Tests on children - Mother and baby home trials

Since London’s Grenfell catastrophe the air has been thick with accusations. 

It has been asserted that the victims’ social status, their relative poverty in an affluent neighbourhood, was as much responsible for their deaths as the fire that swept through their poorly maintained building. Their material vulnerability cost them their lives, goes the charge.

Since then hostels and hospital wards have been closed in Ireland because of newly-realised fire threats but we have a long history of people finding themselves in unexpected circumstances because of their social status, because of their unenvied place in the invisible but rigid pecking order that once, and maybe still, ordered this society.