Brothers of Charity
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‘I can say this is the happiest I’ve ever been and my family will say that, here on the farm’
- People
- May 12, 2018, 06:00
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(...)

How long should a severely disabled child have to wait for a wheelchair in Ireland?
- Health & Family
- April 4, 2018, 12:01
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 (...)

Last ocean-going wooden ketch built in Ireland set to return to sea
- Social Affairs
- January 13, 2018, 01:00
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(...)

End to social experiment angers families and staff of care centre
- Health
- October 23, 2017, 01:00
A 40-year social experiment in which people with intellectual disabilities have lived and learned alongside the mainstream community in Co Kilkenny ha(...)

Pope orders halt to euthanasia at Catholic hospitals in Belgium
- Religion & Beliefs
- August 11, 2017, 16:18
Pope Francis has ordered the Brothers of Charity religious congregation in Belgium to end the practice of offering euthanasia in its psychiatric hospi(...)

Challenging behaviour not managed at disability centre, Hiqa finds
- Health
- August 4, 2017, 20:39
A Brothers of Charity centre for the disabled failed to properly manage challenging behaviour that left one resident “crying and shaking” and threaten(...)

Religious congregations approach fulfilment of 2002 indemnity agreement terms
- Religion & Beliefs
- April 7, 2017, 01:00
Properties yet to be fully transferred to the State under the 2002 indemnity agreement with religious congregations include five owned by the Sisters(...)

Abuse survivor says scheme to enable victims is ‘disabling people’
- Social Affairs
- March 20, 2017, 01:00
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(...)

‘Grace’ inquiry must include every player in this appalling saga
- Social Affairs
- March 9, 2017, 05:00
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(...)

Blue Teapot performance arts students graduate in Galway
- Irish News
- November 24, 2016, 16:35
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(...)