Scouting Ireland

David Barry’s ‘vile self-gratification, lies and deceit had a profound negative effect on our lives’

David Barry plied teenage victims with alcohol before sexually assaulting them, court hears

Martin Burbridge stepping down to focus on ‘health and retirement’

Reporter Jack Power talks to Conor Pope about the abuse scandal at Scouting Ireland

Evidence abuser brought child to other perpetrator’s home to molest, says Elliott

New chief scout says organisation has key role to play for children in post-Covid world

First woman and youngest person elected chief scout at AGM on Saturday

Christy McCann seeks to take defamation case following expulsion from youth organisation

File to be sent to DPP over alleged abuse by former scout leader in 1970s and 80s

Organisation has been dogged by long-running controversy involving senior volunteers

TD Alan Farrell says he hopes line has been drawn in sand following expulsion of chief scout

Youth organisation board expels senior figures following long disciplinary process

David O’Brien (69) previously said he had abused between 30 and 40 boys

Judge orders regulator can receive names of individuals man claimed assaulted him

Christy McCann and two other officers suspended over handling of rape allegation

Youth organisation’s current safeguarding manager retiring after a year in the role

Carlow man reached the pinnacle of 19th century science but full recognition eluded him

Scouting Ireland identified 356 alleged victims, 275 alleged perpetrators of child sexual abuse

Figure in international scout movement says Irish policies among best in world for decades

Michael Noel Sheehan (74) replied not guilty when charged by gardaí in Co Cork

Fears independent investigation could jeopardise pending criminal cases

Report found abuse was ‘tolerated’ and covered up in legacy scouting organisations

Volunteers who tried to report abuse were put under pressure and told that certain senior officials were ‘too important’ to be challenged, report says

Scouting bodies protected each other and their reputations while facilitating sex abuse

Darkest hour for the scouting movement as scale of child abuse scandal laid bare

One victim described how he was given alcohol before being raped by his scout leader

Scandal unfolded in February 2018 when details of review into group’s handling of rape allegation were published

Survivors groups say the report by Ian Elliott shows the need to invest in child safeguards

Child safeguarding expert Ian Elliott’s report on Scouting Ireland outlines steps to improve organisation

Scouting Ireland published final report on Thursday into historical child sex abuse

Start of the controversy over safeguarding standards dates back more than two years

Scouting Ireland makes an ‘organisational apology’ to survivors of child sex abuse

Child protection expert Ian Elliott’s awaited report into past child sex abuse completed

Organisation has been at the centre of major governance and safeguarding controversies

Adult volunteers to assist in community support effort of pensioners and the vulnerable

Taoiseach announces closure of schools, colleges and other public facilities

Abuse alleged to have happened in man’s home, in scout hall and scout camp

Cormac Ó Braonáin ‘patchwork quilt of a person with a thousand passions’, says sister

Girl’s father instructed scout leaders to take her to hospital but they refused , court told

Minister wants to establish if organisation ‘comprehensively’ implemented changes