1980s Ireland was no place for women

Majella Moynihan told her story this week and joins the likes of Ann Lovett, Joanne Hayes, and Eileen Flynn as women who were failed by the State, writes Dan Buckley

As the novelist LP Hartley put it, “the past is a foreign country; they do things differently there”. In Ireland, our past — even our recent past — is another planet; they do things not just differently but incomprehensibly there.