News
- 19 February 2015
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 […]
- 11 February 2015
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 […]
- 24 December 2014
MLRC E-zine, Winter 2014
You can read the eZine here.
- 10 December 2014
Open letter to the Tánaiste, to accept the Constitutional Convention’s recommendation to strengthen the protection by the Constitution of Economic Social and Cultural Rights
Open letter to the Tánaiste, calling on the Government, as part of the Economic Social and Cultural Rights Initiative, to accept the Constitutional Convention’s recommendation to strengthen the protection by the Constitution of Economic Social and Cultural Rights, dated 26 September 2014
- 10 December 2014
Open letter to the Taoiseach to accept the Constitutional Convention’s recommendation to strengthen the protection by the Constitution of Economic Social and Cultural Rights
Open letter to the Taoiseach, calling on the Government, as part of the Economic Social and Cultural Rights Initiative, to accept the Constitutional Convention’s recommendation to strengthen the protection by the Constitution of Economic Social and Cultural Rights, dated 26 September 2014
- 9 December 2014
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 […]
- 1 December 2014
Christmas Gathering December 2014
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 […]
- 28 November 2014
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 […]
- 17 November 2014
Success for MLRC clients: Local authority allocates three bedroom accommodation for long term homeless parents working to re-unite with children in care
Our clients and their key-worker presented at our office having had difficulties with the local authority in not allocating them a 3 bed property due to the fact that their children were not living with them on a full-time basis. Mercy Law Resource Centre made representations on behalf of our clients, who were living in […]