Youth workers are today criticising the alcohol industry’s voluntary advertising code, saying it is too weak and is not being fully adhered to.

Leading adoption organisation Adoption UK will today appeal for Ulster’s Health Minister Michael McGimpsey to tackle lengthy delays in the adoption process here.

A couple who had claimed the Adoption Board was preventing them from adopting a child from Ethiopia, will travel to that country tomorrow to attempt to collect their daughter.

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin today unleashed a scathing attack on recreational drug users, accusing of them of being inherently connected to gangland violence.

Psychiatric nurses are resisting cost-cutting plans to transfer female psychiatric patients to a male ward.

The High Court has reserved judgment until Monday on an action taken by a couple who say the Adoption Board is preventing them from adopting a child from Ethiopia.

A Polish man wanted in his native country for the alleged sexual exploitation of children has walked free from the High Court after the request for his extradition was refused.

Disability groups are hitting out at charges for long-term care for intellectually disabled people.

The Irish Foster Care Association has said that there is an urgent need for new foster parents throughout the country.

The Government is being urged to suspend the introduction of its proposed new community childcare subvention scheme.