Childcare workers protest lack of support at Dáil

It has long been the hidden profession but the childcare sector made itself very visible outside the gates of the Dáil yesterday.

Thousands of childcare workers from all over the country assembled in their first ever protest to tell the Government they can not squeeze any more hours, services, or standards from the diminishing stone of State supports.

In one of the most good- humoured demonstrations this landmark rallying point has ever seen, the larger- than-anticipated gathering proved child’s play for the gardaí on crowd control.