Ghosting and being blocked: Hunting for childcare in Ireland is worse than online dating

Childcare Tinder: Finding a creche place or childminder for small children has become an increasingly stressful exercise, one which left Jennifer Stevens rejected and dejected online.

A few weeks ago I was being ghosted. Perfectly pleasant online conversations just stopped out of nowhere. I felt like I was on show, doing my best to appear chatty, relaxed, open to anything and just when I thought I was getting somewhere I would be left unread, ghosted or in one case blocked.

I wasn’t on Tinder or Plenty of Fish, I was on childcare websites, desperately trying to find a new minder for my daughters.