Ireland's Holocaust? Some Context, Please!
By Patrick Hurley
Following the publication of the Ryan Report, the Dublin 4 intelligentsia and chattering class have embarked on a frenzied irrational campaign to crucify the religious orders which administered the Irish State sanctioned system of industrial schools and orphanages. Due process be damned!
The Christian Brothers and Sisters of Mercy and other orders should be disestablished forthwith and their assets confiscated by the state. Priests, brothers and nuns, even if they had no personal complicity in the outrages, must be ostracized and expelled into an internal exile.
Rabid irrationalism from the intelligentsia on this issue is very much the norm rather than the exception. In typical overreaction, Sunday Independent columnist Emer O'Kelly denounced members of religious orders as "greedy, bloodsucking, cruel, dishonest, unprincipled, immoral men and women." Settle lady. Settle! Pardon us for thinking that the Fourth Estate should leaven the public discourse with objective intellectual discernment.
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I was in Ireland at the time of the release of the Ryan Report. While driving for hours I listened to victims calling into radio chat shows telling of how the abuse had affected their lives over 40, 50 or 60 years. They could not have normal relationships with their spouses or children. They trusted no one. They still had suicidal feelings many years after the abuse. They were not looking for money. They were looking for justice.
Linda B.
Brooklyn
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