Kerry Babies’ affair reopened: Ireland has not changed a great deal
Anyone alive when the 1984 Kerry Babies’ story transfixed and divided the country must be at least 33 years of age; anyone who was old enough to understand the startling events, the incredible allegations and appalling behaviour of official Ireland, resplendent in its Talibanesque moral superiority, as it unfolded must be closer to 50 if not older.
Trying to explain to the #MeToo generation what happened, and, most importantly, how it was allowed to happen is daunting. To that cohort, the affair may seem almost as remote as the Punic Wars or maybe the public sector ban on employing married women which was ended only 11 years earlier.
