Mother can’t bear canvassing of young children

A YOUNG mother yesterday rounded on Fianna Fáil TD Ivor Callely after her young children were canvassed by adults in teddy bear suits outside school gates.

The 33-year-old insisted she was shocked by the former junior minister’s electioneering stunt outside the junior girls school in the fiercely contested north Dublin constituency.

Damaris O’Brien, from Killester, demanded to know if the unknown figures in the teddy bear suits at Belgrove National School in Clontarf had been vetted before engaging with young children.