Revealed: The REAL Amount Of Hours An Irish Mum Works Every Week

Thousands of mums across the country are working almost 70 hours a week.

New research shows that Irish mothers put in a 28-hour week looking after the kids, on top of their regular paid work outside the home.

This means that mums are on-the-go for over 13 hours each weekday.

Cooking and preparing food, doing jobs for the family and taking care of pets are daily tasks carried out on days which begin at 6.45am up until they start work, and continue after work, until an average of 7.52pm when the kids go to bed.

The study also found three quarters of Irish mums rarely get a chance to sit down and eat breakfast or dinner at home because of their schedules.

Mums agree that having kids is a full-time job. 

Most mums admitted to getting a break at weekends if dad is around to do his bit. The study of 2,000 women was carried out by natural cold remedy Kaloba.

The study found that almost nine in ten mothers are so busy they often have days when they are doing something from the moment they wake up until they go to sleep.

And 92 per cent reckon that being a mum is a full-time job in itself.