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On the new Tuam movie
TUAM: We seem to be obsessed in modern Ireland with digging up the past, says MARIA MAYNES, but the State’s own Commission of Investigation into the Galway mother and baby home lays bare some important facts which have gone under the public radar:
There is such a thing as decency and the hysterical, inaccurate reporting around Tuam isn’t it.
If one could previously have said metaphorically that digging up the past was a favourite pastime of modern Ireland, we can now say it literally.
“More delays while people waste endless hours of their lives in traffic – time they’ll never get back.”
In Summer 2021 Canada had what was described as its “George Floyd moment.” This came with the apparent discovery of mass graves of indigenous people, mostly children. Estimates of the numbers buried in what were claimed to be unmarked sites ranged into the thousands, with the confident assertion that many more would be discovered. There […]
Graham Doyle was handed over to the Sisters of Charity as a baby, but the adoptee says one day modern Ireland will also have to face up to its own treatment of babies.
2010 – 2020 had its fair share of very good attempts at pulling the wool over people’s eyes, with the new phrase “fake news” being coined to cover the age old habit of spreading porkie pies.
Why did Catherine Corless, the Tuam babies historian, contradict the official report live on radio? Tim Jackson says there are serious questions to answer. #griptcomment
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