Cherishing the nation’s children equally? No, it’s worse than ever

JUST what are the natural and imprescriptible rights of a child? According to our constitution, every Irish child has them. But nowhere in the Constitution is there any attempt to spell out what they are.

We know what the rights attached to property ownership are, for instance (and they have been extensively spelled out over the years), but we haven’t a clue what the rights attaching to childhood might be.

Maybe that’s the reason why no minister, no lawyer and no judge referred to the rights of children in all of last week’s horrible unfolding events.