Mothers protest at Government axing of childcare funding

“I REALLY don’t know what I will do now,” said bewildered Dublin woman Rosaleen Hickey, one of 40 mothers who protested yesterday over the axing of childcare funding for adult education students.

“We were promised when we did this back-to-education course that our children would be taken care of in the creche and paid for,” she added.

Rosaleen and the other mothers and childcare workers marched on the Fianna Fáil constituency office in Finglas where they held a brief demonstration. Efforts are being made to arrange a meeting with local TD Pat Carey, who is absent from the office this week.