Liveline: "I'm down in the hood, I'm on tik-tok" sez Joe

We know it's getting harder and harder, Joe.

TMI.

THey celebrate that kinda stuff today

Fcuck off - this is ludicrous. This guy (no, not Joe) is an absolute spoofer

The femle teacher heated her ring on a radiator in order to burn your wrist by applying it?

She did in her hole!

this is woeful radio. 2 weeks of shite. layers upon layers of shite

people are just ringing in making up stuff as they are going along

No I meant your bog standard (not imported) teacher in the UK , for instance, back in the day - would they be regularly doling out the slaps without fear of accountability?

I's a "misery off" at this stage. Each caller trying to outdo the last with their tales of abuse and battery. It's like the Monty Python "4 yorkshireman sketch"

Did Billy Bunter not get six on the best?

I say it was the same. The place King Charles was sent to in Scotland was supposed to be bad.

It's purely for the host's amusement/gratification. If anyone is upset - there's links to helplines on the RTE web page

I think it's letting people get it somewhat out of their system and acknowledge it

He perforated his particulars with mathematical instrument

on the twitter you’d regularly see teachers in America getting the bejaysus beating out of them. Or shot. Have to find a middle ground.

Well yest morn on RTÉ the Taoiseach said some nonsense about “we are going through the harrowing of a national trauma” or some such phrase, and praised liveline.

National compensation scheme, worse story gets more money???

This is horrendous. I count myself lucky not to have experienced any of this. Why oh why did none of the kids tell their parents.

Actually I'm nearly 62, and my siblings are a similar age and none of us were ever abused in school. I don't know if it was just the school we were in, or just our parents would have come down like a ton of bricks on anyone who touched us.

I can quite understand how so many of my generation and older have so little confidence, and can't challenge "authority".

we all know that school Ireland in the 50/60/70s was at times violent, abusive,

Duffy is just picking at the scabs of people’s memories,

It’s low rent radio, and serves no purpose other than inflating the hosts ego

Joe's well able to dish it out from his position of apunity on air, that's a fact.

I like this sctor lady’s voice. She can beat me on a daily basis if she wants!

It was more formalised in the UK system. Slaps, kicks and punches, and assaults with a variety of weapons, while not unknown, weren't common in most schools.

I've no doubt that prior to my time there, the above may have been more the norm, though.

The weapon of first resort in most Scottish schools was the leather belt, and in English schools, the cane.

I suspect the almost universal introduction of such appliances of corporal punishment was to regulate things a bit more steadily, and avoid teachers actually killing pupils.

She forced you to eat an orange? I can see why Joe called you back

Its own swap of horror, WTF!!

Swear to god, time is going backwards listening to this stuff!