Cormac O’Keeffe Some of Ireland’s highest-risk young offenders are to receive professional training towards working careers as baristas under a new initiative.

Three staff at the country’s only detention centre for young offenders provide a rare insight into their work, what they are trying to achieve and why society should invest in their efforts, writes security correspondent Cormac O’Keeffe.

Juvenile offenders were responsible for almost half of all sexual offences recorded by gardaí in 2016.