Mother Child Homes Discussion ###DO NOT POST WITHOUT READING 1st POST###

bumper234 wrote: »

So why are you asking random strangers on the internet? You want answers and want it in public then go stand outside the Dail with a camera and ask those questions to the TD's as they arrive?

Elektronske wrote: »

This is a discussion forum, one you will not shut down, you can try to protect these politicans all you like, but they have many questions to answer, especially the ministers for health and county councils. Where is the prime minister, where is the president ?

Elektronske wrote: »

This is a discussion forum, one you will not shut down, you can try to protect these politicans all you like, but they have many questions to answer, especially the ministers for health and county councils. Where is the prime minister, where is the president ?

Czarcasm wrote: »

Simply because they're hoping to brazen it out until it actually goes away, again, just like it has done every time it's brought up.

If you bookmark this thread, and make a note in your calendar one year from now, I think you shouldn't be surprised at how the story has been forgotten about, just like every other publicity campaign that subsided soon afterwards - gets a mention here or there every so often, but nothing ever comes close to determining responsibility or accountability.

For that, those in authority are relieved that those subservient to them have short memories and prefer to attack each other rather than form any kind of cohesive strategy that might put their authority at risk.


TL;DR: Politicians, Church Leaders, Journalists, Historians, and the general public will sit on Pandora's Box before they'd ever allow it to be opened, and people will eventually move on, and all those responsible will breathe a collective sigh of relief.

mrsbyrne wrote: »

Ms Corlass herself says shes not sure whether its 800 babies 20 babies 200 babies or how many babies. Shes said she doesnt know wether it was in a septic tank, beside a septic tank, near a septic tank or nothing to do with a septic tank. She says she doesnt know if the babies were placed, flung , dumped or buried. She doesnt know because nobody knows. Yet. The Government have ordered an investigation to find out. But some people just heard:
Babies
800
Septic tank
Dumped
nuns
and they dived straight in head first, because, obviously, the media would NEVER exageratte or concoct a story just to sell papers, would they?

Spring Onion wrote: »

Our Taoiseach rarely speaks in public unless coached to do so. He did say this yesterday;

The Taoiseach has described the treatment of women and children in mother-and-baby homes as "an abomination".
Enda Kenny was speaking as the Government announced a Commission of Inquiry into conditions at the homes.
"It's not an exaggeration to say their treatment in many cases, and that of their babies, was an abomination."

Little CuChulainn wrote: »

What questions would you ask them?

Spring Onion wrote: »

Never mind the NYT - Birroc asked "She has come to the conclusion that those 800 babies are buried in an unmarked grave - do you think she is wrong in that fact?"

ElizaT33 wrote: »

These days in Ireland, you are 'paid' to be an unmarried mother - you receive a house, pram, benefits etc. What a turnaround ......! Perhaps these benefits are the result of huge embarrassment on the Government's part for the discovery of these atrocities ...!

Elektronske wrote: »

This is a discussion forum, one you will not shut down, you can try to protect these politicans all you like

GCU Flexible Demeanour wrote: »

As I said, the NYT article is a good statement of the present situation. It's nothing to do with what any one of us might want to assert, because we've no information.

What you, me and the Old Tuam Society have in common is that none of us can answer that question. What we know, and what was known publically at the time, is that these homes had very high infant mortality rates.