But the sentencing of two children for the murder of a child is genuinely unprecedented in the history of the State. There is in this story no parallel universe, just ordinary Irish suburban middle-class life. They exist in a parallel world of pain from which the damaged child emerges in turn to do damage. There is in this story no parallel universe, just ordinary Irish suburban middle-class life. We have been sleepwalking into a new world while our children are already out in it, wandering without maps or boundaries.

Source: The Irish Times November 06, 2019 04:52 UTC