Over €220,000 has been spent by the Health Service Executive (HSE) to date on investigations into one of its care facilities in Mayo at the centre of allegations of abuse towards vulnerable residents.

Senior HSE officials are set to hold a major summit on Tuesday over concerns the Áras Attracta scandal could be repeated in more of the country’s 900-plus residential institutions.

BISHOP John Magee last night stood accused of lying to the state over child protection procedures in the Cloyne Diocese, where he and his senior assistant failed a succession of victims of clerical sex abuse.

A FRESH inquiry has been demanded into the abuse of children with intellectual disabilities in institutions run by the Brothers of Charity in Galway.

CONFUSION reigns over the timescale for the publication of the Hynes Report into the abuse of children with intellectual disabilities in institutions run by the Brothers of Charity in Galway.

DISABILITY groups and campaigners have criticised the long-delayed report into 33 years of child abuse at two Brothers of Charity centres in Galway.

THIRTY years of sexual abuse endured by mentally disabled children at the hands of the Brothers of Charity has been documented for the first time.

There have been allegations of child sexual abuse made against 19 priests in the Catholic Archdiocese of Tuam, it was revealed today.

CHRISTIAN SCULLY died two years ago, aged 28, nine months after a vicious street attack left him in a coma. But yesterday, his family and friends gave a new lease of life to other serious brain injury sufferers.