‘A close shave with a Dublin bus made me reconsider commuting by e-scooter’
Traumatic brain injuries among child e-scooter users in Ireland have jumped by 50% in just 12 months. Alarmed medics say it is time to take action
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Porn before puberty in Ireland: ‘It is horrible, and it’s in every school’
Half of schoolchildren have seen pornography by age of 13, including ‘very, very disturbing images’. Is there a case for a UK-style social media ban for under-16s?
Social media ban for under-16s fails to address tech companies’ responsibility
A blanket ban could lead young people into greater danger on less regulated or entirely unregulated sites
Irish children’s reading and maths got worse after pandemic, study finds
Gap between the reading scores of children in Deis versus non-Deis schools widened after pandemic, report says
‘On the Sunday she had a temperature and then everything changed’: Losing limbs to sepsis
Dubliner Sophie Lanigan (15) developed sepsis due to a deadly bacterial infection in 2022. She and her parents talk about life after the day ‘everything changed’
‘My children showed me what to do’: Dr Suzanne Crowe on raising kids after loss
Conversations with Parents podcast with Jen Hogan
Education, Tusla and health services caused bulk of complaints to Children’s Ombudsman
Human rights body intervened after disabled boy’s SNA was changed, annual report reveals
Under-16s say a social media ban won’t work. The Government needs to listen to them
International experts, children’s rights organisations and children themselves are clear: ban the harmful content, don’t ban the children
Families of disabled children awaiting needs assessments to raise frustration in Europe
Children have a legal right to assessments of need for educational purposes, but many wait years
Irish baby among world’s first to receive experimental gene therapy
Scientists hope trial will lead to treatment for rare and fatal Canavan disease
Promised review of cases of children who may have had unnecessary hip surgery not yet started
Audit found 60% of procedures at Temple Street hospital did not meet the clinical criteria for surgery
HSE chief apologises for ‘unacceptable’ child mental health failures in north Kerry
Bernard Gloster says he is ‘truly sorry’ for harm caused to children accessing service
Teens and screens: How much mischief can they really get into?
Jen Hogan: It’s not only the people they speak to online, it’s the content they consume - and the messages
Review of orthopaedic surgeon’s work extended to hundreds more children
First phase of the review, which examined work of consultant Connor Green, has been completed
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