Louis Feutren in his SS uniform: taught at St Conleth's College in Ballsbridge for almost 30 years as a proud, unrepentant and self-confessed 'real Nazi'. I am at my desk pondering testimony spanning from the 1960s to 1991 that I have received in recent days from former students at various Irish schools concerning the rampant violence against children by professors and headmasters. Words that have no place in proximity to children parade before me: fists, venom, sadism, brutality. They are followed by descriptions of the ailments that are the inevitable consequence of such abuse in childhood: pain, anguish, lifetime trauma....