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Fri 11 Nov 2010Facts ignored as we set off to ape worst excesses of UK childcare

I WAS struck by a letter in this newspaper on Saturday last, from Dr Bobby Smyth, a TCD lecturer on health matters. It referred to the reporting of the “Roscommon abuse case”, and the fact that its most striking aspect has been ignored.

“Alcohol,” Smyth observed, “was central to the abuse and neglect of these children.”