Childhood inquiry - Damaging priorities

TIME was that we’d dismiss more or less any social study carried out in Britain saying it was from a different culture and therefore irrelevant in Ireland.

However, it is not so easy to be smug when you can see the social changes under discussion all around you.

The Good Childhood inquiry, which was conducted over three years, found that an aggressive pursuit of personal success by adults is now the “greatest threat” to the wellbeing and happiness of children.