Liveline: Thread with no name, Host with no shame

11 children, ffs, could you not exercise some jaysus control.

Say what you want about religious orders, but when they where in charge of hospitals, they where fecking spotless and run properly.

It is so true, the State and Church as in Arch Dioceses placed children in these and other institutions.

Something thats never mentioned in any discussion of the Tuam scandal is that one of the main reasons the mother and baby home was set up was because the paying customers in the bon secours hospital in the middle of town objected to sharing a room with "these" ladies... Theres a terrible shortage of mirrors in this country all the better to see who we were

it was there parents that sent the young mothers there

Families where complicit... I heard family stories of how the guards knocked on my grandmothers door to take my uncle to Artane, due to his bad behaviour (never showing up for school) and they were ran from the door, because everybody knew what happened in there and there was no way my grand parents where having it!! So families where capable of stopping children being put in, in some cases.

the 1950's was a very different time caller

How much more time can we rake over these events from the past?

They were not Nazis, cawlur. Nazis were people who wore black uniforms and went around telling people what to do - oh wait

Shocking, on my very first day in ******* college, tippearary , I looked across the green and observed a priest literally beating the **** out of a new student , which included a kick to head .