Tusla pays legal fees for vulnerable child who could not avail of solicitor due to strike
Boy had been released on continuing bail at previous court sitting and subsequently breached conditions repeatedly
Most primary and secondary students refused to go to school at least once last year
Anxiety, difficulties engaging with lessons and friendship problems cited as reasons in Barnardos study
‘The trauma, for kids especially, is huge’: A family’s struggle to get out of homelessness
David Carroll says rising rents, cost-of-living issues and mental health difficulties are putting people under increasing pressure
Cancer survival rates in Ireland improve ‘substantially’
Survival rates now up to 30 per cent higher than in the 1990s, study shows
Growing number of doctors in Ireland are women and from outside the EU
Asked to identify the main barriers to patient care from a list of options, doctors most often selected ‘pressure on workloads’
Homelessness overtakes addiction as main issue for Ana Liffey service users
‘The sense that we are all only one pay cheque away from the risk of homelessness really resonates,’ charity’s chief executive says
Inside the crisis at Oberstown: ‘We are in an emergency situation’
Agreement has been reached to increase staffing levels, although concerns remain about lack of capacity and an increase in detainees ‘acting out’
Daniel Aruebose murder: Gardaí liaise with authorities in seven jurisdictions outside Ireland
Force provides update on investigation into child’s death almost one year on from Tusla raising concerns about boy
Number of homeless people in State increases to more than 17,500, data shows
But Department of Housing figures indicate falling numbers of single adults without accommodation in Dublin
Talks to prevent 48-hour work stoppage at State’s only child detention centre to begin
Oberstown has recently seen an increase the number of boys it is certified to accommodate, from 40 to 42
M9 crash funeral: Jack Kennedy’s mother sends ‘heartfelt apologies’ to the injured
Canon Frank McEvoy appeals to young people who might be attracted to criminal activity to ‘please stop’ during funeral Mass in Athy
‘What the boys did was wrong,’ priest tells funeral of M9 crash teenager Jeremy O’Brien
Fourth of five funerals takes place as family members injured in motorway collision remain in hospital
M9 crash: Local TD to meet families of Carlow teens killed in collision last weekend
Calls for strategy to address youth marginalisation and criminality
Who were the M9 crash teenagers?
Despite public uproar over the fatal collision last weekend, gardaí say the policy of not engaging in wrong-way motorway chases will probably not change
‘We gather in solidarity’: Hundreds attend Carlow vigil for injured victims of M9 crash
Bishop also urged those present to remember boys killed as it’s ‘the Christian thing to do’