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Covid-19: Facebook page provides childcare cover for healthcare staff

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A new Facebook page has been created to link up childcare professionals and teachers with healthcare staff in need of support due to the Covid-19 outbreak.

The page was created on 13 March and has already gathered over 5,000 members. Katie Ann Nic An Mháistir from Mountbellew, Co Galway, is a primary school teacher who volunteered her services for free on the Facebook page.

She is now working three-days a week minding the four children of a couple both working in the health service. She travels to their home in Ballinasloe and the family pays her petrol costs for her car.

Katie is one of a rapidly growing membership on a group called Covid-19 childcare for frontline staff. It was created by Helen Mallon, a crèche owner based in Kilkenny.

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