The Government is set to press ahead with a statutory inquiry into a case which sparked a string of arrests across Munster earlier this month over alleged child sex abuse.

THE Health Service Executive (HSE) has confirmed it has set up the new child death review panel and has also named a review team to deal with the death of teenager Daniel McAnaspie.

THE doctor who found a 20-month-old boy floating in a pond was one of a number of people enlisted to search by frantic nursery staff.

THREE separate investigations are under way into how a 20-month-old toddler fell into a pond while he was under the care of a Dublin children’s home.

Judge Gillian Hussey has appointed seven people to serve on the independent commission into the handling of clerical sex abuse allegations by the Catholic Church.