Ireland says 'sorry'
that should sort it then
Ireland says 'sorry'
that should sort it then
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have a listen to christy moore/joni mitchell on youtube about the laundries-i cant seem to do a link
but the song says it all
so if anyone could do a link that would be great
ta
have a listen to christy moore/joni mitchell on youtube about the laundries-i cant seem to do a link
but the song says it all
so if anyone could do a link that would be great
ta
I'm listening to it right now
ta sooz
i wanted my then step-daughter to go to a catholic school-she watched the film with me one night & made me promise not to send her to a catholic school
i couldnt get her in if i wanted to
school told me places were taken up by somalians
you know from somalia
that good old catholic country
but thats a whole different thread..
Has the Catholic Church apologised for all the nuns hellbent on making the women's life a misery?
Has the Catholic Church apologised for all the nuns hellbent on making the women's life a misery?
an apology from a nun are you kidding? There is something really fishy going on with this one and I don't know what it is. The child abuse scandal people were screaming from the roof tops for apologies and compensation etc and the church were (slowly) starting to hold their hands up and apologise.
But for some reason the attitude is completely different on this one. For some reason there is a quiet calm about it, like there's something bigger lurking underneath. It's not just that women were kept as slaves...but the children that were born there were sold to Americans or sent to work in Australia and records were destroyed. There is no exact number of how many women were kept in the institutions, how many died, how many children were born and what happened to those children because there are no records.
Any of the women who are alive now, they can't claim a pension because their work in the institutions didn't count. The Redress Board set up to deal with institutional abuse excluded the Magdelene Laundries so they didn't get anything on that either
There is something really weird going on about it.
The terms of reference of the investigation were limited in that they couldn't recommend compensation or a state apology because in reality the state can't afford it, we have no money as it is. But to be honest, it's the nuns who should be out there apologising and its not as if they didn't profit hugely from all the land they sold (conveniently) during the boom. I don't know why they're not apologising and why there's no pressure on them either
Good post Temps..
I think some will be shaking in their boots soon, our government and church have thought they are untouchable for far too long....
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I'm starting to wonder whether the state are trying to pawn them off. There can't be too many survivors at this stage? So maybe they're holding out till they all pop their clogs?
Thanks Temps and Stonks for posting those.
Shameful.
I'm starting to wonder whether the state are trying to pawn them off. There can't be too many survivors at this stage? So maybe they're holding out till they all pop their clogs?
Probably but they can't wait for the babies that were stolen from their mothers to pop off and I'm sure they have a case....
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