Senior Irish and UK government ministers have urged politicians to be careful about the language they use in the wake of the latest Twitter row between elected representatives in the North.

Since 1991, and now including Donald Trump, US groups lobbying against carbon dioxide controls have relied on the research of two economists, says Benjamin Franta

Children whose parents drink to excess, along with children who are homeless and others who are victims of crime are not being looked after by this Government, say children’s rights groups.

The latest report card on the Government’s performance regarding children shows it to be a struggling student, writes Noel Baker.

Over 1,000 organisations have signed up to a voluntary governance code aimed at maintaining public trust and confidence in the charitable sector, it has emerged.

The former minister for mental health, Kathleen Lynch, was aware that embattled charity Console was being audited by the HSE but said her main concern was that its counselling was not in question.

The charities regulator does not have the legal power to carry out statutory investigations of charities — as a section of the legislation has yet to be enacted.

A former director of a children’s charity has claimed CCTV footage he has given to gardaí will contradict a claim by the charity’s founder that a theft took place from its ambulance at last year’s National Ploughing Championships.

A charity set up by the father of two children who died of a rare and fatal disease is the subject of a preliminary review by the charities’ watchdog on foot of complaints about governance and an alleged theft.

The head of the State body for overseeing Ireland’s built, cultural, and natural heritage has admitted he regularly questions the work it does in the face of a lack of resources and the impact it may have on the health of his staff.

A charities umbrella group has claimed that less than 5% of voluntary groups have signed up to strict transparency rules to prevent another CRC or Rehab crisis because of “government inaction” on the issue.

The new children’s ombudsman must prioritise the hidden issues of young people living in poverty, direct provision and inappropriate psychiatric services if he wants to succeed in his role, a leading children’s rights’ group has demanded.

Children as young as 11, living in Direct Provision centres, have expressed thoughts of suicide, it has been revealed.

The Government has scored a C grade in the Children’s Rights Alliance new Report Card on how it is providing for the State’s young people — but was warned that more needs to be done in a number of areas, including migrant and Traveller children.

The Government has failed children with mental health needs, according to the annual report card issued by the Children’s Rights Alliance which said the Government was repeatedly failing to meet its own targets.

Children’s rights groups have insisted that any savings made from further cuts to child benefit payments must be ring-fenced for redistribution to struggling families to reduce the number of children at risk of poverty.

The number of Irish children falling victim to child trafficking within the country is growing, a new report has found.

Some children who were trafficked into and within the country may still be in vulnerable situations due to a lack of follow-up monitoring, according to a new report.

* Children’s Rights Alliance: While people enjoyed the trappings of the Celtic Tiger, children died in the care of the state, the CRA said.

As a largely Christian country, we profess to be particularly concerned about the welfare of children, but ultimately we have had a dismal record when it comes to the protection of vulnerable young people.

IRELAND and the other countries getting bailout funds from the EU/IMF could have their credit ratings suspended as part of changes in regulating Credit Rating Agencies.

CHILDREN’S advocacy groups last night gave a guarded response to the proposed wording of the long-awaited constitutional amendment on children’s rights.

MARIA CORBETT, policy director of Children’s Rights Alliance (CRA), said the figures raised a lot of issues.

Child sex traffickers are increasingly turning to Ireland as a gateway into Britain, a report claimed today.

DIRECTORS of financial institutions will no longer be able to sit on more than three boards, and they must bring expertise to their positions, according to European Commission proposals to regulate corporate governance.

THE HSE was criticised yesterday for the late postponing of the publication of two reports into the deaths of two young people in care over what it called “unresolved legal issues”.

THERE was a broad welcome for the proposed constitutional amendment enshrining the rights of the child yesterday.

THE Government has slumped to a D grade average in a review of its policies on children from a coalition of 90 groups around the country, who described the Government’s performance as “barely acceptable”.

THE Government has been accused of refusing to acknowledge a “modern slave trade” exists in this country, in the form of child trafficking.

CHILDREN should be able to access a social worker without parental consent as part of a new 24-hour, out-of-hours service, the ISPCC said yesterday.

THE Garda body responsible for the vetting of people working with children is in urgent need of more staff after dealing with a record 218,404 applications last year.

A CHILDREN’S rights amendment would be a ‘living memorial’ to the victims of abuse catalogued in the Ryan Report, the Children’s Rights Alliance will tell the Government today.

FINANCE Minister Brian Lenihan has opened a poverty trapdoor for poor children by introducing a series of damaging tax and welfare system changes for young families across the country, a leading group has warned.

THE Government will today be accused of breaking a string of promises on child welfare and of overseeing a health system more interested in money than child wellbeing.

The Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO) has launched a national protest against the “savage cuts” imposed in the recent budget.

AN Irish Press reporter was watching a police water cannon vehicle moving into position. He had never seen one in action before.

While thousands of anxious teenagers await their Junior Certificate results today, the Children’s Rights Alliance (CRA) is calling on the Government to support the estimated 2,000 children who will have no results to pick up.

A NEWLY formed alliance of residents’ groups in Limerick yesterday claimed families being moved to the suburbs from Southill and Moyross, as part of the regeneration programme for the vast council estates, are already causing trouble.

A TROUBLED 15-year-old girl who has been using drugs and has gone missing 25 times this year has been further remanded in custody until Friday pending efforts to place her into foster care.

CHILDREN’S rights organisations yesterday formed an unofficial watchdog to monitor the controversial introduction of anti-social behaviour (ASBO) laws for young people.

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell yesterday extended right to remain applications for 17,000 non-nationals until 2010 under “rigorous” conditions.

AFTER 14 years of having ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), it might be expected that the Government would have implemented key areas of it.