Scouting Ireland bosses have been slammed over their recent Oireachtas appearance.

Scouting Ireland inherited ‘grim and shocking’ legacy sex abuse issues for which it unreservedly apologises, its chairperson said yesterday.

No serious issues relating to greyhound welfare have been reported by the public since a hotline was set up following a documentary criticising the industry

A decision by RTÉ to show the Irish Greyhound Derby last month was taken after Bord na gCon asserted that the broadcaster was legally bound to televise the event, internal documents reveal.

The Irish Greyhound Board (IGB) has complained to the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland about an RTÉ Investigates documentary, which reported that 6,000 dogs are culled every year due to excessive breeding.

Katherine Zappone was also told at the time that the centre wasn't registered with Tusla.

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Half of all Irish Greyhound Board sponsorship funds will now be ringfenced for a ‘care fund’ established for the wellbeing of greyhounds.

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said CCTV footage should only be used in creches if it is given the complete backing of all parents amid calls for the safety measure to be introduced.

OFFICIALS from Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, are due before the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs on Wednesday to discuss the RTÉ Investigates report on childcare facilities.

Fianna Fáil is calling for Tusla to have powers to immediately close childcare facilities.

A protest is to take place today outside one of the creches featured in an RTÉ Investigates exposé.

An undercover investigation had revealed a pattern of disturbing behaviour and practices including fire-safety breaches and rough handling of children.

Childcare should be a public service for children, not somewhere to “warehouse them” while their parents are at work, the head of the Children’s Rights Alliance has urged.

Tusla has said it has been proactively addressing areas of non-compliance with regulations in three crèches since 2018, following an RTÉ investigation.

So that’s nearly Wednesday wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

One of the owners of the Hyde & Seek Childcare crèche chain is to take no future role in front line childcare provision as a result of findings to be revealed in an RTÉ Investigates documentary.

Entrants to this year’s Rose of Tralee have been subjected to “malicious online threats” due to the event’s association with dog racing, according to the Irish Greyhound Board which has pulled its sponsorship of the festival.

I have been on antidepressants since I was 20. They have definitely helped with my mental health for the past eight years, but there is a downside: I have zero libido. Until now, this hasn’t been a problem, but I’ve met a man I want to have a fulfilling relationship with — and that includes sex. How do I get my desire back?

The Irish greyhound industry has been exposed as a fetid petri dish of animal abuse and a shyness for the truth.

Barry’s Tea has formally withdrawn its local sponsorship of an annual greyhound race in the wake of last week’s RTÉ Investigates documentary on the sport in Ireland.

Major shortcomings in how waiting lists are managed by some hospitals have been found in an audit published by the Department of Health.

A solicitor for two of the three girls raped while living at a foster home in Galway between 2003 and 2007 says it is "not an isolated incident".

The Taoiseach says the government will act on a damning report which has identified “systemic flaws in management” in how the cases of the abuse of three children while in foster care were handled by the HSE and Tusla.

If protecting children begins, as it should, with identifying risk, then Catholic priests are among the cohorts of least risk to children in today’s Ireland, writes Margaret Hickey

Three Irish Examiner journalists have been honoured at the Law Society of Ireland's Justice Media Awards.

St James’ Hospital has defended its decision not to extend a review of the work of a pathologist whose failure to detect invasive breast cancer in a woman left with lifelong health problems.

A Dublin woman whose cancer was misdiagnosed was not informed of the fact for nine months after the hospital became aware.

Netflix continued to make inroads, but the traditional channels also offered some excellent viewing in 2017, writes Des O’Driscoll

More than 43,500 public patients missed out on treatment to private patients between 2015 and 2016.

Serious health and safety concerns have been raised over poor regulation of the private rental sector.

Dublin Fire Brigade is investigating 25 private rental properties specifically reported to the service.

Latest: Landlords are blaming the bedsit ban for overcrowding in rental properties.

RTÉ is standing over an investigation on spending and governance at third-level colleges as it prepares responses to complaints from two universities.

Third-level bosses face a severe grilling by TDs over gaps in their evidence to the Dáil Public Accounts Committee about financial affairs.

Update 7pm: Sinn Féin says the HSE's stated aim of bringing down scoliosis surgery wait times to four months is unlikely to be met by the end of the year.

The HSE has denied reports that it failed to correspond with Gardaí for three years, following a report into the handling of the 'Grace' case.

Nearly 50 adults with intellectual disabilities were given priority follow-up after a HSE review revealed shortfalls in official records relating to hundreds of people whose placements were funded by health authorities.

Former Console boss Paul Kelly and his wife and son spent almost €500,000 on designer clothes, foreign trips, groceries, and other expenses between 2012 and 2014, an RTÉ investigation has claimed.

Gardaí are considering if concerns raised in relation to suicide prevention charity Console merit a criminal investigation.

RTÉ has defended itself against claims made by Senator David Norris, who has accused it of "squirting accusations" of wrongdoing into the public domain.