From Octonauts to Fia’s Fairies: Seven of the best kids’ TV shows streaming right now

Octonauts is regularly cited as one of the most educational animations available for kids these day
Lauren Murphy
In days of yore, kids’ TV in Ireland consisted of The Den, Sesame Streetor re-runs of The Brady Bunch on weekday afternoons. If you were lucky, there’d be an episode or two of Adventures of the Gummi Bears orThe Smurfson a Saturday morning.
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