Carrickmines tragedy must spur us to action

The deaths of 10 people at the Carrickmines Traveller halting site were awful. Dublin Castle will need to ensure what happened isn’t an echo of dispossession. If ever elected representatives and government agencies needed a reason to address deprived communities, then this is it.

After a time of mourning, there has to come real investment in living improvements. Electionioneering can’t have any place here, nor ‘budgets’ of our borrowed money.

Those who are healthy and well-off and those who aren’t, in common, need to look at how life could end. The brutalising of society has to stop. The powerful are beyond reach, opaque, whilst the rest of us struggle.