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Free Saturday, September 7?

The second Danielle Carroll Summer School.

Named after a young Dublin mother who lost her life while living in emergency accommodation.

Michael Caul writes:

The #MyNameis campaign is proud to announce our second Danielle Carroll Summer School, 2019.

The human stories behind Ireland’s housing and homeless crisis.

Mary Manning – Who, as a 21-year-old Dunnes Stores worker, stood up against apartheid.

Stephen Travers – Leading campaigner for the rights of victims in Northern Ireland.

Jay Lester – Jobstown protest teenager who had false imprisonment conviction overturned.

John Wall – diagnosed with terminal prostate cancer, had emergency medical card revoked.

Colin Power – Bill Kenneally abuse survivor.

We are proud to posthumously award our first Danielle Carroll Social Justice Award 2019 to Dara Quigley, presented to her mother Aileen Malone with words from Martin McMahon and friends.

Tickets available here

Day For Danielle

Through The Cracks is a ten-minute film about families living in emergency accommodation in Ireland.

It’s been created by poet, visual artist and lone parent Ingrid Casey with Bold Puppy film-makers Nathan Fagan and Luke Daly and director of photography Kevin Minogue.

It will launched at Inspire Galerie on Gardiner Street this Wednesday at 6pm, followed by a panel dissuasion chaired by Clare O’Connor, the director of Inner City Helping Homelessness.

Ingrid, who gave a speech at the recent Danielle Carroll Summer School, said:

“When I became a lone parent in 2014, life was very frightening in terms of changing my housing situation and I had narrowly avoided homelessness. However, these stories in the news continued and continued, and I knew when Danielle Carroll died that I could do something, and that I had to.”

The documentary is linked with a People’s Housing Plan petition on UPLIFT calling on the Government to build more public housing and to stop its reliance on the private developers.

It can be signed here

Through The Cracks

Related: Mother who took her own life was devastated by homelessness, event hears (Kitty Holland, Irish Times)