COMMUNITY and voluntary organisations are in crisis, with more than €80 million in direct state support to be removed from the sector this year.

THERE are about 6,100 voluntary and community ‘charitable’ organisations in Ireland.

The Government was urged today to scrap its new childcare funding scheme after a report found it threatens services to disadvantaged children.

A court has heard that an "extremely anticlerical" social worker investigating alleged sexual abuse at a Galway school was eventually taken off the case by the former Western Health Board.