Families the Church did not fail

YOU have given much coverage to Liz O’Donnell’s ‘lambasting’ of the Catholic Church’s over-involvement in the education of our children, including her statement that the Church “has failed the public.”

Well it did not ‘fail’ in providing an education to my severely autistic son, now aged 21, when the State failed miserably.

Between 1987 and 1996 he had been wholly misplaced in a non-religious, State-run special school for emotionally disturbed children in west Dublin.