School bullies have no fear of programme

ENLIGHTENED parents throughout Ireland are angry, though not overly surprised, at the growth in serious bullying among young schoolchildren.

Many of us saw it coming and tried, with little success, to alert our teaching body politic to the danger.

PACh (Positive Action for Children) played a leading role in attempting to raise public awareness, and while all our pleas fell on deaf ears at the time, we take no joy now in saying "we told you so".