
As the 6th National Child Protection and Welfare Conference gets underway in UCC, social workers are asking if mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse will improve or harm their ability to protect children, writes Health Correspondent Catherine Shanahan.
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The West’s failure to support Kurdish independence will condemn this people to further oppression by hostile forces, writes Shlomo Avineri.
MoreOnce all the anger was vented, we were left with very little, writes Daniel McConnell.
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The Charleton Tribunal came across a serious cover-up yesterday. As of now, the cover-up is only alleged, writes Michael Clifford.
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Parents are paying the equivalent of a second mortgage on childcare because state investment is 10% of what is internationally recommended, says Marian Quinn
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We should not feel sympathy for Tom Humphries. One expert says we need to realise nothing happened to him, that it’s entirely of his own design, reports Joyce Fegan
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The darkest part of Éamon de Valera’s political life is chronicled in a new book that whets the appetite for the second volume, writes Ryle Dwyer.
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While politicians of all stripes line up to criticise the banks, Philip Lane, the Central Bank governor, has been reserved. So far, it seems to be working, writes Michael Clifford.
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The president cannot be tamed, so it is time to put the national interest ahead of party politics, says Nina L Khrushcheva.
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