This was also a passionate demand for removal of scourge of misogyny

A couple of weeks ago I wrote here that the public policy system in Ireland has always been misogynistic, writes Fergus Finlay. 

There’s a long history to prove that — from symphysiotomy to the Magdalene laundries, from mother and baby homes to the initial treatment of women who were given Hepatitis C by infected blood.

The Ryan report documents the stories of thousands of children who were taken from their mothers and sent to institutions — often never to be seen by their mothers again.