The minister for children, Katherine Zappone, pledges to ‘revisit laws’ so we can ‘do better for children’.

Granting children better access to legal advocates in childcare cases should just be the start of reforming the entire family justice system, writes Freda McKittrick of Barnardos

A CHILDREN’S legal rights expert has expressed alarm at proposed changes to the way the HSE funds representation for vulnerable children in the courts.

MORE than three-quarters of children who are involved in court proceedings do not have their voice heard due to the lack of a specially appointed adviser.

Nine Afghan teenage boys who were part of the failed hunger strike in St Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin tonight insisted they did not intend to dishonour the church through their protest.