While the Government might like to portray the country as an outward-looking secular egalitarian society, this week the world got a glimpse of real Ireland. The news that the death pit where 798 children’s bodies were dumped is to be dug up is seen as a sign this country is at last dealing with its dark and sinister past.
But the disclosure the new National Maternity Hospital could be overseen by a religious order of nuns which has abused children takes us right back there.
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