A specialist children’s legal service could contribute to closing the “stark gap” between the “rhetoric and reality” of ...

UN report highlights serious concern for children's rights in Ireland Updated / Thursday, 9 Feb 2023 19:34 In its concluding report, the committee has expressed serious ...

Children’s Ombudsman Dr Niall Muldoon wants the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child incorporated into Irish law.

Report says there is currently no organisation in Ireland which focuses exclusively on the reform of the law and legal systems from a children’s rights perspective ...

It is part of a two-day public meeting examining children's rights in Ireland. This will be the first review of Ireland's performance on children's rights since 2016.

Over 100,000 children in Ireland are now living in consistent poverty, a number that has risen by 45,000 in just one year. Spiralling rents and high prices are being cited as the main reasons.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Mari Steed of the Adoption Rights Alliance about Ireland's new service that allows children separated from their birth mothers years ago to access their records.

To date the Toy Show Appeal has raised over €26 million since its inception in 2020 and 169 grants to benefit over one ...

The Children's Rights Alliance says more investment on child poverty is needed. ... About 62,000 children in the Republic of Ireland live in consistent poverty, a children's group has said.

Judge Dexter Dias said the children’s mother had brought them to England from Ireland without the knowledge or consent of their father. Brian Farmer Tuesday 29 August 2023 14:43 BST ...

THE PUBLIC ACCOUNTS Committee is to recall Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) and the HSE to appear before it. The PAC has also called for the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) to appear ...