Our public anger is the incoherent expression of our private shame (Irish Examiner)

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2. Excellent article, thank you for sharing it here.

This is particularly poignant:

The irony is that while an inquiry will properly focus on the role of the religious, it will hardly investigate the role of families who committed the majority of women into those same places. Wider reflection on the role of the surrounding society, in prompting or compelling those families, will likely not happen in the context of any likely inquiry.