The then minister for education, Brian Lenihan, visited Artane in 1967. When he was about to leave, a number of the boys had assembled on the school steps behind the brothers. One of them, Anthony Burke, stepped forward. He said to Lenihan: ‘They beat us every day. Stop them beating us.’ Lenihan turned to his chauffeur and said: ‘Get me out of this fucking place.’
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