Nationalist hero or child molester? Judging the past by modern morality

I DON’T know much, but I do know this.

Nationalist hero or child molester? Judging the past by modern morality

Most Irish people don’t think of Dublin as having a statue of a child molester in what is arguably its main street. It does, though.

I checked on it with the Corpo after I had asked around a bit and found friends and acquaintances going “Who?” and then shaking their heads. Never seen a statue of him. Anywhere. Couldn’t be one. They’d have noticed.

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