The HSE has confirmed that allegations of sexual abuse are among complaints that have come to light about the mistreatment of people at a care service for adults with intellectual disabilities over a 30-year period.

Education Minister Richard Bruton is preparing to enter a deal with the Christian Brothers that will only reduce what the order owes towards abuse costs if school playing fields are sold.

Education Minister Richard Bruton’s officials will meet the Christian Brothers order next week to discuss a disputed land deal to help meet their liability for child abuse redress costs.

A number of facilities for people with disabilities, run by the Daughters of Charity, have been criticised by the health watchdog, with a report into one centre stating that some residents remained at risk of experiencing abusive situations in their home, particularly of a psychological and emotional nature.

The religious order which ran an orphanage in Scotland where hundreds of children are believed to have died also ran Ireland’s largest mother and baby home.

A British woman has claimed she was abused at an orphanage run by nuns where the bodies of hundreds of children were "buried" in a mass grave.

The Government says it will continue to assert “moral pressure” on religious orders to provide more money to cover the costs of redress to survivors of residential abuse, with one survivors’ group claiming Pope Francis should become involved.

People with disabilities are living in overly restrictive settings, in homes with inadaquete fire plans and their care plans are not being properly monitored and updated, according to the latest review of residential centres by the health watchdog.

The State’s health services watchdog has found that just over a third of residential centres for people with a disability inspected recently offer a good quality of life in safe surroundings.

The Health watchdog is highlighting a failure to ensure a safe and good quality service for residents at a number of residential centres for people with disabilities.

Revenue officials are to begin an emergency examination of suicide prevention charity Console’s accounts within days, the Irish Examiner has learned.

Who will go head to head with Dalata in bidding for the investment sale of the Maldron Hotel, in the historic heart of Cork City centre, under Shandon Steeple?

Disabled people in a care home had to use their own money to buy bedroom furniture and extra snacks and drinks for a special diet, inspectors have revealed.

More than 20 staff at HSE homes for people with severe intellectual disabilities have been suspended or sacked since January 2014 over physical, financial and sexual abuse claims unrelated to the Áras Attracta scandal.

“Any society, any nation, is judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; the last, the least, the littlest” — Cardinal Roger Mahoney (1998).

A 68-year-old woman is suing two religious orders and the HSE over the alleged forced adoption of her four-month-old baby over 40 years ago.

The HSE has taken the first steps towards the possible installation of surveillance systems in its facilities to protect vulnerable patients in the wake of the Áras Attracta controversy.

The HSE has signalled that "a more detailed investigation will be required" into complaints at a care unit for people with intellectual disabilities where 11 workers have been placed on leave.

The head of a body representing people with intellectual disabilities and their families has said the HSE must ensure quality of life is provided for residents in care homes.

The Minister for Primary and Social Care has said she expects more concerns to be raised about care homes and disability services following the

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The HSE has confirmed 10 staff and one agency worker at a disability service run by the Daughters of Charity in Tipperary have been taken off duty following complaints over "inappropriate" care practices.

The HSE has said it has placed ten staff off-duty 'without prejudice' at a Co Tipperary disability service, while it investigates a complaint.

A charity for people with intellectual disabilities told the HSE its chief executive is contractually entitled to keep his €11,829 car allowance while, at the same time, he wrote to services’ users about the impact of budget cuts.

Hundreds of people took to the streets of Cork to demand removal of plans that would close the North Monastery primary school on the city’s northside.

The country’s only intensive therapeutic fostering service for extremely troubled children has been dropped, with the provider “devastated” by the decision.

THE fight between the Government and 18 religious orders over a €500 million point of principle has been laid bare for the first time.

The future of a disability service catering for up to 1,000 people in the MidWest is in doubt because of a funding crisis.

The Child Abuse Redress Scheme does not apply to all victims equally, says Conor Ryan

The shock closure of a major city hospital a quarter of a century ago will be remembered in Cork this weekend.

The Daughters of Charity are to close Rickard House in Blackrock, Co. Dublin, with the loss of 45 jobs.

A desperate mother who was forced to install a padded bedroom for her son to prevent him hurting himself has secured a meeting with authorities about her situation.

WITH an asset base worth €2.6 billion, 17 religious orders have been asked by the state to find up to €350 million in cash or property as an additional contribution to the redress deal.

THE Mosney Village in Co Meath, run by husband and wife, Phelim and Elizabeth McCloskey, more than doubled their pre-tax profits last year.

DESPITE offloading over €670 million worth of land during the property boom, the religious orders at the centre of the redress re-negotiations retained €3.1 billion in property assets.

In the first of a two-part Irish Examiner special investigation, we look at how we treat the most vulnerable in society.

ANNA Potiomicina held her daughter tightly as she tried to explain how health cutbacks at the Daughter’s of Charity service in Dublin would impact on her family.

CRIPPLING budget cuts to the HSE-funded voluntary bodies which cater for people with intellectual disabilities has dominated the headlines this week.

AT least 2,000 people converged on city centre Dublin, demanding cutbacks to disability services be reversed and the state stops treating those using the services as “second class citizens”.

A REDUCTION in home support hours and respite services will cause untold hardship for parents of intellectually disabled children and will lead to greater institutionalisation of the intellectually impaired, according to the head of the National Federation of Voluntary Bodies.

A CARE service for children with intellectual disabilities has been axed without warning after the Health Service Executive cut funding by €4 million.

THE last time former rugby star Gerry “Ginger” McLoughlin faced the haka, there were 15 All Black warriors taunting him at Thomond Park on October 31, 1978.

WOMEN in need of follow-up physiotherapy after undergoing breast cancer surgery in the Mid-Western Regional Hospital are being forced to go to Cork, it has been claimed.

GOD brought Moses to the top of Jordan’s Mount Nebo, and showed him a glimpse of the Promised Land, according to the Book of Deuteronomy.