About 70 people will have Christmas dinner in Apollo House today
Home Sweet Home has also said that over €150,000 has been raised online.
View ArticleHomeless couple get engaged in Apollo House following performance by Glen...
Glen Hansard was on hand to serenade residents and staff at the Dublin centre.
View ArticleGroup behind Apollo House occupation raises €160,000 from public donations
Home Sweet Home took over the Dublin building earlier this month for use as homeless accommodation.
View Article'This is home for people now' - A look inside Apollo House
Occupiers say they aren’t planning on leaving on 11 January.
View Article'Irish people are suckers for celebrity endorsements': Dublin council chief...
Owen Keegan has criticised the occupation.
View ArticleOccupation of empty Dublin apartment block by homelessness activists ends
The group said a number of Nama-owned buildings have been cherry-picked for occupation.
View ArticleApollo House launches nightly 'mobile outreach' team
The group behind the occupied Nama-controlled building, Home Sweet Home, has launched the service following “extremely generous donations from the Irish public”.
View ArticleEdward Norton and Judd Apatow have been tweeting their support of Home Sweet...
The movement is going global.
View Article"I think people are very angry": Protesters call for action on homelessness...
Around 250 people took part in a march to the Department of Finance this afternoon.
View Article"This is not living it's just existing": Apollo House volunteer on her...
Carrie Hennessy, who is herself homeless, handed in a petition to the Department of Finance today.
View ArticleApollo House occupiers demand Government puts Nama buildings 'on the table'...
The group have been ordered to leave the building by next Wednesday.
View ArticleNama has identified nearly 7,000 homes for social housing - but only 2,748...
That is according to the agency’s annual report, published yesterday.
View ArticleHome Sweet Home co-founder no longer allowed entry to Apollo House
Quentin Sheridan originally founded the group in October.
View ArticleNo deal reached over occupiers leaving Apollo House
Talks between Government and activists went on until late last night.
View ArticleHome Sweet Home co-founder has multiple convictions for robbery, kidnap and...
Quentin Sheridan is no longer permitted to enter Apollo House.
View ArticleHome Sweet Home makes government deal but future of Apollo House uncertain
Residents at the facility are to be housed in two new ‘acclimation facilities’.
View ArticleLeaving Apollo House?: Home Sweet Home claims residents are coming back...
The activist group says alternative accommodation is not appropriate.
View Article'Apollo House was about much more than 35 people in one building'
This country needs a lot more people to say enough is enough, and on many more issues than homelessness, writes Frankie Gaffney.
View Article'We are going to defy this court order': Apollo House occupiers say they're...
They had been ordered to leave the building by 12 noon today.
View ArticleSimon Coveney says residents must leave Apollo House but denies plans to...
The minister said misinformation has been swirling on Twitter.
View Article"Not one person left behind" - there's a cheerful defiance about Apollo House...
The remaining occupants of the Nama-controlled building have been ordered to vacate the building by the High Court.
View ArticleApollo House occupation: One resident remains inside the building
The majority of residents and activists formally left the building this afternoon.
View ArticleTears and cheers as Apollo House occupiers claim a 'sad victory'
There were tears and cheers in equal measure this morning following today’s leaving Apollo House.
View Article'This is only the start' - The occupation has ended, but what's next for Home...
The occupation of Apollo House has ended – but what happens next?
View ArticleEveryone was equal, we left our egos at the door: Why I volunteered at Apollo...
Hazel Larkin tells her personal experience of what supporting residents meant to them – and to her.
View ArticleHome Sweet Home accuses minister of 'U-turn' as Anti-Evictions Bill voted down
The bill was narrowly voted down in the Dáil yesterday.
View ArticleDemolition of Apollo House put on hold
Objections about plans for the site have been made to An Bord Pleanála.
View ArticleBeds and furniture removed from Apollo House as legal proceedings officially end
The receivers intend to sell the building, which forms part of a block due for re-development.
View ArticlePoll: Do you think the Apollo House occupation was a success?
Legal proceedings formally ended yesterday.
View Article'There are definitely stories that would fit onto the big screen': Jim...
The film director is proud of what the Apollo House occupation achieved.
View ArticleMannix Flynn: 'Apollo House completely failed'
The Dublin City councillor said that the criticism of the council was unfair and the occupation “didn’t achieve anything”.
View ArticleWhat has happened to Home Sweet Home (and the €190,000 that was donated)?
The campaign responsible for the occupation of Apollo House has been quiet in recent months.
View ArticleDublin Lord Mayor calls for Home Sweet Home to donate remaining €129,000 to...
Brendan Carr said that the funds raised by the campaign should “be immediately put to use assisting people in housing need”.
View ArticleApollo House is going to be demolished
Hawkins House – widely known as the capital’s ‘ugliest building’ – will also be redeveloped.
View ArticleHome Sweet Home donations to be given to groups tackling homelessness
About €129,000 was unspent after the occupation of Apollo House in Dublin ended.
View ArticleApollo House vigil cancelled amid reports of sex crime convictions for...
Stephen “Jack” Watson had previously been deported from Australia.
View Article'People are dying': One year after Apollo House and homelessness is worse...
The Home Sweet Home campaign received widespread attention when it took over Apollo House on Hawkins Street for homeless people.
View Article'One former Apollo House resident has died on the streets already'
Many former residents feel let down.
View ArticleRTÉ journalist takes Apollo House organiser Brendan Ogle to court over...
An RTÉ story last year said that Ogle’s Unite union sought an exemption from providing social housing during Apollo House.
View ArticleApollo House will soon be a thing of the past as demolition work begins
The office block on Dublin’s Tara Street is about to be torn down.
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