Home-schooler Monica has a lot to learn

The State is obliged to check that a minimum educational standard is being applied...writes Michael Clifford

If the couple in question wish to defy the law, on whatever arrogant premise they choose, off with them. But let them take the consequences without subjecting the rest of us to an emotional circus

REPORTS of the incident were shocking. Gardaí materialised out of the dawn to arrest a mother-of-six. Monica O’Connor’s young son spotted them approaching the family home in Carlow and shouted a warning: “Mum, the guards are here”.