Ireland's 'brutally misogynistic culture' saw the death of 9,000 children in mother and baby homes,

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9. Yes, hypocrites to the last. Thankfully we are moving beyond that and

I well remember the revulsion by good living people towards the Catholic church here, starting with the"Holy Joe" clergy like Fr Michael Clearly who would reach into the other side of the confession box and drag young women out by the hair. These women had come to confess their sin of being pregnant out of wedlock. And then he'd head back to the parish house for dinner with his housekeeper and their two children !