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THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE have been attending the Bord Bia’s Bloom Festival in the Phoenix Park in Dublin this weekend to enjoy the array of impressive show gardens on display.
We thought this would be a good time to test the flower aficionados among our readership…
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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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