Eleanor Burnhill

Sinn Féin has said it has confidence in the Master of the Rotunda Hospital and that the ongoing row between the Minister for Health and hospital management is "unseemly".

An independent public inquiry into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane begins in Belfast today.

Gardaí investigating the disappearance of Jo Jo Dullard and Deirdre Jacob have recommenced a search operation on open ground in an area near the border between Wicklow and Kildare.

Gardaí investigating the disappearance of Jo Jo Dullard and Deirdre Jacob have recommenced a search operation on open ground in an area near the border between Wicklow and Kildare.

Prisoners at the women's Dóchas Centre and the Training Unit at Mountjoy Prison in Dublin will be allowed to receive phone calls from listed friends and family directly to their cells for the first time, under a pilot project.

An application by Enoch Burke to recuse the Chair of a Teaching Council panel that is looking into allegations of professional misconduct against him, has been refused.

Two groups representing families at the centre of a planned inquiry into Children's Health Ireland have written to the Minister for Health outlining their concerns that the process will not be transparent.

There has been a year-on-year increase in restorative justice referrals from the courts, according to new research published by Maynooth University in conjunction with the Probation Service.

A new support programme has been launched to support families with children who take in foster children across Ireland.

The My Fostering Journey project involved listening to biological and adopted children, otherwise known as "children who foster", about their experiences.