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August 2006 Archives

Public hearings on abuse unlikely

Patsy McGarry, Religious Affairs Correspondent 31/08/2006 No public hearings are likely to be held in the State investigation into the handling of clerical child sex abuse by Catholic Church authorities in Dublin. The inquiry is expected to begin late...
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Bishop tells of relief at abuse inquiry outcome

Bishop tells of relief at abuse inquiry outcome Patsy McGarry, Religious Affairs Correspondent 30/08/2006 Former bishop of Galway Dr ?amon Casey has spoken of his "utter and absolute relief" on being told that the Director of Public Prosecutions would...
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May we refer to the article ?Barnardos Family Tracing Service?

May we refer to the article ?Barnardos Family Tracing Service? dated 27th August 2006 in relation to ?Origins? the name of the family tracing and information service from Barnardos. Barnardos fail to understand that for the greater part of this...
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Barnardos Family Tracing Service

ORIGINS is the name of the family tracing and information service from Barnardos. The service is specifically for people who spent part of their childhood in residential institutions. Origins supports individuals who wish to access personal information held by...
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Sorry saga of abuse victims has not gone away, you know

Saturday August 26th 2006 THE Department of Education has carried out research into the organisations and work of State-funded support groups in Britain. These operate on behalf of men and women sentenced to terms in orphanages, industrial schools and...
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THE LEFT, LIBERALS AND PAEDOPHILE PANIC

A Very Well Connected Bogeyman Article by Brendan O'Neill Guardian Unlimited, UK: 21 June 2006 SUMMARY: THE STATE, THE OLD LEFT, CHARITIES AND THE MEDIA ARE TO BLAME FOR OUR 20-YEAR-LONG PAEDOPHILE PANIC - NOT THE MOB. I'm always amazed...
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'Kathy's Story' starts to slip - Newspaper Articles.

Orders dispute truth of woman's claims in book. Irish Independent. June. 05. A DISPUTE has broken out over the veracity of some of the claims made in a harrowing new book about life in the Magadalene homes. The book,...
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Siege ends as man claims he was abused Jim Hourigan, the man at the centre of the siege leaves his home yesterday after a stand-off that lasted 30 hours. Friday August 25th 2006 THE man at the centre of...
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The Magdalene Sisters:

The Magdalene Sisters: Women?s Oppression and the Irish Clericalist State For the Separation of Church and State! From Women and Revolution pages of Workers Vanguard No. 804, 23 May 2003; originally published in Spartacist Ireland No. 3 (Spring/Summer 2003), newspaper...
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Kathy O'Beirnes family denounce her book as work of fiction

Kathy O'Beirnes family denounce her book as work of fiction. Sunday Mirror 20th August 2006. Family Wash their Hands of ?laundry rape Victim?. Sunday Mirror. 20th. August 2006. by Niall Donald. The family of a woman who wrote a bestseller...
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'Pull the Book' Campaign - Letter and supporters list.

If you agree that a book with serious allegations ( in this case against a parent, the medical profession, and a religious congregation ) should be recalled from sale until proven authentic, please contact me with the name of your...
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Stigma of the Limbo babies

Thursday August 24th 2006 The controversy over an unmarked Midlands burial site for unbaptised babies should serve as a sad and chilling reminder of the heartache generated by the Catholic Church's cruel teaching on "Limbo". Up to quite recently,...
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Child protection submissions deadline extended

By Caroline O?Doherty THE deadline for public submissions to the newly formed Oireachtas Committee on Child Protection has been extended following complaints that too little time was allowed for people to get their views on paper. Submissions on a wide...
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Contradicting the Bishop

Wednesday August 23rd 2006 I would like to comment on the proposal by Archbishop Diarmuid Martin (Irish Independent, August 21) I find the Archbishop's words quite offensive and desperate. Firstly, he describes the "cult of secularisation". I would like...
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Family Wash their Hands of ?laundry rape Victim?.

Richard Wood Magdalene Laundry Survivors Website Richard This is from www.kathystoryscam.blogspot.com See also www.voicesemerge.org and www.alliancesupport.org. Rory Kathy O'Beirnes family denounce her book as work of fiction. Sunday Mirror 20th August 2006. Sunday Mirror. 20th. August 2006. by Niall Donald....
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CRUEL HOAX-"KATHY'S STORY"

Today in the Sunday Mirror exclusive 'Kathy's Story', a book now on the bestselling lists both in Ireland and in the U.K , detailing horrific abuse by nuns and priests has today been exposed as a cruel hoax by the...
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Paedophile priests are not confined to the Catholic Church.

It is an obvious truth that paedophile priests are not confined to the Catholic Church. But it is equally obvious from the Mail & Guardian?s information that the Catholic Church in South Africa has a significant problem in this explosive...
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Sexual abuse inquiries 'need more resources'

Thursday August 17th 2006 OPPOSITION TDs have called on the Government to assign more gardai and social workers to investigate allegations of child abuse, writes Edel Kennedy. The calls come after it was revealed that 60pc of investigations into allegations...
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Former Ferns curate on 35 indecent assault charges

Patrick O'Connell James Doyle: dismissed from the clerical state by Pope John Paul in 2004. Mr Doyle was released on bail after being charged. Photograph: Jim Campbell/Wexford Echo A former curate of the Diocese of Ferns has been charged...
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Former Ferns priest faces abuse charges

16 August 2006 19:17 A former priest in the Diocese of Ferns has been charged with 35 counts of indecent assault. James Doyle, who was curate at Clonard church in Wexford town from 1979 to 1990, is due to appear...
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SEX, GOD AND GREED (in the USA)

Historians and Scholars, Three are obvious parallels with Ireland. Hate-filled anti-clerics ally themselves with bogus victims and greedy lawyers. The actual mechanism they use ("Recovered Memory Syndrome") is regarded as voodoo brain science in Ireland but we are prepared...
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Chilhood Interrupted

Chilhood Interrupted - In 1950, Kathleen O'Malley and her two sisters were legally abducted from their mother and placed in an industrial school ran by the Sisters of Mercy order of nuns, who also ran the notorious Magdalene Homes. The...
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Resolution of child abuse investigations varies widely between regions

By Noel Baker and Conor Ryan FIGURES on the level of reported child abuse and the manner in which complaints are dealt with reveal widespread inconsistencies and show why children are reluctant to approach authorities. Of the 6,188 complaints made...
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60% of child abuse investigations incomplete

By Noel Baker and Conor Ryan HEALTH authorities received more than 6,000 reports of child abuse in 2004, but investigations into 60% of the cases are still outstanding. Figures released to the Irish Examiner show of the 6,188 complaints made,...
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Bring back the cane, just once

Wednesday August 16th 2006 IN public testimony to the Ryan Commission on Child Abuse a Brother Michael Reynolds of the Irish Christian Brothers claimed that the punishments given to boys at Artane industrial reformatory were no different to the...
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Gene slur on victims of Church child abuse

Pupils were 'pre-programmed' for vice Henry McDonald, Ireland editor Sunday February 15, 2004 The Observer Survivors of clerical child abuse have reported a pro-Catholic Church pressure group to the Republic's Equality Authority over its claims that children held in...
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ABUSE BY CLERGY IN THE USA?

ABUSE BY CLERGY IN THE USA? The attached articles (summaries only) relate to accusations of child abuse against Catholic clergy in the USA with particular reference to the role played by the organisation SNAP (Survivors Network of those abused by...
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JOHN COONEY?S HOUSE OF CORRECTION

Western People, 9 August, 2006 SIR - Your correspondent John Cooney?s ever poisonous pen in relation to anything to do with the Church, and, in particular, in his recent article in your newspaper ?Uncovering a House of Correction for...
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Campaigning nun attacks ?unequal? Irish society

14 August 2006 By Claire O?Sullivan ONE of the country?s top social campaigners, Sister Stanislaus Kennedy, has launched a stinging attack on Irish society, warning that poorer people now see themselves as ?failures, non-productive and useless? as wealth and...
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The orphans that never were.

From: Albert & Mary King. Sent: 13 August 2006. To: Tom Hayes. Subject: The orphans that never were. Radio Broadcast. - On the night of February 23rd 1943, a fire in St Joseph's industrial school in Cavan Town, an orphanage,...
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Sunday August 13th 2006

'Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.' - May Sarton Sunday August 13th 2006 SOME of our greatest adult sufferings are owed to the many...
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Shut down the hate websites

Friday August 11th 2006 With the Residential Institutions Redress Board (RIRB) hearing cases of alleged abuse by nuns, priests, brothers, and care workers, the essential debate concerning the terrible wrongs perpetrated in the Hidden Ireland continues. But while the...
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GERRY KELLY AND THE CHRISTIAN BROTHERS.

1. "OUR BOYS" by LOUIS LENTIN ON TV3 Louis Lentin's programme "Our Boys" was first transmitted by TV3 in October 1999 and was repeated on 12 November 2000. The first transmission was in the same year that Mary Raftery's...
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CHURCH AND CHILD ABUSE

Irish Times Madam, - I was dismayed by the sheer glibness of Fr Tony Flannery's defence of the institutional Catholic Church (Rite and Reason, August 7th). If he wishes to retract the apologies that have already been proffered to...
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GERRY KELLY AND NORA WALL

The following two articles appeared in ?Ireland on Sunday? in July/August 1999 shortly after Nora Wall and Pablo McCabe were convicted of raping a child. The first is dated just after Nora Wall was sentenced to life in prison...
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Clerical abuse in largest diocese 'much worse than Ferns outrage'

Monday August 7th 2006 THE number of child rapes found to have been committed by paedophile priests in 38 parishes across the Dublin archdiocese could eventually reach 1,000, it was claimed last night. Colm O'Gorman, the director of the...
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Kicking the church more fun than facing real problems

Rite and Reason: Is it not strange that we are devoting so much energy to inquiring into the abuse of children half a century ago when there is so much that is unsavoury in the lives of children today, asks...
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EXTACTS FROM DEBATE

Lady, Gentlemen and Historians in General, 1. This is an American historian's view of the child abuse scandal in his country. 2. The legacy of Mary Raftery will be cynicism. Future generations of children will find it difficult to make...
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Kathy O'Beirne -WHO?

Please pass this on to anyone you feel can help us get more information on this 'lady'. The publishers - Mainstream publishing' in England refuse to pull the book and are in actual fact pushing it with extraordinary verve. Kathy...
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Radio watchdog rejects clerical sex gripe

Saturday August 5th 2006 A CLAIM by the Catholic Church that the editor of the 'Star' newspaper had slandered every parish priest in the country has been rejected by the Broadcasting Complaints Commission (BCC). Martin Long, director of the...
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ARTANE: MARY RAFTERY ACCUSES AND CHRISTIAN BROTHERS REPLY

Lady, Gentlemen and Scholars, The following appeared originally in Mary Raftery's book "Suffer the Little Children" (published in 1999) and as two letters in the Sunday Independent from the Christian Brothers in response to Raftery's allegations about Artane industrial school....
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COONEY GOES BEYOND THE PALE

Gentlemen, Some of you have written reviews of John Cooney's biography of John Charles McQuaid that describe it as a wonderful book APART FROM THE LITTLE MATTER OF FALSE ALLEGATIONS OF PAEDOPHILIA. (If a Catholic author writes a biography of...
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Barnardos call for new measures to protect children

John Downes 03/08/2006 Children living in State care centres should be housed in accommodation with security safeguards such as video-monitoring of entrances and exits, while a national database of all children living here should also be compiled, according to...
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