The Mick Clifford Podcast: The fight for special education access in Ireland

Providing an education for all children should be a basic duty of the state. Yet, for some reason, it doesn’t happen in this country

Providing an education for all children should be a basic duty of the state. Yet, for some reason, it doesn’t happen in this country. 

Every year, there are children with special needs who can’t access either a place in a special school or a place in a special class in mainstream education. 

Why, in a country as allegedly developed as this, have we not been able to get this basic duty right? 

Rebecca Meehan, a mother of a child with additional needs, and Irish Examiner education correspondent Jess Casey join the podcast.