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Sunday 20 September 2020
Sarah Hughes, a Childline volunteer, says some children are trapped in abusive homes during Covid-19.
The second part of Noteworthy’s investigation into domestic abuse finds vulnerable children are losing out on supports and escape during the pandemic.
The ISPCC said home is not a happy place for all children and they do not have their regular support network in schools anymore.
Michael O’Brien created one of the most powerful moments in Irish television, when he passionately told his story on RTÉ in 2009.
As RTÉ examines the legacy of States of Fear, 21 years on, Sheila Ahern discusses the landmark documentary and the late Mary Raftery, its producer.
Greater Manchester Police’s re-launched investigation has identified 53 potential victims.
Early drafts of a letter that caused a row between the agency and Scouting Ireland contained stronger criticism of the organisation than the final version.
Mr Justice Ryan said the claim that 170,000 were admitted to institutional school is, in fact, closer to 42,000.
“Choking is a massive issue,” among teenagers, psychotherapist Stella O’Malley told RTÉ’s Today with SOR show.
An estimated 6,000 females in Ireland have already undergone the harmful procedure.
The Fermanagh journalist details how he and the victims are exposing wrongdoing and seeking the truth. It is not just his job, but his duty, he writes.
Richard Huckle was given 22 life sentences in 2016 for an unprecedented number of offences against children.
Appearing on RTÉ’s The Late Late Show, the popular broadcaster said for years he blamed himself for what happened.
The social media network has been dogged by several privacy scandals in recent years.
Gardaí launched an investigation and arrested the mother and father, aged in their thirties, last month.
The majority of the money will go to the fund, while €429,000 is to be paid to the National Children’s Hospital.
Neglect and sexual abuse were among the suspected crimes that Tusla was slow to report.
An independent report found that the club’s former chief scout was able to operate ‘unchallenged’, abusing boys in the 1970s.
The searches, conducted between Monday and today, were carried out as part of Operation Ketch.
The most common form of abuse in cases referred to Tusla was emotional abuse.
In its efforts to avoid paying compensation to victims, the State has spent €1.5 million on legal fees and re-traumatised some of its most vulnerable citizens, writes Conor O’Mahony.
The children involved were left with a foster family for several years despite abuse claims.
The law declares that anyone who has knowledge of abuse is obliged to report it to the Church.
David Allen Turpin and Louise Anna Turpin pleaded guilty.
Aicha Dounia was abused by her biological father from the age of four but she refuses to live a life ‘consumed by hatred’.
Google is pioneering self-driving cars and bringing the internet to remote parts of Africa via a network of giant balloons, yet somehow they cannot deal with snuff films or child abuse images, writes Diarmuid Pepper.
Child protection expert Shane Dunphy writes that the allegations are credible and consistent but cannot now be proven definitively.
Twenty-three searches have been carried out by gardaí in recent days.
A Protection of Minors meeting is due to take place in the Vatican later this month.
The awards are made to those abused while resident in industrial schools.
The research aims to identify the positive factors that helped peole who experienced trauma in their childhoods.
The pilot programme will run in Galway in the new year.
Digital material, computers and mobile phones were seized in the searches which took place over the last five days.
The Archbishop of Dublin was speaking with less than a week to go until Pope Francis visits Ireland.
The court found that the unemployed couple had sexually assaulted the boy, now 10 and sold him on the so-called darknet.
The harassment occurred over a six-month period.
It is understood up to 30 homes are being targeted in today’s searches.
Some of the children depicted were no older than two-years-old.
A previous conviction was overturned following a successful appeal.
Bryan Davies lured teenage boys to his room by offering them alcohol or cigarettes.
MORE THAN THREE-quarters of people would support the government looking into the prospect of a four-day work week, according to a new survey.
This means doing the same job for the same salary, but over four days rather than five.
There have been calls for this idea to be explored already and the Four Day Week Ireland campaign today released details on its public attitude survey conducted last month.
Two out of three respondents said a four-day work week is “realistic and achievable” in the medium term.
67% of employers said they support the idea and 46% said it would be “feasible” to trial in their workplace.
“The four-day week, with no loss of pay, offers the potential of a genuinely better future for workers and employers alike,” said Joe O’Connor, director of campaigning with Fórsa trade union.
What may once have seemed like a radical concept is now, for many, a reasonable and rational ambition. The Covid-19 pandemic has further disrupted societal and workplace norms, while illustrating the potential for very different models of work.
So today we’re asking: Would you support a four-day work week?
Poll Results:
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