Readers blog: Blame goes much further than Church in the mother-and-baby scandal

The Irish public are understandably seeking to apportion blame for Tuam and many other such cases in “Mother & Child Homes” and “Magdalene Laundries” throughout the country. 

Of course the Catholic Church has to bear responsibility for what happened – but they are not the only ones.

However, I’m sure that many will be unwilling to face the fact that responsibility also rests with those that the majority of the Irish public spent the whole of last year lauding and lionising ad nauseum.