A Happy New Year To You All
AND I SAID TO THE MAN AT THE GATE OF THE YEAR ?GIVE ME A LIGHT THAT I MAY TREAD SAFELY INTO THE UNKNOWN,? AND HE REPLIED, ?GO OUT INTO THE DARKNESS AND PUT YOUR HAND INTO THE HAND OF...
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December 2007 Archives
ANTI-CATHOLICISM AND CHILD ABUSE Extracts from website
www.hotfad.com/?title=Anti-Catholicism Modern Anti-Catholic polemics ............. Richard Dawkins in his latest best-selling book 'The God Delusion' (2006) asserts that a Catholic upbringing promotes guilt-trips referring [26] to the "semi-permanent state of morbid guilt suffered by a Roman Catholic possessed of...
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'KATHY'S REAL STORY' - LETTER IN SUNDAY TRIBUNE
Has RTE a Hidden Agenda On Kelly book? Letter from Eric Conway, Sunday Tribune, 23 December 2007 THE furore, as recently reported in the papers, over the launch of the Hermann Kelly book . . . Kathy's Real Story...
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KATHY'S STORY AND KATHY'S REAL STORY
[The following are the two latest reviews from the Amazon.co.uk website of the book "Don't Ever Tell: Kathy's Story: A True Tale of a Childhood Destroyed by Neglect and Fear"] This Is Complete Lies!, 18 Dec 2007 by D....
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SISTER XAVIERIA - STATEMENT OF 20 PAST PUPILS
[ I think that the reason over 20 of Sister Xavieria's past pupils got a solicitor to write a letter on their behalf is that the media refused to listen to them. In an article in the Irish Times...
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Church plea on child abuse
By John Cooney Religion Correspondent Thursday December 27 2007 SAFEGUARDING childhood in Ireland and worldwide was highlighted as a major challenge by the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin in his Christmas Day sermon. Preaching in the Pro-Cathedral, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin...
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DEAR DAUGHTER: LOUIS LENTIN vs REG GAHAN
[ Reg Gahan was honorary treasurer of a fund raising committee set up by the Sisters of Mercy in the 1940s to raise money for Goldenbridge industrial school. He thought that the Sisters showed great concern for the children...
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a happy and peaceful christmas to you all
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Call for judicial inquiry into order's policy on sex abusers
Patsy McGarry, Religious Affairs Correspondent Thu, Dec 20, 2007 There has been a call for an inquiry headed by a judge of the Supreme Court into how the Brothers of Charity dealt with sex abusers among their members "given...
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Priest gets four years for sexual abuse
Thu, Dec 20, 2007 A 78-year-old priest who sexually abused several girls over a 25-year period has been given a four-year sentence by Judge Patrick McCartan who suspended all but 18 months he must serve. Fr Patrick McDonagh, Grove...
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CARDINAL DESMOND CONNELL, BISHOP WILLIE WALSH AND GERRY KELLY
[ You could draw a number of lessons from the Irish Times account of this meeting of the Catholic Bishops in Maynooth in April 2002. For example you could compare the moral status of Cardinal Connell with that of...
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SISTER XAVIERIA - TWO CONTRASTING ACCOUNTS
SISTER XAVIERIA - TWO CONTRASTING ACCOUNTS [ Irish Times journalist Mairead Carey finds it very confusing that two of Sister Xavieria's former pupils - Roseanna Murphy and Sheila Doyle give such totally different accounts of the nun. The Times published...
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Spent Convictions Group
Dear Mr Hayes Your submission, along with many victims of institutional child abuse, was discussed by members of the Spent Convictions Group at the meeting on 12th December 2007. The Group was in agreement that it is a great injustice...
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Press Release from The Alliance Victim Support Group
Press Release from Alliance Victim Support Secretary : Mr Tom Hayes- 30 Castle Gardens, Richhill, Co Armagh BT61 9QL Contact: 048 38871708 Mobile: 0044 7974002336 www.alliancesupport.org 17th December 2007 Time for national debate on false allegation and abuse of the...
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Lay staff at abuse school get offer of therapy
Independent.ie By Brian McDonald Monday December 17 2007 Traumatised lay staff working at the Galway special school which was the subject of a damning inquiry into more than 30 years of sexual and physical abuse have been offered counselling. The...
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Report into - Brothers of Charity in County Galway.
Is fear of upsetting errant grown-ups more important than safeguarding children with Down's or autism? By Medb Ruane Saturday December 15 2007 You don't release a report about the abuse of intellectually disabled children two weeks before Christmas if you...
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Believing the unbelievable
Available now from www.trafford.com and from Amazon from January www.amazon.com A true account of a young boy's survival before and after the death of his Mother, at the tender age of seven years. And Including his time spent in...
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SYNOPSIS OF DEAR DAUGHTER
(A) - Louis Lentin [ This appears on the www.voicesemerge.org website. I am not sure where it originally came from but it is a useful synopsis of the allegations in the 'Dear Daughter' programme which was broadcast by RTE...
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DEAR DAUGHTER - Reply to ISPCC from Kieran McGrath
Letter to Irish Times, Thursday, 2 May 1996 Sir, As one of the "current professionals" who contributed to the RTE Prime Time programme on Sr Xavieria, I may have been included in the ISPCC's criticism of those who appeared...
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MAY I BE ALLOWED CRIB ABOUT THIS LATEST RTE IMBECILITY?
by Kevin Myers, Irish Independent, 11 December 2007 There is more that one can do about the RTE ban on an advertisement which contains the word "crib" than, well, crib: it is also lie back and laugh at the absurdity...
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Vaccine Trials
May we refer to the announcement on the 28th November 2006 by Mary Harney T.D, the Minister for Health and Children that there is to be no further examination of the question of vaccine trials involving babies and children in...
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Abuse report delay inquiry
Abuse report delay inquiry Michael O'Regan Fri, Dec 14, 2007 Minister of State for Health Jimmy Devins is to set up an independent inquiry into the delay in compiling the report into abuse at the Brothers of Charity residential centres...
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CHRISTINE BUCKLEY AND THE IRISH SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN (ISPCC)
[ There was a very interesting difference of opinion between the ISPCC and the Irish Association of Care Workers about the "Dear Daughter" documentary in February 1996 - and in particular the Prime Time report that followed it. The...
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RACISM COMBINES WITH CHILD ABUSE HYSTERIA
[ The following account of a mob attack on a Chinese student because he was falsely accused of molesting a child, has no OBVIOUS link to anti-clericalism. However it is impossible to understand it without reference to the obscene...
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SISTER XAVIERIA AND KIERAN McGRATH
[ Kieran McGrath is a senior social worker who was PRO of the Irish Association of Social Workers (IASW) for 4 years until 1992, he was editor of 'Irish Social Worker' from 1992 to 2003, he was appointed Assistant...
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Statutory prohibition on disclosure
Statutory prohibition on disclosure in child abuse cases is there for sound reasons of public policy M.B (applicant) v the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (respondent) and the Residential Institutions Redress Board (notice Party) Judicial review - Application for...
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CHRISTINE BUCKLEY AND SISTER XAVIERIA: PRIME TIME PROGRAMME in APRIL1996
[ Following the furore created by the "Dear Daughter" TV documentary in February 1996, RTE broadcast a follow up 'Prime Time' programme in April 1996 that revealed some rather basis contradictions in Louis Lentin's tale of horror in Goldenbridge...
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Vaccine Trials
May we draw your attention to the announcement on the 28th November 2006 by Mary Harney T.D, the Minister for Health and Children that there is to be no further examination of the question of vaccine trials involving babies and...
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SISTER XAVIERIA SUPPORT GROUP(S)
SISTER XAVIERIA SUPPORT GROUP(S) [ It is extraordinary that serious historians like Dermot Keogh, Diarmaid Ferriter or Tim Pat Coogan are still prepared to accept Christine Buckley as a credible witness and Louis Lentin's "Dear Daughter" as a credible account...
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LETTER FROM 'GOLDENBRIDGE GIRL'
[ This is one of the most unusual documents to come out after the broadcast of 'Dear Daughter' in February 1996. This lady spent 10 happy years in Goldenbridge from 1955 and cannot understand the media coverage of alleged...
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SISTER XAVIERIA AND "CHILD KILLING" IN GOLDENBRIDGE
[ It is clear that this allegation was made against Sister Xavieria as a result of the broadcast of "Dear Daughter" on RTE in February 1996. It was then supported by Christine Buckley who said she was "angry at...
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Attn: Letters Editor
Dear Editor, The story of the horrors perpetrated in the Magdalene laundries and industrial schools of Ireland has shocked and sickened all decent people in this country. I know how I felt when I watched the film Song for...
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CHRISTINE BUCKLEY - THE HISTORIAN'S VIEW
[The following is an illustration of how future historians are likely to view one of the main creator's of our current witch-hunt. (Indeed she is second only to Mary Raftery as Witchfinder General). Why is it so difficult to...
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