Significant changes to family law have been agreed by Cabinet which will extend guardianship rights to same- sex couples and cohabiting partners.

The government-appointed expert on child law has warned there can be no ambivalence over alcohol advertising and sponsorship of sports events, even if it means “tough decisions” have to be made.

If ever there was a tipping point in the national historic drama of Irish abortion laws, this latest horror is it, writes Rachel Doyle

Top Irish and EU emissaries have met with Bolivian authorities and repeated calls for an independent inquiry into the killing of Irishman Michael Dwyer in the south American country in Apr 2009.

People with reasonable grounds for believing a child’s welfare is at risk should be able to go to court to seek state intervention, according to a report published by the Government.

THE absence of laws to allow the sharing of “soft information” on paedophiles is severely hampering child protection, the country’s top children’s watchdog has warned.

Ireland is the strongest voice for human rights within the EU, former US president Jimmy Carter said today.

Human rights must be given full and proper consideration in the drawing up of health policies, the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commissioner claimed today.

New controls have been put in place to prevent another political and legal crisis sparked by the Supreme Court’s surprise rejection of a 1935 statutory rape law.