Tusla has refused to say if it informed the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of evidence it has held since 2003 that children from the Bessborough Mother and Baby Home were buried in unmarked graves as recently as 1990.

A Dublin couple, whose son aged 13 has been absent from school for four years, have been warned they risk facing a Garda investigation for neglect and their children could be taken into care.

A judge at the Dublin Children’s Court has compared the litany of shoplifting charges against a 13-year-old girl to something “out of a Dickens novel”.