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Thankyou,Catherine-and greetings from England!   I do hope our concern group manages to correct the religious,political and organisational patronizing and demeaning stance the power elite in Ireland have historically(and now in contemporary terms),have and are showing to us victims of  institutional abuse.

'Caranua'(to give but one example),underscores what I have just stated above. It says one thing-and does another(and this 'doing'-whilst treating mature adults like children-is protracted as its declarations of support are unstable)

At least this has been my experience this side if the Irish sea.

Therefore,the good they profess to do on our behalf is being cancelled-out,sadly, by regimenting us,the abused,along institutional lines which formed the basis of our abuse in the first place.

And thus'the osmosis of opposites advances'-into a petrified cul-de-sac it would seem(unless a 'damascus' moment occurs!) 

This being said, hope and aspirations spring eternal in the fair-minded heart-so let us fight on!

(Though regretfully I fear some poor souls of our number-in the catholic sense of 'number' -have already lit a penny candle from the torch of eternity and are now huddling against the side of the 'workhouse' wall -awaiting the tender mercies of God).

But until realised,wise provision should [equally] be made for another bunch of dead thoughts/actions-twice requiemed in the black annals of cruel and hypocritical Irish history.

In conclusion,let us therefore 'shame the shamers'-it may be the only tool we have left!

God bless you and all my dear Irish friends reading this.

Terence Ellard.