Jarlath was once called a terrorist, having been found reading a history of the IRA in school. His radical tendencies clearly did not stop there. Without flinching, he pulls into plain and beautiful sight those children so often ignored by society. The ones that politicians forget about when they declare that -˜all' children will reach certain standards and achieve their arbitrary goals. He reminds us of the inhumanity and selfishness underpinning policies that exclude and isolate pupils who refuse to, or who simply cannot, conform to our standards of what we consider to be -˜normal'. He offers us a brutally honest look in the mirror and shows us what a little compassion, communication and empathy can achieve. This should be required reading for every teacher, parent and politician in the country. It is searing and wholly necessary.