A “totally substandard” arrangement under which a vulnerable intellectually disabled adolescent is being accommodated in a Bed & Breakfast and makes a five-hour round trip daily to school cannot continue, the president of the High Court has said.

A teenager with a condition on the autism spectrum is “very distressed” that her return to Ireland next month from a psychiatric hospital in England may not proceed due to a delay in finding a suitable placement for her here, the High Court has heard.

THINK of the children and vote No in the citizenship referendum, the Children’s Rights Alliance urged yesterday.