As is almost perpetually the case at this stage of my life, one of my friends was getting married. I had a 10am appointment for an upstyle in a Dungarvan hairdresser on the morning of the wedding a hen’s tooth of a booking in a mid-sized town that had two big local nuptials on the same day.
Domestic violence victims are being forced either into homelessness or back into abusive relationships because the housing crisis is leaving women and children who flee with “simply nowhere” to go.
Ellen Coyne yesterday reported on the lack of regulation around counselling services for people experiencing crisis pregnancies (‘‘Rogue’ crisis pregnancy agencies have targeted 15 women, department says’, Irish Independent, April 23).