# children - Yesterday’s News
The breakfast cereal in a family’s cupboard is often dictated by the children.
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# children - Friday 17 May, 2013
A court has ruled that a 5-year-old boy must get his booster shots, but should vaccinations for children be compulsory across the board?
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The kid singing Barry Manilow is our fave.
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The ISPCC said that the issues of child abuse and welfare are still a serious concern in Ireland, with almost 14 per cent of contacts relating to these.
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# children - Monday 13 May, 2013
New research has also shown that children are missing out on summer activities because they wet the bed.
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# children - Friday 10 May, 2013
Here are the things we learned, loved and shared today.
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Ladies, set your ovaries to high resistance mode.
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About 4,000 people go missing for a time in Ireland each year – and the emotional impact on their loved ones, who live with ongoing uncertainty and questions, is immense. They must be given proper support, writes, Dermot Browne.
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# children - Wednesday 8 May, 2013
The Minister is currently debating the issue with fellow ministers Joan Burton and Frances Fitzgerald.
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# children - Tuesday 7 May, 2013
TV shows like ‘The Tudors’ and ‘Rome’ show that history is more popular than ever – yet, under proposed changes to the Junior Certificate, history could become an optional subject or short course. It makes no sense, writes teacher Christian O’Connor.
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“Given that there are currently 6,300 children in the care of the State – a relatively small number”, Emily Logan believes more should be done to support them.
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# children - Monday 6 May, 2013
In the past four years, three children in Ireland and 12 in the UK have died as a result of window blind cords.
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# children - Sunday 5 May, 2013
A former IMF head of the mission for Ireland has said an entire reliance on austerity was not the right move – yet we’re still following that road. David Cronin asks why.
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# children - Wednesday 1 May, 2013
There’s a lot we can learn.
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We produce enough food for 10 times our population, but the horsemeat scandal shows just how inequality has forced people to low-price, low-quality food, writes Richard Manton.
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# children - Tuesday 30 April, 2013
The girl was found unconscious by her parents on 18 April after being dumped at a farm.
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# children - Sunday 28 April, 2013
Barack Obama is preparing to join their ranks.
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How pensions work, how to read a payslip, dealing with personal taxes, how to choose and take out a loan (and how to pay it back), these should all be taught in school, writes Sinead Doherty.
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# children - Friday 26 April, 2013
That proposal has been made in a submission to the National Early Years Strategy – but what do you think?
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# children - Monday 22 April, 2013
St Anne’s national school in Ardclough, Kildare was “completed” in December 2011 but remains vacant because minor problems uncovered during an inspection remain unfixed.
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# children - Sunday 21 April, 2013
As a single parent family, I realise we’ve only been tolerated as opposed to accepted as a proper family unit and because of the absence of the traditional set up we are somehow ‘less than’, writes Carol Redmond, who says same-sex unions are being treated in the same way.
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The Up4it! obesity project, which provided support for children and parents, was funded by the HSE up until last month.
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Two men who spent time in the Bethany Home as children spoke to TheJournal.ie about the neglect they say they experienced there.
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# children - Monday 15 April, 2013
And maybe still do a little bit.
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# children - Saturday 13 April, 2013
A recent survey showed that the majority of schools spend more than their allocated time on religious instruction.
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A retired architect from Texas now puts his skills to use by building incredible playhouses for his friends’ children.
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# children - Friday 12 April, 2013
A survey conducted by MABS indicated that over 36 per cent of mortgage clients were unemployed.
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# children - Wednesday 10 April, 2013
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
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But UNICEF warns childhood must be protected during economic downturn.
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# children - Tuesday 9 April, 2013
Over the weekend some 1,700 jabs were given at vaccination clinics across the county.
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Until now, family court proceedings have been heard ‘in camera’ but new legislation will bring more transparency – and more confidence – to the system, writes solicitor Emma Heron.
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# children - Sunday 7 April, 2013
The fundamental role the educational system plays today is determining a young person’s future life choices, so if there is to be equal opportunity, then we need to tackle equal access for all, writes Fr Peter McVerry.
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The parents at the Mol an Óige national school in Clare were hoping to get the money from the Department of Education – but instead they’ve turned to the internet.
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# children - Saturday 6 April, 2013
A new website looks at cases from Irish courts where children ended up in care. Here are some of the stories.
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# children - Friday 5 April, 2013
From an early age it’s important for children to learn the basics about the food they eat; helping them to ‘grow their own’ can do this, says chef Donal Skehan.
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# children - Thursday 4 April, 2013
An IMPACT survey says that the SNAs were assaulted by the children they work with, with 18 per cent saying it’s a daily occurrence.
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Labour TD Ciara Conway said she is examining what can be done to ensure children are not at risk of danger from these pods.
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# children - Wednesday 3 April, 2013
The report from UCD, which was commissioned by the HSE and Barnardos shows that there is a big need to recruit foster carers, especially in Dublin.
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Good morning! Here’s what you need to know as you work your way into Wednesday.
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For the first time, the Child Care Law Reporting Project will publish regular reports from the courts which make orders under the Child Care Act.
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