‘I’m worried it will be another waiting list game after school’

Trish O’Neill has wrestled with waiting lists all of her young son’s life and the thought of what might lie ahead when he leaves school is already making her uneasy.

At age six, Conor, from Donoughmore, Co Cork, has benefited from some support from the Cope Foundation but the crisis it now finds itself in — with large and ever-lengthening waiting lists — is troubling for Trish.