This is Arsefield's roving reporter and staunch Catholic defender of the rights of the nuns to bury dead babies anywhere they like Mister Brian Nugent. His accent is instantly recognizable as that of the typical stumbling Irish aul fella currently active on Arsefield's looking to make a name for himself (scolairebocht) as another grey-haired Catholic nutter. Again we see we're dealing with very old and traditional people here. Old people like Declan Kelly, Val Martin, and this cunt Brian Nugent.
These guys think they have it all sewn up.
HISTORIAN Brian Nugent says the evidence from the Tuam site shows that babies were not 'thrown in a septic tank' but actually re interred in an ossuary after the county council started building in the
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But they haven't an arse in their pants.
Nor a brain in their head.
'Last nights talk by Brian Nugent (a naysayer on Tuam Home/Pit tradgedy) in the Corralea Hotel Tuam.
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I recognised one of the most aggressive people in the room tonight - a short and curly peevish little man - from a Gemma O'Doherty rally. This fiasco was organised by a contributor to Alive! Magazine, and the air was thick with Trumpery.
The woman making the racist remarks Alison recounts began her vile rant by saying the entire
#TuamBabies scandal was "an
RTÉ conspiracy to get rid of the Eighth Amendment and bring in abortion". (They're on to you,
Boucher-Hayes.)
The whole evening was a Trumpian effort to sell Brian Nugent's book, which is based on the conspiracy theory - "It's only my theory" - that the mass grave in Tuam was built by Galway County Council in "the 70's or '80's", and into which the Council gathered Famine remains.
Catherine Corless asked him repeatedly if he had taken his ludicrous theory to the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes. He eventually conceded he hasn't. Of course he hasn't.
Nugent - a John Waters ally and Doctor Octopus lookalike - spent much of brave survivor
Sheila O Byrne impassioned speech smirking and giggling nervously. It seemed to me a sickening attempt to dismiss the lived experience of someone whose baby was actually stolen from her.
Catherine Corless,
Alison Mary Giggins,
Adrienne Corless and
Sheila O Byrne made brilliant contributions, I thought, demolishing completely what appears to me to be a really shoddy conspiracy theory peddled by the far-right extremes of the Catholic Church.
For my own part, I lost my temper when people tried to shout down Sheila, and when the short and curly Gemma fan physically threatened a man defending Sheila.
At this point the man from Alive! Magazine - presumably Ireland's leading freesheet for wannabe Catholic cannibals - tried to shut Sheila up. I think I told him I had no respect for his rag or its misplaced exclamation point.
On a more serious point, there was much talk from the crowd - approximately 50 people, roughly half of them vocally in favour of Brian Nugent's laughable conspiracy theory - of how little money the poor auld Bon Secours nuns had
I pointed out that in 1938, at a time the infant mortality rate was running at five times that of the rest of the population, the poor auld Bon Secours nuns were getting from the State a headage payment of £1.62 per week per child in the Tuam Home.
£1.62 per week per child works out in today's money as approximately €110 per week per child. Plus, of course, the slave labour the poor auld Bon Secours nuns were getting from the mothers of the
#TuamBabies.
Jesus Christ fashioned a whip of cords which he took to the money-changers, and he said that it would be better for those who would hurt a child that they be cast to the deepest depths of the ocean with a millstone around their necks
The poor auld Bon Secours nuns were awash with money, and somehow 796 children died in their care, and those poor children didn't even merit a Christian burial.
But then, as now, there seems to be very little Christianity on the furthest fringes of Irish Catholicism.
#TuamBabies
PS: I should have said, Catherine Corless looked around the room and asked all of the people cheering on Nugent if they had seen Galway County Council build his preposterous fake "ossuary". Unsurprisingly, not one of them could look her in the eye.
N.B. THE THINKING HERE ON THE TUAM DEBACLE DOES NOT REFLECT THE THINKING OF ALL THE RESIDENCE OF TUAM . WE WISH TO THANK MOST SINCERLY THOSE WHO HAVE STOOD TOGETHER WITH US ON MANY OCCASSIONS AND SPOKE THE TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR OR JUDGEMENT. LOVE AND LIGHT TO ALL.