“They need to treat the special education crisis like it’s a house on fire,” Adrienne Doyle Whelan said.

Kerry TD Danny Healy-Rae has been criticised for linking autism to "a lack of some vitamins" in the Dáil

Charlotte Cahill, whose daughter Cyra is autistic, said she believes the lack of school places for children with additional needs is getting worse

Cara Darmody (14) will tell a ‘monster meeting’ on Thursday that she will campaign internationally on the way Ireland is failing children.

The Taoiseach said that finance should ‘never be a constraint’ in hiring staff to provide therapies for children with additional needs.

The vote of no confidence in the National Council for Special Education (NCSE) comes from the National Principals Forum (NPF)

The Minister of State for Special Education said she would put schools that 'refused to engage' in the spotlight

A report by the Ombudsman for Children’s Office said the problem was particularly acute in Cork and Dublin.

Cork mother RITA B WRAY talks about the joy of her little girl returning to school this week... but also opens up about the struggles of the past 12 months and how our State continues to fail children with additional needs