Report says children should get two years of free pre-schoolGovernment advisory group proposes increase in investment in early years educationSat Sept 28 2013 - 08:19
Limerick’s revived regeneration plan: smaller and cheaper but no less challengingDemolishing homes is easy - but undoing decades of social neglect is the real challengeSat Sept 28 2013 - 01:01
Government advised to increase parental leaveAdvisory group proposes fathers share paid parental leave with mothersSat Sept 28 2013 - 01:00
Government tells UN it has no plans to outlaw slapping of childrenBalance to be struck between ‘protecting children and criminalising parents’ - reportFri Sept 27 2013 - 01:00
Geoghegan shot while crouching on ground, inquest toldCoroner’s court hears rugby player received five gunshot wounds to head and bodyWed Sept 25 2013 - 15:44
Big fall in equality and human rights-related casesConcerns over resources available to watchdog bodies to combat discriminationTue Sept 24 2013 - 11:00
Minimum pricing an effective way of reducing alcohol consumptionPublic meeting hears of concern over rise in alcohol-related health problemsTue Sept 24 2013 - 01:00
Child poverty’s life-long scars end up leaving society poorerReport provides a frightening insight into how deprivation affects young childrenFri Sept 20 2013 - 20:39
State’s mishandling of child abuse has led to 29 inquiries and 550 recommendationsHSE chief says reports are ‘high in condemnation and low in systemic analysis’Thu Sept 19 2013 - 01:00
Violent computer games linked to increased aggression among adolescents – studyResearchers claim regular exposure to ‘brutal’ video games may desensitise teensWed Sept 18 2013 - 06:51
Studies highlight risks posed by social networking sites to childrenAlmost one in five youngsters have been upset by personal messages onlineWed Sept 18 2013 - 01:00
Violent computer games linked to increased aggression among adolescentsResearchers claim regular exposure to ‘brutal’ video games may desensitise teensTue Sept 17 2013 - 18:11
Researchers find key differences in brains of abused and neglected young peopleFindings suggest abnormalities may be linked to early exposure to mistreatmentTue Sept 17 2013 - 01:03
Baby boom poses challenge for child protection and welfare servicesReferrals of suspected child abuse or neglect almost doubled since 2006Tue Sept 17 2013 - 01:00
Irish Lives: the ‘Downturn Diaries’ revisitedIn early 2010 The Irish Times asked a group of people to record their fortunes in recession-hit Ireland. Some were badly hit by the downturn but hoped things would get better. Others were just starting out in careers and feared having to emigrate. So how has reality matched up to expectation? These are the accounts of three of the original participantsThu Sept 12 2013 - 01:00
Renewed pressure for ban on smacking of childrenChildren’s groups complained to Council of Europe over ‘reasonable chastisement’Mon Sept 02 2013 - 02:22
A death in a Dublin bin truckThe death of the homeless Polish man Henryk Piotrowski in a waste collection truck highlights the precarious lives of Ireland’s migrant homelessSat Aug 31 2013 - 01:00
Priory Hall mother urges solution after partner suicide‘The worry of not being able to provide a safe home for us . . . eventually took its toll’Fri Aug 30 2013 - 01:00
‘Everything possible’ done to help homeless Polish manHomeless support agency says extensive efforts made to assist Henryk PiotrowskiTue Aug 27 2013 - 01:00
Polish man crushed to death in bin 'let down by system'Henryk Piotrowski came in search of a better life but died homeless and aloneMon Aug 26 2013 - 01:16
Welfare authorities receive 1,000 applications for back-to-school payments every weekdaySurge in applications puts Government under pressure to contain cost of allowanceMon Aug 26 2013 - 01:00
Industry argued axing pay-TV services under insolvency rules would be ‘draconian’Groups said Sky and UPC subscriptions should be retained under debt dealsSun Aug 25 2013 - 22:04
‘Our children are citizens of the State, but they’re being left in limbo’Hundreds of families of young people with intellectual disabilities face cuts to day servicesSat Aug 24 2013 - 01:00
Privacy under pressureIreland has been silent on mass surveillance of foreign citizens by US compared to other European countriesSat Aug 24 2013 - 01:00
School-leavers with intellectual disabilities face ‘crisis’ due to funding cutsHundreds of young people will not get services to meet their assessed needsSat Aug 24 2013 - 01:00
Tax status removed from 651 charitiesMany charities have ceased activity or failed to fulfil terms of exemption, says RevenueThu Aug 22 2013 - 01:00
Browne trying to ‘settle a score’, says O’BrienJournalist rejects claim that criticism of businessman is linked to not getting Newstalk jobWed Aug 21 2013 - 01:00
Slane sex act photos: a salutary lesson of how social media can exploit and abuseExperts say more awareness needed of consequences of sharing material onlineWed Aug 21 2013 - 01:00
The Dundon legacyLimerick breathed a sigh of relief this week with the sentencing of John Dundon. But a decade of shootings and intimidation – and chronic social problems – have left the city scarredSat Aug 17 2013 - 01:00
Dundon conviction 'shows people no longer afraid'Ordinary people now given courage ‘to make that phone call, to assist gardaí and to provide evidence’Thu Aug 15 2013 - 01:00
Limerick is safer, but threats still remainLocals say sustained effort required to tackle ingrained criminality and restore hopeWed Aug 14 2013 - 01:00
Dundon’s day of reckoningBackground: Criminal gang leader’s conviction secured by evidence of extended family membersWed Aug 14 2013 - 01:00
John Dundon case: the key playersEvidence of three State witnesses was crucial to securing crime boss’s convictionWed Aug 14 2013 - 01:00
Grin from Dundon as he is led off to begin life sentenceKiller listens to rap music on headphones while judge delivers verdictWed Aug 14 2013 - 01:00
Dundon solicitor says appeal may followLimerick criminal expresses ‘regret’ over death of Shane GeogheganTue Aug 13 2013 - 14:05
Revenue to move on tax research loophole as millions lostExchequer lost €225m in 2010 in forgone taxes due to firms claiming R&D creditsMon Aug 12 2013 - 01:00
HSE ‘managing risks’ to patient safetyInternal register shows understaffing and cuts pose major challenges for health serviceSun Aug 11 2013 - 13:35
HSE managers warned of risks to patients from funding cuts and understaffingConfidential ‘risk register’ shows scale of challenges facing health serviceSat Aug 10 2013 - 01:00
Inside the Clearing House GroupSecretive group of financial executives and public servants has won key tax concessionsThu Aug 08 2013 - 01:00
Finance industry won key tax concessions in budgetControversy over influence of Clearing House Group on public policyThu Aug 08 2013 - 01:00
Defence witness denies role in Geoghegan murderClosing arguments in Dundon case due laterWed Aug 07 2013 - 14:36
Tax authority may halt pension inquiriesCostly investigation into tax affairs of older people has yielded just €11 millionSat Jul 27 2013 - 01:00
Undeclared rental income targeted in Revenue crackdownLandlords responsible for €42 million in upaid tax last year, records showSat Jul 27 2013 - 01:00
Revenue questions whether child benefit can be taxed if children legally own the paymentIT system allows authority to tax payment but officials say legal questions remainSat Jul 27 2013 - 01:00
Tax authorities using social networking to help identify potential tax defaultersSystem uses technology similar to that used by social media companiesSat Jul 27 2013 - 01:00
Revenue inquiry on Irish clients of HSBC with Swiss accountsTax authority has collected €30 million from individuals linked to offshore activitySat Jul 27 2013 - 01:00
Banks and large corporations can use huge losses to reduce corporation tax paymentsAudits show some multi-nationals cutting tax bills through incorrect use of tax creditsSat Jul 27 2013 - 01:00
Hiqa concern over ‘unsafe’ foster careSome children living with unapproved carers and do not have access to a social workerThu Jul 25 2013 - 14:02
