One Kinship Carer says there still about 8,000 children in Ireland living with relatives that aren’t their parents, and they’re not receiving any financial support.
How do you cope when your family doubles in size overnight? Irish ‘kinship carers’ say they have long struggled to get the back-up offered to foster parents
Tue, Dec 22, 2020, 06:01 Sheila Wayman
Caitríona Nic Mhuiris and Séamus Moore and their family, 2014. ‘I thought there is something more to this – more than just us a family out there,’ Caitríona says of the response to her stepping into the media spotlight
When a Galway couple with two children took four newly bereaved orphans into their home, it was the start of an extraordinary personal story that is now rippling out into the public policy arena.