Vote NO to hypocrisy

De Valera’s Constitution of 1937 already contains two specific rights for children, though you are unlikely to know that from the partial information emanating from Children’s Minister Frances Fitzgerald’s website and being repeated by the likes of Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore.

Ms Fitzgerald’s website states: “It [the Constitution] does not provide an express statement of rights for children.” That’s a falsity.

There’s much the same from the American and exchequer-funded Children’s Rights Alliance and other proponents of a yes vote. The two rights have been air-brushed out of the debate. Seventy-five years after the Constitution was enacted, neither have been granted by any Irish government. One of them is manifest as an outrageous, endemic, intellectual abuse of at least 20,000 Irish children and is likely to become the Magdalene laundries case of this generation.