Parents across Cork are skipping their own meals so their children have enough to eat.
New research from Barnardos also found that 7% of parents are using a food bank.
Speaking to RedFM News, Ben Atkins from Feed Cork says some are being forced to buy cheaper food which may not hold much nutritional value:
"Things are tighter and what we see happens is parents either stop eating or the nutritional value of what the families a whole are eating goes down and they need those vitamins and nutrition to thrive not just physically but cognitively as well."
