Secretly recorded footage at three crèches in Dublin and Wicklow showed childcare staff manhandling children, screaming at them and snatching toys from their hands. Some of the footage, which was recorded by an RTE researcher who had gone undercover as a worker at the childcare centres, showed toddlers strapped in highchairs for hours on end without anything to stimulate them and childcare staff fabrication diaries relating to the children’s activities.