If gardaí had access to records then the scandal may have been prevented, says Cormac O’Keeffe.

The Ombudsman for Children Emily Logan’s report found that the removal of Child T from her home in Tallaght, west Dublin, was "more complex" than that of Child A.

It’s every parent’s worst nightmare to have their children taken away from them.

Police and soldiers involved in fatal shootings in Northern Ireland are to lose their exemption from giving evidence at inquests, it emerged today.