‘What's being done to children is cruel — you have no one to call’

Gary, Darragh and Alison Murphy. Darragh has had no public therapeutic services since he was in first class.

Children with disabilities’ lives are at stake due to cruelly insufficient services and their human rights are not being protected, the mother of a Cork teenager with autism has said.

Alison Murphy’s son Darragh, now 15, has autism and a mild learning difficulty.