The parents of a seven-year-old boy against whom an unfounded allegation of sex abuse was made claim that the way the school principal over-reacted, and Tusla’s absolute refusal to delete the file, has ‘destroyed’ their lives, writes Michael Clifford

Ian Power of young people’s website, spunout.ie, does not want porn filters introduced in Ireland as it will make just give parents another excuse not to discuss porn with their offspring.

SCHOOLS, parents and even teachers are having to pay to get experts into classrooms to talk to students about drugs, a Dáil committee heard yesterday.

FOUR out of 10 secondary schools have failed to fully implement the State’s sex education programme since it was introduced nine years ago, a conference on adolescent sexual behaviour and sexual health heard yesterday.