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	A Dublin creche has been fined &euro;1,000 for breaching childcare laws, after featuring in a RTE Prime Time investigation.</p>
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	The Links creche in Malahide, and it&#39;s owner Deirdre Kelly, had been facing a total of 24 charges in court, brought by Tusla, the Child and Family Agency.</p>
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	However, the four charges against Ms Kelly were withdrawn and Judge John O&#39;Neill said that &quot;no fault applies to her in any shape or form&quot;.</p>
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	Of the remaining 20 charges against the creche which were initially being brought, Dublin District Court heard this morning that 12 were being withdrawn and just eight remained.</p>
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	Lawyers for the Child and Family Agency told the court that a number of incidents had been recorded between February and March 2013.</p>
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	The court was told that some of the children attending the creche had been shouted at, cursed in front of, &quot;slammed into a chair&quot; and that a staff member had been forceful.</p>
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	The court heard that &quot;99pc&quot; of the incidents related to one particular staff member who has since left the company,</p>
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	Lawyers for Ms Kelly said that she was taking the matter &quot;very seriously&quot; and described her as a very private person.</p>
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	She has also offered to pay a contribution toward the prosecution costs, the hearing heard.</p>
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	Judge John O&#39;Neill said that based on the fact that the creche provided a high level of cooperation during the investigation and that it &quot;appears to have been an isolated incident&quot;, he was fining them &euro;1,000 in relation to charges which occurred on February 25, which they have two months to pay.</p>
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	<a href="http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/owner-of-creche-featured-on-rtes-primetime-expose-cleared-of-any-wrongdoing-as-charges-withdrawn-31502078.html">http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/owner-of-creche-featured-on-rtes-primetime-expose-cleared-of-any-wrongdoing-as-charges-withdrawn-31502078.html</a></p>
