We should all take a moment this Christmas to mourn children who died alone in mother and baby homes and at Easter time...
We would walk around the play grounds for three hours on Good Friday afternoon... from 12pm to 3pm... they were the 3 hours... which Christ had died... we were not allowed to talk to each other... or leave that line... to even go to the toilet... we had our rosary beads on us... and we had to keep saying the rosary... to ourselves...
Can you just picture children from the age of 5years of age... up to 18years old... walking around for that long... and most of us wanting to go to the toilet... the jig was done a lot that day... and did we get thrashed that night... even if it was raining... we had to walk for those 3 hours... you just could not do anything right... the harder you tried... the worse it got for you... Ann
There’s no ad on radio quite like the Barry’s Tea Christmas ad. I’m not a tea drinker, but I always insist on having a packet of Barry’s in the house, especially at this time of year. You must know the ad. It’s been running for more than 20 years. I wait for it every year, because the instant I hear it, I’m six again.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/viewpoints/columnists/fergus-finlay/we-should-all-take-a-moment-this-christmas-to-mourn-children-who-died-alone-in-mother-and-baby-homes-372749.html
We would walk around the play grounds for three hours on Good Friday afternoon... from 12pm to 3pm... they were the 3 hours... which Christ had died... we were not allowed to talk to each other... or leave that line... to even go to the toilet... we had our rosary beads on us... and we had to keep saying the rosary... to ourselves...
Can you just picture children from the age of 5years of age... up to 18years old... walking around for that long... and most of us wanting to go to the toilet... the jig was done a lot that day... and did we get thrashed that night... even if it was raining... we had to walk for those 3 hours... you just could not do anything right... the harder you tried... the worse it got for you... Ann
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Children in mother and baby homes were "buried in the dead of night with
no priest, no cleric, no ritual, no mother beside them”, writes Fergus Finlay. There’s no ad on radio quite like the Barry’s Tea Christmas ad. I’m not a tea drinker, but I always insist on having a packet of Barry’s in the house, especially at this time of year. You must know the ad. It’s been running for more than 20 years. I wait for it every year, because the instant I hear it, I’m six again.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/viewpoints/columnists/fergus-finlay/we-should-all-take-a-moment-this-christmas-to-mourn-children-who-died-alone-in-mother-and-baby-homes-372749.html
