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Gardai to consider investigating failings of Kerry child mental health service

Gardai are to consider whether there are grounds to begin a criminal investigation following a highly critical review of south Kerry mental health services. Earlier, Micheál Martin has said he will pursue a “non-adversarial” mechanism to deal with ...

29 Jan 2022 at 11:44

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‘Considerable’ number of children endured abuse and trauma during pandemic

A considerable number of children experienced significant abuse, neglect, trauma or other ill-effects that might not have occurred if the pandemic had not happened, a report has found. According to the 2021 annual report by Ireland’s Special ...

28 Jan 2022 at 17:22

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Tipperary gardaí made almost 2,000 referrals to Tusla last year

Tipperary gardaí made 1,738 referrals to Tusla in 2023. That is according to the Chief Superintendent’s report at a recent sitting of the Tipperary Joint Policing Committee. Garda Chief Superintendent Aileen Magner said these referrals ...

22 Mar 2024 at 20:00

Guidance urges parents not to buy smartphones for primary school children

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Guidance set to urge parents not to buy smartphones for primary school children

New guidance urging parents not to buy smartphones for their primary school age children has been introduced The Cabinet has approved a memo outlining the proposal which was brought by education minister Norma Foley. The new guidance ...

07 Nov 2023 at 20:17

National News

40 Irish children were victims of online child sexual exploitation this year

Forty children from Ireland were found to be victims of online child sexual exploitation this year, gardai said. The online material was shared by Interpol to gardai. Most of the child victims are young girls under the age of 16, ...

06 Dec 2022 at 14:13

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Concern at high number of Tusla child care orders for South Tipperary, Carlow and Kilkenny area

Independent TD Mattie McGrath has said he is deeply concerned at the number of Interim Care Orders being issued for children by the Child and Family Agency, Tusla. Deputy McGrath was speaking after it was confirmed to him that ...

01 Jan 2019 at 10:15

Tipperary Sport

Tipperary Sports Partnership Child Welfare and Protection in Sport training course

Tipperary Sports Partnership is facilitating a Child Welfare & Protection in Sport Basic Awareness training. The course is aimed at sports leaders, children’s officers, parents or anyone working with young people in sport. A ...

01 Feb 2019 at 11:32

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Tusla launches innovative booklet to help Tipperary children express their feelings

Tusla-Child and Family Agency will launch a new communications tool on Thursday that helps children explain their feelings before or during Child Protection Conferences. Such meetings involve parents, social workers and ...

19 Dec 2018 at 16:15

Business

New peer-to-peer interactive platform to transform teaching internet safety to Primary School children is launched

Zeeko (www.zeeko.ie), the Irish Edtech start-up, announced the launch of a new and interactive Peer-to-Peer educational platform to transform the way internet safety is taught to primary school children in Ireland. ...

16 Oct 2018 at 16:04

Sport

Child Welfare & Protection in Sport Training with Tipperary Sports Partnership

04 Sept 2018 at 17:28

National News

Young girl hospitalised due to head lice as mother given suspended sentence

The mother of a child who was hospitalised twice due to severe head lice which left her with matted hair that took weeks to untangle has been given a suspended sentence. The 57-year-old Dublin woman had a ...

23 Apr 2024 at 16:31

Northern Ireland

McDonald: Providing references for shamed McMonagle was ‘unforgivable’

A decision by two former Sinn Fein press officers to provide job references for a man being investigated for child sex offences is “unforgivable”, Mary Lou McDonald has said. The Sinn Fein president ...

08 Oct 2024 at 12:59

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