MLRC Third Right to Housing Report: Children and Homelessness – A Gap in Legal Protection

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MLRC Open Training in Housing Law, November 14th 2017

Mercy Law Resource Centre Open Housing Law Training MLRC is delighted to announce that we will be running an open housing training session  Date: 14th of November, 2017 Time: 9.30am – 1.30pm Venue: Wisdom Centre, Sophia Housing, 25 Cork Street This training is open to any individuals working in the field of housing and homelessness, particularly […]

MLRC open training in housing law, November 9th 2017

Please note that there are no longer spaces available for this course. Due to high demand, MLRC are running another training session on the 14th of November. For more information on this session, please click here. Mercy Law Resource Centre Open Housing Law Training MLRC is delighted to announce that we will be running an […]

Deferrals of Social Housing Applications of those in Emergency Accommodation

We have met several new clients at our legal advice clinics in recent months who report a concern that their social housing application has been deferred, but are unsure if this is correct, because they have not received any written notification of any decision from the local authority. All of the clients we have met […]

Alarming Upward Trend in the Number of families Facing Homelessness

Recent figures released by the Central Statistics Office and Focus Ireland give rise to serious concern over the scale of Ireland’s housing crisis. The figures reveal that 99 families, who have not previously experienced homelessness, became newly homeless in Dublin in July of this year alone. These figures mark the peak of an upward trend […]

Thank you to all our MLRC Summer Interns, for your excellent work!

We would like to extend a huge thank you to all of our interns for their real and practical contribution with great energy and care to MLRC’s work in supporting, through our services, those who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.   Aoibheann Durkin MLRC were delighted to welcome Aoibheann Durkin as an […]

MLRC welcomes David Joyce as solicitor with MLRC

MLRC is delighted to welcome David Joyce as our new solicitor and colleague. David has been working with MLRC since the end of July 2017 as a locum solicitor. David is a solicitor with extensive experience in housing law having worked as a Legal Officer for Threshold. David Joyce initially qualified as a Barrister at […]