Child protection and welfare services provided a timely and good-quality service to most high-risk children who were living at home or in the community. However, some children were waiting a long time ...

The number of homeless people in Ireland has reached a new record high of more than 16,700, including more than 5,200 ...

Exhumation of a mass grave has begun in Tuam, Ireland, at the site of a former mother and baby home — one of several that once operated across the country. The burial site, which could hold the ...

Excavation has begun on a septic tank at a site in Ireland that authorities believe contains the remains of nearly 800 dead babies and children who died at a home for unwed mothers run by Catholic ...

Experts are searching for the remains of hundreds of children who died at the institution run by Catholic nuns until 1961, including bodies disposed of in a disused sewage system. By Amelia Nierenberg ...

THE NUMBER OF children in Ireland in “consistent poverty” has risen to over 100,000, which marks a “staggering” rise of 45,107 more children than the previous year. The stark statistics come from the ...

The Government’s new housing plan, ‘Delivering Homes, Building Communities,’ will help reduce the number of children experiencing homelessness, the housing minister has said. The overall target for ...