The new CEO of Tusla has said he wants to turn the Child and Family Agency away from being a "defensive" organisation, while defending its role in other areas, including how it deals with issues in creches.

The HSE has confirmed that allegations of sexual abuse are among complaints that have come to light about the mistreatment of people at a care service for adults with intellectual disabilities over a 30-year period.

Latest:The HSE has confirmed that 10 patients have reported possible effects following the incident.

The HSE has hit back at Hiqa over a critical report issued by the health watchdog on a centre for older people in Co Clare.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Parents and their teenage children want more openness in the home when addressing alcohol and drugs abuse, a study in the Mid-West has found.

An axe-wielding Irish physicist has been arrested at a university in Portugal after attacking a lecturer.

The British government has been accused of breaching the "fundamental rights" of a British grandmother sentenced to death in Indonesia for drug smuggling by refusing to pay for legal representation as she battles for her life.

Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky has lost his High Court battle with Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich.

A British High Court judge will rule today on a multibillion-pound legal battle between Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky and Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich.

Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich will discover this week whether he has won a multibillion-pound legal battle with fellow Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, court officials have said.

A judge asked lawyers to tidy a courtroom housing one of the UK’s biggest civil trials – because the Queen is due to visit.

Roman Abramovich today told a British High Court judge that buying Chelsea in 2003 was a “turning point” and changed his life “significantly”.

An exiled Russian oligarch called Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich a “bastard” after being “blackmailed”, a British High Court judge was told.

CHELSEA Football Club owner Roman Abramovich is “good at appearing to be humble”, a British High Court judge was told.

RUSSIAN oligarch Boris Berezovsky has a lively sense of his own importance and some of his actions appear to conform to the “classic psychology of the political exile”, a lawyer for Chelsea Football Club’s owner Roman Abramovich told the High Court in London.

NURSES at the Mid-Western Regional Hospital in Limerick yesterday staged a third walkout over what they claimed were dangerously overcrowded conditions in the emergency department (ED) as a union leader insisted they were not for turning on the issue.

Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich "betrayed and blackmailed" fellow Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky and demonstrated that wealth and influence meant more to him than loyalty and friendship, a barrister has alleged in the High Court.

NURSES in Limerick yesterday staged a four-hour work stoppage against “unsafe” overcrowding in the &Mid-West Regional Hospital’s Emergency Department (ED).

THE HSE last night admitted that some staff could face sanction over failings in the Roscommon Child Care Case, but stressed changes had been implemented to avoid a repeat case taking place in future.

THE family of one of the 37 children who died while in HSE care has contacted the executive asking that the death not be reviewed.

DETAILS of the deaths of children known to social services in the past decade are being prepared for possible publication this week and contain 20 deaths in Cork and Kerry alone.

THE HSE said it will by this day week have determined the total number of children and young adults who died between January 1, 2000, and April 30 this year and had interacted with the care system at some stage in their lives.

A PREGNANT woman who absconded from a psychiatric hospital was found dead at home two weeks later, an inquest in Cork heard yesterday.