A child was handcuffed when being restrained and another was locked in a room for 83 hours at the country’s main centre for young offenders.

The Children's Minister said a 300% increase in young people being referred to detention facilities, caused the system to run out of places.

A bed has been found at Oberstown detention school in North Dublin for a teenager at the centre of a row over the availability of custodial places for juvenile offenders.