On Friday, our lead editorial noted this wealthy State’s seeming inability to cater for its most vulnerable people — in that case, how our schools are not adequately resourced to support pupils with special needs.

But Friday's edition, too, carried a report highlighting that it’s not just our youngest cohort who are being let down, but our oldest too.

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