A charity providing services for people with intellectual disabilities has been ordered to pay one of its managers €45,000 in compensation after the Equality Tribunal ruled she had been victimised.

Employers need to fit working hours around the busy lives of post-boom families to help save communities, a leading sociologist claimed today.

THE father of murdered nurse Sara Neligan will be among the speakers at a two-day conference on the changes occurring in Irish society.

SEVERE cutbacks in disability services are wiping out respite and emergency residential care places, forcing parents to place handicapped children in psychiatric hospitals.