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Liveline Thread (15/02/2012 to 01/05/2012)

Bard

Folks,

Once again, at the request of the Admins, we have had to close the current Liveline thread due to its size. The discussion on Liveline can now continue on this thread as and from Feb 15th 2012 (but it will have to be transplanted to another thread again if/when a certain thread length is reached).

So carry on as normal... while remembering that Radio is a moderated forum, and the Liveline thread is not exempt from that - you're required to be civil and observe the rules as per the charter.

Thanks.

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AngryBollix

he has his daddys head on him

Big Daddy Cool

a wig :eek: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw my god

is this seriously the best person that rte can get to present this show.

eviltwin

I find these stories incredible - in a good way.

AngryBollix

please dont stay

just get off the radio

RadioRetro

"Living in the country we didn't have any" money.

Yup, money's just for city folks, y'hear?

Allyall

RadioRetro wrote: »

Man who broke into house and gets to keep it.

Thanks

irishh_bob

joe ( insufferable dose that he is ) to give him his due , does handle stories like this quite well

IvyTheTerrible

Jesus Christ that father sounds like a prick and a half.

SEPT 23 1989

Thats some nasty sh1t

JonathanAnon

He told him in a very unkind way... how does that work?

"You're a grandfather........ ye b0ll0x"

signostic

RadioRetro wrote: »

"Living in the country we didn't have any" money.

Yup, money's just for city folks, y'hear?

What she said is true...in the 60`s there was not very much..the dilemma of girls who got pregnant outside of wedlock was so different than it is now.

AngryBollix

I find it very difficult to understand how so many mothers would willingly hand over their children

perhaps it was just a sign of the times

IvyTheTerrible

God this makes me so sad. I'm having a baby in the next few days, we are not married and the thought that I would have to give him up, just heartbreaking.

sudzs

Bloody hell though, it really isnt all that long ago this was going on...

When I was a young wan the back pages in Cosmo and Marie Claire had all the abortion clinic ads blanked out. if you had a scare it really was scary stuff. Must have been hell for the likes of this woman.

That_Guy

This is fairly depressing stuff.

RadioRetro

signostic wrote: »

What she said is true...in the 60`s there was not very much..the dilemma of girls who got pregnant outside of wedlock was so different than it is now.

I know, I am that old (not her, but was a kid in the 60s) and vividly remember the backward way of life here then from my annual summer visits. It sounded like 'no money for yokels' was in vogue.

signostic

One has to remember that McQuaid was in power in these times

europa11

So much for the "good old days".

sudzs

AngryBollix wrote: »

I find it very difficult to understand how so many mothers would willingly hand over their children

perhaps it was just a sign of the times

They reallu hadn't much of a choice.

scargill

signostic wrote: »

One has to remember that McQuaid was in power in these times

+1000

lucylu

This is very sad you can hear the heartbreak in her voice.

AngryBollix

sudzs wrote: »

They reallu hadn't much of a choice.

What did their families do?

SEPT 23 1989

signostic wrote: »

One has to remember that McQuaid was in power in these times

Suffer little children

eviltwin

AngryBollix wrote: »

I find it very difficult to understand how so many mothers would willingly hand over their children

perhaps it was just a sign of the times

Willingly? You having a laugh? There was no choice, you face being disowned, there was the social stigma, no lone parents etc

I had my child in 1997 when I was a teenager and even then faced huge pressure to have her adopted and that was 30 years later!

scargill

AngryBollix, meet Signostic. The Catholic "shame" had a lot to do with it. It's difficult for us to get our heads around this in 2012, but 40/50 years ago this country was another planet.

AngryBollix wrote: »

I find it very difficult to understand how so many mothers would willingly hand over their children
perhaps it was just a sign of the times

signostic wrote: »

One has to remember that McQuaid was in power in these times

RadioRetro

AngryBollix wrote: »

What did their families do?

Many a mother kept and raised their daughter's kid as their own, others conspired to ignore that anything had happened and still others banished their daughters from any contact ever. A very cruel world, truth be told.

irishh_bob

europa11 wrote: »

So much for the "good old days".

indeed , remember that the next time some violin player for pensioners is on thier soap box spouting about the alledged greatest ever generation and all they did for us

That_Guy

The good aul days.

AngryBollix

eviltwin wrote: »

Willingly? You having a laugh? There was no choice, you face being disowned, there was the social stigma, no lone parents etc

I had my child in 1997 when I was a teenager and even then faced huge pressure to have her adopted and that was 30 years later!

From whom?

sudzs

Remember the Kerry babies scandal? And the Granard scandal too?? Wasn't that the 80's??

Try matching up watching Top of the Pops with all that going on in rural Ireland at the same time.