Public servants are able to bully and intimidate with impunity

THERE is a mother in mourning in Ireland. Every day, she cries for the boy she has lost, and there is often no end to the tears.

No end to the pain, to the wondering what she did wrong. Her family suffers with her, the loss of their brother hard to bear.

This mother has given her life to the care and rearing of the boy. His intellectual disabilities were diagnosed as "moderate to severe".