MOST parents of newborn babies are surviving on just under four hours’ sleep as their children wake at least three times every night, according to a survey on sleeping patterns.

THE deportation of students and searches of schools for failed asylum seekers is terrorising young people and harming international views of Ireland, a teachers’ leader warned last night.

IT was every parent’s nightmare. When Denise McGrane went to collect her three-year-old son from the crèche she was told Nathan had been taken on an impromptu trip to the local park.

CHILDCARE providers warned last night that the VAT increase announced by Finance Minister Charlie McCreevy yesterday will dramatically increase the cost of childcare.