Comments on: Individual voices of abused not being heard in debate

By: Hanora Brennan

Hanora Brennan — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:44:44 +0000

It’s now finally emerging how many of our own are speaking with forked tongues. Running with the hare and hunting with the hound! The truth always surfaces. How much did you take in our name? The hypocrisy is sickening! The fact of the matter is you have never had nor never will possess an ounce of character and as for integrity … go chase for that in your warped views of life prior to the institutions. Your father never stepped outside this country. He was a cook in the army who had to be dragged back more often than he was working. He was a wuss, a child molester …. ‘sfunny the apple never falls far from the tree! Fancy a child molester and rapist setting themselves up as part of a group purporting to represent survivors. We’ve truly had enough and naming and shaming will be the order of the day!

By: Clare Foley

Clare Foley — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:15:58 +0000

NOTHING ABOUT US WITHOUT US

By: Hanora Brennan

Hanora Brennan — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:23:40 +0000

I was told I couldn’t attend the meeting on Sunday 17 August so sheer bloody mindedness got me and others in our cars from all over Ireland and sat around that table with our so called representatives who can’t even agree with each other on important issues that affect so many lives. Perhaps if we were to be more pro-active rather than reactive a lot more could be achieved. Paper never refused ink as they say, now is the time for ALL our voices to be heard! Each and every voice of the 14,000!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:23:26 +0000

Hi Clare

Probably true. I’ve since heard that people NOT from the Institutions were invited by ‘leaders’ who didn’t have the numbers in their ‘organisation’ to match the number of invites they asked for! Apparently hurried ‘phonecalls were made to fill the tickets. Disgraceful.

By: Clare Foley

Clare Foley — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:51:35 +0000

Sorry Andrew, cannot agree with you that every Industrial School was at the “Happy Day’ in the Park. I know of one school where NOT ONE Invite came their way

By: Martha

Martha — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:41:11 +0000

I have read just about every memoir of every Irish adult who has survived HOLY CATHOLIC IRELAND and what the vast majority (at least 80%) don’t get, is that they wouldn’t have been RIPPED APART as children had their own biological parents not have ‘thrown them to the wolves’ !!!

But that’s what happens with societies dominated by religious ideology, i.e., when we let our lunatics rule the roost!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:12:32 +0000

If there is any justice in this world the Ryan Report should see the ultimate disposal of the religious orders.

By: Portia

Portia — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:09:16 +0000

Thank you Bruce.

One of the few people I know with true understanding and empathy.

From years of experience we know how this Patriarchal system operates and how the victims are always kept in the dark by the powers that be.

After all- they were seen by eugenics supporters as disposable children- so now disposable adults.

Only the blue blood of the interbreeding elite was considered worthy of respect- except all that interbreeding has bred soulless leaders.

Shudder the thought that the real truth would come to light – straight from the lips of the abused.

Imagine the affect that would have on our nation and on the world.

It will be like South Africa- weeping and then healing.

At least they had the backbone to bring healing public.

Imagine the people seeing the real tears and suffering of the irish abused on RTE.

No, the system does not want that- as then the real healing could begin for all the people of Ireland- and we are all in this together, whether we like it or not.

For too long the shepherds have drove us sheep into the pens prepared for us.

Now it is our turn to break free of those pens and be allowed to speak out freely in the media.

Of course the abused will not be photogenic, but that is how life is- abused children become sad adults mostly.

The media, controlled by the elite, must step back now and allow the light of truth to shine.

You rich powerful elite have had your time in control and there you wrecked the lives of vulnerable innocent human children.

So, go hang your heads in shame and step aside and allow love and light to take over.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:05:59 +0000

I think there was a fairly broad representation of people from the Institutions at Our Day with the President. Actually I believe every Institution on the list had someone from it that day. I met NEW people who were in Institutions in Limerick, Tralee, Galway, Louth, Dublin, Tipperary, Waterford, Cork, Kilkenny, Wexford, Sligo, Monaghan, Cavan, and Laois !

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 10:57:41 +0000

The government has always ALWAYS spoken with a forked tongue when it comes to the protection of children – it has been honing this skill since 1916:> The ‘To Cherish All The Children Of The Nation Equally’ declaration was immediately downgraded to exclude the children of the poor and children per se.

The publication of the Ryan Report made this abuse saga OURS … it does not belong to the government, the religious orders or any organisation … it belongs to each individual who was abused in the Institutions that were managed by the religious orders AND funded by the government.

The phrase: Nothing About Us Without Us means just that! It’s not for the government to decide the future for us without consulting us. Their manipulation of this situation is a disgrace and the government appear HAVE manipulated people.

What price, I wonder, will WE have to pay for this?