The human rights of children and young adults at St Patrick’s Institution are being ignored or violated, Inspector of Prisons Judge Michael Reilly has said.

Like so many of our essential services — health, water, schools and colleges, secondary roads, broadband and whatever you’re having yourself — our prison system is hardly fit for purpose.

A WELSH judge has ordered that the name and address of a notorious north Dublin paedophile convicted of sexually abusing a number of orphans be made public.