Foster father challenges Tusla finding

A foster father has launched a High Court challenge aimed at quashing a finding by Tusla that allegations of “sexual impropriety” made against him by a former foster daughter were “well founded”.

The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, denies the claims and says the findings against him are unreasonable, fundamentally flawed, and have caused great distress and upset.

At the High Court yesterday, Mr Justice Seamus Noonan heard that the allegations were made by a teenage girl to her social worker during the course of a car journey in mid-2014.