A school principal in Limerick is warning that children must be at the centre of any Government strategy as we emerge from the pandemic.
The impact of long lockdowns has highlighted how the digital divide and severe overcrowding has been affecting children in a community that was promised housing and a better future through regeneration.
Moyross in Limerick is home to around 2,000 people today. In 2007 a government-led regeneration programme began in the north Limerick housing estate aiming to reverse years of decline and gang feuds.
At the time there were 1,215 houses in Moyross. In 2020 there were just 721 houses - 494 have been demolished. Limerick City and County Council took over the Regeneration Programme in 2014 and it has been