Grainia Long

The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children said its Childline service received 1, 040 contacts from children across Ireland on Christ(...)

Children in Ireland as young as five-years-old have unlimited and unsupervised access to the internet, a children’s charity has reported. The Irish (...)

Children who are currently homeless in Ireland are worse off than children who are homeless in the UK, a children’s charity has said. Marking Human (...)

A new “friendship” app, which has become increasingly popular with Irish teenagers in recent months, is being used to exchange sexually explicit photo(...)

More than 30,000 teachers who qualified a decade or more ago face being vetted for the first time by gardaí. Until recently only new teachers and th(...)

The Ombudsman for Children has said the new National Taskforce on Youth Mental Health will need to ensure it delivers specific actions that will “make(...)

Children are being exposed to sexualised language and images at younger ages and schools should make an effort to educate students on the issue, accor(...)

Children who reported suicidal thoughts have had to wait up to four weeks for an emergency appointment, according to Grainia Long of the Irish Society(...)

The number of homeless children and families continues to increase with the latest figures for last month showing there were 2,177 homeless children i(...)

Removing children from a foster home where there has been an allegation of sexual abuse should only be done as a “last resort”, the head of Tusla, the(...)