MLRC is delighted to welcome Aoife Gillespie as our new volunteer solicitor and colleague
Mercy Law Resource Centre is delighted to welcome Aoife to our team of solicitors. Aoife will be working with Mercy Law as a volunteer solicitor. Aoife’s work will predominantly focus on working with families in long-term homelessness and to explore legal remedies available to them to address their most difficult housing situations. Aoife is a […]
Mercy Law Resource Centre presents Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government
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MLRC is delighted to welcome Paul Dornan as our new solicitor and colleague
Mercy Law Resource Centre is delighted to welcome Paul to our team of solicitors this week. Paul is a solicitor with extensive experience in family and child law having worked for the Legal Aid Board as a part of the civil legal aid and advice team at Finglas Law Centre. Prior to this, Paul was […]
Mercy Law Resource Centre, Training Workshops in Social Welfare Law
Professor Gerry Whyte, Associate Professor, School of Law, Trinity College Dublin, and Director on the MLRC Board of Directors, will deliver a comprehensive series of six training workshops on social welfare law. This course will provide a detailed overview of social welfare law. The purpose of the course is to provide participants with an up-to-date and […]
Mercy Law are currently recruiting a Volunteer Befriender Co-ordinator
Mercy Law Resource Centre is currently remodelling our volunteer befriender programme and are now looking to recruit a Volunteer Befriender Co-ordinator. Our volunteer befriender programme offers an opportunity to engage and participate as active citizens and to support those who are marginalised and vulnerable. It specifically seeks to capitalise on the life experience of community-minded […]
MLRC launch report detailing pro-bono partnership with ALG, Focus Ireland and PILA
On 18th April 2019, Mercy Law Resource Centre (MLRC) in partnership with A&L Goodbody, Focus Ireland and the Public Interest Law Alliance (PILA) launched a report entitled “Housing Rights and Homelessness: lessons from a pro bono partnership” The report details an innovative housing law clinic operated from the Focus Ireland service in Temple Bar. The housing law […]
MLRC partnering with new organisations to have greater reach and impact
We are delighted to have linked in with several new organisations in recent months and to be able to extend our reach to vulnerable individuals, who are experiencing serious housing difficulty, and also to support the valuable work of organisations supporting individuals and families who are experiencing homelessness. Towards the end of 2018, we were […]
MLRC is now recruiting a Solicitor to join the MLRC team
Mercy Law Resource Centre (MLRC) is an independent law centre and charity which provides free legal advice and representation to people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless in the areas of public housing and social welfare law. For more details on MLRC, please see www.mercylaw.ie. This is a unique opportunity to practice […]
MLRC calls for legal protection of the right to housing at Raise the Roof conference
On the 30th of January, Managing Solicitor of MLRC, Rebecca Keatinge presented at ‘Securing the Right to Housing’ Conference which was organised by the Raise the Roofcampaign. The Raise the Roof campaign encompasses and brings together trade unions, political parties, student unions, housing agencies and community groups to demand radical action on the housing crisis. The conference focused on […]
Our Casework in 2018 – A Year in Review
We had an exceptionally busy year in 2018 and during the year we saw an increase on the number of individuals in distressing situations contacting us for free legal advice and representation. In 2018, we continued to provide legal advice and representation on a range of housing and homelessness matters and acted for clients in […]
