That RTÉ shocker
RTÉ screened a shocker last week about one of the most deprived
parts of Dublin, an area just as deprived as Ballymurphy, the
Shankill, or Turf Lodge, Belfast, or the Bogside of Derry.
There are similar areas in Sligo, Limerick, Cork and elsewhere in
this island: high unemployment, broken families, illiteracy and
the violence that goes with that social chaos.
The cancer is not confined to Ireland. Nor, it would appear, to
the capitalist countries: Eastern Europe, we are told, has
similar problems. It is a cancer that is spreading throughout the
developed world. It would appear to be worst in highly developed
capitalist countries but it may be just as bad in Eastern Europe.
We do not know. We have not got enough material on which to base
a judgement.
Perhaps we should be grateful to RTE and, in particular, to
Cathal Og O'Shannon, for highlighting the cancer so effectively.
It might be too much to hope that the medium, dedicated primarily
to selling goods and conditioning people to buy them, in the
slots between the advertisements, would provide an analysis in
depth.
Phoblacht, 28 September 1977
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