Almost 100 years ago, the 1916 proclamation called on the Republic to cherish all her children equally. In that time, the children of Ireland have been physically, mentally and sexually abused at home, in school, in state care; they have suffered poverty, illiteracy, ill health, inequality; they have been neglected, abandoned; they have died in state care. - See more at: http://paddoconnell.blogspot. - See more at: http://paddywantstoknow.blogspot.ie/#sthash.