New Page 1 I've been using INTERNET EXPLORER every time I was on JU and today, for the sheer heck of it I decided to log onto JU using my default and favourite browser FIREFOX - and I couldn't believe the speed of JU. Is there something in Internet Explorer that slows JU down. ? I use Broadand (speed (400.0Mbps)
LONDON appears to be under the cosh again .... amazing that these religious ZEALOTS think that Londoners, and those who have made London their home think that Londoners can be intimidated. London and Britain survived the worse the Nazis chould throw at them and many many survivors of the Institutions found London to be a refuge. Best Wishes to everyone in London. SHOOTING (from the BBC) A man has been shot at Stockwell Tube station by armed police officers, police confirmed. Passengers w...
Little Bernard Kerrigan, who died while in the "tender care" of the Irish Christian brothers gets TWO graves for his eternal rest.. There are so many anomalies in this graveyard in Letterfrack in the west of Ireland. The monument declares that 61 boys died during the 86 years of it's existence - yet there are 77 graves - and two of those graves appear to hold little Bernard. And only recently the Irish Christian Brothers admitted at the Child Abuse Commission that 100 boys actuall...
Ferryhouse Bridge & Boys Graves
Q Q. Can we move on then to the issue of education. You have already described how the boys would have done their Primary Certificate and they were educated. You talk then in your submission about the teacher numbers and you say: "In accordance with the Department of Education rules the number of teachers on the primary school staff was determined by the number of pupils on the roll." ...
Q Q. I see. Can we move on now to a matter which is of primary interest to the work of this Commission and that's part 3 on the allegations of abuse. You start in this section of the submission by dealing with the issue of awareness of sexual abuse? A. Yes. Q. In the course of that you say that the admonition not to fondle pupils as used in the text, that's the Constitution of the Christian Brothers, was meant to wa...
Q Q. Yes. Can we move on to the issue of physical abuse. You are aware, I am sure, that there have been a substantial number of claims by former pupils in Letterfrack of physical abuse? A. Yes. Q. I think you concede at the bottom of page 87 of your submission that "assuredly there were lapses by individual brothers". You says: "The record shows that when a serious breach of standards occurred the matter was repo...
I would love to be able to comme I would love to be able to comment on Dr. Michael Corry's letter (Irish Times, May 19th) concerning the Residential Institutions Redress Board . But if you were to publish my comments I would be in trouble with the law as it now stands. The gagging of me by the law prevents me having any public comment under penalty of a €25.000 fine and/or two years imprisonment. What ...
Joe User The Knitter WHAT IS CHILD ABUSE ? Father Hughes and his "testimony" at the Commission to Inquire in Child Abuse Father Hughes refused to describe beatings on the bare buttocks with a strap as 'abuse' Father Hughes stated the sexual abuse allegations were " totally and completely denied " by the Oblates. Father Hughes said the Oblate Order was " surprised " at the numerous complaints of physical abuse received by the commission. Father Hughes said the O...
New Page 3 LEST WE FORGET 1 .... ARTANE :> Artane has 314 COMPLAINTS against it. In the 1940's there were on average 815 children incarcerated in ARTANE and in the 1950's there were on average 628 children incarcerated in ARTANE . There are 171 individuals named and there are 1,038 allegations against these individuals. ARTANE was "managed" by the christian brothers. LEST WE FORGET 2 .... DAING...
The Investigation Committee - REPORT INTO BALTIMORE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL " I have no time really to wait for three or four [or] five years for a finding . . . I only hope that somebody has the courage to take on board these things ." These words come from the transcript of a hearing of the Child Abuse Committee at which a former pupil of the Baltimore Fisheries School (Baltimore School) recounted on oath his experiences of life in that institution in the 1940s. At the time of hearing, the wit...
Francie HAUNTED BY THE DEATH OF AN ORPHAN O'Brien remains unconvinced by the priests' story A 62 year-old crippled man has relived the night he watched an 11 year-old orphan die because priests looking after him refused to call a doctor when he got sick. Mr. John O'Brien, a former detainee at St. Joseph's Industrial School, Ferryhouse in Clonmel, told how he pleaded with priests to get a doctor to save Francie Hogan, an orphan detained in Ferryhouse.O'Brien has...
PUNISH A DAY IN THE LIFE PUNISHMENT & PERSPECTIVE When I was recently asked about punishments in those places by someone who was never in those places I think she expected an answer like: "well they used they're hands or fists to box us or clatter us, their feet to boot us and they used blackthorn sticks or big leather belts for more formal punishments." Sounds like an answer that couldn't be denied, even she could relate to those t...
Child Abuse Commission Reports Child Abuse Commission Reports ..... so far [ SOURCE Third Interim Report] Confidential Committee Physical Abuse "The wilful, reckless or negligent infliction of physical injury on, or failure to prevent such injury to, the child" (Section 1(1) of the Act) FEMALE MALE There were two hundred and eighty-one (281) accounts of physical abuse involving thirtyfi...
Rock Me Gently Rock Me Gently Judith Kelly Published: February 2005 A moving and shocking memoir about a childhood of almost unimaginable horror At ten years old, Judith Kelly had lost her father and was living with her mother and grandparents in Bayswater. But ...