The utter shame I felt when listening to survivors of the Irish industrial school system speak about their ordeals last week on Canadian radio... I haven't really been able to put it into words.
But I thought Ann Marie Hourihane did a good job of it in today's Irish Times:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0525/1224247322712.html
Here in Canada there is a similar story with First Nations people...
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It's rare that a Fianna Fail councillor could move me to tears, but Monday night's Q&A had this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jHqndf9Kx4
That did the trick nicely.
I had a similar experience listening to Christine Buckley being interviewed on CBC the day the report came out.
That clip is heartbreaking.
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