Search for apple speaker:Mary Upton (KildareStreet.com)

Preschool Services (7 Oct 2010): Mary Upton: ...entitled to free lunch or fruit snacks and others are not. It is not acceptable to stand by and tell a four year old or a three year old that he or she cannot have his or her quota of chopped-up apples today, but his or her friend in the same group can. This is not the real world, where in a disadvantaged area there will be different categories of children whose parents have different...
(8 Jul 2009): Mary Upton: ...nobody to defend them and nobody who cared enough to help them when they needed it most. These were children who were admitted to these institutions for the most spurious reasons, like stealing an apple or having a Protestant parent. On other occasions, it was just to satisfy the demands of an institutional hierarchy which wanted to keep their child labour operation running. Even the...

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