Revealing the horrors of Childhood Detention in Ireland's Child Detention facilities - 2024 update
Hi All,
There is no censorship on this site, no filtering of comments. The Philosophy I believe in:>
"...no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
So post your comments and let the Detention Orders be damned.
I remember watching TV in the early 70's when Sister Stan appeared on the screen. It was some report about the great work being done in the Kilkenny area (Kilkenny Social Services ??) by Sister Stan and the sisters of charity. Her face triggered something in me. Well you wouldn't believe the foul-mouthed language that escaped from my mouth. Such filthy language I had never used before (or since) to describe another human being. And yet this lady is able to tell anyone listening that she NEVER worked in any institutions. The early 70's was still very very close to the time I was in those child gulags and my memories of those times was still very fresh. And yet what provoked such a reaction in me? Is it the sanctimonious nature of these type of people, the "I'm doing God's work so don't dare question me" arrogant pose of them. You know I've seen those big posters as I pass up and down the Dart, the ones about homelessness, they are placed their by FOCUS IRELAND, an organisation which Sister Stan has a link to; One of the posters shows an empty, dirty, filthy doorway and on the wall is a plaque commemorating a homeless person who used to live in that doorway, another poster shows a park bench with a similar kind of plaque. Well it provoked a few questions in me: "What percentage of the homeless, in Ireland and the UK, were previously in the Irish child gulags, and what contribution did those religious orders make in creating and exacerbating the homeless problem in both countries" Sister Stan is going to use her humanitarian award for immigrants......would that be the immigrants who, when they fled the child gulags in Ireland, took the first boat to the UK? THE KNITTER