Minister says Magdalene inquiry should include Protestant-run mother-and-baby home

I hear crickets from the side of those who never miss a chance to dump on the CC for sins real, perceived, imagined or otherwise attributed. Where the hell is that rabid harridan JuneAnnette? What about her echo chamber, the eerieOne? Oh I forgot... this is a half-assed story about the misdeeds of prots. You know, they are not as interesting or deep pocketted as the Catholics. Their piddly sects only amount to a few hundred, and that's only when they manage to get a snake-oil salesman/preacher that keeps them entertained for an hour or so, between demands for 'love offerings' and 'prayer partnerships'

Well may your lord of light help you,but he failed to help the abused children of Ireland

Let us all wait now for this alleged abuse at Bethany Home to be conveniently buried-political correctness and all that!

It's about justice for the survivors of extreme abuse and neglect. We're all human beings, here. Can't we look beyond the labels that we call ourselves. If we have the opportunity to right a wrong then we need to take it. Compassion heals the giver, as well as the receiver.

It seems there is plenty of saddness to go around.Let the Lord of Light shine upon the darkness.

make em proddy. manage if you can, your own affairs - old erin murdered the dreams their own children with their backward ways. Then the gall of imagining themselves being civilized. Poor souls fleeing across the globe to survive.

Child abuse knows no religious boundaries

on June 7-2011 The wife and I bought (and paid in full for) a property in County Cavan; and on June 8, we "irrevocably" dedicated it to the memory of the victims of 9-11, the Irish Institutions (which includes The Magdalene Ladies) And as of this moment The Bethany Home Ladies of Rathgar (which is about 4 miles from our Irish home) are welcomed as equally honored Sisters of our "extending" Irish Family.....

I agree! Protestant abuse should be investigated & prosecuted to the same extent as Catholic abuse!

In New York we just had two (former) Nuns marry. Nothing surprises me any more.

Go for it. The abuse is everywhere.

I agree let light shine on all abuse.

So we are looking again at discrimination in a form of anything that remotely involved Catholics as bad and its okay that the Protestants had the same things but they weren't bad. Come on people get real, there was abuse in that ethos as well. What is fair on one side should be handled on the other as well?