Couple’s challenge to children’s care orders adjourned

A challenge by a couple to the legality of orders taking all their children into care has been adjourned to Monday because their barrister is unwell.

The HSE and attorney general have both said the matter is urgent and must proceed on Monday.

The children have been in care since September last. They were initially the subject of emergency care orders, then interim care orders, and are now the subject of full care orders made last January and extending into next month.