Public Expenditure Minister Brendan Howlin has been strongly challenged by angry parents on the issue of paying increments while frontline services are being cut at a conference yesterday.

AT least 2,000 people converged on city centre Dublin, demanding cutbacks to disability services be reversed and the state stops treating those using the services as “second class citizens”.

A LIMERICK mother has successfully turned an idea to help her severely disabled son into a publishing opportunity.

ANY event which necessitated Avril Webster taking her nine-year-old son Stephen away from home posed major difficulties.