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One Galway creche explains why it’s closing its doors despite childcare funding increases
Meanwhile, another Galway creche explained why it has left the government’s funding contract to go it alone and hike its fees.
Sheena Kenny closed the doors of her creche this week, labelling the Early Childhood Care and Education "death by a thousand cuts".
It brought increased paperwork and Kenny had to largely stop working directly with the children herself, instead spending her days in the office.
An increase in fees to cover running costs meant parents started putting their child in other larger, cheaper creches, which she couldn't compete with.
National Childcare SchemeTwo years of childcare should be legal right says Minister as subsidies to kick in Monday
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A new SDLP leader, Israel defends “counter-terrorism”, and Met Éireann shares next year’s list of storm names.
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Oasis fans stress over pre-sale, asylum seekers in Tipperary intimidated, and an inside-look at the Democratic National Convention.
ShanakielGardaí investigating number of incidents in Cork, including criminal damage and hit and run
InvestigationWoman (60s) is latest in string of arrests over alleged harassment of Taoiseach Simon Harris
