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• Childcare Fee Cap Announced Amid Criticism Over Lack Of Creche Places And Current Childcare Costs

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• Parents' Nightmare Realised: Child Struck By Car Outside Maynooth School Amid Years Of Safety Warnings

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• "A Basic Nightmare": Kildare Parents Fight For School Bus To Curragh Community College

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• Adoptees-Turned-Academics Launch Project On Irish Institutional Childhoods

  Their goal is to give the public, especially adoptees and their families, a deeper understanding of what life was like in each institution.