Child abuse: get set for new round of shock, horror and hypocrisy

OVER the next week or so, we will see another couple of reports that will confirm, once again, how children really don’t matter in Ireland.

And once again we will be shocked by the evidence and hurt by the pain and suffering contained in those reports. We will make all sorts of resolutions that we’re going to do better in future, that we’ll never let this happen again.

And then the reports will go away to gather dust. The media outrage will die down. Other news stories will come along and we will have to wait till another tragedy happens, or another scandal is revealed, before we go through the whole hypocritical charade once again.