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AP should just issue an overall apology for all their sewage.
Who was the reporter responsible for this hoax?
Between 1925 and 1937, 204 children died at the Home — an average of 17 per year. 17 deaths out of 200 children equals a mortality rate of8.5%. It is interesting to compare that with the rest of the country at the time. In 1933, the infant mortality rate in Dublin was 83 per thousand (ie. a mortality rate of 8.3%), in Cork it was 89 per thousand (8.9%), in Waterford it was 102 per thousand (10.2%) and in Limerick it was 132 per thousand (13.2%). (Source: Irish Press, 12th April, 1935).
These are very sad statistics indeed, but not surprising if you know the history of infant and child mortality in the era before anitbiotics (which would mean for the first 25+ years of the TGuam Children' Home existence.) Institutionalized populations, like orphanages, homeless shelters and the like, could have whole wards wiped out by influenza, TB, and gastroenteritis.
Also the historian Liam Logan (@limerick1914) who has done so much work in digging up the archives and sharing them, has discovered that the home never once left the hands of the County Council. In 1951, 10 years before it shut, the sisters were begging the board for a grant, saying that they were too ashamed to show councils part of the building which desperately needed renovations, the children were sleeping in attics in terrible conditions and the building were considered a fire risk. In a meeting in 1949, Senator Martin Quinn were told that the children were suffering as result of the condition of the building, to which he replied “I do not like these statements which receive such publicity”.
"First the verdict, then the evidence": motto, in this case, of Salon, Washington Post, New York Times, and yes, Fox News. And some others as well. They'll show up.
Seed planted. Mission accomplished.
It isn’t news. It’s propaganda.
Seed planted. Mission accomplished.
It isn’t news. It’s propaganda.
We told you so, yet you continued to spread the hateful lie.
Cleverly worded BS that doesn’t come straight their purposeful fictional indictment of those no longer among us to explain reality.
Any news organization this incompetent is not merely bumbling and inept, it is downright malicious. It should be sued into oblivion.
Where are all the FR usual suspects offering their apologies for gleefully spreading this lie?
Will posters here issue apologies for their anticatholic rants?
Not holding my breath
OOOPS!
Just when you thought Fox News and Salon could find something to agree on...
That’s alright, the anti-Catholic ghouls already had their Dumbocrat day and they’ll believe what they were told in the beginning without an ounce of critical thinking or research.
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How come the freeper freeloaders are not complaining about this being an excerpt.
Whilst it is good and right that uncorroborated further feasting by various ill-informed press outlets on the appalling and verified abuses perpetrated by the Catholic church’s minions is being challenged and taken to task, this does not detract from the continuing lack of bringing to account, scrutiny and punishment of those who inflicted misery on the hundreds and thousands across the country and really only documented only from the 40s.
Our sainted and scholarly land remains in unresolved turmoil pending the Executive finally taking its testicles in its hand to bring the abusers to account.