‘It is just such a fight to get everything’

FRUSTRATED parent Chris Walsh has given up hope of the current Coalition improving the lives of children with special needs.

“I have voted Fianna Fáil all my life, but I just cannot bring myself to do it this time, not with how they handled this,” he said.

His five-year-old son Christopher has autism but has been starved of appropriate treatment because of long waiting lists and inadequate services in Cork.