IT IS almost two years since the Prime Time screening of ‘Inside Bungalow 3’, an RTÉ Investigations Unit programme that exposed horrifying abuse at a residential care unit run by the HSE.

HERE in Ireland, we tend to take the ability to read and write for granted. After all, we have produced some of the world’s finest writers and we have a long tradition of literacy.

WHAT will it take for the Government to realise that neglecting the crisis in Ireland’s health service is both wasteful and foolish and cannot be allowed to go on?

THE fall in the international ratings of third-level colleges in Ireland is shocking but hardly surprising given the chronic lack of funding they continue to endure.