Madam, – There has been widespread coverage of the reported sighting of two young children rummaging in a bin on Kilkenny High Street. If this uncorroborated report is true, it smacks of negligent parenting (why were two very young children wandering unaccompanied?), but it has been portrayed as if it were a common phenomenon caused by Government cutbacks.
I work every day on that same street and have never seen such a sight. Many families are struggling at present but to present a single instance of gross parental negligence as the fault of the Government is absurd. – Yours, etc,