Children experiencing a mental health crisis will be unable to access an emergency out-of-hours on-call service at the only two emergency departments (EDs) in Cork City after the HSE was forced to suspend the service indefinitely due to chronic staffing shortages.

With nine out of ten social care workers subjected to regular abuse, threats, and physical assault, workplace violence is in danger of becoming a cultural norm, warns a new report.

Children’s charity Barnardos is calling on the Government not to cut child benefit in next week’s budget

MORE than 2,300 children and teenagers are waiting to access mental health services in this country — even though this figure has dropped by nearly 10% in the past year.