The State’s healthcare watchdog found that three centres for people with disabilities run by Stewarts Care failed to protect residents from harm.

A new inspection report into one of the country’s main children’s special care units has outlined how the Health and Safety Authority had to conduct a review due to the high number of staff injured while at work.

A 48-year-old man has appeared in court charged in connection with a multi-million euro cannabis seizure in Lucan, Co Dublin.

A child cowered under the table with the family dog as a 46-year-old man was shot dead in his home.

The case of three men who were involved in a scam of passing unroadworthy vehicles at an NCT test centre has been adjourned after one of them became unwell when the judge sentenced him.

Una Mc Nicholas’ weekends aren’t spent hanging out with friends or lounging on her bed scrolling idly through Instagram.

As the number of Irish children seeking medical help over gender identity rises nine-fold, support groups and families say children’s distress is being exacerbated by the lack of a treatment framework here.

Michael Clifford has found many people ditch the legal experts and fight their own case in court. Tom Talbot is one of those people... 

Gardaí are unable to act on international arrest warrants for an Irishman and two directors of Irish firms over the escalating Irish Olympics ticket touting scandal because Ireland has no extradition agreement with Brazil.

A refreshing insight into how schoolchildren view the internet, in a Trend Micro-backed competition, produced winners from Kerry to Kildare and Cork to Cavan.

Helen O’Callaghan meets the founder of a charity that has helped many people with suicidal thoughts and hears about the early morning walk where 120,000 people give their support

The Mental Health Commission (MHC) has identified several breaches of conditions of registration, including prohibited patient transfers prompted by bed shortages, at State-run psychiatric facilities.

Doctors, family and support groups like Pieta House must unite to reduce suicide, writes Ken Phelan

Noeleen Diskin didn’t think twice about donating her kidney to her identical twin sister, Helen Keogh.

A four-year-old girl, who allegedly suffered psychological injuries while attending a creche mentioned in an RTÉ expose on the mistreatment of children, has been offered a settlement of €15,000, a court has heard.

A Dublin man who stabbed his cousin to death with a flick knife he had bought him as a present has had his prison sentenced reduced by three years by the Court of Appeal.

Abbey, the housebuilding group based in Co Meath, has stated that trading in the early months of its current financial year has been good, with activity across each of its regions ahead on an annualised basis.

Four major school building projects have been examined this year for the Department of Education or by other state agencies over complaints about employment irregularities.

Weighed down with all his gear, Alex O’Shea blazed a trail into the book of Guinness World Records, shaving a massive 58 minutes off the record for running a marathon in full firefighting apparel.

Superquinn supermarkets are officially being rebranded to SuperValu today.

A hospital has pledged €150,000 to help establish a new suicide crisis centre in Cork.

A teen groom, now a 41-year-old grandfather of three, was among six married men who were ordained deacons at the weekend.

Gardaí are today appealing for witnesses after a car was hijacked in Naas, Co Kildare yesterday.

Former Ireland international long jumper Ciarán McDonagh will fly to Birmingham this morning to assist the Jamaican Olympic sprinters’ preparations for the London Games.

More jobs are likely to be lost in the Cork region following the confirmation that Pfizer is to reduce its workforce by 177.

A Kildare man who stabbed his cousin to death with a flick knife has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Camcorder footage shows a man who was stabbed to death by his cousin wielding the flick knife that was eventually used to kill him, the Central Criminal Court has heard today.

The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) said today that it is unsatisfactory that a child under the care of the Ballydowd Special Care Unit in Lucan, Co Dublin was separated from other children, in unsuitable accommodation, for six months.

STATISTICS for 2010 show a total of 486 deaths by suicide in Ireland, of which 386 were male and 100 female — a decrease of 8% on the record high the previous year of 527 suicides.

MARIA worked for the Bank of Ireland for 15 years.

The Fine Gael/Labour government is being warned it faces a similar fate to the Fianna Fáil/Green coalition unless it U-turns on the issue of special needs assistants (SNAs).

TEACHERS, parents and resource assistants will march on Leinster House next week to demonstrate against “inhumane” education cuts affecting children with special needs.

EDUCATE TOGETHER hopes to open its first second-level schools in the next two years after Government approval for the multi-denominational group to become a patron body.

TEENAGERS suffering from anxiety, eating disorders and psychosis can be admitted to a specialist mental health unit which opened yesterday.

AN organisation working to prevent suicide and self harm is concerned at the increasing number of children who see suicide as a viable option during the economic downturn.

HEALTH professionals are working closely with local students, parents and teachers following news that six teenage girls, who live within a 19km radius of Co Kildare and west Dublin, have taken their own lives in the past 12 months.

ONE man is dead and another seriously injured after gardaí from the organised crime unit smashed an attempted raid on a cash-in-transit van by armed criminals linked to suspects in the €7.6 million raid on the Bank of Ireland in March.

TEACHERS should provide unpaid supervision of classes when colleagues are away with students for class activities or sports matches, Education Minister Batt O’Keeffe has suggested.

THE anger of schools about Government failure to deal with a shortage of trained teachers and proper buildings are highlighted in reports published by the Department of Education yesterday.

A DUBLIN solicitor has been ordered to pay €10,000 to the beneficiaries of a will who incurred a large tax bill from the Revenue as a result of his failure to properly administer the estate of their dead relative.

PARENTS of Gaelscoil pupils have given their backing to the policy of teaching no English for up to two years, despite a directive from Education Minister Mary Hanafin that schools should end the practice from next year.

The Labour Party is calling on the Garda Ombudsman to formally investigate the death of Derek O'Toole in Lucan, Co Dublin, earlier this month.

A MASSIVE temporary car park which will service people travelling to and from the Ryder Cup has been given planning permission despite objections from locals who fear it will lead to increased traffic volumes and who argue a more suitable site might have been found.