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The number of people homeless in Ireland has begun to rise again.
New figures from the Department of Housing today show an increase in 81 to the total list in October.
Just over 8,700 people are without a home, and around 2,600 of those are children.
1,267 allegations of domestic abuse have been made to Kildare Gardai over the last four years.
Of those, 275 have been made so far this year.
76.5% are female and 23.5%.
Nationally, 7,300 people have made contact with Gardai since January, reporting domestic abuse.
The Dept. of Justice is examining ways in which Naas Courthouse can be expanded.
Services there are operating at capacity.
Included in this examination is the option of expanding the current building, or constructing a new premises on a greenfield site.
6 homes in Kildare are among 51 bought today by the iCare Housing Agency.
The approved housing body was established 2 years ago, and has acquired the distressed home loans from respective banks.
The householders can continue to live in their homes, as tenants of iCare.
98 people in Kildare died of Covid 19 between April and June.
The Central Statistics Office has released vital statistics for Quarter Two.
49 were male, and 49 were female.
367 people in the county passed away during that period.
171 people in Kildare were diagnosed with Covid 19 in the two weeks to Wednesday
The county's 14 day Covid 19 incidence rate now stands at 76.9 cases, per 100,000 people.
The national i for that period is 103.9 cases per 100,000 people
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Siptu says it has received assurances that 400 staff at the Proctor and Gamble plant in Newbridge will be retained on the same terms, once the facility's sale is completed.
The union represents 280 of the workers.
133 people were in emergency accommodation in Kildare in October, a reduction of 3 on September's data.
That's according the Dept. of Housing.
The number of people in homelessness in Kildare, for the first time in many months, fewer than Meath (151),
275 people in Kildare have reported incidents of domestic abuse to Gardai this year.
207 are women, and 68 are men,
Nationally, almost 7,300 individual people have been the victims of domestic abuse so far this year.
78 per cent are women and 22 per cent are men.
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