AN elderly couple who devoted their lives to caring for their brain-injured son and who lost six other children to cystic fibrosis are Ireland’s Carers of the Year.

The Children’s Rights Alliance has today condemned the Government's decision to abandon the National Carers’ Strategy.

THE recent concerns raised in the media about the quality of nursing home care are timely in the context of Towards a Family Carers’ Strategy, the recent Carers’ Association report.