In a recent Tuam Herald Viewpoint article 9th October 2014 headlined “The harsh facts of life in 1946 put modern controversies in a different perspective”, Joe Coy claimed that “we cannot judge the actions of the past by today’s standards” and that “any assessment of those years has to take into account the grinding poverty and lack of resources of the time”.
This was Mam’s response, published in a letter to the editor of the Tuam Herald 16th October 2014.
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We constantly make excuses in this country that way corruption flourishes your mother puts it v succinctly in her letter.