The Kerry Babies Case

What is this crap?

Maybe, the poster is saying it on the basis that nobody has been named / charged yet?

Edit :

Was asked to delete this info.

It will all come out anyway.

What? The state villified her 40 years ago and people want her villified again?

The Tribunal treated her shamefully to the point she was physically sick. The State in the form of the Gardai and the Tribunal treated this woman shamefully yet here we are almost 40 years later and people want to treat her shamefully again. Disgusting.

The journalist from TV3 said that both people were arrested at the same address and have been together since early 80's.

I'm the assuming that they're married and likely gave grown up kids and possibly grandkids.

If they are charged and then named once appeared in court, it will be shocking for their family and the wider community

At the time the feeling seemed to be that almost everyone just wanted these events to go away and not be spoken of again.

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What does unmarried mothers, community opinions, the stance of the church, pregnancy out of wedlock and all that have to do with stabbing a baby 28 times?

The is a murder case, a terrible case of infanticide with a concerted effort to cover up the crime and not a commentary on irish societal values.

There was a stigma in some peoples mind but not as widespread as people now make out, many unmarried mothers made the conscious decision not to marry. Fact is many couples just did'nt marry.Not all of us were following catholic doctrine at the time but nowadays its de rigeur to describe all of Ireland as a catholic hellhole.

UMA came in in ~1973, was quite controversial at the time by all accounts but it was Ireland's first attempt to provide some sort of alternative to incarceration and forced adoption

There were still all sorts of negative attitudes from many in Dublin in the 80s I well remember hearing the tut-tutting. Even in the 90s some relatives were giving my sister grief for having kids and not getting married (even within a long-term relationship which endures today)

In the early 80s in Dublin my aunt went to the parish priest because her nearly-30 daughter was living in a flat with a man she was not married to. She asked the priest was there anything he could do 🙄🙄

You have no idea what your talking about! I got pregnant at 15, was a mother at 16 in 1999. I'm 40 now with an almost 24 year old an even with therapy, the stigma never leaves.

All very sad and real experiences for some but not all.Forgot to add that anecdote about your aunt confirms my assertion that religious people appear to have been affected more than the people who ignored catholic doctrine even in the 80's.