When election candidates coming knocking at your door, will you speak for the children so badly let down by the State?
When election candidates come knocking at your door, will you speak for the children so badly let down by the State?
In ancient times, crocodiles were thought to weep while they were feasting on their victims. It’s unlikely the cold-blooded creatures were expressing grief but rather a triumphant cry, the equivalent in today’s parlance of “gotcha!”.are knee-deep in crocodile tears these days. They’re sobbing for the children, as they cart off their free Oireachtas envelopes in a delirium of electionitis. Save the children from’s wicked clutches, they wail in a banquet of condemnation.
. Others languish on waiting lists for scoliosis surgery, mental health appointments or special needs classes. The most recently published figures show that, many moving between hotels and B&Bs. Another 5,000 immigrant children are living in direct provision, again mostly in emergency accommodation.Government shouldn’t be so quick to yell Gotcha! at Sinn Féin.
“The Sinn Féin ethos we now see, which is so clear, is the ethos of ‘protect the party at all costs’, even if that means child protection is put into a distant second place,”. The criticism is not without merit but Government TDs ought to examine their own parties’ failure to protect all of Ireland’s children equally.
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