{"id":275166,"date":"2026-02-01T09:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T09:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/275166\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T09:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T09:37:09","slug":"childhood-services-ireland-appoints-a-new-chairperson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/275166\/","title":{"rendered":"Childhood Services Ireland appoints a new chairperson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Karen Clince has been appointed as chair of Childhood Services Ireland (CSI), the Ibec trade association representing childcare providers across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Karen is the founder and chief executive of Tigers Childcare, one of Ireland\u2019s largest childcare providers, with 33 centres across Dublin, Meath, Kildare, and Cork.<\/p>\n<p>This is exclusive subscriber content. Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/login\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IE Logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4633150_1_org_IE_logo_modals.png\" width=\"340\" height=\"41\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\tSubscribe to access all of the Irish Examiner.<\/p>\n<p>Annual \u20ac130\u20ac80<\/p>\n<p class=\"best-value\">Best value<\/p>\n<p>Monthly \u20ac12\u20ac6 \/ month<\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Benefits image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/4874751_1_org_Funnel_image.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"footer-info\">Introductory offers for new customers. Annual billed once for first year. Renews at \u20ac130. Monthly initial discount (first 3 months) billed monthly, then \u20ac12 a month. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/terms-conditions\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Ts&amp;Cs<\/a> apply.<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Karen Clince has been appointed as chair of Childhood Services Ireland (CSI), the Ibec trade association representing childcare&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3703,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-275166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-appointments","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}