Just 2% of all safeguarding concerns are made by those who may have been abused, it has emerged.

Reports of alleged abuse of older people and persons with disabilities increased by almost 30% in the past year, it has emerged.

Almost 8,000 claims of adult abuse or neglect have been made to the HSE.

Barnardos and a number of family support groups in Limerick have joined forces to help parents cope with day-to-day chores in running the home in a first of its kind, joint-agency approach.

LOCALS have told a sky adventure company to take “a run and jump” over a planned airfield expansion in north Tipperary.