Trinity College Dublin has been ranked top of the class in Ireland and is the best-performing Irish university globally when it comes to subject rankings.
A married couple, both of whom are teachers, were paying €1,120 a month on childcare for their two daughters and needed to ease their financial burder.
A businessman who almost lost everything in the 2008 financial crash organised for €20,000 of solar panel installations to be finished, after a company went bust leaving homeowners out of pocket.
There is no creche facility in Banagher, Co Offaly, for infants under the age of two and, as a result, many mothers are unable to return to work after maternity leave.