Ten per cent of online child sex abuse images feature infants

Average viewer of child abuse material ‘a middle-aged married man with children’

Glen appoints Jillian van Turnhout to review organisation

Appointment follows controversy over spending at Glen

RTÉ programme says Console ‘breached rules’ on director pay

€215,000 payment to Paul Kelly not included in altered accounts given to funders

Miriam Lord: Mysterious case of the uninvited women

Three women encounter political pain while another gets Clinton to sneak past sneakers rule

Van Turnhout urges end to RSA links with drinks industry

Independent Senator calls for authority to follow example of Department of Education

Will the ban on smoking in cars with children work?

Some questions remain over how the new legislation will be enforced by gardaí

State faces UN sanction over direct provision payment for children

Republic to attend Geneva hearing concerning the implementation of children’s rights

New rules may have minor impact on drink prices

Drinks industry has power to cut prices if it cuts alcohol strength

Drivers who smoke in cars with children face fine next month

Health authorities say children are more susceptible to the impact of second-hand smoke

Senator warns Seanad not to stop asylum application Bill

Jillian van Turnhout repsonds to criticism from non-governmental organisations

St Patrick’s youth detention centre to shut its doors

Institution once described as ‘finishing school for bullying and developing criminal skills’

Dáil vote on smacking of children a fitting legacy for late doctor

GP Cyril Daly began campaign in 1967 to ban corporal punishment

Analysis: A baby in one arm, a briefcase on the other

Cover of Budget 2016 document illustrates Government move to woo mothers

How Independent TDs spent their allowances

PR and consultancy fees, opinion polls and entertainment among TDs’ expenditure

‘Wolf in sheep’s clothing’ Bill passed for ‘won’t pay’ debtors

Bill a ‘panicked reaction’ following public’s ‘huge lack of buy-in’ on water charges

Right to access birth cert for up to 50,000 adopted

Cabinet to discuss draft legislation which will apply to all past and future adoptions

Child protection bosses express concern over high-risk cases

Tusla report says managers are not satisfied most vulnerable children can be kept safe

People still jailed as 2010 law for fines payment by instalment not implemented

Another law in 2014 with the same provisions also not implemented, Seanad told

Social worker shortage delaying 5,000 cases, committee hears

Tusla head tells Oireachtas that Child and Family Agency needs 280 new employees

Call for inquiry into HSE’s handling of vulnerable teen’s legal action

€1 million spent on legal fees in case of girl detained in English psychiatric unit

Seanad reforms unlikely in current Government term

Taoiseach Enda Kenny suggests reform in EU legislation and public policy consultation

Reilly disagrees with Tánaiste on Gender Recognition Bill

Minister wants Bill to go further in recognising rights of those aged 18 and under

Miriam Lord: Marie Louise tells Mattie the jig is up for his jibes

Senator eats McGrath alive over his ‘outrageous’ behaviour in Oireachtas restaurant

Work of forming new party speeds up following leaking of plans

Róisín Shortall, Stephen Donnelly, Catherine Murphy and Katherine Zappone involved

Language of medical profession a difficult obstacle for carers

Ninth National Carers Week will see more than 150 events across the country

Group not open to all Independent Senators, Craughwell says

Gerard Craughwell twice applied to group of five Independents and was twice rebuffed

Youth group praises ‘positive outcome’ from controversial drinking campaign

The Alcohol Health Alliance was good result from Diageo dispute, says Youth Council

Government to consider slapping ban after European ruling

Children’s groups say Ireland is out of kilter with Europe by permitting corporal punishment

Children’s rights groups urge Yes vote in same-sex marriage referendum

May 22nd offers ‘incredible opportunity’ to look LGBT people in the eye and tell them they are equal

Children and Family Relationships Bill passes in Seanad

Frances Fitzgerald: Rejects criticism saying children’s welfare turns on good parenting

Call to change law on smacking in wake of council findings

Ruling follows complaint by campaigners over ‘reasonable chastisement’ defence

GP resigns from Stop Out-of-Control Drinking campaign

Dr Ciara Kelly cites ‘time constraints’ on leaving campaign funded by Diageo

Government looks likely to win crucial Seanad vote on Water Services Bill

Government Senators are now in a minority in the 60-seat upper chamber

Increasing size of players behind rise of concussion in sport

Oireachtas report calls for taskforce to harmonise treatment of head injuries

Government may not carry Seanad vote on water charges

Varadkar warns of higher bills in January if concessions and lower charges not agreed

Government will not oppose adoption birth cert Bill

Philomena Lee backs law which would help women separated from sons and daughters by adoption

Philomena Lee gives support to new adoption bill

Seanad due to debate legislation which could give 50,000 adopted people the right to their birth cert

New law would give adopted right to birth cert

Senator Averil Power says adoptees have been ‘robbed of their identities’ for too long

Mental health staff numbers fall 3,500 short, say representatives

Just 63 more employed since 2011 despite €90m in extra funding, claims Mental Health Reform

Norris calls for next homeless or drugs centre to be on Ailesbury Road

He was not saying ‘not in my back yard . . . but our back yard is full’

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