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# emergency care order

This year
2024
Dublin court granted care order for child who entered Ireland in 'suspicious circumstances'
All time
Nearly 1,500 children were taken into emergency care over four years
Child care applications up 15 per cent in 2012, wide variations between towns
Column: Why and how are children taken into State care?
Carol Coulter
Project gives fascinating - and shocking - look into Ireland's child care system