The Tuam tank: another myth about evil Ireland

[Vote 4 Change]

This is the type of activism we need!
These Irish students should be holding up banners in Eyre Square shouting “Smash the student rental cartels, affordable student accommodation now”. Let’s see if the anti-Irish racism baiting NGO’s can compete with that?

 

[Vengeful Glutton]

The Govt would like to see some of the prime land held by the religious orders come on to the market for their developer buddies, that's for sure.

Makes you wonder if media frenzies like this are orchestrated by the Government's strategic communications unit.

 

[Volatire]

Really? So how come Ireland had the highest rate of confinement as a % of population of any country in the World Including Stalin’s Russia - many locked away for moral transgressions.
Or consider the status of married women. Until the 1980s wives were legally their husband’s chattels - property like his cattle and horses. And of course the best 20th century had the Kerry Babies scandal

You are being quite unfair to Stalin, whose gulags normally had mortality rates of only 2-5%.

Ireland achieved post-natal infant annual mortality rates as high 62%.

"The Bessborough statistics suggest that infants who were in a mother and baby home without their mother may have been at higher risk of death. This would appear to have been a factor in Bethany, which recorded an infant mortality rate of 62% in 1943."

To me, anything above 10% is an extermination camp.

Regrettably, the statement "This country ran extermination camps for illegitimate children" is a balanced, fair and reasonable assessment in the light of this report.

 

[blue velvet]

RIP Ann Lovett

The Statue of the Virgin
at Granard Speaks

by Paula Meehan

It can be bitter here at times like this,
November wind sweeping across the border.
Its seeds of ice would cut you to the quick.
The whole town tucked up safe and dreaming,
even wild things gone to earth, and I
stuck up here in this grotto, without as much as
star or planet to ease my vigil.

The Statue of the Virgin at Granard Speaks | RTÉ – Poem for Ireland

It can be bitter here at times like this, November wind sweeping across the border. Its seeds of ice would cut you to the quick.

apoemforireland.rte.ie

Weapons Grade trolling Sir

 

[Rose]

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Weapons Grade trolling Sir

You are being quite unfair to Stalin, whose gulags normally had mortality rates of only 2-5%.

Ireland achieved post-natal infant annual mortality rates as high 62%.

"The Bessborough statistics suggest that infants who were in a mother and baby home without their mother may have been at higher risk of death. This would appear to have been a factor in Bethany, which recorded an infant mortality rate of 62% in 1943."

To me, anything above 15% is an extermination camp.

Regrettably, the statement "This country ran extermination camps for illegitimate children" is a balanced, fair and reasonable assessment in the light of this report.

They were called workhouses.

 

[Karloff]

Makes you wonder if media frenzies like this are orchestrated by the Government's strategic communications unit.

Isn't that why it was leaked beforehand?

 

[blue velvet]

Varadkar dosen't even try to hide his corruption these days. He re-admitted the 3 FG senators who were expelled from the party because of golf-gate, knowing that the media would be having an orgy of Catholic bashing yesterday.

Maybe the most cynical person ever to hold political office here, and I'm including Haughey, Ahern, Ivor Callely etc.

 

[Vengeful Glutton]

Isn't that why it was leaked beforehand?

Possibly.

The reaction to a 3,000 page document is interesting. How many people actually read it?

 

[Vengeful Glutton]

Varadkar dosen't even try to hide his corruption these days. He re-admitted the 3 FG senators who were expelled from the party because of golf-gate, knowing that the media would be having an orgy of Catholic bashing yesterday.

Maybe the most cynical person ever to hold political office here, and I'm including Haughey, Ahern, Ivor Callely etc.

FG re-admits senators who lost whip over Clifden event

Fine Gael had decided to re-admit three Senators who lost the party whip following their participation in the controversial Oireachtas Golf Society event in Cliften last August.

www.rte.ie

Shrewd or cynical?

He's looking down his nose at us all.

 

[Vengeful Glutton]

You are being quite unfair to Stalin, whose gulags normally had mortality rates of only 2-5%.

Ireland achieved post-natal infant annual mortality rates as high 62%.

"The Bessborough statistics suggest that infants who were in a mother and baby home without their mother may have been at higher risk of death. This would appear to have been a factor in Bethany, which recorded an infant mortality rate of 62% in 1943."

To me, anything above 10% is an extermination camp.

Regrettably, the statement "This country ran extermination camps for illegitimate children" is a balanced, fair and reasonable assessment in the light of this report.

lol

 

[Vengeful Glutton]

Helplines ‘extremely busy’ with calls from ‘devastated’ survivors

Department not providing hard copies of mother and baby homes report ‘at this stage’

www.irishtimes.com

“There were about 500 people on the webinar yesterday but there’s thousands of survivors in Ireland. We’re told there’s about 57,000 living survivors so it’s a very small minority of people.”

Anyone know the number of women who were placed in these institutions?

57,000 sounds like a very high survival rate for "extermination camps".

 

[Anglophile]

The rampant misogyny in priest-ridden, un-Christian, un-caring, Ireland has to stop.

Now.