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The IRA watched young teenagers getting on a boat, they intentionally murdered children’
News Letter – Mary Hornsey’s 15-year-old son Paul Maxwell (Photo above) was among the slain when the IRA blew up Lord Louis Mountbatten’s fishing boat off the coast of Mullaghmore in Co Sligo on August 27, 1979.
[[] https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/crime/the-ira-watched-young-teenagers-getting-on-a-boat-they-intentionally-murdered-children-1-9047111 ]

Prelate rallies Catholic faithful in wake of sex abuse scandals
Irish Times – Those who predict the demise of the Catholic Church in Ireland because of clerical sex abuse scandals are mistaken, a bishop has said. Bishop of Cloyne William Crean said the scale of clerical abuse scandals had shocked and disgusted people in and outside the church and left the hierarchy with a challenge in trying to regain the trust of many, particularly younger people. Bishop Crean said those in leadership roles will continue working towards healing and reconciliation.
[[] https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/prelate-rallies-catholic-faithful-in-wake-of-sex-abuse-scandals-1.3996974 ]

Ruth Dudley Edwards: Why it’s time for liberals to stop criticising anyone who holds different views …
Belfast Telegraph … Brexiteers are one group who’ve been dismissed and given the silent treatment… which liberals dismiss as a Roman Catholic reactionary pressure group that should be ignored, yet its members include a Church of Ireland bishop …
[[] https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/columnists/ruth-dudley-edwards/ruth-dudley-edwards-why-its-time-for-liberals-to-stop-criticising-anyone-who-holds-different-views-to-them-38434717.html ]

No place for 470 schools on hot meals for children scheme
Irish Times – Figures show gravity of ‘food poverty’ problem facing families trying to feed youngsters
[[] https://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/no-place-for-470-schools-on-hot-meals-for-children-scheme-1.3996968 ]

‘Ghosts in their own country’: Government accused of ‘wall of silence’ over Tuam babies
thejournal.ie – The Irish authorities have been accused of producing a “wall of silence” in response to demands from family members and survivors who are …
[[] https://www.thejournal.ie/government-accused-of-wall-of-silence-over-tuam-babies-4781929-Aug2019/ ]

Tuam mother and baby home protest calls for site to be fully exhumed
Irish Times – Minister for Children Katherine Zappone spoke to the pope when he visited Ireland last August and then wrote to him about the history of mother and …
[[] https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/tuam-mother-and-baby-home-protest-calls-for-site-to-be-fully-exhumed-1.3996980 ]