We dump our values and our children in mad dash that ends in Monageer

AS we reel in shock at the enormous tragedy of Monageer, we wonder if we are listening or is anybody out there?

This has happened before. Sadly, it will happen again. A society driven by greed and obsessed with materialism is more concerned with a possible crash in the housing market than the plight of vulnerable families.

Soon the Dunne family will be yesterday’s news. Young mothers will still be dragging their children from their beds at or before first light, dumping them in the creche before heading off on the two-hour commute to work in Dublin just to pay the mortgage on a house they will never own and scarcely live in, and those precious children will not see their mothers again until night-fall.