Ah, the Magdalene Laundries again. I always pronounce their name "Mawdlin", like the Oxbridge colleges. Everyone should.
It
would obviously have been better for those girls in trouble to have
slept on the streets, wouldn't it?
They would have had better lives as the beggars or prostitutes that they would otherwise have been, wouldn't they?
They would have had better lives as the beggars or prostitutes that they would otherwise have been, wouldn't they?
They would have been so much
better-treated over here in those days, wouldn't they?
The work of a washerwoman is beneath human dignity, isn't it?
The work of a washerwoman is beneath human dignity, isn't it?
Leaving school at 14 and going into work was otherwise unheard of among
people now in their seventies and eighties, wasn't it?
No one else of that generation ever experienced violence at work, did they?
No one else of that generation ever experienced violence at work, did they?
And insofar as there was wrong done, then the Irish State, not the Catholic Church, has clearly accepted the blame for it.
Since it is the Irish State, not the Catholic Church, that is paying out to the victims of it.
Since it is the Irish State, not the Catholic Church, that is paying out to the victims of it.
That's because Vatican plc never accepts responsibility for anything. I would expect nothing less from the most evil and corrupt institution in contemporary society.
ReplyDeleteThe Irish State has accepted the blame of its own volition, although I am not sure for what. If anything, it and the Church ought to be fighting over the credit for having kept these girls off the streets.
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