Anxiety, difficulties engaging with lessons and friendship problems cited as reasons in Barnardos study

David Carroll says rising rents, cost-of-living issues and mental health difficulties are putting people under increasing pressure

Survival rates now up to 30 per cent higher than in the 1990s, study shows

Asked to identify the main barriers to patient care from a list of options, doctors most often selected ‘pressure on workloads’

‘The sense that we are all only one pay cheque away from the risk of homelessness really resonates,’ charity’s chief executive says

Agreement has been reached to increase staffing levels, although concerns remain about lack of capacity and an increase in detainees ‘acting out’

Force provides update on investigation into child’s death almost one year on from Tusla raising concerns about boy

But Department of Housing figures indicate falling numbers of single adults without accommodation in Dublin

Oberstown has recently seen an increase the number of boys it is certified to accommodate, from 40 to 42

Canon Frank McEvoy appeals to young people who might be attracted to criminal activity to ‘please stop’ during funeral Mass in Athy

Fourth of five funerals takes place as family members injured in motorway collision remain in hospital

Calls for strategy to address youth marginalisation and criminality

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

Bishop also urged those present to remember boys killed as it’s ‘the Christian thing to do’

Co Carlow teenager was one of five friends killed in head-on collision on Sunday