Another dark saga from the past: Reminder of why we had to change

We cannot, it seems, escape our sordid, ultra-judgemental past. Even in a country that today routinely endorses liberalising amendments to our Constitution it intrudes, it puts its hand up to remind us of what a dark country this was and, almost perversely, how very far we have come.

Majella Moynihan’s story of how she was, as a young member of An Garda Síochána, threatened with dismissal in 1984 because she had a baby with a colleague while single is another example of how this society was so gripped by Catholicism’s strictures.