The Eire Report On Mother And Baby Homes

[Paigntonian]

is beyond belief. Mass graves. Around 10,000 dead kids discarded and secretly buried. I am ashamed to be a Catholic.

[gness]

Really, Fiveleaves? I know from my granny what the Black and Tans did to women and children when Churchill let them loose here.

I am pleased that we are no longer under the heels of Britain. The evil they brought to Ireland is on a par with what the Catholic Church brings everywhere.

The Ireland I live in is a different Ireland to the one of my childhood and gets better and better as the church loses its hold.

[lankeela]

If the abortion laws had been different would there have been so many unwanted babies?

[fiveleaves]

Gneiss, No doubt that Ireland would be an independent country by now but they definitely weren't ready for it in 1921.
You need more than a pathological hatrid for the Brits to make a country work. Eire was basically a Catholic theoracy with a government which under de Valera had fascist sympathies. When Hitler died de Valera hot footed it to the German embassy to sign a book of condolescence.
In such a society women and children tend to suffer the most. Somehow I doubt the poor, unmarried women cruely confined in the Magdalene laundries were going "Yeah, but its great we are free of the Brits"