Wrong word

‘DISAPPOINTED’ is a word you use when your football team loses, or maybe when you don’t do as well as you expected in an exam.

Wrong word

It is certainly not the appropriate word for a Taoiseach to use when responding to the news that a large organisation has been involved in the systematic cover-up of hundreds of serious criminal offences against children for the last 40 years.

Jaime Hyland

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