It’s time to stop pretending and to allow abortion in Ireland

NOBODY can accuse us Irish of lacking when it comes to expressing our "public outrage".

No siree, we are well able to don that cap when the occasion calls for it, just as it has over the last few weeks as we have recalled the horror of Irish mother and baby homes.

Of course it matters that there are possibly up to 800 babies buried in a mass grave in Tuam, Co Galway, and it is even more horrendous if some of them are laid to rest in a septic tank (although we have no proof of this). But to say this issue has been hiding in plain sight for us as a society presents an inaccurate picture. More accurately it has been dangling under our noses for decades, but we chose not to tap into our easily exercised outrage until we were presented with a suitable fall guy, or in this case gals — those heartless and horrible nuns.