The deeply moving case of Majella Moynihan, predictably channelled public anger towards a “them”, but away from us. But the morals, I should say the hypocrisy, brutally enforced on Majella Moynihan, was wholly our own. What I have heard Majella say about her story chimes exactly with what I remember of the times. Majella Moynihan broke that rule. But what happened to Majella Moynihan in 1984 happened because we wanted it so.

Source: Irish Examiner June 18, 2019 23:03 UTC