Indifference of State toward children with special needs an affront to ‘Republic’

Even for those who promote the balance sheet of an economy over the values of society, the whole thing is little short of stupid, writes Michael Clifford

EVERY now and again stories find their way into the media which give pause for thought. Last week, much of the airwaves were dominated by talk of pressure for pay rises in the public sector, and the dawning of Trumpland in the USA.

Other weeks we hear of the “hated USC”, as if a progressive method of taxation is the source of primal anger. And then there is the recurrent sore of water charges, elevated in some quarters into a barometer for human rights.