Your Monday evening catch-up

Good evening. Here’s a briefing on some of the stories and issues highlighted on irishexaminer.com today.

TOP STORIES

Two children in care were forced to urinate on the floor of an isolation unit and another had to wash with baby wipes for four days after being denied access to bathrooms, health watchdogs have found. The Health Information and Quality Authority raised serious concerns with Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, over the significant increase of “single separation” detention in a home for troubled youngsters.

Video footage and photographs of 43-year-old blind man, John Llyod, his wife and their 10-year-old son being evicted from their home have gone viral. The family were evicted last week from their home in Kells, Co Meath on August 27.

An uncle of Molly Martens says she has not lost any faith that her stepchildren will one day be returned to her care. She and her father have been described as ’persons of interest’ in the investigation into the death of her husband, Limerick man Jason Corbett.

Broadcaster Bibi Baskin and journalist Fiona Looney have spoken publically for the first time about their personal experiences of sexual assault. Ms Looney and Ms Baskin were among a panel of women on TV3 show ’Midday’ today, which was discussing controversial remarks recently made by The Pretenders front-woman Chrissie Hynde, where she faulted herself for her being sexually assaulted.