At face value Budget 2012 seemed, given the economic crisis we’re in, friendly enough to early childhood care and education. The universal free pre-school year was maintained, funding for it was even increased to take into account demographic pressures. Given that the free pre-school year is one of the few universal free early care and [...]
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A moment of transformation
As I write, the great and the good of the European Union are gathering to ‘save the euro’ at what seems to be the umpteenth crisis-summit. At home, we’re uneasily digesting the 5th austerity budget and predicting the impact it will have on Irish lives. I would suspect that we don’t yet know the full [...]
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