Our homeless numbers have reached a new high, with 9,409 adults and 4,105 children in emergency accommodation. This housing crisis, with us for over 10 years, has blighted the lives of tens of thousands of people.
Amendments to the Incremental Tenant Purchase Scheme announced over the holiday period will make it easier for people living in local authority houses to buy them.
Congratulations to Sarah Carey (Irish Independent, December 23) for her excellent article highlighting the political and media silence on changes to our abortion law, and to Mary Stewart (Letters, December 28) for her excellent response.
As we are fed daily images from Israel’s war with Hamas we see the bewildered faces of Gazan children covered in mud and blood while they search in vain for their parents and other loved ones. We can hear the cries of despair of widows as they weep for their dead. Unicef is speaking about “humanity’s darkest hour”.