Extending free State childcare to two-year-olds with an increase to 33 hours of such care per week at a cost of €495m forms the crux of the party’s childcare policy, launched today.

European election candidates had spent almost €60,000 combined on Facebook advertising up to last Sunday, figures made available by the social media giant have revealed.

On May 24 we will be asked to cast our votes in three important elections.

Solidarity-People Before Profit has put forward four European election candidates to become “disturbers of the political peace”.