#Childcare
# childcare - Last week 15th June 2025 - 21st June 2025
# childcare - Last month May 2025
Low pay and no places: Protesters at Dáil demand government fix 'broken' childcare system
Campaigners say the childcare system in Ireland is “broken”.
# childcare - This year 2025
Government approves fee hikes at nearly 20% of Ireland's childcare providers
Opposition TDs say that it flies in the face of promises to reduce childcare costs to €200 per month.
# childcare - Last year 2024
'I work part-time as I couldn't get childcare': Readers on what they'd like to see in the Budget
Tax reform, funding for childcare and healthcare and Apple’s money were common features from our readers’ suggestions.
One Galway creche explains why it’s closing its doors despite childcare funding increases
- 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.
Your stories: The stress, strain and heartbreak of trying to find childcare in Ireland
“Our unborn child is on a waiting list for two creches and four childminders – yes, a waiting list. No place is confirmed.”