IRELAND
irish Examiner
January 19, 2021
By Fergus Finlay
There is evidence of children being taken from their mothers, despite these mothers fighting and pleading to keep them, to facilitate the trade and export of babies
Dear Minister O’Gorman,
I’ve written to you before, but this time, please, listen to the one piece of critical advice I have to give you. And believe me when I say I know what I’m talking about.
That may sound arrogant, but it’s not. I’ve made the same mistake I fear you’re about to make. This time it matters.
First of all, I hope you’ll forgive me if I say what an appalling report the Mother and Baby Homes Commission produced. I don’t know why they pulled so many punches. I don’t know why they produced a report that was so unworthy of the calibre of people involved.
But from the very first page, it was clear that this report wasn’t going to address fundamental injustices.
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