Kitty Holland
@kittyholland.bsky.social
Irish Times Social Affairs Correspondent
Please please get to this. Stop the genocide, the slaughter, the war crimes of Israel
August 11, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Please please get to this. Stop the genocide, the slaughter, the war crimes of Israel
Getting readying for the 12th here in Belfast
July 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Getting readying for the 12th here in Belfast
‘I sleep easier here’: The makeshift homeless community under the M50
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‘I sleep easier here’: The makeshift homeless community under the M50
Rats and rubbish surround the camp at Finglas Road, but to some residents it’s better than other options
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June 25, 2025 at 6:53 AM
‘I sleep easier here’: The makeshift homeless community under the M50
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€5,250 a month!! For a three-bedroom flat.
June 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
€5,250 a month!! For a three-bedroom flat.
Children at west Dublin asylum seeker accommodation witnessed friends being ‘put in the back of a black van’
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Children at west Dublin asylum seeker accommodation witnessed friends being ‘put in the back of a black van’
Three siblings were among 35 people deported on a flight to Nigeria on Wednesday
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June 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Children at west Dublin asylum seeker accommodation witnessed friends being ‘put in the back of a black van’
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Boy (16) ‘at real risk of death’ after targeting by drug dealers brought to secure care
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Boy (16) ‘at real risk of death’ after targeting by drug dealers brought to secure care
Judge found boy’s ‘chaotic lifestyle’ and risk profile met requirements for the order
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June 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Boy (16) ‘at real risk of death’ after targeting by drug dealers brought to secure care
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Dublin tenants shocked to be evicted due to ‘little-known legal loophole’
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Dublin tenants shocked to be evicted due to ‘little-known legal loophole’
For a group of people in Applewood village, Swords, the landlord doesn’t need a reason to remove them
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June 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Dublin tenants shocked to be evicted due to ‘little-known legal loophole’
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What a self-serving bore. He hasnt changed since Self Aid.
Oh. My. God..Bono on RTE now saying people don't understand the "complex affairs" of US selling arms to Israel
May 24, 2025 at 10:41 AM
What a self-serving bore. He hasnt changed since Self Aid.
Oh. My. God..Bono on RTE now saying people don't understand the "complex affairs" of US selling arms to Israel
May 24, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Oh. My. God..Bono on RTE now saying people don't understand the "complex affairs" of US selling arms to Israel
Reposted by Kitty Holland
‘Judge John Jordan, presiding over the weekly “no beds” list on Thursday, heard updates on three children in respect of whom secure care orders have been made but who cannot get a bed due to staff shortages.’
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May 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
‘Judge John Jordan, presiding over the weekly “no beds” list on Thursday, heard updates on three children in respect of whom secure care orders have been made but who cannot get a bed due to staff shortages.’
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Reposted by Kitty Holland
May 23, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Israeli military fires shots near delegation that included Irish diplomats
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Bastards
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Bastards
Israeli military fires shots near delegation that included Irish diplomats
Tánaiste ‘shocked and appalled’ at reports of incident in West Bank city of Jenin
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May 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Israeli military fires shots near delegation that included Irish diplomats
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Bastards
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Bastards
‘He was kept locked in a room with a leg-shackle until the 1980s’: Stories from Ireland’s state-run asylums
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It was an honour to be trusted with the stories of those 'incarcerated' in our old mental asylums, as they were called
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It was an honour to be trusted with the stories of those 'incarcerated' in our old mental asylums, as they were called
‘He was kept locked in a room with a leg-shackle until the 1980s’: Stories from Ireland’s state-run asylums
State-run asylums were Ireland’s ‘largest form of institutional confinement’ but they have never been subjected to a statutory inquiry into the treatment of their patients
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April 6, 2025 at 7:33 AM
‘He was kept locked in a room with a leg-shackle until the 1980s’: Stories from Ireland’s state-run asylums
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It was an honour to be trusted with the stories of those 'incarcerated' in our old mental asylums, as they were called
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It was an honour to be trusted with the stories of those 'incarcerated' in our old mental asylums, as they were called
I'm researching mass incarceration in Irish psychiatric institutions up to late 1990s. Would welcome contact from survivors/ their family members. Email in confidence Kitty.Holland@irishtimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 10:19 AM
I'm researching mass incarceration in Irish psychiatric institutions up to late 1990s. Would welcome contact from survivors/ their family members. Email in confidence Kitty.Holland@irishtimes.com
Ireland is signing up to a definition of anti-Semitism that has been used against Irish politicians
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Ireland is signing up to a definition of anti-Semitism that has been used against Irish politicians
Prominent Irish politicians - including President Michael D Higgins and Simon Harris - have been accused of anti-Semitism drawing on the logic of the IHRA definition
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February 5, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Ireland is signing up to a definition of anti-Semitism that has been used against Irish politicians
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This promise in the Programme for Government is so dangerous, conflating legitimate criticism of apartheid Israel with antisemitism
January 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This promise in the Programme for Government is so dangerous, conflating legitimate criticism of apartheid Israel with antisemitism
Attitudes to Traveller and Roma people more negative among middle class than working class - study
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Attitudes to Traveller and Roma people more negative among middle class than working class - study
Residents of affluent areas less comfortable with having Travellers as neighbours, ESRI reports finds
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December 20, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Attitudes to Traveller and Roma people more negative among middle class than working class - study
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‘I have never really had sex not for money’: Woman hopes new injecting facility can allow some dignity
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‘I have never really had sex not for money’: Woman hopes new injecting facility can allow some dignity
‘Amber’ believes the new medically supervised injecting facility at Merchants Quay will ‘change her life’
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December 20, 2024 at 6:27 PM
‘I have never really had sex not for money’: Woman hopes new injecting facility can allow some dignity
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Capuchin vouchers: ‘I have four kids and two grandkids - this is for St Stephen’s Day dinner’
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Capuchin vouchers: ‘I have four kids and two grandkids - this is for St Stephen’s Day dinner’
Queue for €50 grocery vouchers began before 4am with over 2,500 distributed by 8.30am
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December 20, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Capuchin vouchers: ‘I have four kids and two grandkids - this is for St Stephen’s Day dinner’
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Scenes of desperation this morning in Dublin: ‘We have never run out this early’: People ‘distraught’ after missing out on Capuchin Christmas food parcel tickets
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‘We have never run out this early’: People ‘distraught’ after missing out on Capuchin Christmas food parcel tickets
People ‘distraught’ on missing out after all 3,000 parcels are distributed by shortly after 9.30am
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December 11, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Scenes of desperation this morning in Dublin: ‘We have never run out this early’: People ‘distraught’ after missing out on Capuchin Christmas food parcel tickets
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With votes sorted in Dublin Mid West the storage boxes are being readied to hold the bundles of first preferences, counting of which will start shortly #herewego
November 30, 2024 at 11:25 AM
With votes sorted in Dublin Mid West the storage boxes are being readied to hold the bundles of first preferences, counting of which will start shortly #herewego
With just over half the boxes tallied in 5-seat Dublin MW Sinn Fein's Eoin O Broin and Mark Ward are powering ahead.. Emer Higgins (FG) on track for a seat along with Shane Moynihan (FF). Gino Kenny (PBP) in for a rollercoaster battle for last seat with Soc Dems, Labour, FG and independents.
November 30, 2024 at 10:31 AM
With just over half the boxes tallied in 5-seat Dublin MW Sinn Fein's Eoin O Broin and Mark Ward are powering ahead.. Emer Higgins (FG) on track for a seat along with Shane Moynihan (FF). Gino Kenny (PBP) in for a rollercoaster battle for last seat with Soc Dems, Labour, FG and independents.
Election 2024 exit poll: Photo finish with Sinn Féin on 21.1%, Fine Gael 21%, Fianna Fáil 19.5%
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If this isn't the incentive rhe left need to form a strong alliance, I don't know what is.
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If this isn't the incentive rhe left need to form a strong alliance, I don't know what is.
Election 2024 exit poll: Photo finish with Sinn Féin on 21.1%, Fine Gael 21%, Fianna Fáil 19.5%
The election 2024 exit poll was conducted among 5,000-plus voters at more than 200 locations nationwid
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November 29, 2024 at 10:15 PM
Election 2024 exit poll: Photo finish with Sinn Féin on 21.1%, Fine Gael 21%, Fianna Fáil 19.5%
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If this isn't the incentive rhe left need to form a strong alliance, I don't know what is.
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If this isn't the incentive rhe left need to form a strong alliance, I don't know what is.
Asylum centre failed to protect four children who went missing, Hiqa inspection finds
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November 28, 2024 at 7:06 PM
Asylum centre failed to protect four children who went missing, Hiqa inspection finds
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Homelessness figures are out tomorrow. When you go out to vote, please think of the almost 5,000 beautiful children whose lives are being devastated by having no home.
November 28, 2024 at 7:04 PM
Homelessness figures are out tomorrow. When you go out to vote, please think of the almost 5,000 beautiful children whose lives are being devastated by having no home.