Poverty will continue to cause misery in society for the next quarter of a century unless the Government radically alters its policies, it was warned today.

I WENT last week to listen to a talk given by Martin McGuinness on education at the Patrick MacGill Summer School in the Donegal town of Glenties. This year, under the broad theme of Building a More Civilised Society in Ireland, the summer school organised an evening’s discussion on the role of education, at which three speakers each gave a paper on the topic.