Where are the fathers?

I’ve got to thinking lately that this little country of ours should scrap the title ‘Isle of Saints and Scholars’, and instead be known as the ‘Island of Immaculate Conceptions’.

For it would appear that an inordinately high number of Irish babies have come into this world without any male involvement in the process at all.

I’m struck by the fact that not a single father seems to have existed in this whole sad and deplorable Tuam babies saga.

These innocent, but fatherless children, are the issue of spineless, irresponsible men — except in the case where the father is deceased. I am now calling on the current generation of ‘non-existent fathers’, to take responsibility for your offspring. Because as a hard-pressed tax payer, I am bloody well sick and tired of paying to raise your children.

Margaret Grealish

Knocknacarra

Galway City