MOST families will know of the great emotional and practical challenges involved in offering the endless support needed by a son or a daughter, a brother or a sister or even a neighbour’s child, born with intellectual difficulties.

THE circumstances surrounding the exhumation and cremation of the bodies of 155 women taken from a Magdalen Laundry graveyard must be investigated by the Department of Justice.

GARDAÍ are to carry out another investigation into allegations of child sex abuse at a centre which housed orphans and boys with learning difficulties.