Katherine Zappone

A Government commitment to extend paid parents leave from two weeks to five weeks will become operational next month. Minister for Children Roderic O(...)

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said the issue of illegal adoption was “shocking” and said that those affected will be helped and supported. He was spe(...)

More than three years ago, the then board of Scouting Ireland gathered at its head office in Larch Hill, south Co Dublin, to pore over a stark report (...)

Scouting Ireland’s board has expelled the chief scout and two senior figures, who were at the centre of a controversy over governance and safeguardin(...)

Establishing the right of adopted people to information about their birth mothers is complicated by the constitutional right to privacy for those moth(...)

A number of senior Scouting Ireland figures have called for the suspension of chief scout Christy McCann to be lifted “immediately”, in a renewed bout(...)

Publication of the mother and baby homes report will increase pressure on the Government to issue a State apology and move forward with a financial co(...)

The row over the treatment of sensitive information currently in the possession of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation has raised mu(...)

The Government is to initiate a wide-ranging review of the “fragmented” childcare sector that will pave the way for the introduction of a new childcar(...)

An urban-versus-rural battle in Fine Gael this week revived memories of the Great Heave of 2010, when country and western Enda Kenny routed the leader(...)