Newstalk’s Kacey O’Riordan reported about how the Holy Family School for the Deaf in Dublin was on the verge of losing their on-site speech and language therapist. This week, the principal and parents of St Columba's National School in Douglas - which has a deaf unit with 34 children - have been speaking about how they suddenly lost their speech and language therapist who came to the school two mornings a week. Triona Fitzgerald, the principal of St Columba's, said: “I don’t think they set out to remove a resource. "I think [in] rolling out this service - which in general and in theory will be really good - they didn’t stop to think.