Another Irish White Slave

Another Irish White Slave..

Being laid to Rest

In a Communal Grave

Of the Sisters of Our 

Lady of Charity...

A captured white Slave

Bound in Slavery until Death...

Perhaps too Broken

By years of Hard

Labour and Beatings

From the unholy Hand

Perhaps Told Again

And Again that No one

Wants her and No one

Cared - Perhaps, Perhaps,

We may ask and

We may Plead...

The…

 "Pharmacophilia

Medicine has become the Religion of our day – the Opium of the Masses.  It took a very long time to discover abuse and pedophilia in institutions like the Catholic Church.  It may be particularly difficult to do so when it comes to an institution that people feel they have little option but to believe in."

Dr Munchausen: Pharmacophile…

Dr. Michael Corry, known as a Maverick who wouldn’t be bullied and above all, a gentleman!

02SaturdayJul 2011

From beyond the grave



JOHN HEALY



The dark, Dickensian history of Ireland’s industrial schools - euphemistically known also as reformatories - has been well exposed in print by writers like Mannix Flynn and Paddy Doyle, but no account of those centres of fear and abuse and inhumanity could match, in terms of personal tragedy, that written from beyond the grave by Peter Tyrrell and now published…

Friday, June 13, 2014

By Claire O'Sullivan

Irish Examiner Reporter

Survivors of Magdalene laundries will begin to receive enhanced pensions and weekly top-up payments from the Department of Social Protection in the coming week, as part of the redress package designed by Mr Justice John Quirke.

More than 400 women have already received €12.4m in lump sum payments in recognition of the years of unpaid labour they provided for the religious orders. Approximately 200…

Investigation needed to establish truth about forced adoptions in Ireland, conference hears

The Government should broaden the terms of reference for its commission of inquiry into mother and baby homes to include state maternity hospitals and their role in private adoptions, a conference on adoption has heard.

The Government should broaden the terms of reference for its commission of inquiry into mother and baby homes to include state maternity hospitals and their role in private…

By Patsy McGarry

Irish Times

May 24, 2013



http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/religion-and-beliefs/christian-brothers-to-pay-millions-of-dollars-to-abuse-victims-in-us-and-canada-1.1404747



A settlement of more than $16.5 million (ˆ12.75 million) has been agreed with the Irish…

€71.6 million in cash and €4.4 in property-related payments received to date

The briefing documents, prepared for Minister for Education Jan O’Sullivan, reveal that €71.6 million in cash has now been received.

Pamela Duncan

First published: Sat, Sep 6, 2014, 01:00

Religious congregations have paid less than a quarter of the €352.6 million which they had agreed to contribute to redress for victims of institutional abuse, internal documents in the…

I sit here tonight just 20 odd miles from Roscrea from Sean Ross

Abbey...Despite growing up about 12 miles from there I never knew the

human pain that existed behind those walls...Nuns were Holy women and

being from a large family...I cycled out to some convent many Sundays

- I cannot remember where - but I believed Nuns did good things - I

used to say to my mother that I wanted to be a Nun - my…

Doctor Munchausen: Judge & Jury