Richard Hogan: Make social media companies pay when they violate our kids

Let’s stop offering sympathy to families of children who have been violated, like the teenager attacked in Navan, and take action to prevent it happening again

Richard Hogan. Photograph Moya Nolan

Bullying has always been a scourge of the teenage world. Of course, it is present in the adult world too, but teenagers can really find themselves targeted and isolated. 

It is a particularly profound experience among teenagers because they rely so heavily on their peers for support.