Irish Teacher: Why I don't think The Two Johnnies should be cancelled

The two men apologised for their mistake. That’s important. They needed to do that. But how might we understand their behaviour from a restorative-practice perspective?
Irish Teacher: Why I don't think The Two Johnnies should be cancelled

The Two Johnnies - Photo by Ruth Medjber @ruthlessimagery

The scope of my column this week is arguably trivial; everything at the moment feels that way. But it’s written with the same heavy heart we’re all carrying inside ourselves because of Ukraine — a war that reminds us of so many others.

Whenever I hear the saying, ‘The road to hell is paved with good intentions', I think of our cancel culture.

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