Lot’s of abuse recorded in Blackrock… Covered up by FFG over the years.
Boarding schools are wrong at the best of times…not to mind having to be on guard for rapists
You sure these werent merely rugby initiations?
Twas often said these abusers in positions of power in Ireland picked on the vulnerable disadvantaged kids whose parents wouldnt have the clout or confidence to take them on. These Blackrock college revelations give the lie to that. If someone paid me 200k a year to send my son to the likes of Blackrock I wouldn’t do it. Literally cuntish in every single way.
That’s a fairly cuntish comment
Outrageous
70 ex pupils have come forward so far. A couple of cases are in the courts already…
Ireland must have been a horrific place in the 60s-80s. …
Mother and babys, Magdalene, sexual and physical abuse at schools, scores of sane people locked away in mental institutions… Red Hurley and Big Tom.
I’m sorry you had to go through that lads, it was insensitive of me
The church and FFG and their acolytes truly hated this country
The church and ffg.
The GAA propped em up too.
Can’t rule out swimming or rugby so
I had a few dealings with the fella who is the spokesperson for the group in a previous life. He seemed a lovely fella. Got a right shock when I saw him on the top of the article.
I hope they can get some comfort from it, and I hope the abusers rot in hell.
One of them is still living on blackrock campus apparently 
Imagine leaving Ireland in the 60s 70s, and landing in the madness of New York or London. Well maybe not so much the UK, or even Germany.
That’s a bit bizarre mate. Those schools are generally brilliant. Turn out good kids. More resources and more accountability too. I’d definitely look at sending my kid to a private school if they had learning support or behavioural issues. Certainly far easier to fall through the cracks in a big community school.
I’d highly recommend the recent Fintan O’Toole book “We don’t know ourselves”. He really pulls together so much about the interlinking of the Catholic Church and the state across the 20th century and the culture across society at the time. Leads on into the abuse etc. An utterly compelling read even though most of what he discusses is familiar.
That’s a disgraceful comment.
It’s compelling, familiar and respectable now- the papers will publish and polite society can now discuss it sympathetically, shake their heads and tut etc. Because it’s now the narrative. Back when it wasn’t the narrative the same polite society would turn their back on anyone who dared speak up, the police would look away and the media assiduously avoided any mention, people were bullied and ruined for speaking out.
We’re living through something similar- anyone who dared question the incompetence, ignorance and corruption central to the covid response was derided, anyone straying from the binaryukraine good/russia bad narrative is accused etc. In a year or two it’ll be different and lads can pretend otherwise
The victim mentality is something else. You suffered like sexually abused children. God love you
He was hardly talking about himself was he?
I don’t think he’s comparing the two but comparing the group think and herd mentality.
Challenging a catholic priest was a taboo. You’d be ostracised/cancelled.
We have our own taboos nowadays. If you challenge them you risk the same cancellation.
Lads are awful brave saying they’d have challenged old taboos when times have moved on. They wouldn’t have.
Covid proved people are still very compliant once you apply a bit of fear and social opprobrium.