Contrasting pictures would shake one’s faith

Ill fares the land, to hast’ning ills a prey,

Images of the two Irelands graphically illustrated in the Irish Examiner on Wednesday Aug 1 shook my faltering faith in the system.

On the left, a woman struggling to feed her children in stark contrast to the woman on the right with Prada bag and designer gear, leaving Mountjoy prison where her ‘poor’ husband was incarcerated.