HSE social worker Iain Smith said he wrote to then-health minister Simon Harris in May 2019 saying the inquiry should be shut down as it was 'a project that is going absolutely nowhere'

Charities warn of ‘significant risk’ that victims of coercive control could be put under pressure to end their lives under assisted dying legislation in England and Wales There is a “significant risk” that victims of coercive control could be put under…

The decision-making behind the move to re-open the country for a 'meaningful Christmas' in 2020, at the height of the pandemic, is likely to form a key part of the State's upcoming covid review, writes Cianan Brennan

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Calls increasing for expansion of breakfast clubs to all Deis primary schools amid rising deprivation

Grainne McKenna and Dr Sheila Garrity say it’s time for early childhood education in this country to change for the better.

The Journal Investigates shines a spotlight on the women lost to violence in Ireland since 2020.

Gardaí are investigating the alleged sexual assault of a woman aged in her 90s at a hospital in the northern half of the country.

This article reports on a European project that sought to explore the relationships between social work and service user participation, using a five-country (Be...

Ger Deering has demanded the new programme for Government include improved funding for the HSE to re-locate those young people

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The upcoming pension auto-enrolment scheme will not address the structural inequalities faced by women in the pension system and may even make them worse, according to a new report.

Hiqa inspection found ‘very limited management presence’ in Waterford facility which resulted in poor oversight of day-to-day practices

This year, CNBC Make It interviewed dozens of experts about what to say, which questions to ask, and what key mistake to avoid during small talk.

The hospitals wrote to the HSE saying they were facing a financial shortfall of more than €100 million

The cost-of-living crisis has led to a third of UK social workers witnessing child removals in the past three years where poverty or financial poverty has been a key factor.

Women at training colleges across the country were told they are not allowed to return to class.

A child psychiatrist who groomed and sexually abused a teenage girl leaving her with "painful and grave trauma" has been jailed for eight and a half years.