Just 1% of tax surplus would ease suffering

FINALLY, the untold suffering of countless children and adolescents in this €6 billion tax surplus-buoyed Celtic tiger society that is modern Ireland has been whispered aloud.

Children — our children — suffer psychiatric illnesses like depression and schizophrenia, in the same way as they suffer asthma and diabetes. It’s just not OK to talk about it.

And it’s very hard to get treatment, because it either isn’t there in the first place, or because you have to wait, sometimes a long time.