When a government policy is approaching its sell-by date and has not yet been fully implemented, there can be a temptation to consign it to a d(...)

Ennis is to be the eternal home for Czech national Josef Pavelka after efforts to repatriate the man’s body to his native country have failed. (...)

The adversarial nature of the criminal justice process is unsuited to dealing with sensitive issues like child sexual abuse, a conference on ch(...)

An independent inspection of the HSE’s child protection services has found serious failures regarding the handling of reports over suspect abus(...)

The Health Service Executive is to pay total compensation of €168,000 to two women after it failed to provide them with nursing home care on th(...)

Minister for Health Dr James Reilly has opened up the possibility of having some form of childr(...)

Health authorities are failing to assess the needs of hundreds of children with suspected disabilities within legal time limit(...)

Overcrowding, staffing levels and the presence of tuberculosis (TB) are among concerns raised by visiting committees to three prisons in 2012, (...)

Health Service Executive managers removed target dates for recruitment of mental health staff from the executive’s service pla(...)

What strikes the reader first is the title. Gone is the ‘Protection of Maternal Life Bill’ mentioned on the Government’s legislative schedule e(...)