Reduced school timetables are ‘significant children’s rights issue’, CRA warns
Children’s alliance says measure is imposed on children, often without parents’ consent
Free school meals pilot scheme to be allocated €160,000 in 2020
Child poverty intervention is in addition to hot meals pilot running in 36 primary schools
Alliance calls for end to child poverty in pre-budget submission
Children’s Rights Alliance proposes daily hot meals, free school books and hobby subsidy
Doherty rejects call for role specifically tackling child poverty
Minister says her conscience and those of colleagues ‘should be enough of a driver’
More than 300 election candidates sign up to No Child 2020 campaign
Some 105,000 children in Ireland are growing up in consistent poverty
National strategy needed to eradicate child poverty, politicians told
Children’s Rights Alliance event hears that 107,000 children are living in deep poverty
Chinese in Ireland: In praise of food, shopping and the mammy
As Chinese New Year approaches, Mei Chin reflects on life for the Asian community in Ireland
Children who have parent in prison ‘unseen and unheard’
Conference told it is unknown how many Irish children have a parent in prison
Right to work in direct provision must be addressed, says ex-judge
Ban on working is ‘harmful’ and leaves people ‘hollowed out’, says Dr Bryan McMahon
Eamonn McCann: Public pressure forces Sinn Féin U-turn on Stormont expenses
Unionist and Nationalist MLAs had stood shoulder-to-shoulder until engulfed in public disapproval
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