Alison O'Connor
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355 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 30 Aug
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And she says the parental responsibility is important.
At the same time, some children who are involved in crime are in toothless care.
And also, she said, and I found this interesting, one common thread with these five boys who died is that none of them were in education.
So we have seen some very harsh commentary.
And I personally, for me, looking at Brenda Power's piece in the Sunday Independent today, I would consider that fairly harsh, saying that she's finding it very hard to have sympathy for any of the families.
And she talks about dim-witted commentators who describe them as only children.
I plead guilty.
I have described them as only children.
I think it's a lot more complex.
Yes, they do need...
more parental, I suppose, guidance and their parents obviously need help.
Brenda did make an interesting point that there was very little sign of any fathers in terms of funerals and that.
But the Mail has this piece by Colin McGurk where it's Senator, Fine Gael Senator Van Neuquillen, and she's talking about increased community supports.
And she's at the Oliver Bond flat complex that's in Dublin.
And there's a youth worker there, Gail Cullen-Doyle, and she points out that two community centres in that complex are closed, one bolted up and one demolished.
And she's saying what a difference that sort of thing made when she was growing up and that it kept so many people on the straight and narrow and that now those sort of things have been so cut back and so rationalised that none of that is happening.
And if you don't get in at community level, really, I think you're on to a loser.
Nip it in the bud early on.
Liz,
back.
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