Fine Gael’s €860m childcare plan promises extra benefit payment and 30,000 new early learning places
Like other parties, Fine Gael has also pledged that parents will pay no more than €200 per month per child
Like other parties, Fine Gael has also pledged that parents will pay no more than €200 per month per child
Tusla report on its involvement with Kyran and the Durnin family raises issues of concern, says Minister
Irish State legally vulnerable because of ‘obvious gap’ between rights of children on paper and in practice
Legal action seeks a declaration that both agencies are in breach of their statutory duties towards the boy
Report of Child Law Project ‘sounds the alarm’ says special rapporteur on child protection
Agency’s chief executive says decision was made not make reports public in light of ongoing garda investigation
No information to be released that could potentially interfere with ongoing Garda investigation
The now 22-year-old cannot currently be named due to reporting restrictions
Gardaí believe Kyran Durnin is deceased and he may have died over two years ago
Fianna Fáil TD expecting a report from Tusla over the coming days into the troubling case of the child’s disappearance in 2022
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Event was the second such community gathering organised in the Co Louth town for the schoolboy missing and presumed dead
Garda inquiries continue one month on from the Co Louth boy’s disappearance
Thirty-one of those missing are separated children seeking asylum, while six went missing from residential settings, figures show
Locals in Dundalk express bafflement and shock at disappearance of boy in 2022, when he was aged six
Judge Alex Gabbett said he was requiring the welfare check to be carried out ‘in the territory we are in this week in all that we are seeing in the news’
Gardaí say while arrests expected in time, more evidence is required to create necessary grounds for making first arrests, information from public being followed-up
Detectives no closer to making arrests amid claims the State’s child protection system had ‘failed’ Co Louth boy
When election candidates coming knocking at your door, will you speak for the children so badly let down by the State?
Forensic examination of Emer Terrace house and wasteland outside complete, with focus likely to shift to Drogheda
Last positive sighting of Kyran was in 2022, and missing persons case has been upgraded to a murder investigation
Family member claimed mother and son were noticed missing on same day Tusla indicated it was notifying Garda of concerns
Disclosure comes in a mother’s appeal seeking to hold Tusla in contempt of court order for her son’s detention
Tusla alerted Garda to ‘significant concern’ when Kyran (8) was reported missing in August
Search of former Durnin family home in Dundalk, Co Louth, involves garden excavation in search for boy’s remains
Minister says there will be ‘consequences’ for any State body found wanting in case of boy (8) who gardaí believe was killed two years ago
Officials assumed the eight-year-old boy had moved to a school in the North
Scheme would cater for 6,000 children across a range of different services intended to be representative of the current sector
Court reporting project that highlighted failures in care system stood down after State funding runs out
Parents support girl being taken into voluntary care by the Child and Family Agency
Judge notes ‘draconian’ law could have seen Padraig O’Connor, operator of Little Puddles Childcare in Glenageary, lose registration if convicted
Internal audit report says there was a time lag between instructions on recruitment being issued by management and when their impact was actually seen in the system
Gardaí and Tusla conducting investigations concerning reported physical, verbal and emotional abuse of toddlers
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