Irish Examiner view: Education poverty and a missed opportunity to invest in our children

This morning, the latest Children’s School Lives report will lay out how children's social backgrounds affect their experience of primary school

Irish Examiner Education Correspondent Jess Casey, columnist Sarah Harte, and Children's Ombudsman Niall Muldoon have addressed the effect of poverty on our children's education in the 'Irish Examiner'. Stock picture: PA

We are supposed to be a rich country.

Yet the extent to which poverty is affecting our children’s education should be setting alarm bells off at every level of government.