Brothers of Charity

Imagine if working with the soil could be medically beneficial for people’s mental health. Well, new studies suggest it is, as microbes with antidepre(...)

In January, the Irish Government committed to formally ratifying the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability at the end of March. The (...)

When Ireland’ s first round-world yachtsman Conor O’Brien designed and built a 56ft ketch more than 90 years ago, he was not to know that it would bec(...)

A 40-year social experiment in which people with intellectual disabilities have lived and learned alongside the mainstream community in Co Kilkenny ha(...)

Pope Francis has ordered the Brothers of Charity religious congregation in Belgium to end the practice of offering euthanasia in its psychiatric hospi(...)

A Brothers of Charity centre for the disabled failed to properly manage challenging behaviour that left one resident “crying and shaking” and threaten(...)

Properties yet to be fully transferred to the State under the 2002 indemnity agreement with religious congregations include five owned by the Sisters(...)

As a child, David Dineen (46) experienced “savage sexual abuse,” and beatings in a Brothers of Charity institution in Cork. He left, aged 15, and spen(...)

If we truly want to learn from the appallingly bad decisions made in the life of “Grace” we must also face the context in which they were made. New t(...)

WHEN student Aoife King applied for a place on a performance arts course three years ago, her family had no idea how much it would transform her life(...)