‘Children’s referendum will change nothing’
Judge Ann Ryan, at the Dublin Children’s Court, said the shortage of places for children needing special therapeutic care was “a shame, a sin, and a disgrace”.
Her comments came during a case involving a girl, 17, who is in the throes of a drug addiction and keeps absconding from care. The girl has been living in a residential care unit and had been ordered as a condition of bail to obey a curfew there.
