Mercy Law Resource Centre

Ireland's housing crisis is now "an acute health crisis" for vulnerable people in homeless accommodation or overcrowded housing, the Mercy Law Resource Centre (MLRC) has warned. Welcoming plans to ban evictions and freeze rents for three months in response to the coronavirus outbreak, managing solic

The Government should take urgent action to address the "dysfunctions and failures" in the homeless system, Mercy Law Resource Centre (MLRC) has said. The law centre, which provides legal advice to people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless, has published a new research report on the su

Civil legal aid should be widened to include areas of the law such as housing and homelessness, the Chief Justice of Ireland, Mr Frank Clarke, has said. Ireland's top judge made the remarks at the launch of the Mercy Law Resource Centre's 2018 annual report, which was streamed live over the internet

Mercy Law Resource Centre (MLRC), which provides free legal advice to homeless people, has welcomed law student Louis O'Carroll as a legal intern. Mr O'Carroll, a student at Trinity College Dublin and winner of this year's Trinity FLAC moot competition, is due to commence his final year of stud

Mercy Law Resource Centre, which provides free legal advice to homeless people, has announced the appointment of solicitor Sinead McGarrigle to its legal team. She will work alongside managing solicitor Rebecca Keatinge, solicitor Paul Dornan and volunteer solicitor Aoife Gillespie to provide legal

Aoife Gillespie has joined Mercy Law Resource Centre, which provides free legal advice to homeless people, as a volunteer solicitor. Ms Gillespie is a dual-qualified solicitor and barrister who currently heads the immigration team at Dublin firm Philip Lee.