The Child and Family Agency has apologised for what it says were unacceptable shortcomings in the care of a teenager who spent much of his life in state care before dying of a drug overdose.

Racial profiling played a major part in the Garda handling of two cases in which Roma children were wrongly removed from their parents last October because of unfounded fears that they had been abducted.

An allegation that a father offered to abuse his young daughter online is among the horrific cases outlined in the latest report by the Child Care Law Reporting Project.

A Tennessee judge who changed a baby’s name because she believes “Messiah” should be reserved for Jesus Christ was overruled, local media reported.

Robbie Williams got his latest arena tour out of the blocks in the Aviva last night, while down Leeside it was Little Mix taking to the Marquee stage.

Kelly Rowland loved being reunited with her "sisters" during Destiny's Child's halftime Super Bowl performance.

Kelly Rowland didn't sign up to 'The X Factor' to work with "brats".

Kelly Rowland is worried she will get a British accent like Madonna if she stays in the UK too long.

IN more innocent times in 1991, Bishop Comiskey of the diocese of Ferns, said this about the Irish Government: “It is economically and morally bankrupt.”

Annie Lennox thinks Aretha Franklin is the world’s greatest singer.

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.

CHILD advocacy specialist Norah Gibbons was shocked when she heard there are more than 2,000 children living in direct provision accommodation in this country.

Former Destiny's Child star Kelly Rowland has reportedly been dropped by her record label, just two months after firing her manager, former bandmate Beyonce Knowles' dad.

CHILD protection campaigners have said they fear bishops will still retain too much discretion over the information they hold about child sex abuse despite promises of new legislation intended to make it easy for them to open their files.

The Celtic Tiger economy has failed to deal with persistently high rates of child poverty, a leading charity warned today.

Former Destiny's Child star Kelly Rowland has hinted the girl band plans to record new material for a comeback tour.

Singer Letoya Luckett was devastated after leaving r n'b group Destiny's Child - because she felt abandoned by her former bandmates.

CHILD sex abuse allegations have been made against 26 priests who worked in Derry, it was revealed last night.

Beyonce Knowles has been thrust into a magazine cover colour war in America after a new pop culture publication claimed her skin had been lightened for the cover of style bible Vanity Fair.

TÁNAISTE and Health Minister Mary Harney will today launch a major initiative in the mid-west to improve services for babies and young children with intellectual disability.

The latest Destiny's Child album may be the R&B trio's last ever disc, according to the group's singer Beyonce Knowles.

Beyonce Knowles is keen to take another break from girl group Destiny's Child after the release of their forthcoming album.

THE Nigerian father of an Irish-born daughter made an unsuccessful public appeal for his two-year-old daughter and his wife to remain in Ireland before the family were deported on a charter flight late on Wednesday.

A woman made it into the upper ranks of policing in Northern Ireland for the first time tonight when she was appointed as an Assistant Chief Constable.

Sexy star Beyonce Knowles has some bad news for her male fans – she has vowed never to pose nude.

Beyonce Knowles says she would advise wannabe pop stars to steer clear of the music industry.

Beyonce says she hasn't had a man approach her in years.