Dáil question requested over lack of detention space to hold girl

“IT is extraordinary that in 2008 we should be having this case,” a judge at the Children’s Court said today as he was forced for a third time to grant bail to a troubled girl who wants to be detained.

Dáil question requested over lack of detention space to hold girl

“IT is extraordinary that in 2008 we should be having this case,” a judge at the Children’s Court said today as he was forced for a third time to grant bail to a troubled girl who wants to be detained.

The 17-year-old girl, who is engaging in self harm and wants to be detained, could not be held in custody because a detention centre was full, the court was told.

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