You can use executeUpdate to delete all the children from many side of one-to-many: Child.executeUpdate("delete Child c where c.parent = :parent", [parent: p1]) Hope that helps! Bobby -- View this message in context: http://grails.1312388.n4.nabble.com/how-to-delete-all-rows-in-a-many-side-in-a-on-to-many-relationship-tp4635304p4635312.html Sent from the Grails - user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email