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# Children

All time
'One death is just too many': Parents told to put high-vis vests on kids as they cycle and walk to school
25 Aug 2017
11.5k
54
'First Ebola, now mudslides': Over 100 children confirmed dead in Sierra Leone
17 Aug 2017
8.0k
3
Social work action 'unacceptably slow' in case of heroin user whose newborn died
13 Aug 2017
22.5k
36
'Scandalous': The number of children waiting over 18 months for appointments rises by 450%
13 Aug 2017
11.5k
55
Young footballers from Gaza arrive in Cork for Mardyke Arena game
3 Aug 2017
9.7k
96
Good news for families: Over 5,000 extra childcare places to be created
1 Aug 2017
22.0k
55
Children with potential mental health issues have been waiting over a year for a psychologist
31 Jul 2017
8.4k
17
Irresponsible or realistic: Is 13 too young for the digital age of consent?
30 Jul 2017
13.7k
19
The average back-to-school spend is now €1,209 per child
25 Jul 2017
14.8k
66
Mother and children placed in hotel with 'bloodstained mattresses' after fleeing domestic violence
24 Jul 2017
13.1k
30
'Left with €15 after bills': The week-to-week struggle of a single parent in Ireland
23 Jul 2017
73.1k
141
Nearly 1,500 children were taken into emergency care over four years
22 Jul 2017
5.4k
2
'Not a legacy to be proud of': Charities tell ministers how to pull 139,000 children out of poverty
21 Jul 2017
7.7k
18
Children exposed to antidepressants during pregnancy only at small risk of autism
20 Jul 2017
7.8k
23
Double hand transplant success: 'The boy wanted to climb monkey bars and grip a baseball bat'
19 Jul 2017
16.5k
7
Five times more children sign up to childcare schemes aimed at less well-off families
17 Jul 2017
10.4k
16
Award-winning fairy garden donated to children's ward at Portiuncula Hospital
13 Jul 2017
10.9k
4
Here's why I refuse to lie about parenting (even on Instagram)
12 Jul 2017
3.2k
11
By EU standards, Ireland is pumping out new babies
10 Jul 2017
26.6k
73
'A crisis of unprecedented scale': How will the Government end family homelessness?
10 Jul 2017
12.7k
79
Cork hoping to get its own BUMBLEance to bring critically ill children to hospital
9 Jul 2017
7.0k
7
'We were told she wouldn't walk': Young girl beats odds and competes in dance competition
9 Jul 2017
12.8k
9
'It's totally unacceptable': 44 children admitted to adult mental health units so far this year
7 Jul 2017
6.6k
13
Boy put back into residential care after 'loving' foster parents didn't get supports they begged for
7 Jul 2017
22.3k
An extra 975 SNAs will be allocated to schools this September
5 Jul 2017
11.6k
25
Investigation underway after teacher was recorded screaming at young pupil with autism
2 Jul 2017
66.6k
Boy from Mayo is first-ever patient to be transported in BUMBLEair helicopter
2 Jul 2017
46.9k
19
'He pinned my arms down and he strangled me': Couple with challenged son call for more support
29 Jun 2017
25.7k
21
Warning for Irish parents over Snapchat update that shows users' exact locations
27 Jun 2017
20.9k
17
Texas children who died in hot car were left there as punishment
25 Jun 2017
49.9k
32
These three Dublin kids were brought up to dance on stage with Justin Bieber in the RDS last night
22 Jun 2017
4.8k
Constable charged with having indecent images of children is dismissed from Met Police
20 Jun 2017
12.3k
'It was like landing on the moon': Finding the fate of Irish Famine orphans sent to Australia
18 Jun 2017
26.1k
11
Adoption in Ireland: 'We're still going through it, we're still carrying the shame'
18 Jun 2017
12.5k
4
'To me, Father's Day is just like any other day because there's always something missing'
18 Jun 2017
11.7k
9
Man jailed for injecting children after convincing them they had Chernobyl radiation poisoning
16 Jun 2017
23.4k
9
"This is a difficult case": Placement found for teenager left 'lying in hospital' for weeks
16 Jun 2017
12.1k
Good news for parents: Back to school allowance is going up by 25%
14 Jun 2017
43.2k
56
A nasty divorce or separation harms a child's health for decades
10 Jun 2017
15.9k
13
HSE reveals thousands of children left waiting for assessment, despite 3 month legal deadline
10 Jun 2017
10.7k
15
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