Anger at failure to protect young

LEADER’S Questions overran by 29 minutes yesterday — barely three minutes for each victim of the seven child sex offenders who may well now be let loose from jail.

An angry, tense mood settled over a Dáil chamber suddenly splattered in the backwash of the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the law on statutory rape as unconstitutional.

It was a Dáil chamber alive with recrimination over its own failure to protect the most vulnerable in society.