Familicide

Government proposals to allow guardianship rights to be "removed" from a parent convicting of killing the other are unlikely to be constitutionally permissible, a legal academic has warned. Ministers last week published the general scheme of the Guardianship of Infants (Amendment) Bill 2025, which s

Guardianship rights could be removed from individuals convicted of killing their partner or the other parent of their child under proposed new legislation. Ministers have approved the general scheme of the Guardianship of Infants (Amendment) Bill 2025, which sets out a number of proposed amendm

Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan has led tributes to children's rights advocate Norah Gibbons, who has passed away following illness. Ms Gibbons, a qualified social worker, played a key role in a number of child abuse inquiries and was the inaugural chair of Tusla from 2014 to 2018.

A social work expert has been appointed to research the support provided in Ireland to the families of victims of family homicide (or "familicide") and international best practice in the conduct of domestic homicide reviews. Following a Cabinet meeting yesterday, Justice Minister Charlie Flanagan an