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Back to homepageIreland: Mother & Baby Homes report a whitewash — but Church and State are guilty!
For years, survivors and adoptees of so-called ‘mother and baby homes’ have sought justice. Governments promised they’d get it. Sadly, all they’ve received from official Ireland this week is yet another slap in the face
Read MoreIreland: Constitutional Ban on Abortion Defeated
Many of the civil liberties enjoyed elsewhere in Europe (contraception, divorce, abortion) were, for a long time, denied in Ireland, largely on the grounds of the Roman Catholic faith
Read MoreWomen, the Church & the Irish State: A history of misogyny & repression
The power of the Catholic Church in Ireland was cemented even before the founding of the Irish Free State in 1922
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