Tragedy waiting to happen - Woman and rapist failed by system

Even the most vivid champions of this still-evolving Republic, even those Teflon-cloaked bankers who so disastrously “wore the green jersey” to try to pull the wool over investors’ eyes — your pension providers possibly — cannot but feel a sense of embarrassment, a sense of betrayal, that at least 42 schools must be reassessed, years after they were built, to establish whether they are safe places for our children.

The parents of those children, many now seeking refuge in other schools, must feel a sense of outrage that their children may have been put in jeopardy because the building of these schools was not properly supervised by the state.