Children in Cork residential care centre pepper-sprayed during call out by gardaí, report finds

Children's rights groups have expressed concern over the finding in an inspection report that children in a residential special care centre were pepper-sprayed and handcuffed when gardai responded to staff calls for assistance.

EPIC (Empowering People In Care) said it was seriously concerned at the findings by the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) in an announced inspection of the Gleann Alainn Special Care Unit in Cork.