smurgen wrote: » You'd get 55 headbangers anywhere. Sure look at all the folk that complained about rte and the religious skit. The fact they had to mention support emails to a national newspaper and there was so little it was countable is mortifying.
McMurphy wrote: » Jennifer Carroll MacNeill also got "torn a new one" for her tweet yesterday, there's a few epic takedowns in there, few of those lads and ladies will be "blocked" when she gets out of her four poster inn this morning I should think.https://twitter.com/CarrollJennifer/status/1349110323886886914?s=19
Deleted User wrote: » I’m failing to see what’s wrong with that tweet. She’s saying that no one should have facilitated the abuse suffered in those homes. Isn’t that what we’re all saying?
Bowie wrote: » The FG/FF led Cork county Council deciding whether or not to allow apartments be built were bodies are believed to be buried on the Bessborough grounds is a nice touch.
major interest wrote: » There’s a SHD application gone in to An Bord Pleanála for an area near Bessborough. Also separate proposal for the adjacent site which will have to go through standard planning via council (as it’s less than 100 units).http://www.gatewayviewshd.ie/
McMurphy wrote: » She's being reminded (or perhaps educated, you never know with some of these head in the sand zealots) that her party were in government for many of the years these atrocities took place. Therefore her party must share some of the blame. It's not difficult to understand really.
FrancieBrady wrote: » She will probably complain about being 'bullied by bots on de internet' when in fact here argument was demolished by people more eloquent and more in touch with reality, than her.
blanch152 wrote: » Oh dear, another poster caught out with fake news or a failure to understand the planning process or just too lazy to research their post.
Fann Linn wrote: » Survivors not too happy with release of this document and some of the content included. Why the rush from FFG to push this through? One woman on CB now says her account is full of inaccuracies.
grayzer75 wrote: » It will help divert attention to the current Covid sh*tshow. They're now asking healthcare workers to return back to work if they are showing no symptoms because we all know you have to show symptoms to carry and transmit the virus :rolleyes:https://www.rte.ie/news/coronavirus/2021/0113/1189371-coronavirus-ireland/
[Deleted User] wrote: » Where were the families when these unfortunates were being abused? Where were the fathers? Hiding behind mammies skirts. Because she and daddy didn’t want that sort of girl having a claim on their farm, house, business. It wasn’t just the government or churches fault.
Deleted User wrote: » Where were the families when these unfortunates were being abused? Where were the fathers? Hiding behind mammies skirts. Because she and daddy didn’t want that sort of girl having a claim on their farm, house, business. It wasn’t just the government or churches fault.
FrancieBrady wrote: » The 'families' were living in fear of the stigma. A stigma fostered by the Church which had been given unprecedented control by the governing parties, either through weakness or through a vested interest for themselves.
smurgen wrote: » But did the families starve the babies?
Deleted User wrote: » Or living in fear of an unmarried mother having a claim on their property.
Fann Linn wrote: » Or sell them?
smurgen wrote: » Also did people know the stats? We're they aware that Bessborough in the 40's had a 82% mortality rate? I think that would have colored public perceptions at the time. Did people know what was really happening? I doubt it.
Deleted User wrote: » Did people really care? Out of sight, out of mind. Let someone else take care of the problem.
Cluedo Monopoly wrote: » Choose your words Mary if you want to play the cold apologist. The treatment the mothers and babies got in the homes was inhumane. Looking at the mortality rates, it would appear there was lethal neglect.
I am tired of the voices in Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil preaching to us about “learning our history” while insisting that the legacy of Michael Collins and Constance Markievicz is all THEIRS but that the legacy of the Mother and Baby Homes is all OURS
markodaly wrote: » Then your issue is not with the Government, its with the Journalist who thought it was a good story to see how many people emails/sent letters to the Tainaiste regarding his takedown of NEPHET some months back.... Write a letter to the editor of that publication, you are free to do so.
FrancieBrady wrote: » A zinger from Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
"We must learn the lesson that institutionalisation creates power structures, and abuses of power, and must never again be an option for our country in any circumstance."
Brendan Bendar wrote: » A “zinger” is right Francie.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pádraig_Mac_Lochlainn Interesting background........ verrrrry interesting.............uhmmmm:cool:
“We have treated this developer with respect by agreeing to provide them with a copy of our submission to the commission through Cork City Council, and now while we wait for the commission’s final report and the chance to mark the graves of the babies and women, it has done this,” survivors spokesperson Catherine Coffey O'Brien said.
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