The operator of the Aer Lingus Regional route network has said it intends to play a leading part in further consolidation among Europe's smaller airlines despite losses mounting in its latest financial year.

Three trade unions, Fórsa, SIPTU and CONNECT are joining forces to call for reform of services ahead of the local elections in May.

Caranua paid almost €100,000 to a Catholic Church-funded counselling service to provide support to abuse survivors over the last two years.

ANYONE who believes that the trauma of neglect, or emotional, sexual, and physical abuse in childhood does not leave a life-changing mark on the victims should read today’s front-page report on the difficulties facing Connect, a national telephone counselling service.

Sexual abuse in childhood was reported by more than half of callers to a telephone counselling service for the first six months of 2015.

Abuse survivors’ service set to be contacted 10,000 times this year

An Irish counselling service for abuse victims has reported a 22% increase in the number of people making contact.

Nearly half of all abuse reported by callers to a specialist telephone service occurred within the family home, new figures show.

New figures from a nationwide counselling service show abuse is still most likely to happen in a family setting.

Connect Counselling is expanding its opening hours for the next six weeks to open seven days a week.

The Sisters of Bon Secours have said they are shocked and deeply saddened by the discovery of hundreds of dead babies in a septic tank on the grounds of a former mother and baby home in Tuam, Co Galway.

Connect, which provides counselling services for adults who were abused in childhood, is to extend it's opening hours over the Christmas holidays to deal with an increase in calls.

One in five calls to a counselling helpline for adult survivors of childhood abuse are going unanswered because of staff shortages.

The Bishop of Clonfert has today apologised for moving two priests from one parish to another in the 1990s after they abused children.

The number of calls made to the country’s telephone counselling service soared by 22% last year to 10,384, but 28% of calls went unanswered.

The world’s leading research, media and technology company has created 125 jobs in Dublin city centre.

The world’s leading research, media and technology company has created 125 jobs in Dublin city centre.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore said that it is his personal view that the Catholic Primate of all Ireland, Cardinal Seán Brady, should resign in the wake of the latest abuse scandal.

Connect - the free confidential telephone-based counselling and support service - is to extend its opening hours over Christmas.

A FREE professional helpline for survivors of abuse, which has had its budget slashed by 25%, says it needs to expand its services to deal with thousands of unanswered phone calls.

Counselling service, Connect, will open this evening and over the weekend to provide telephone-based counselling and support, following today’s launch of Chapter 19 of the Murphy Report.

CALLS to a vital adult counselling service for people abused as children surged by 37% in the aftermath of the Ryan and Murphy reports.

Connect, the National Adults Counselling Service, reported a 37% increase in calls during 2009 receiving 8,264 calls compared to 6,020 in 2008 and 4,630 in 2007.

AGENCIES providing support services for victims of abuse are dealing with a new wave of anguish caused by revelations thrown up by the latest clerical abuse probe.

ABUSE victim support services will join forces this week to respond to the massive outpouring expected from the publication of the Dublin Archdiocese report.

SUPPORT agencies are urging survivors of sexual abuse to reach out for help when the Dublin Archdiocese Report is published.

A COUNSELLING service for survivors of sexual abuse is reporting a surge in calls which it links directly to the publication of the Ryan report earlier this year.

There has been a 39% increase in the number of calls to the Connect counselling service for victims of sexual abuse.

A HELPLINE for abuse victims has fielded a month’s worth of calls in seven hours following the publication of the damning report into institutional child abuse.

AN out-of-hours phone counselling service received 1,400 more calls last year than in 2007, according to new statistics.

A counselling service for adults who suffered childhood abuse has had its busiest year ever, it was revealed today.

PRIVATE prisons should be tried as an experiment to see if commercial companies could handle inmates more cheaply and efficiently than the Irish Prison Service, according to the Inspector of Prisons.

THE Government has rowed back on plans to extend a successful prison rehabilitation project into all jails, according to a leading criminal expert.

Connect Global Solutions (Connect) has been awarded the IBM software business partner of the year award at a Business Partner event held at the Herbert Park Hotel, Dublin.

Connect Global Solutions has successfully completed the first production installation of Lotus Notes 6.

Irish company, Connect Electronics has acquired a €10m shareholding in Broad Band Communications as part of a management buyout.