MLRC welcomes Sinead Kerin as Locum Solicitor with MLRC
MLRC is delighted to welcome Sinead Kerin as our locum solicitor and colleague. Sinead is a Solicitor with extensive experience in Social Welfare and Housing Law having worked with Focus Ireland in Limerick for several years. Sinead graduated from University College Cork and has a degree in Sociology and Geography and completed her Masters in […]
Thank you to TCD Law Society
Mercy Law Resource Centre would like to thank the TCD Law Society for choosing MLRC as their 2015 Charity for their Law Day earlier this year. In a combined effort the TCD Law Society Committee, the Society’s members and all the volunteers and collectors generously gave of their time to fundraise on behalf of Mercy […]
MLRC is now recruiting a locum solicitor to join the MLRC team
MLRC is now recruiting a Locum Solicitor. This is a unique opportunity to practice in public interest and human rights law to help those at the margins of our society within a vibrant, dynamic independent law centre, with an ethos which recognises the dignity of each person, seeking to ensure that all people are treated […]
Thank you to everyone who supported The April Fools Day Comedy Gala in aid of MLRC!
Thank you to everyone who came to the second annual April Fools Comedy Gala on 1 April in the Sugar Club! You raised almost €4,000 for MLRC! Thank you for your huge support which helps ensure that MLRC can continue to provide and develop our services to support and help people who are homeless or […]
MLRC holds training session on housing law for staff of the Dublin Simon Community
As part of MLRC’s work, we provide training in housing law to organisations working in the field of homelessness. On 22nd January, MLRC held a full day training session in housing law & related social welfare law for the staff of the Dublin Simon Community. The Dublin Simon Community works to prevent and address homelessness […]
MLRC welcomes Rebecca Keatinge as solicitor with MLRC
MLRC is delighted to welcome Rebecca Keatinge as our new solicitor and colleague. Rebecca is a solicitor with extensive experience in immigration and human rights law. She graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2002 with a BA in History and Political Science. She then moved to London and completed an MSc in Development Studies at […]
MLRC thanks our Befrienders and Maureen Sheehy for supporting our Befriending Service at an excellent training day in January
MLRC’s Befriending service is a unique service that is central to our work in helping those who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. MLRC has been in existence since 2009 and has an average of seven to 10 Befriendees a year. Some clients are fairly short term but we have a core of longer […]
Alice Leahy (Trust) talks to MLRC’s Gathering
MLRC were delighted to host another Christmas event, which gave us an opportunity in an informal way to thank friends, funders, befrienders, interns along with members of the Board and staff for their work and support during the year, which has kept Mercy Law Resource Centre in a position to continue to offer free legal […]
MLRC, as part of the ESC Rights Initiative, calls on the Government to protect the right to housing in the Irish Constitution
25 years ago Ireland ratified the International Covenant of Economic Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR). On Sunday 7 December, MLRC, as part of the ESC Rights Initiative, called on the Government to accept the Constitutional Convention’s recommendation to protect these rights in the Constitution. The call was made by the ESC Rights Initiative, a network […]
MLRC is now recruiting a solicitor to join the MLRC team
This is a unique opportunity to practice in public interest and human rights law to help those at the margins of our society within a vibrant, dynamic independent law centre, with an ethos which recognises the dignity of each person, seeking to ensure that all people are treated with respect and compassion and are enabled […]
