Creche pledges to fight charges by HSE

A leading solicitor says he is confident the owner of a creche will be fully vindicated after the HSE alleged she had committed eight breaches of the Child Care Act 1991.

Frank Buttimer, who is representing Hazel O’Mahony, who runs Tiny Totts Creche at Killeagh Gardens, Killeagh, Co Cork, told a court sitting in Midleton that the allegations would be vigorously contested.

The court has yet to decide when the case will go ahead, but Mr Buttimer told Judge Aeneas Murphy at the sitting in Midleton last Thursday that at least two days will have to be set aside to hear the evidence.