Hi Maria, many thanks for the heads up. The Google promotion had ended but I have it reinstated. It may take a day before it updates.

Leprechaun dung. You do not have in informed opinion? why? Because you look up to numptys like David Chambers. If you had any skill or ability, historical, or otherwise, you might have read what the forensic team revealed last Friday 6th Feb 26, that the County Council built over the cemetery at Tuam. 796 death certificates are not missing. Catherine Corless is not a historian. She, like you, are clutching at straws to justify holding hatred in your heart.

It is accurate only in the sense that it identifies Blindboy’s use of provocative, non-academic language. It is inaccurate (or at least highly misleading) because it suggests the “crimes of the Catholic Church” are merely a “narrative of prejudice” rather than a documented historical reality confirmed by multiple Irish state inquiries.

The piece is consistent in its anger and its defense of the “Old Ireland” social hierarchy, but it fails to provide any counter-evidence for the 796 missing death certificates/burial records that sparked the Tuam investigation in the first place.

Nonsense. The Irish award gobshites every day. Even a gobshite who has never studied history but uses a quare version of it to sneer at the Irish nation. That is some prestige, alright.

Blue bmw

First, you have been misled by media outlets hungry for sensationalist stories. Second, all have sectarian anti-Catholic bias that is reflected in your own comments.

9,000 babies did not die in Catholic institutions, this is the total figure that includes the secular institutions, chiefly County Homes, where the vast majority of those infants and children died.

257,000 babies died in Ireland during the period covered by the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes. Who killed them? They died of the same diseases and conditions as those in mother and baby homes.

All acute hospitals and maternity units, even today, have mortality rates that are a multiple of the average. Why? Many sick people and sick babies die in hospital. It is the most stupid argument that reveals an ignorance of basic mathematics.

Institutions that cater for poor people have higher mortality rates, and that is reflected the world over even today.

The Irish civil service has people like yourself that want to believe in lies. No babies were sold or trafficked. An official at Galway University Hospital wrote a memo for top management where they claimed that 10,000 babies were trafficked from Tuam to the United States. When the commission interviewed the official, they were stum and told the investigators that they had seen only five records.

You would know that if you had read the report of the commission of investigation into mother and baby homes.

The nun’s had no hand in fostering or adoptions. That was the job of the County Councils.

Clearly your sneers are intended to insult as is my sneer at Blindboy (David Chambers) but you share one thing in common, an unwillingness to do your own thinking. You have to rely on other people to use your mind for you so that you get a false of sense of superiority by hating other people.