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Saturday 28 November 2020
The Cork native scooped the award for his role in Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore.
This year’s Christmas special was watched by an average audience of 612,000 people.
The play is written by the Derry Girls creator Lisa McGee.
Thousands of young people went unpunished for their crimes.
They’re going up against Channel 4′s ‘The Windsors’ as well as two other shows.
Dermot Bannon also finally won an award!
The Irish film explores the impact of prison on a young teenager, and was inspired by real-life stories.
No, Craig David was not holding these people hostage.
We speak to the band’s drummer Ashley Keating about how they have coped with the many changes in the music industry.
New Zealand’s government has announced plans to crack down on the country’s worst juvenile offenders.
Oberstown homes the most prolific young offenders in Ireland, but this new scheme wants to keep them in their community.
The ‘Irish buddy movie’ is making waves.
The High Court heard today there was another ‘serious disturbance’ at the youth detention centre this week.
The Young Offenders just achieved the highest opening of an Irish film at the Republic of Ireland box office this year.
The teenage boy is the fourth to bring a High Court challenge over allegedly being kept in solitary confinement.
We met the director and the film’s stars.
The case was heard in court today.
All of the news, none of the waiting.
Just 20 of them are female.
Young people have the highest rates of reoffending, but they also have the greatest capacity for change – scientific evidence proves this.
The schools are on the same campus but are to be brought under one director.
A 16-year-old boy has been arrested after the incident in Belfast.
The number of children involved in the Garda Diversion Programme fell by 563.
The ruling by a High Court judge today closes a gap in the law which meant teenagers had to serve full sentences, even though adults don’t.
John Lonergan told TheJournal.ie that the cut announced in the Budget is “a terrible indication of the value we place” on our young people.
Report after report has documented the problems with St Patrick’s Institution – but now we need to actually deal with young offenders in a meaningful way.
A senior prison officer has warned that rival gangs will battle for dominance when the young offenders are moved to an adult prison.
After visiting Wheatfield, the Children’s Ombdusman Emily Logan said she felt reassured about the move.
A prison officer in St Patrick’s says all the current problems in St Patrick’s Institution will just be recreated when the inmates move to Wheatfield Prison.
The head of the Irish Prison Service said that the safety of young offenders cannot be guaranteed at St Patrick’s.
The Prison Officers Association says members need special training to deal with underage inmates – and they don’t get it.
The Inspector of Prisons has reported incidents of forced stripping of prisoners, excessive punishment, and bullying and intimidation of young and vulnerable inmates by staff at the facility.
The report said there has been no outcome from a complaint to the Garda Ombudsman and there was “little external advocacy and intervention” on behalf of the young person involved.
Government announced earlier this year it would provide €50m in funding to end practice of detaining teenage offenders at adult prisons.
The Inspector of Prisons is undertaking a “far reaching” inquiry into the institution, where 16 and 17-year-olds are held.
Prisoners at the institution, which houses offenders aged 16 to 21, are placed on protection when they are under threat from other inmates or pose a risk to the prison population.
The €50m funding will mean the end of housing underage offenders in St Patrick’s Institution, which is an adult prison.
ONE OF THE most eagerly anticipated nights of the Irish TV year is finally here, with not even 2020 being able to stop the broadcast of the Late Late Toy Show.
Covid-19 restrictions mean it will be a different kind of show this year, but it still promises to be a special night – perhaps more so than usual given the year we’ve had.
For the day that’s in it, we’re asking: Will you watch the Late Late Toy Show?
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