Dirty weekends in Purgatory-on-earth

As ye all know by now I deal with unusual truths not normally even mentioned briefly elsewhere.

Dirty weekends in Purgatory-on-earth

Here for the beginning of the lazy hazy days of summer is another tasty scrap for ye to savour.

It comes directly from the lived realities of the old Catholic Ireland which is now dead and gone and it deals with the amazing truth altogether, that even the most devout families throughout the land long ago actively encouraged their courting sons and daughters to go off together, totally unchaperoned, for a truly dirty weekend!

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