A motion to have the building listed as a protected structure will be debated tonight at a special meeting of Cork City Council.

“Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it” (Hebrews 13:2). New Rules In the new package of restrictions on citize...

A record number of 17,885 people were in emergency accommodation last month, according to the Department of Housing.

"I think the public do understand that prison isn't addressing the underlying issues for those people who are committing minor offences but can't get the help that they need to stop that cycle."

Two static speed cameras account for 70 per cent of all fines issued by static cameras nationwide. The cameras have amounted to just under 12 million euros in penalties paid since May of last year. Sp...

— A few tickets are also left for Tom Flood’s ‘Reframing Road Safety’ talk on Tuesday. With Tom Flood — one of the world’s best-known communicators on active tra…

Enforcing the fairness principle in a criminal justice approach, and ruling out discretion (though it tends to skew upwards), risks removal of the potential for mercy and leniency from our penal syste...

Welcome to the official Greenways Ireland website—a central hub for exploring our growing network of scenic, sustainable trails.

Reframing the mainstream narrative around road safety, road violence and active transportation. Once you see it, you can't unsee it.

Irish Penal Abolition Network Podcast · Episode

There is an Irish podcast run by three self-described middle-aged women who talk about life at their age and their current struggles. I will admit, as a 29-year-old, I have little interest in listenin...

We need more homes of every tenure: homes to buy, homes to rent, social homes and cost-rental homes

At the end of July JCFJ hosted an evening of mixed emotions to mark two occasions.

Special rapporteur’s intervention is welcomed by human rights and equality campaigners

Waste of Resources Should society decriminalise the possession of small amounts of drug for personal use? I would argue yes. I have personally spent five mornings in court with a young man who was cha...

Reframing the mainstream narrative around road safety, road violence and active transportation. Once you see it, you can't unsee it.

This is something I have been thinking about as the news cycle has shifted from wildfires, e-scooter mania, road deaths and the doubling down by the government on fossil fuel dependant infrastructure,...

Irish prisons are places of death—civil, social and, increasingly, bodily. Recounting the conditions of how some people have died recently, this essay avoids the simplistic rationale of deaths being i...

I recently read an article by the Dublin Inquirer about a shrine in Phibsborough that people pay homage to and leave gifts at in hopes of obtaining a home in Ireland. The Shrine to the Housing God has...

Irish prisons are places of death—civil, social and, increasingly, bodily. Recounting the conditions of how some people have died recently, this essay avoids the simplistic rationale of deaths being i...

We have asked two members of the EoF community who will participate in the next EoF International Summer School — Sophie Maeva (Ireland) and Nishita Dsouza (USA) — the following question: Why is frate...

Ethical Guidance on AI Pope Leo XIV issued his first encyclical – an authoritative teaching on a specific moral question that takes the form of a letter – last month. It was subtitled “On Safeguarding...