Person: Saoirse Brady

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

Mounting pressures cramming already full Irish prisons

More offences, longer sentences, busier courts, and more remand prisoners are driving the overcrowding crisis in our prison system

Wed, 17 Jan, 2024

Prison officer shortages impacts inmate education programmes

Worst impacted prison so far this year has been Castlerea Prison in Co Roscommon, where there have been 37 full day closures

Mon, 04 Dec, 2023

685 children waiting at least one year for speech and language therapy assessment

New figures show that 247 children have been waiting at least two years for an initial speech and language assesment.

Thu, 10 Oct, 2019

Welfare appeals system ‘needs radical overhaul’

The Social Welfare appeals system, which can force people to battle for years for emergency payments, needs to be radically overhauled, it has been claimed.

Thu, 25 Oct, 2012

Social welfare appeals system criticised

The social welfare appeals system has been criticised for making people wait too long and for driving them into debt.

Wed, 24 Oct, 2012