26-12-2020, 09:18
^^
sounds very interesting
i'll give it a go during the week mate.
on a similar note my car mechanic many moons ago was brought out here from the UK and sent to a Christian Brothers boarding house back in the 1960s (which i wasnt aware of initially)
was picking my car up from him one when the news came on the radio.
apparently the Government were opening up an enquiry (mid 1980s) into abuse by the Catholic Church 'brothers'.
my mechanic told me then that he was at Clontarf back then but he was one of the lucky ones because the christian Brothers considered him 'too ugly to ____".
over the next couple of years he told me some harrowing stories of the abuse he witnessed on a nightly basis etc etc...
he was eventually called in to testify against several members of the Clergy.
he said he had nightmares to that day over the things he heard in the 'dead of night'
he eventually hung himself in the mid 1990s as all of the attention in the media, the dredging up things he was trying to forget etc was too much to take. he said the mental abuse he suffered hearing things was just as bad as the sexual/physical abuse others suffered.
RIP mate.
sounds very interesting
i'll give it a go during the week mate.
on a similar note my car mechanic many moons ago was brought out here from the UK and sent to a Christian Brothers boarding house back in the 1960s (which i wasnt aware of initially)
was picking my car up from him one when the news came on the radio.
apparently the Government were opening up an enquiry (mid 1980s) into abuse by the Catholic Church 'brothers'.
my mechanic told me then that he was at Clontarf back then but he was one of the lucky ones because the christian Brothers considered him 'too ugly to ____".
over the next couple of years he told me some harrowing stories of the abuse he witnessed on a nightly basis etc etc...
he was eventually called in to testify against several members of the Clergy.
he said he had nightmares to that day over the things he heard in the 'dead of night'
he eventually hung himself in the mid 1990s as all of the attention in the media, the dredging up things he was trying to forget etc was too much to take. he said the mental abuse he suffered hearing things was just as bad as the sexual/physical abuse others suffered.
RIP mate.
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They were big in the 70s....for five minutes,on a Saturday,after lunch..." - Me 2014.