It’s nearly a week since the conference and it has taken me this long to formulate a response to the issues discussed. It was unfortunate or fortunate the conference took place after as Nóirín Hayes stated, a ‘profoundly severe budget for young children’. Passions were high as evidenced in the plenary sessions and the workshops. [...]
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What next?
Start Strong’s conference yesterday looked ahead to the next 6 years, discussing the National Children’s Strategy and children’s early years. But if we want to get the right Government commitments for the next 6 years, we also need to look to the next 6 months. We need the debates we started yesterday to keep going, [...]
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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