Around 500 overseas children are being adopted by Irish families every year, new figures released today reveal.

IN the early 1990s, a long time ago, two women decided to pay a visit to Trinity College in Dublin.

A €24m study set to benefit future generations of children was today launched by Minister Brian Lenihan.

THE Government is to track the progress of 18,000 children over the next seven years to help inform future policy on services for young people.

CHILDREN of divorced parents do worse at school, have less social skills and are at greater risk of depression, according to one of the country’s leading psychiatrists.