action Team that they were actively engaged with 10 families, who were unable to source their own accommodation,” the DRHE said in a statement.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5RM3772WEJDNVD2GYPMIRDBAG4","additional_properties":{},"content":"The executive's director Eileen Gleeson said told RTE's News at One that of the 10 families, five were placed in emergency accommodation, two returned to their original region, which was outside Dublin, one refused the offer of emergency accommodation and two did not seek further assistance.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NRXLNREIDRCNHGERFHZF3EJATU","additional_properties":{},"content":"‘Stayed in touch’","type":"header"},{"_id":"KMJ4TOC3ENEBDJAG4WUBPHEBVQ","content":"Regarding the Cash family, she said: “I’m assuming they were one of the families that did not seek further assistance. If they had stayed in touch we could have helped.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"PEN4QG6J4JDEPM452ADZTW2HWY","content":"Ms Gleeson said the executive is working hard to facilitate every request for emergency accommodation. “We have contingency plans, we have contingency beds for crisis situations. If people refuse it, that’s their choice, but there’s no good reason to refuse it,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YIUMEKIQKZBDZOA2HND3MK3AEY","content":"Focus Ireland said directing homeless families to Garda stations is “the only thing available” when there is no emergency accommodation available.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EHJPCJBW4NDDRODEBLKDJANBJM","content":"“This isn’t a Focus Ireland policy, the State is directing people towards Garda stations as they are a place of safety,” a Focus Ireland spokesman said. “It is not acceptable and we are not happy to do that but it is the only thing available in certain situations.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"65Y4MFUTQFD3ZFC5GLXMRJOGZM","content":"The Garda said “a young mother and her six children aged from 11 years to one year presented at Tallaght Garda station during the night as they had nowhere to go.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"DGQU3R63INGH7L5NQYLRUOOHKM","content":"“The family were cared for during the night by the members working and received a hot breakfast this morning in Tallaght Garda station.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q24T5BMBZZBBBLOTUN3XBCQRNM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Solidarity-People Before Profit TD for Dublin South West Paul Murphy said the image of the family sleeping in the garda station should \"haunt this Government\".","type":"text"},{"_id":"TGT47HJP5JG3ZMLXFZTT6ECOGU","content":"“Scenes like this are being played out across the country every night of the week whether it’s families in Garda stations or tents on beaches,” he said. “It demonstrates decisively the absolute failure of the government’s housing policy.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"LS7DYP4NRBBGRKW42G3N5YA264","additional_properties":{},"content":"‘Outsourcing’","type":"header"},{"_id":"MEGAFUI45ZAPFANCV5FUANAQJM","content":"He added that the Government had privatised social housing “by outsourcing it to developers and private landlords” who were unable to provide housing on the scale needed.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KYD7LK5OW5BVVC7MJSX7ALEX5Y","additional_properties":{},"content":"Fianna Fáil spokesman on housing Darragh O'Brien TD said the scenario in which the Cash family found themselves had become \"all too regular\" an occurrence.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6CATKXMOQRGL3BNYK7LH2QX2S4","content":"“As this crisis has worsened under Fine Gael’s leadership, more and more families have been left with no choice but to present themselves to a garda station to get rest for a night because they have nowhere else to go,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YHBDFVIES5BNTED7ODCOMICKIU","content":"“To have no stable accommodation or nowhere else to go represents a colossal failure of the State.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"XSOHHF5UVVCWXCXA5RVSDNMPMU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Anthony Flynn, chief executive of aid agency Inner City Helping Homeless, said: \"This is what this country has succumbed to. This is how homeless services are treating our children.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MTCMWTQ3FFC2BGBUUQVIHRBQPE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Flynn told <em>The Irish Times</em> that up to eight families may have spent the night in Garda stations across the city on Wednesday.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TTCTI4563NHR3KJ2TJTZLV6WZM","content":"He said the situation showed emergency housing services in Dublin were now “in turmoil”, with 48 families spending the night in Garda stations last month and 47 the month before last.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"additional_properties":{"original":{"byline":"Sarah Burns"}},"name":"Sarah Burns"}]},"description":{"basic":"Image of Margaret Cash’s children asleep on chairs in brightly lit room sparked outrage"},"display_date":"2018-08-09T17:35:26Z","headlines":{"basic":"Homeless family finds temporary beds after night in garda station"},"promo_items":{"basic":{"_id":"QN2VBDYD637XWVHODE7OGQ5LVA","auth":{"1":"504e291132ac143e66f99bb9c4321891414deb9c305349ab34abb1d4d71c1aeb"},"type":"image","url":"https://cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/irishtimes/QN2VBDYD637XWVHODE7OGQ5LVA.jpg"},"lead_art":{"_id":"RPNZFWJMVF5RVOKA6VI7O77P5I","embed_html":"<div class=\"powa\" id=\"powa-RPNZFWJMVF5RVOKA6VI7O77P5I\" data-org=\"irishtimes\" data-env=\"prod\" data-uuid=\"RPNZFWJMVF5RVOKA6VI7O77P5I\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.562\" data-api=\"prod\"><script src=\"//irishtimes.video-player.arcpublishing.com/prod/powaBoot.js?org=irishtimes\"><\/script></div>","promo_image":{"auth":{"1":"970ed9d9b32a2e306c824662829f7309fb9968f96a5d02176dc8b7c4210cd8ec"},"type":"image","url":"https://d2j5ip5u6h2g6o.cloudfront.net/10-20-2021/t_51dbd6c13f0a4bf4b1da2bf3be7083ac_name_1795463433001_5820083212001_5820079701001_.jpg"},"promo_items":{"basic":{"auth":{"1":"970ed9d9b32a2e306c824662829f7309fb9968f96a5d02176dc8b7c4210cd8ec"},"type":"image","url":"https://d2j5ip5u6h2g6o.cloudfront.net/10-20-2021/t_51dbd6c13f0a4bf4b1da2bf3be7083ac_name_1795463433001_5820083212001_5820079701001_.jpg"}},"type":"video"}},"subtype":"default","taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Social Affairs"}]},"type":"story","website_url":"/news/social-affairs/homeless-family-finds-temporary-beds-after-night-in-garda-station-1.3591238","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/ireland/social-affairs","additional_properties":{"original":{}},"name":"Social Affairs"}}}},{"_id":"RPNZFWJMVF5RVOKA6VI7O77P5I","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/news/social-affairs/i-have-no-words-to-describe-it-family-forced-to-sleep-in-garda-station-1.3591139","credits":{},"description":{"basic":"Margaret Cash and six of her children - aged between one and 11 - stayed at Tallaght Garda station after emergency homeless services were unable to find beds for them."},"display_date":"2018-08-09T15:38:01Z","embed_html":"<div class=\"powa\" id=\"powa-RPNZFWJMVF5RVOKA6VI7O77P5I\" data-org=\"irishtimes\" data-env=\"prod\" data-uuid=\"RPNZFWJMVF5RVOKA6VI7O77P5I\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.562\" data-api=\"prod\"><script src=\"//irishtimes.video-player.arcpublishing.com/prod/powaBoot.js?org=irishtimes\"><\/script></div>","headlines":{"basic":"'I have no words to describe it': family forced to sleep in Garda station"},"promo_items":{"basic":{"auth":{"1":"970ed9d9b32a2e306c824662829f7309fb9968f96a5d02176dc8b7c4210cd8ec"},"type":"image","url":"https://d2j5ip5u6h2g6o.cloudfront.net/10-20-2021/t_51dbd6c13f0a4bf4b1da2bf3be7083ac_name_1795463433001_5820083212001_5820079701001_.jpg"}},"taxonomy":{"sections":[{"name":"Video"},{"name":"Social Affairs"}]},"type":"video","website_url":"/news/social-affairs/i-have-no-words-to-describe-it-family-forced-to-sleep-in-garda-station-1.3591139","websites":{"irishtimes":{"website_section":{"_id":"/video","name":"Video"}}}},{"_id":"7NHFGSA5CWDFAJXPFK4CITIU4U","additional_properties":{},"canonical_url":"/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/pope-s-visit-to-ireland-everything-you-need-to-know-1.3590873","content_elements":[{"_id":"HBNASEDJ7BCGTPXQVXGJ4RNEPU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Pope Francis is expected to draw significantly smaller crowds than the last papal trip to Ireland by John Paul II nearly 40 years ago. Ireland has changed utterly since those days, but the imminent visit from the leader of the world's 1.3 billion Catholics will still be the biggest gathering the country has seen in decades. So, what do we know about it ?","type":"text"},{"_id":"5CJZLYTZJRFILEIT7QDY43PWQM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Pope Francis? Tell me about him again…","type":"header"},{"_id":"PAPGEOGSBFAMRI4YBA5ETZKEYE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Since the white smoke announced the 266th leader of the Catholic Church in 2013, Pope Francis - given name Jorge Mario Bergoglio - has enjoyed high popularity ratings worldwide, driven by his humble style, common touch and emphasis on compassion and social justice.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PSBXKQWYZZYJCZZY7QBFY7MEZY","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"CY5NNKWCDNH4FPHV5MTQSN37WA","additional_properties":{},"content":"The one-time nightclub bouncer in his native Buenos Aires is widely seen as a reformer and moderniser within the church. But this approach grates with traditionalists, while liberals object to his orthodoxy on other matters including sex. He is the first South American and Jesuit to become pope. He was born on December 17th, 1936, making him 81 years of age.","type":"text"},{"_id":"L37XYD62HFCP7NRZ2MT3OKCKHU","additional_properties":{},"content":"So, when is he coming to Ireland?","type":"header"},{"_id":"XRJ7WNKN5VCDFJKMX364FVFDGI","content":"Pope Francis will touch down at Dublin Airport at 10:30am on Saturday, August 25th. He will be greeted by clergy and representatives of the Government. It remains to be seen whether he will replicate the famous gesture of Pope John Paul II, at the start of the last papal visit almost nearly four decades ago, by kissing the Irish ground as he gets off the plane. Bookies are offering narrow odds on the chances.","type":"text"},{"_id":"S44EBOKCBQJTKONZ2DRBGOMTGQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"4WM6MRQN3BHYLCVCVSVERKTHSY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Where’s he going and when?","type":"header"},{"_id":"7J64NDVJAFH7LJPYLZJQVSFFVM","additional_properties":{},"content":"First up, a trip to Áras an Úachtaráin to meet President Michael D Higgins. There will be a welcome ceremony at the main gate to the Áras, beside the Phoenix Monument on Chesterfield Avenue, in the Phoenix Park. The pontiff will spend about half an hour with President Higgins, his wife Sabina - and, no doubt, the first dogs, Bród and Sioda. The Pope will sign a visitors' book then have a private meeting with the President. There are also plans for the pontiff to plant a tree in the grounds of the Áras.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4GNZRGYS3FB35JGOVUHXBE6TVU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Where next?","type":"header"},{"_id":"CSZYSDYQI5DBTLL4HCZPHAATYE","content":"Then, it is over to Dublin Castle where the Pope will meet Taoiseach Leo Varadkar as well as church leaders, the Council of State, Government MEPs, Northern Ireland political party leaders and some members of the judiciary. This will be where the first of his three planned speeches during the two-day trip will be given. After that, he will cross the Liffey again to see St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral before making a private visit to the Capuchin Fathers day centre for homeless families on Arran Quay. Here, he will meet 80 people who are homeless. Then, the first major event of the trip - the Pope will give an address to the Festival of Families extravaganza at Croke Park.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ELJMOHCU45E7VA27U7E7YZLWFE","additional_properties":{},"content":"What’s the Festival of Families?","type":"header"},{"_id":"S7AIWAUGDBEG7C6OVZG7LY6JOQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"It's a Catholic church celebration of the role of the family, held in cities around the world every three years. Around 70,000 people are expected at a two-hour Croke Park concert, which has a star-studded line-up including Italian tenor Andrew Botcelli, Daniel O'Donnell, Nathan Carter, Paddy Moloney, Riverdance, Dana Masters, Celine Byrne, Moya Brennan, The Begley Family and The Priests. None quite as famous though as God's representative on Earth: the Pope's speech on Saturday evening is billed as the highlight.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YBCGN7X2YKKMMB5DDUCUQVLX5A","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"KOQLT7RT7FCK7N7XRRHAUTC2BU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Sunday will be a day of the rest then?","type":"header"},{"_id":"ZA32VVD5EFDVTI7762DLJOF5FA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Not a bit. The second day is just as hectic. After breakfast, Pope Francis will fly from Dublin to Knock where 45,000 devotees are expected to endure long walks and no seating to catch a glimpse of him at the Chapel of Knock Shrine, where he will lead the Angelus. Knock is under a de-facto shutdown from Saturday evening in advance of the one-hour appearance. No-one other than residents can stay in the Co Mayo village overnight. The main N17 road between Charlestown and Claremorris will close from midnight until at at least 3pm on Sunday. Security will be tight at the airport. Organisers say those travelling for the event should prepare for a lot of walking, a lot of waiting and a lot of standing. There will be designated \"rest zones\" as well as food and drink stations. You can bring a portable seat.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YSEWBRS2WVEFLOXY3GSA655TCA","additional_properties":{},"content":"This is a punishing schedule for the 81-year-old Pope…","type":"header"},{"_id":"TUUFYCQVLZGD7AWIYY6GY3JR3E","additional_properties":{},"content":"And, he won't be finished there. After Knock, he will fly back to Dublin to have \"a modest lunch with his immediate delegation\" at his residence while here, says the Catholic Church. Then it is on to the Phoenix Park again, where in the footsteps of Pope John Paul II, he will be the chief celebrant in a special 3pm Mass at the site of the Papal Cross. Half a million people are expected. Like Knock, there will be \"rest zones\" as well as food and drink stations. More than 1,000 doctors, nurses and paramedics will be stationed at 1.5 km intervals on all routes to the Papal Cross. The Phoenix Park in its entirety will be closed from Friday evening to late Monday. Everyone will be listening out for the Homily of the Holy Father. Afterwards, the Pope will meet the Irish Bishops at the Convent of the Domincan Sisters in Cabra. Here, he will deliver the last of his prepared speeches, before flying back to Rome amid a farewell ceremony at the airport. The Pope's full itinerary can be viewed on the <strong><a href=\"https://www.worldmeeting2018.ie/en/Pope-Francis/Papal-Itinerary\">website of the World Meeting of Families</a></strong>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YG5WUYBLZJDRZIHDMS2MJTNBBI","additional_properties":{},"content":"His residence while here, you say?","type":"header"},{"_id":"OJQ45RMB6ZCGBK4IQ5U6R2SMRQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Catholic Church said it would not disclose where Pope Francis is staying \"for security reasons at the request of Vatican Security and the gardaí.\" Farmleigh House is the State's official guest house for visiting heads of State and dignitaries, but it is understood the Pope will not be staying here.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NK7BUR4XJRHMBEXZ5K3ZI2RHQ4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Can we take it there will be transport disruption in Dublin?","type":"header"},{"_id":"ZSZFCJR55RE3BIT5VMQSPTESO4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Dubliners have been strongly advised to leave the car at home this weekend and use public transport as dozens of roads are closed for the duration of the Pope's visit. We've gathered all the information you'll need on where you can and cannot drive this weekend, along with all public transport options available for those hoping to go about their daily business. All the traffic details are <b><a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/q-a-how-to-get-around-dublin-this-weekend-when-roads-close-for-papal-visit-1.3604519\">here</a>.</b>","type":"text"},{"_id":"3RJBG4VZP5E7TMLWTHQPHQAK7Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"Any special transport arrangements?","type":"header"},{"_id":"CP62A5VKH5FMTGL5C6ELPDNPD4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Every bus, tram and train available is being called upon for what gardaí say is the biggest event organised in Ireland since the last Papal visit in 1979 (Here's a <strong><a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/pope-john-paul-ii-s-1979-irish-visit-1.3589702\">selection of pictures from that Pope visit</a></strong> in 1979). Those with tickets for any of the Pope's events will be allowed travel free on public transport in Dublin on the day of the event. Iarnród Éireann, Dublin Bus, Luas, Bus Éireann, Go-Ahead and Translink in the North are all operating special services. \"Papal transport hubs\" are being set up close to Phoenix Park gates where buses will leave and collect passengers. Park and ride hubs are being set up at Leopardstown Racecourse (Luas), UCD Belfield (Dublin Bus), Maynooth University (train) and Fairyhouse Racecourse (train). Rail chiefs have said advance booking is mandatory. Gardai have provided some helpful maps for <a href=\"https://www.garda.ie/en/about-us/our-departments/office-of-corporate-communications/news-media/tfi-papal-visit-transport-phoenix-park-maps-1-8-18.pdf\"><b>Phoenix Park</b></a> and <a href=\"https://www.garda.ie/en/about-us/our-departments/office-of-corporate-communications/news-media/tfi-papal-visit-transport-map-for-knock.pdf\"><b>Knock</b></a> parts of the visit.","type":"text"},{"_id":"F4X22Z4ERJFLXEWECCAJVWQ3FI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Heavens above: What will the weather be like?","type":"header"},{"_id":"5ZZRHV6G4ZBRBBJ3E6RQHTHLSY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Met Éireann is forecasting changeable weather for the weekend and the outlook is for \"fresher and cooler\" conditions with highs of just 14 to 17 degrees. While it is expected to stay drier on Saturday, Sunday is forecast to be wet for both of the main events in Knock and the Phoenix Park.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PX654A7XQSVCZJ5FG3DE5VIACI","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"JZJ3B7626RDRDBCFFTDPZ4BCOQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"Check our five-day forecast for the visit <strong><a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/weather\">here</a></strong>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"7UHPAVRVQBHVTD42LQL26EKVDI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mmmmh … we might just watch it on the TV or follow it online. Can we do that?","type":"header"},{"_id":"5KYRP4EB2RCG5OO4WUMMUSWXFA","additional_properties":{},"content":"RTÉ will broadcast coverage throughout the weekend. On RTÉ One there will be live rolling coverage of all the public events, while live coverage of The Festival of Families event on Saturday will be broadcast on RTÉ2. The broadcaster said it will announce specific schedule details in the coming weeks.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LNSWQ22XQ5ASPLSKOI437GWJ2A","content":"Also The Irish Times will be running full live coverage of the events throughout the visit. We are not alone; there are 1,200 media accredited for the event from around the world, including from the US, Europe, Venezuela, Brazil and Costa Rica. If you choose to sit it out at home, you will not be stuck.","type":"text"},{"_id":"WL75MZ4KK5FZZCO3QGQYV7JGGY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Why is he visiting here now?","type":"header"},{"_id":"W3WVHHWSGJBL5OYSDZI7UHKLOQ","content":"Ostensibly, he’s coming for the World Meeting of Families festival. It was set up on the orders of Pope John Paul II in 1994, and the incumbent pontiff usually celebrates a Mass at the event. While it is not an official State visit, many in the Catholic Church will be hoping it can help heal some of the wounds caused in Ireland by the countless clerical sex abuse scandals of recent years.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4AJC6AHCZ5DRNG4P4AWLJKAH3Q","additional_properties":{},"content":"Will he meet with abuse survivors?","type":"header"},{"_id":"NSXYQD7IT5HUJEKR6UMVSHJR74","content":"He will, though details of when and whom he will meet will not be released in advance to protect the anonymity of survivors, according to this newspaper’s Religious Affairs correspondent Patsy McGarry. Catholic Archbishop of Dublin Dr Diarmuid Martin has said he was pushing the Vatican to have the Pope meet a cross-section of survivors of industrial schools, Magdalene laundries, mother and baby homes and those who suffered from clerical sex abuse. Pope Francis met survivors of abuse in other countries. The details of the meetings are announced afterwards.","type":"text"},{"_id":"I3TIFTZM6CHD3B5WH546B662ZM","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"4BOW4JYQKAZP46WDAHX7M4EBKI","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"5F3P5VGRE5EZJLV2W4D4Q52PTI","additional_properties":{},"content":"And can we expect any protests?","type":"header"},{"_id":"L5UCBMGDLBGUVKTRLPM2LMOPJM","content":"A “solidarity event” for those hurt or abused by the Catholic Church is being organised for Dublin’s Garden of Remembrance to coincide with the papal Mass in the Phoenix Park. Remember, that’s 3pm on Sunday, August 26th. Abuse survivor Colm O’Gorman, founder of the One in Four group, which assists other victims, said “we cannot and will not allow this visit to simply disappear those who have suffered. This event will be a moment to assert and respect the dignity of those who have been abused, and to stand in solidarity with them. To mark an end to the Ireland that allowed this to happen.” The Coalition of Mother and Baby Home Survivors are planning to protest.","type":"text"},{"_id":"TFEK2R42NBBTNLF67SUQXO3N6M","additional_properties":{},"content":"Will there be the same turnout for the Pope this time around?","type":"header"},{"_id":"D2S7BZYNRZCRVIJPMFQEXSJXPM","content":"That would be a miracle. Ireland is a dramatically changed country since the late 1970s, when it was illegal to be gay, divorce was outlawed and proposals to legislate for abortion would have seemed far-fetched. The Catholic church has been badly damaged since then by its sex abuse cover-ups against the backdrop of a general social shift towards more liberal values.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XNMMYTI6KT2NNBZF6LMPJ7RNWQ","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"6CXD3FKQ3BCLRO5ZPOO6ODJRNY","content":"Church attendances and priest numbers are dwindling. On September 29th 1979, the first day of the Pope John Paul II visit, more than a million people gathered for the papal Mass in Phoenix Park - about a third of the population at the time. It is believed to be the largest gathering of Irish people in history. This time around there will be less than half that number - about a tenth of the population. But it will still be the biggest gathering in the country since the last papal visit.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4EREREBSQVANJGIFVCIIDKKYBI","additional_properties":{},"content":"Remember the Popemobile from the last time - will there be one this time?","type":"header"},{"_id":"CLXIVXXS6VHJHCCXBLWFPCMUAI","content":"There will be two this time. One for Dublin and one for Knock. They are being shipped to Ireland from the Vatican.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4P3VOPEJLDPZLBR4VI2CNEDWJA","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"2NCOS57P3VEQLFIN5JU4MZVUC4","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Pope will travel through the capital on Saturday afternoon at about 4.15pm and the tour is expected to draw 100,000 onlookers. The popemobile entourage will go south on O'Connell Street, across O'Connell Bridge, up <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/topics/topics-7.1213540?article=true&tag_location=Westmoreland\">Westmoreland</a> Street and continue up Dame Street. The motorcade will then pass Christchurch Cathedral, go down Bridge Street and across the Liffey onto Church Street to the Capuchin Centre where Pope Francis will have a private meeting with homeless families. He will also do a popemobile drive around Phoenix Park for half an hour before the Mass begins on Sunday. Apart from that, he will \"mostly travel in a closed car\", a specially adapted Skoda Rapid with custom plates.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J5GWVK4FHZDRJBDXLROTQMJ2XU","additional_properties":{},"content":"Will the Pope be speaking in English?","type":"header"},{"_id":"F5RV7XU6ZVHGNKLZOBWPSPHOJA","content":"Pope Francis travels with his own translator and is expected to speak mostly in Italian during his visit to Ireland. Organisers say he may go off script but they are not aware of any plans at this stage for a cúpla focail as gaeilge ón bPapa Pronsias.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SJ4TPGKUMBEENLO62JUBS4EHIY","additional_properties":{},"content":"And what is his airplane like?","type":"header"},{"_id":"DEP67CSEDFFB7F6CPQ4DRUTGJA","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Pope doesn't have a private plane. As is tradition, he will charter one from Italian airline Alitalia to fly into Ireland. The Alitalia aircraft is referred to as \"Shepherd One\" - a papal version of Air Force One - but it can be a different aircraft each time, which then returns to normal use. He does have his own flight number though - AZ4000. He usually has a seat or two in business class, while reporters travelling with the entourage sit in economy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"K6D6AMIE2D7KJ34DIQLJVHNXIU","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"SZVQNGTYNVHFXBOSGSP62IWWPM","additional_properties":{},"content":"The Pope usually takes the host nation's flag carrier back to Rome and therefore will fly Aer Lingus home. He willalso fly Aer Lingus between Dublin and Knock.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SZO3ZCWYHJFIJBHTJZ7TPTNLOE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Anything else we need to know?","type":"header"},{"_id":"M3KAMCMZYBES3CDJXM4BEPORZ4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Yes - get vaccinated if you're going to one of the big events. The HSE's Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) has warned large gatherings like this pose \"unique health risks\" particularly for young children and the elderly. Given the ongoing measles spread in Europe, it says it is \"highly advisable\" that all those travelling to see the pope ensure they are up to date with their vaccinations.","type":"text"}],"content_restrictions":{"content_code":"metered"},"credits":{"by":[{"name":"Brian Hutton"}]},"description":{"basic":"Why is he visiting? 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We need to accept if they are here, do we look after them or don’t we,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GBJ5BX3ZVFA5PCS3NEHQHOQXPI","content":"There is a fear legislating to allow housing services support this cohort of people to move out of homelessness could “incentivise” increased migration into Ireland, Ms Gleeson said, adding a European Union wide approach was required.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QNFROBCXABCHHM3R2DJCMLWZRM","content":"“While it would be great for us if we got departmental legislation that let us deal with [these] homeless people, we really probably need an EU directive on it,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ANQHKLWFTRBNDOVR2CJ5TIMMIU","content":"The DHRE has set up an internal Brexit working group to prepare for the knock-on effects of a potential influx of immigrants, if current migration into Britain shifts towards Ireland after the UK leave the EU.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J7XVFFYDIZAZBMLY5E4LWGKPIM","content":"Research carried out by the DHRE found one-third of new homeless families in the Dublin region last year were non-Irish nationals. During Storm Emma in late February, 99 out of 177 rough sleepers who presented for emergency shelter were non-Irish.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3MQPX4ZSE5G2RHHLRINOHLAIAM","content":"<strong>Case Study: ‘We need a bigger place for my mum’</strong>","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZWAL2RRA6JEKJGKOBPAK7I6GO4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Jacqueline Bessong is a single mother living in a two-bed home in Naas, Co Kildare, with her three children and elderly mother.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NJFN7MGS7ZFXRK2XEOUTGIASTA","additional_properties":{},"content":"Originally from Cameroon, Jacqueline sought asylum in Ireland in 2008, and was granted status to remain in the country in 2015. Last September she brought her 80-year old mother to Ireland under a family reunification scheme.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4XJOSB2GTNDLZJOWU43TLLDXOE","content":"Since then her mother has been sleeping in a bed placed in the sitting room of the home, which Jacqueline rents from a landlord, part funded by the Housing Assistance Payment (Hap) scheme.","type":"text"},{"_id":"INNI5BUMLBDUZC45IVYJSTLJ2M","additional_properties":{},"content":"After she left direct provision she struggled to find housing she could afford, and slipped into homelessness. \"I've been in a hostel which is just a room, with all my kids in one room,\" Ms Bessong told <em>The Irish Times</em>.","type":"text"},{"_id":"LLIECOHENZFTXNORXXKRYDK3PU","content":"Previously Jacqueline and her three children had been living in longterm homeless accommodation on North Circular Road.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BKYEOZDTDZAT7CRN2LJVMQKYBM","content":"When her mother was brought to Ireland Ms Bessong went to the Dublin Region Homeless Executive to try and secure suitable accommodation for the family. “First they say we should go to B&B, and I said how can I go to B&B with my mum,” she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"SL4LGNT23BFAJPDU732BNYTCPY","content":"The DRHE helped her secure a two bed home in Naas, Co Kildare, on a rent subsidy scheme, where the family have lived since last September, she said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"KAZD5NEPUFC25FJYSLHI6YFYKE","content":"Her two sons, aged 22 and 17 years, sleep in a bunk -bed in a small room, Jacqueline sleeps in a bedroom with her 3-year-old daughter, and her mother sleeps in a bed in the sitting room.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DBH6JTLHVJEIRDXWBW7BFISS6U","content":"The house is not large enough for the family, particularly as her mother has mobility problems, Ms Bessong said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EUFCM4F34ZCGLJQXTHWVCRL2XI","content":"“I’m happy where we are, but we need a bigger place for my mum. Last week she fell down because of the small environment. She doesn’t have time to rest, because the kids are looking at television, my daughter is playing, everybody want to cook,” Ms Bessong said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NPXXB42CK5FFHBK4J77YYAI6KI","content":"After receiving refugee status Ms Bessong was employed as a care assistant, but left work shortly after her 13-year old son died tragically in 2016.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J3DZ5A4PYVEXHFWTTTV4JPAZBY","additional_properties":{},"content":"In May 2016 her son Franck drowned in the River Liffey, he had entered the water near Chapelizod, after playing a schoolboy football match. 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The plan was confirmed in the budget later that year.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4DJWHQK2GJFFBCGHTW24FWDCLA","additional_properties":{},"content":"In October 2015, then minister for environment Alan Kelly announced six locations had been chosen for the first 500 homes. Two of the sites were in Dublin city at Ayrfield on the Malahide Road and Scribblestown in north Dublin, while a third was in the South Dublin County Council are at Corkagh Grange. Sites at Dunleer in Louth, Convent Lands in Wicklow Town and Craddockstown in Naas, Co Kildare were also selected.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J4AJHDLIBBFZLCQC2AHWRKLM74","content":"While the sites are in four counties, Dublin City Council was selected as the contracting authority for the other councils. City councillors approved the overall plan in April of last year, although several councillors said they could not support a return to the PPP model, given previous negative experience, while others raised concerns about building large scale council housing estates with no social mix. Developer Bernard McNamara had backed out of a PPP deal to develop five city council sites for housing in 2008, leaving council housing flat complexes derelict.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EPFI5H7SKVDKFG77JXPF34XUQA","content":"Unlike previous PPP models, where ownership of the land was transferred to the developer, the sites will stay in State ownership and the developer will be given a licence to build. The developer will get payments from the State for a 25-year period, after which the houses or apartments will return to State ownership, in what is known as an “availability-based” PPP model. The model has previously been used to build a number of roads, schools, court buildings and primary care centres.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HLW2T77Z5FHBBAK7HUBJGSCYDY","content":"While the previous PPP housing schemes included private homes, only social housing will be built on the six sites, with tenants allocated by the relevant local authority.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QWRXWMVVC5EXJKNGTF3UKC5HKU","additional_properties":{},"content":"A single development consortium will build the homes across the four counties. Five groups made bids to build the homes, with three remaining in the running, these are: Torc Housing Partnership, involving, Tuath Housing Association as the tenant manager, with builders JJ Rhatigan, and equity providers Kajima Partnerships and Equitix; Comhar, involving Oaklee Housing with Sisk and Macquarie Corporate Holdings; and BAM PPP involving Circle Voluntary Housing Association and Bam Building.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QH4AKBIKAJBMZAVWA4ZIBCFO7Q","content":"A spokesman for the Department of Housing said a decision on the successful bid is expected by early September. 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However, Mr O’Connor said it was facing increased competition from institutional property investment firms.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DEZ4TIICZ5DYZDMVL7TSY2W2FM","content":"“When we are looking to buy our biggest competition is investment funds. It’s very hard to compete with them. We were recently bidding on 115 apartments but were outbid at €36 million. If people are paying that amount of money the only way the investor is going to get their money back is by charging eye-watering rents,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4YSGXFBTANF5HEBPP4UWKVYPMU","content":"“It’s self-fulfilling. The more of this type of money that’s ploughed in, the more rents will increase.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"J4HNQ2C7YEE3W5VNWVIYT6A3OA","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"VOPWIQ37YZA4VPDG2LOI4D66YA","content":"Tuath did however, have recent success in buying Harold’s Court, a block of 23 vacant apartments, on Parnell Road opposite the Grand Canal. The block had gone on the market with a guide price of €7.25 million, Tuath paid €8.75 million.","type":"text"},{"_id":"BZ3Y7YYIOZFYPJTYKCKVUF2IBQ","content":"“In this case we managed to stave off competition from a Reit [real estate investment trust] which doubtless would have charged very high rents.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"3B7V6UN6DJEEBN6JFQECW6RRCI","content":"While Tuath’s principal activity is the provision of social housing, it’s also supportive of the new cost rental model, where qualifying low- and middle-income workers pay below market-rate rents, based on the cost of providing the accommodation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"24W32LHC7RGMLMGXW3ZRX5MYJQ","content":"“We’re currently working with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and Respond on 155 homes in Stepaside, one-third will be let equivalent to the cost of providing the units, hopefully at 25 to 30 per cent below the market rent, and two-thirds will be social. We think it will be first cost rental scheme in the country.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"FABFTXQE35BBXN3YZQ3DGFTQ74","content":"Cost rental, or affordable rental has been the “missing link” in housing provision, Mr O’Connor said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AX5JOLUDVRDMNATKTCGPISNVSU","content":"“The private rental market is quite frankly disgusting in certain areas, it’s just naked greed. I have no problem with people making a profit, but it is wrong to profiteer on the back of people who have no choice,” he said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QHE2M4EDI5G6XO2JLOZETB4L3M","content":"“There are a lot of decent private landlords, there are also a lot of chancers.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"47KFAINQ5ZBTJEMKENGWTDWP6M","content":"Tuath, a not-for-profit organisation, provided 837 homes last year, a figure it hopes to match this year. Its largest scheme last year, and one of the largest apartment schemes built in the State in 2017, was a development of 122 apartments, completed in collaboration with Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and Nama on the site of the old Dún Laoghaire golf course near Glenageary.","type":"text"},{"_id":"YGUW22RH7VGRHLAUV7W2KKLRKU","additional_properties":{},"content":"To date this year it has provided 415 homes, with recent acquisitions including Shelbourne Plaza, 53 apartments it bought from Dublin City Council at a cost of €22 million. It also recently bought 26 apartments on Castleforbes Road in the north docks for just €5 million – \"fantastic value because the Docklands Authority bought it pre-boom,\" Mr O'Connor said.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3LRL5G3OV6MCO2WTS4H3K3TJBU","additional_properties":{},"type":"image"},{"_id":"MFJWHME6UBHRZFBZZIETTJ2IA4","content":"It is also currently building on sites across the country, including in Sallins in Kildare, Navan, Co Meath, and Crumlin in Dublin. However, Mr O’Connor said, his preference is to buy homes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"Q7TO3NWZN5B7TGAT4EVOTOM3QY","content":"“Buying is less risky than building, although some buildings built during the boom do have legacy issues. 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Fluent in English and French, he is hoping to find a job in customer service.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DRHKYA4BWFDF7C5GJMROGVSJUI","additional_properties":{},"content":"However, he has already encountered a number of barriers which have made it difficult for him to enter the Irish labour market. Shortly after the new job scheme was introduced Kabba gathered together his documentation and went into Limerick city to open a bank account.","type":"text"},{"_id":"55GVBKUFMVFKFJJ4XGSPOO43QE","content":"“When you open a bank account they need a driving licence or a passport. Asylum seekers are not allowed to drive here and the Department of Justice took my passport from me when I arrived. They gave me a photocopy but left me with no identity. All the banks on Limerick’s main street declined me. Even when my work permit arrived they continued to say no. It took me a month to find a bank where I could open an account.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"TDF55ZYWZVAVTKCTHQMOAZX3Q4","content":"Kabba has also found that many employers doubt the authenticity of the work permits which are printed on a sheet of paper with a watermark. “Employers are asking what kind of stamp it is, they don’t understand. People are surprised when they see it and say ‘we’ll get back to you’. One employer was examining my photo on the paper to see if it was superimposed.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"4WC536OEYZBHHAAN3W4GIWARWU","content":"“Technically most organisations do not recognise my qualifications from home but given that I can speak two languages and I like to interact with people I thought I would be comfortable in customer service.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"RLWQNIY56JEKBFXJGLER5IAMRY","content":"Kabba says the Government needs to distribute work permit cards rather than pieces of paper to ensure employers recognise the document.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N6XPUUOYZZETROK3Z6EK5PW7IE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Before leaving his home in Sierra Leone Kabba ran an organisation which offered training and skills to members of the country's marginalised LGBT community. He hopes to work in a similar area in the future but for now just wants to find a job so he can get out of the Knockalisheen Accommodation Centre where he lives during the day.","type":"text"},{"_id":"HA6KLNUFGZEU7JZBRQWND72C2E","content":"Kabba says that once he finds a job he can begin rebuilding his life. “Now I can be the person I want to be. I can get some of my confidence back. It’s a relief that we can finally do something. I came from a place where I was used to being busy and helping people and then I came here as an asylum seeker and I was left helpless. Now that I have the right to work I can find something to keep my mind busy and work within this society.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"UXL54H3F3RC53AKJ3CKIVVVZGM","additional_properties":{},"content":"Rosemary* from Zimbabwe is also looking forward to securing a job with her new permit. Like Kabba, she has sent out numerous applications but has yet to receive a response. She says most employers request that applicants have experience working in Ireland.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EUQYS6VBZRBALIG7U3AK2J7V7Y","content":"“That’s a big challenge for us because we haven’t worked in Ireland before,” says Rosemary, who hopes her recent voluntary work will help her find employment. She is applying for jobs in housekeeping or in a factory but says she doesn’t mind where she works. “I just want to have a job so I have something to do with my time. Most people in here spend the whole day sitting and doing nothing and become depressed.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"KYYQ5NE7MVACHPPED5IA73IZUM","content":"Rosemary hopes to one day qualify as a social worker. “I’d like to help people in the situation I’m in. 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At the time, the Ryan commission was investigating the abuse of children in orphanages, reformatories and industrial schools run by 18 religious congregations, and the Ferns inquiry was also under way.","type":"text"},{"_id":"AUR3NFGGMJB43JVLBQ6IARHKL4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Four months previous to Mr Ahern's November 2004 meeting with Cardinal Sodano, the Commissions of Investigation Act was passed by the Dáil mandating the government to set up an inquiry into the handling of clerical child sex abuse in Dublin's Catholic archdiocese.","type":"text"},{"_id":"CHKBZEYUO5FGRELXLIHQ2LR24Q","content":"The context of Mr Ahern’s meeting with Cardinal Sodano were celebrations marking 75 years of diplomatic relations between Ireland and the Holy See, beginning in 1929.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6T6INND7MVF3XLHJMAPFTJQPW4","additional_properties":{},"content":"‘Very annoyed’","type":"header"},{"_id":"NRIEIQ6NBNC2LOUPD54QQYQJ3I","additional_properties":{},"content":"Mr Ahern was en route to a meeting with Pope John Paul when he met Cardinal Sodano. \"I was on my way back from [Palestinian president] Yasser Arafat's funeral and had begun our discussion about the Middle East. 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On average, one in five of the population will experience mental health problems at some point in their lives, and that risk is increased in areas such as Ballymagroarty and other parts of Derry where there are high levels of social and economic deprivation.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UEEWMWHWMJFQDFLXZDYZYF3WJM","content":"Linked to this is poor educational attainment, a lack of employment prospects and problems with drug and alcohol abuse, as well as the inter-generational impact of the Troubles.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2MRQO7L2E5D37PUCUAONUYDETA","content":"Local neighbourhood regeneration officer Billy Page was a Sinn Féin councillor in Ballymagroarty when McCann and Carlyle took their own lives.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GPZNYSHIBJDEFMI5AJAQYCFCPQ","content":"“There was a deep sense of hurt and grief within the community,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"K7NDOO76K5FHTIAUYSFTEXFCSA","content":"“The issues here are the same as they are right across the city. 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