St Patrick and the Patriarchy: Women’s rights in Ireland
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The Church's Stranglehold on Morality
The impact on our society was immense. People had always been vaguely aware that these bad things probably happened, but it was just the scale of it,. The victims talking so undeniably about their own experiences, there was no way the church could pull a veil over any of this. With this and all the other stories that came out subsequently, it made the Irish people realise that the clergy had been lying to them. This whole time, that the word of the priest was not the word of God. They weren't infallible. And as Ireland entered the 21st century, the church's stranglehold over matters of morality just no longer seemed unassailable. Fianna Foul was wiped
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