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#711 Mother and Baby Homes: Church or State to Blame?
On today’s episode of The Niall Boylan Podcast, Niall is joined by Gript Media journalist Laura Perrins to revisit one of the most painful and controversial chapters in Irish history — the Mother and Baby Homes.
The discussion comes after Laura Perrins argued that the blame should not rest solely with the Church, but also with the State, which she says failed to support unmarried, pregnant, and vulnerable women at the time.
So what really happened?
From the 1920s through to the late 1990s, thousands of women in Ireland were sent to Mother and Baby Homes, often run by religious orders but…
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