Divided generations - Reports ring the warning bells loudly

The paper published by the Economic and Social Research Institute yesterday makes for depressing, challenging reading.

It would be foolish if not dangerous to ignore it and not to consider how the failed — and failing — society it describes can be remade quickly.

The grimness and lack of opportunity faced by so many young people and some not so young, demands a response with a force and urgency usually unknown in our public affairs.