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SOME 335 PEOPLE battled it out in the 94th annual Dublin City Liffey Swim yesterday afternoon, swimming 2.2km along the river with city centre dwellers cheering them on.
In the men’s race, 219 swimmers took part with Cian O’Driscoll coming in first place in just 26.16 minutes.
Later, Gina Murphy sped ahead of the 115 other ladies taking part in the women’s race, with a finishing time of 32.22 minutes.
All images provided by Daniel Dudek-Corrigan.
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“O’Gorman has written to a number of religious orders involved in running the institutions, asking them to contribute to the fund”
Why is he “asking” them? He should be mandating to them that they must pay
@SkylineSi: he has no legal power to force them to pay.
@Brendan Greene: “he has no legal power to force them to pay.”
He doesn’t but that’s why we have a court/justice system.
Surely their responsibility is beyond question. It’s just a matter of what their share of redress should be.
@SkylineSi: Back then adoption was not being talked of as a crime but as the best option for both the deserted mother and child. The volunteers in the orders had already done their work assisting the disowned with their complicated needs.
The community run institutions(Ireland’s population was 95% Catholic) did their best to help these SURVIVORS of impregnation and desertions by men before the state stepped forward with an allowance for them.
This has been going on too long now. Asking the church to contribute to the fund !? It’s shocking they must be ‘asked’
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