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High Court judgement ‘v’ independent Appeals Officer. Mr Justice Garrett Simons found that the Board of Caranua ‘has an express statutory discretion to amend or revoke any criteria previously determined by it.

Thus, the Board’s decision to publish revised guidelines in June 2016, setting out amended criteria (which included the introduction of the monetary limit of €15,000) was lawfully made under the legislation’. He also found that ‘the administration of a finite fund...

‘Facing the future together’ conference takes place in Trinity College Dublin to mark the 20th anniversary of the State apology to the survivors of institutional abuse and the 10th anniversary of the publication of the Commission to inquire into child abuse ‘the Ryan Report’.

Caranua, was invited to join the organising committee by the Christine Buckley Centre, the other organisations included Right of Place Second Chance, Towards Healing, Barnardos Origins, HSE National Counselling service. A commemoration event followed in the...