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Helen Ogbu, the Labour Party candidate for Galway City East canvassed with Labour Party Leader Ivana Bacik to Roscam, where she spearheaded canvassing efforts alongside party officials and members, including Cllr. Niall McNelis and Fergal Landy, the Labour Party European elections candidate for Midland North West, among others.

A Sinn Féin candidate in the Roscommon Athlone LEA is encouraging Monksland residents to make a submission to a joint urban area plan and help determine the future for the ever evolving townland.

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Local Fianna Fáil Deputy, Robert Troy, has welcomed details of additional supports that will provided for early years services in disadvantaged areas under Budget 2024, but has stressed that huge challenges still remain for parents, staff and providers.

Local childcare providers have been allocated grant funding totalling in excess of €170,000 towards green energy upgrades at their facilities.

More than six in 10 workers feel the cost of childcare is unaffordable, according to a nationwide survey conducted by leading recruitment specialists Excel Recruitment.

Issues with childcare in Ireland are a barrier to achieving gender equality in the workplace but many steps can be easily taken to improve the system, according to Darragh Whelan, Director of Childhood Services Ireland, the Ibec trade association for childcare providers.

Ibec, the group that represents Irish business, has said that the underlying strength of the Irish business model and its capacity to generate record tax revenue has put Government in a position whereby it can afford to deliver the correct scale of Budget amidst a challenging inflationary environment.

Grovelands Childcare Plus is celebrating 30 years of giving the very best education and care to children across Athlone and the Midlands region.

Seas Suas, the representative organisation for independent early education and childcare providers, has called for early years professionals to be classified as ‘key workers’ in the Government’s vaccine rollout programme.