Child death details may be published

DETAILS of the deaths of children known to social services in the past decade are being prepared for possible publication this week and contain 20 deaths in Cork and Kerry alone.

It emerged yesterday details of 50 deaths have already been compiled by the HSE, which is due to publish the list on Friday.

Last Friday it published a list of children who had died while in care in the past decade, with those 37 deaths including five suicides and five drug overdoses.