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Dublin Decision leaves more than 70 families struggling to find places Aodhán Ó Ríordáin TD, Labour senator Marie Sherlock, Green Party councillor Donna Cooney, Sinn Féin local election candidate Calum Atkinson, Green Party TD Neasa Hourigan and People Before Profit rep Bernard Mulvany joined parents at a protest this week in Drumcondra Families held a protest outside the school this week calling to reinstate afterschool care Alice van Lokhorst, Robin Langford and Olivia Sorin outside Grace Park Educate Together NS Parents in Drumcondra say they feel “abandoned and disrespected” after being told their children will no longer be able to attend afterschool care following a decision by their school’s board of management. From September this year, roughly 76 children and their families will be without afterschool care provided in Grace Park Educate Together National School in DCU All Hallows Campus. Families were notified of this decision in March, which parents say has left them “very little time to find alternative arrangements”.

Grace Park Educate Together National School opened its doors for the first time in 2016 and has been providing the space for a commercial afterschool provider to rent. However, the school is now at capacity which is putting added pressure on space. Sinead Langford is one of the parents behind the petition aiming to save the service.



She told the Irish Independent that her daughter is in the afterschool four days a week. “The news .

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