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Damien Edgar

Cost of living - Signs at NI hospital highlight children's plight

Signs directing families to foodbanks at Antrim paediatric emergency department illustrate the devastating impact of the cost-of-living crisis, an expert in social security has said.

Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick is an Ulster University lecturer, researching the social security system and socio-economic rights.

On Friday evening, she had to take her son the the emergency department to make sure he didn't have appendicitis and said she spotted the signs there.

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