Ten staff members at a children’s detention centre have been on sick leave for more than a year, it has emerged.

Ten members of staff at a children’s detention centre have been on sick leave for more than a year, it has emerged.

A judge at Ireland's busiest juvenile court has challenged Minister for Children and Youth Affairs Frances Fitzgerald to explain the lack of spaces available in detention centres.

IT costs as much as €500,000 a year to keep just one young offender in a detention centre, it emerged yesterday.

A CHILDREN’S detention centre in Dublin is to be downsized by more than half, following a review by the Department of Education which deemed its capacity to care for troubled young people was “lost”.